This is the latest addition to the Flying Colors Series: Blue Cross White Ensign.
Here the Russians are closing with the anchored Turkish Fleet and have just fired and scored a hull hit. The Russians used their special incendiary guns, the
edinerogs (unicorns), but caused no fires:
looks great. i still haven't picked up this title, which is odd considering my fascination with the age of sail started about 40 years ago.
Quote from: Jack Nastyface on March 05, 2015, 10:59:50 PM
looks great. i still haven't picked up this title, which is odd considering my fascination with the age of sail started about 40 years ago.
The Flying Colors series (which is Flying colors: classic battles from around 1800; Ship of the Line: Some earlier battles; Serpents of the Seas: USA-centric battles and Blue Cross White Ensign: Russians from 1770 with JP Jones, Turks and Swedes) is super-playable and moderately realistic. I'm playing it currently strictly by the book, but a year or two ago I was modifying it to be slightly more complex.
Quote from: MengJiao on March 06, 2015, 09:21:34 AM
Quote from: Jack Nastyface on March 05, 2015, 10:59:50 PM
looks great. i still haven't picked up this title, which is odd considering my fascination with the age of sail started about 40 years ago.
The Flying Colors series (which is Flying colors: classic battles from around 1800; Ship of the Line: Some earlier battles; Serpents of the Seas: USA-centric battles and Blue Cross White Ensign: Russians from 1770 with JP Jones, Turks and Swedes) is super-playable and moderately realistic. I'm playing it currently strictly by the book, but a year or two ago I was modifying it to be slightly more complex.
About half a turn later (or say 3 minutes' sailing), things are heating up. One Russian ship has set herself on fire with her incendiary guns and another has hit a Turkish flagship and set it on fire:
Interesting.
Brings to mind that the 1805 Battle of Copenhagen took a turning point when the Glatton began firing incendiaries.
Armed only with carronades, the RN had a round for it called carcasses. These were hollow tubes filled with gunpowder and combustible materials.
Captain Bligh (yes, that captain) set at least one of the Danish floating batteries on fire.
Quote from: besilarius on March 09, 2015, 06:51:27 AM
Interesting.
Brings to mind that the 1805 Battle of Copenhagen took a turning point when the Glatton began firing incendiaries.
Armed only with carronades, the RN had a round for it called carcasses. These were hollow tubes filled with gunpowder and combustible materials.
Captain Bligh (yes, that captain) set at least one of the Danish floating batteries on fire.
The Unicorns seem to have been something like carronades. The land artillery unicorns had weird oval bores for canister, but that was in the 1750s. Twenty years later I have no real idea what the unicorns-by-sea might have been.