It is funny how it sometimes takes an arranged game to finally make you take those figures out of the cupboard and paint them at the last minute. Then you wonder why it took you so long.
We played an all day Saturday refight of Trafalgar at the Guildford Club on November 5th with 6 players a side and I had to supply six ships. I’d bought these from Langton at a Colours show about five years ago, looked at the rules, decided they were too complex and put them away in a drawer.
So, the week before the refight, I pulled them out, undercoated them on the Monday and then spent 3 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday night painting them. For an hour a ship, I think that they came out very well. There are pictures of a sample British and French Ship in the Gallery.
The refight was played using rules written by a club member (which should be up on the club website soon along with pictures) and the game went very well.
Victory was the first ship to break the allied line and suffered heavily because of it, eventually striking her colours.
At the end of the day, the British were ahead on ships captured and sunk, but lost a moral victory over the loss of the Flagship and failing to reach Nelson’s target of 20 ships.
Now, having painted these 6 ships I’m quite tempted by some more and that lovely Langton dockyard…
