Battleships!

We played Broadside: Empires Of Steel on Thursday, so Caesar would be practiced for the competition at Cancon this weekend. A French force and a British force battled it out around a couple of islands.

Caesar and I took the French whilst Darren was the British admiral.

Both sides had some battleships (hence the post title), some cruisers and a destroyer flotilla. This seems to be a standard setup for a Broadsides pickup game.

The French ships. Great names and wonderfully bizarre-looking vessels.

Things start to hot up. The battleships in the top-left (British) and bottom right (French) corners are already exchanging fire. Caesar was sending his destroyers round the island at the bottom on an intercept course with the British battleships. The islands block fire to and from smaller ships, whilst the battleships can shoot at each other over them.

In the centre my lead cruiser was after the leader of Darren's destroyer flotilla; taking out the leader makes them harder to control as a group. I sank it but fell foul of its final action when it torpedoed me.

Destroyers were taking each other out near the British flagship, King George V. But you can see three splash markers on the battleship; the lead French battleship Danton had the range and was scoring a few hits. The King George V has tough armour, though.

Caesar was running our flagship, the mighty Jean Bart. It was badly damaged and on fire.

Anyway, we ran out of time before finishing the game, but had plenty of fun with the time we had. I think the French were close to losing their flag, but HMS Invincible wasn't living up to its name either and was one good volley of fire away from a trip to the sea-bed. 

We called it a draw.