For the past couple of years all of my ancient naval battles using Galleys & Galleons have concentrated on the larger vessels I have been building - the quadremes, quinqueremes and so forth. But I had a hankering to try a classic action using just triremes, so yesterday I did just that.
As ever, Athens faced Sparta. Both sides had ten triremes, split into two commands of five vessels each. All of the Athenian ships had the Expert Rowers trait, whilst one command of the Spartans had Drilled Soldiers.
Here they are a move in - Spartans on the left and Athenians on the right.
The Athenians sent a flanking force around the island, but the Spartans chose to ignore it, turning their allied command on the flank towards the main Athenian force on the other flank at high speed.
The Athenians picked off a straggler in the first ram of the game.
The action hots up. The Athenian flanking force (blue vessels) is chasing after the Spartan allies (green vessels). Meanwhile the main Athenian force (white and yellow) is beginning to engage the main Spartan command (red vessels)
The first Spartan ally vessel to be rammed surrendered after being boarded.
The Athenians ram the main Spartan command.
Another Spartan vessel is lost, sunk by an Athenian ram.
A Spartan ship surrenders after being boarded, despite their edge in such actions.
The main spartan command had initiated boarding actions after the Athenians had rammed them, but the Athenians fought like demons, and two Spartan vessels struck in the same turn.
This meant that the Spartans had lost five of their ten vessels, which mean the Athenians had won. The Athenians didn't lose a single ship.
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