Musket Action & Cruel Seas

Tonight I set up the room with two small tables. 
I introduced Simon to Musket Action on one while Steve & Mark did Cruel Seas on the other.

Musket Action: French & Indian War
Jim's Brits: British line battalions (4 line coys, 1 grenadier coy, 1 light coy) supported by 2 coys of woodsmen, 1 light gun & a troop of light dragoons.
Simon's French: French line battalion of 5 line 1 grenadier coy supported by 6 bands of Indians.

The objectives are the two farmhouses & the bridge. 
Both sides put their regulars in the centre with light troops on the flanks.

The Brits advance boldly & sieze the bridge while their dragoons drive the Indians away from the far farmhouse & their light troops defend the woods on each flank.

The dragoons have dismounted & taken the far farmhouse.  French grenadiers have driven the Brits off the bridge.  Both British flanks are under pressure from Indians.

The British grenadiers re-took the bridge only to be blasted off it by French musketry.  The Indians have cleared the British light infantry & woodsmen out of the woods on both flanks.

Outflanked on both sides, the Brits on the bridge are about to break.  Indians have over-run the British gun.  In the 6th turn the French re-take the bridge & their Indians take the near farm to give the French a decisive victory.

Cruel Seas:
Steve had 4 S-boots & a Flakship to escort 2 merchantmen across the table.
Mark had 4 Vospers & 2 Fairmile's to intercept them.

 The S-boots charged forward to attack the MTB's

A collision between 2 S-boots was a big own goal for the Germans.  2 MTBs got through to launch torpedoes at the merchant men & one is sunk, but the rest of the Brits are sunk.  The remaining S-boot & the Flakship were more than enough to encourage the remaining 2 MTB's to break it off & 1 of the merchant survived intact.  So a drawn battle.

I found the maneouvre ruler supplied with the game awkward to use & devised this alternative.
Above, the ruler is in place ready to make a 13cm move step with a turn to starboard.
Below the boat has been moved & made a maximum turn to starboard.

The other side of the ruler is a mirror image & is used for starboard turns.
The red side is for 45 deg turns, the yellow side for 30 deg turns.