Dreadnoughts

This afternoon Chris & dusted of the Dreadnought rules for battleship actions.  These are another of set of house rules that have been evolving at Camp Cromwell for decades.  We hadn't had a go it for a while & ran the old battle criusers at Jutland scenario.  We left out the destroyers & light cruisers to concentrate on the battleship action with a view to maybe updating the rules again.

 The battel began as historical with 6 British & 5 German battlecruisers coming together.

The Germans turned to port to keep at a sensible range after the Moltke went down under a couple of devastatingly accurate salvos from the Lion.  The orange counters record which ships have ranged in on their target.

Beatty then got a bit overexcited & closed the range further.

The Germans fight back with the von der Tann putting the New Zealand down & the Lion copping a pounding.

The Lion too goes to the bottom. 

The Princes Royal has joined the procession to Davey Jones locker & the morale rules have it that the British have to break off.

The rules worked fine but we found it a bit difficult to keep track of who's ranged in on who.  It has occurred to me that this may be a rare example of a game that could be improved by computer moderation.  Maybe another C19 project for me.