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Renaissance Galleys
by Lucca Z. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 04/13/2021 18:53:32

Printed these on PLA and they've came out great.

Looking forward on painting them. Pretty nice variety of sculpts, and all galleys have 3 different 'models' - Full Sail, Furled Sails and No Masts, making for a wider variety of vessels.

Also included are mastless Carracks (2 models) and a mastless Galleon.



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Coaling Stations
by Alan S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 04/24/2018 09:15:23

Coaling Stations finds a good balance between a fast play rule set while maintaining some feel for the pre-dred period. What I like about Coaling Stations most is the card-driven command mechanism. Each squadron is allocated a aspirational set of orders (move, turn, fire weapons, make smoke etc.) using cards (the basic information is provided, but you have to make your own) each turn and the number of orders that can be enacted is determined by a roll againts the squadron 'command rating'. This builds in a nice degree of uncertainty into the game that makes solo play very interesting.

To me the collision/ramming rules are a little too extreme - touching the base of another ship means automatic collision - so I tend to use a successful roll against your command rating to 'save' against collision occuring (on 2d6). If you fail, collision occurs.

The rules could do with a revision as there are some holes that require the player to study the examples of play to interpret them, but if you don't mind having to fill the gaps a little, I really think this is a worthwhile set to have. Also, I think what the author has provided would lend itself well to expansion with house rules - so if you like to tinker with your rules, give Coaling Stations a go.

My thanks to Rob Heath for an interesting set of rules which I have played regularly for some years now.



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Solo Ops
by Giordano P. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 08/12/2016 03:56:10

The combat system is good, but for a solitaire rules it's not explain how to manage the Non Player Characters...



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Laser Ops
by Ricardo N. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 02/16/2013 19:57:36

I have read concise rule sets but this one takes it too far. The main text reads like a quick reference chart and the actual reference charts are cryptic.

There are few examples on the book and just three pictures, to try to elucidate the concept of "postures" in the game. The fact that the terms "stand" and "unit" are mixed in the text does not help in the least, either.

The rules seem to have an interesting activation or command system where each unit (or is it a stand?) may have its performance affected and even trigger some random events but I cannot even playtest them while I do not fully understand the game rules.

In my opinion, this product feels like it was written by someone very familiar with micro-scale wargaming -- so much that the author takes too many concepts and definitions for granted, or assumes some gaming conventions implicitly.



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Coaling Stations
by Dan R. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 04/17/2012 20:46:16

Just got this new set of Pre-Dreadnaught rule"Coaling Stations" Got the first draft and there were holes in the rules. I was sent an updated version a few days later so all is good.

It has no hit record charts. One puts a damage die by the vessel which is one of 3 d6s. White,yellow,red. Red represents sinking. Each ship has a number of pips to go through before one goes to the next color on the die. Guns are done by different sided die per battery. Eg. d4 die for 12 inch gun+. Ranges and modifiers change the odds. 4 ranges per gun. There are command cards to operate your vessels squadrons. Destroyers are in flotilas. There is ramming & mines.

My beef(s) In tha Castrophic Chart there is a fire started on a 7. What does it do? Why do you have to put it out? Also a morale chart for this period would be nice. Lastly no rules for fortifications. I will address this in my modifications.

Dan



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