Dice or No Dice

Easter Monday saw a happy day of gaming as Nick drove over from Oxford to try his hand at my slowly evolving ancient naval rules.  In the course of late morning and afternoon sessions either side of lunching on a fine ham, chicken and apricot pie from Tony Haynes we ran through a quick trial to introduce him to the movement and combat rules and then had a large battle with 10 squadrons on each side.  After tea we finished off with a few turns using just a few squadrons each to test out some ideas for revising the movement system. The games were set up on a small sea - a 10 by10 grid, minus corner squares - placed on my father's old card table.  The playing pieces were my traveling set of mdf tiles with squadrons printed in column on one side, line the other.  The opening game had just four squadrons on each side, with plenty of room for manoeuvre.  The ash trays at each corner came in handy to hold dice and stop marker pens rolling away! After chasing each other...