Campaign Turn 1 complete - Round up

One turn down and five great games each with interesting results. Apart from the plenary information made available to everyone below, each player received a private breifing of events in their campaign orbit. The table shows the raw points scores after ship repairs but before purchases and upgrades for turn 2. The limit is 200 points spent per turn and players can go into debt and spend the 200 if they wish.

End of Campaign turn 1
ADMIRAL/GENERAL AT SEA	POINTS
Baert	260
De Ruyter	177.5
Barre	116
O’Brien	-17
Tocht	-179

This relates to decisions and aspects of their fleet management which impact on the campaign overall.

New missions will be detailed soon.

Meanwhile, here are some highlights from the previous five battles:


Barre's Challenge

This was never going to be a full scale battle as no state of war existed between France and England however, Barre's squadron came out decisively on top forcing the enemy to submit to the conditions imposed by the King for foreign vessels in the channel.




De Ruyter's Rescue

Great plan in challenging weather conditions and well executed. The English were unfortunate to lose the 4th rate Ruby but De Ruyter's ships pulled off an excellent circuit in and out against the wind with relatively minor damage to its assets.




Baert's Battle

Privateer Baert ended up involved in what was the most conventional sea battle of the turn. His fleet locked horns with a determined enemy and both suffered badly with the Dutch captain's ships coming out on top. Although the plunder mission was not particularly effective the result was overall very positive.



Tocht's Nightmare

This mission although attractive on paper to the Dutch proved the perils of splitting a force. The powerful Dutch squadron was picked off by inferior but concentrated forces.




O'Brien's Run

The Jacobite crews sweated at the oar to make their escape and were lucky to do so with the net result of ending the day with the same number of ships they started with albeit, not the same ones!

Here is the list of ships lost/captured during the campaign including those lost by 'The House' to players or vice versa.

Turn		Action	Ship lost	rate	nation	pts	Lost to
1	Gold Coast		Vixen	Brig	English	25	Rammed by Spiegel. Destroyed by friendly fire.
	Gold Coast		Ruby	4th	English	90	Damaged by Utrecht, burned and abandoned.
	North Sea		Pearl	5th	English	70	Sunk by fire from Baert’s flagship Maure.
	North Sea		Beemster	Merch	Dutch	50	Captured by Jersey.
	Plymouth		Oranje	Fireship	Dutch	30	Blew up.
	Plymouth		De Zeven. Provincien	1st	Dutch	160	Damaged, boarded and captured by Portland.
	Copenhagen		Derry	4th	Jacobite	90	Damaged, burned and abandoned.
	Copenhagen		Oxford	4th	English	60	Captured by Derry, Sligo and Kinsale.