Battle of Trafalgar Manual

v.0.0.1

Index

• Intro
• Game Components
• Board
• Counters

Intro

On December 21st, 1805, just west of Cape Trafalgar, 27 British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory engage 33 ships of the line of the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, let by Admiral Villeneuve. This game simulates the historic battle

Components

• A board representing the sea surface near the cape Trafalgar, displaying the location of the ships
• Counters representing the ships that were involve in the battle

Board

• Each hexagon can only be occupied by one ship.
• ships can only move within the boundaries of the board.

Counters

Counters represent ships, and each counter represents one ship

Name: real name of the ship during the battle

Type: the higher the number of the mast the higher the range and firepower of the ship represented on the counter

• Brig and Schooner represent one mast, very quick and lightly armored and armed
• 2- deckers represent by 2 masts, this is the majority of the ships involve they are quick and decently armed
• Frigates represented by 3 masts, good and medium armed
• Ship of the line represented by 4 masts, slow but heavily armored and armed

Hull points: is the capability of the ship to support damage, during the battle when a ship is strike by enemy fire, its hull integrity can be damaged, reducing the movement capacity and its firepower.

Combat factor: This is the maximum damage points a ship can do to an enemy ship during an attack, the effectiveness of an attack depends on the distance, for each hexagon the ship is away from its target the effective damage is reduced by one.

Movement factors: is the maximum number of hexagons a ship can move in one turn, although it can move fewer hexagons or simply don't move. When you want to finish the movement of a ship and make it stay in its current position double tap on the counter.

Both movement factor and combat factors are reduced accordingly when the ship loses hull points as a result of hits produced by enemy attacks. Once a ship loses all its hull points, the ship sunk and it disapears from the board game.

Initial location of the ships

Only one ship can be placed in a hexagon. On the first version of the game ships have pre-assigned starting positions in the board. This might change in future versions to allow a richer starting point for the battle. If you badly want this let me know, you can reach me at gamemaster@daysofconquest.com

Game sequence

The game is played in turns, a turn consist of a moving phase and an attacking phase, once those the two phases are completed then is the other player time to perform the 2 phases, given it the opportunity to move and attack

Due to the battle readiness of the english fleet in the historic context, the english players have the initiative and move first in all the scenarios

Moving phase

• A ship can move a maximum number of hexagons as stated on its tile, although if the players decides can move less hexagons or simply not move ( double tap)
• You can see if a ship has move if his movement factor is black if is grey it means it has perform his movement
• A ship tile cannot move over aonther ship tile, if a tile is blocking a desire route for a ship it will have to go around it.
• Once the ship has move, there is no posibility to move it again until the next turn
• Zone of control, the six hexagons surrounding a ships are consider it's zone of control □ A zone of control cannot be cross by an enemy ship, if a ship reach the zone of control of an enemy ship, then it movement will end on that hexagon, so take this into account when you plan the movement for that ship.

Combat/Attack Phase

After the movement phase ships that have enemy ships in range will display its combat factor in black and a waiving flag. To attack an enemy ship tap on the ship you want to use to fire and drag the finger till it reaches the enemy ship

A ship can only attack once per turn, once a ship has perform its attack you'll see that its combat factor turns grey

Ships can attack ships at different distances, and there is no restriction on which ship you can select as a target of the attack, however the attack effectiveness depends on distances so we recomend you to fire ships closer to you

The damage produced by the ship is determine by the combat factor,for every hexagon between the firing ships and the target ship the damage produced is reduced by one

Ships of the line can fire further than schooners, see table below, and the chances to hit a ship are also reduced by distance. Ships of the line have higher chances to impact than schooners, being the first ones deadly at close range.

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