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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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WHile I am mainly soloing this playthrough, I'm always open to offers to play some of them via VASSAL.
They don't have to be perfectly in order, but I'd like to not jump between games too frequently. This means that War Galley and Tyrant would be the best bets. If anyone is interested, the next few scenarios up after the already underway Arginusae are:
Gela (Tyrant)
Catana (War Galley)
Cabala (Tyrant) EDIT: missed this one the first time
Cronium (Tyrant)
Crimissos River (Tyrant)
So if you're interested, drop me a line.
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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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Looking at my spreadsheet I have Salamis at 480 BC followed by three battles from the Alexander module Tyrant. First and Second Himera (480 and 409BC) as well as Akragas (406 BC). However, I've already played those, and put session reports up for them:
Rout at first Himera
2nd Himera
Surgeon General's Warning: Being a Syracusan cavalry commander may be hazardous to your health (Akragas)
First Himera was a VASSAL game against
HMS Iron Duke
United States
Bartlett
Tennessee
and the other two were solo plays.
That means we're actually back to War Galley with Athens vs Sparta at Arginusae (406 BC).
These are sorted by year only so the overlap on both ends isn't really taken into consideration.
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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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Finished up Salamis, and I'll repeat the apology form the session report: No pictures other than the setup because my wife is traveling and she has the camera. But it's not exactly a battle of big flowing movement, so it's probably not a huge loss.
Salamis. Sumo wrestling in a phone booth
To show you what I mean here is the setup:
I'll pause to let that sink in..,.
OK. This game pretty much was there two fleets mashing together and rolling dice. Not terribly thrilling. If it had been the only battle in the War Galley - Salamis module I think I'd be disappointed. But playing Artimisium was a blast. It had bookkeeping headaches which made it stretch out as a solo game for me, but was still very fun. For anyone who doesn't have the space or time for Artimisium I'd probably pass on this module. Salamis, despite it's historical significance.
It would somehow seem wrong to play through a bunch of battles form the war galley era and not play Salamis, so I'm glad I did it in some ways, but I wish it had been more fun to actually do.
I put up a review as well, it really doesn't cover much more than has been covered in the blog posts and comments, but for the sake of completeness: Salamis the battle vs Salamis the module
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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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I really wish I could show you guys the initial setup for Salamis, because compared to the other war galley stuff so far it will blow your mind (it did mine). I'm not sure it will be terribly fun to play for some reasons I'll get into later, but man comparing the Artimisium setup with this one is an eye opener. However I suddenly can't seem to upload anything. I've started a thread over in BGG bugs about it, but if anyone has any ideas I'm all ears.
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/800474/cant-upload-images
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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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Holy cow. I just read the setup for Salamis. I had read the "The Grand Battle Scenario" before, but not the other two.
I hadn't realized that the half map for Eastern Salamis was the whole thing. I thought it was going to get added to another map. That's an awful small area to cram 42 Greek galley counters and 60 Persian galley counters.
Talk about the proverbial knife fight in a phone booth.
Time to wander over to CSW and post my ground fire question there, it's not getting any bites here.
EDIT: knife fight? How about sumo match?
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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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I've got a rules question over in the War Galley - Salamis forum that came up while getting ready to move on to that battle.
Land-based firepower rule clarification wanted
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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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Session: The first (and only) Battle of Artimisium
Greeks vs Persians.
This one was *huge*. And due to the already high information tracking requirements of War Galley, along with some additional overhead because the squadrons are fixed, this one was hard to play in small chunks. Big chunks of time are rare, and when I know ahead of time that I will have a big chunk of time for game playing, I try to schedule some time to play an actual opponent. So this dragged on.
The Greek player (me) made a few mistakes:
1) Forgot about the speed difference until it was too late
2) Put too much effort into scoring some hits early instead of going straight into a defensive stance
3) The leftmost squadron was under-equipped for its job.
#1 made it pretty much impossible to rectify the other two. And the Perisans flowed past the Greeks preventing any attempts to regroup/reform leading to a decisive victory.
The Greeks did some damage though, the bonuses to boarding meant they captured more than their share of Persian galleys. The problem is that a taking casualties when you fail to board cuts your future capabilities faster than when you fail to ram.
It was still fairly fun though. ON to Salamis. Another fight where there are three options:
1) Eastern Set Piece
2) Eastern including moving into position
3) The whole Enchilada (including the west)
I'm leaning towards #1 as it's small (relatively speaking) and Artimisium was huge. But if anyone has any experience or preferences, I'm all ears. That will be the end of War Galley - Salamis.
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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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The mess in the center has exhausted the resources of at least one squadron and a question came up.
http://boardgamegeek.com/article/8391322
Just linking the question I just asked here in case someone can comment on it.
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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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I'm about a third of the way through at this point. The going is slow, but steady.
In case anyone is just itching for updates of any sort though... I am getting some images uploaded in preparation for a session report in the future. I'm a few turns behind in terms of image uploads, but there are a few up now, and I'll add them as I get a chance.
You can find them by looking for the images tagged artimisium_i in my gallery. The following link might work too:
http://boardgamegeek.com/tag/artimisium_i/user/keethrax
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Ryan Powers
United States
Marble
Minnesota
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Artemisium I from War Galley - Salamis ready to go. Note that those islands in the middle do not exist. Every galley on a map edge, or on the peninsula are currently beached.
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