"Looking for new inspiration" Topic

Ahoy mateys!

I've sailed the English Channel, French ports and the Med so often with my British, French and Spanish Fleets that its become a little dull. A few forays to the Caribbean have also been enjoyed but I'm feeling a bit stale and and now long for orders to take me to new adventures.

So I'm looking for inspiration and book recommendations for a new theatre of operations to get stuck into, with some new modelling opportunities. The War of 1812 maybe? Something with the Russians in the Baltic sounds fun too? (they so often get overlooked)

My spyglass scans the horizon eagerly in anticipation of your signal hoists.

yours aye

2 Suggestions

1 – The war of 1812 along the Great Lakes

seawaytrail.com/warof1812

Osprey has the Great Lakes Warships 1812-1815

A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813 or The Incredible War of 1812 might give you a bit of the flavor.

2 – The Crimean War – From the Pacific to the Baltic

rusnavy.com/history/hrn8-e.htm

Or perhaps some inspiration – a book by Peter Duckers – The Crimean War at Sea: The Naval Campaigns Against Russia 1854-56

Suffren vs. Hughes in the Indian Ocean during the AWI. Small SOL fights that scream for a mini-campaign.

East Indies?

Dutch vs English vs Portuguese vs Ming vs Pirates

Portuguese Liberal Wars, which included its own battle of Cape St Vincent in 1833

You could do the fighting around Mauritius in 1810. Or the Russians in the Med during the Revolutionary Wars or later Navarino Bay or The Battle of the Capes that led to Cornwallis' defeat at Yorktown or the Russians vs the Turks or the Swedes the possibilities are almost unlimited.

All of the about sound good, as long as the stats for the ships are right in the rules
Be safe
Rory

Hi Paul,
I'd recommend

Lords of the Lake

for the war if 1812. There were severe logistical problems around the Great Lakes so the lakes were vital. Getting supplies to them was a challenge and so there are planty of cutting out scenarios and small ships in convoy. There ended up being an arms race and the appendix at te end shows how the ships were frequently upgunned and the armaments changed as both navies sought an advantge. I really wanted to draw up some campaign rules after reading it but the kids were growing and time shrinking.
Teddy Roosevelts book on the war was interesting for me as he went into (for me) great detail on many single ship actions that showed just how well the US ships were handled and how brutal the engagements were.

All the best,
David

18th and 19th century Russians and Turks in the Black sea.

With a menagerie of ships in each fleets.
with a refreshing lack of skill amongst fleets.

Thanks for the recommendations guys – lots to look at!
The Baltic and Mauritius campaigns are particularly interesting.

Keep a weather eye and your powder dry!

Paul
tasmancave.blogspot.com.au