"Part 3, The Conclusion of a Russo-Japanese Naval Campaign" Topic

My RJW campaign comes to an abrupt and violent end.

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Your campaign was beautifully organized and conducted. I thoroughly enjoyed your reports. Congratulations on an excellent enterprise.

@Shagnasty, the credit for the well-designed campaign all goes to David Manley who wrote the articles I took it from.

I liked reading that! I am planning on picking up the Russo Japanese scenario pdf from the Admiralty Group on Wargame Vault. I have the ships just want scenarios. Maybe use David Manley's campaign someday. I plan on using his rules. I'll probably print mine up and sell my old Russian, Japanese and Chinese 1/3000 scale ships from Navwar. I'll print up new ones. Just gotta decide on 1/1800 or 1/1250.

Thanks.

John

@John Leahy, I hope you've got a big table, my models are 1/2400 and battles can feel cramped on my 10' x 5'. I used very simple rules to play multiple games in a session to speed the campaign, but found it was the morale rules that drove the most realistic outcomes. Without these, I suspect we would have battles which ground on to near mutual annihilation.

I'd love to see your morale rules. Are they buried in one (or more) of the blog posts?

All naval games grind down to the last ship afloat without them.

- Ix

The morale is very simple, once you have lost (crippled or sunk) a proportion of your largest vessels you must withdraw. The rules used were Phil Barker's DBA (Damn Battleships Again) that are, or wee, freely available online. I did make some tweaks to tailor them to the RJW.