These rules are designed primarily for 'Ship of the Line' actions in 1/600 scale (i.e. Airfix Victory small size). All gun ranges are practical rather than possible. Although some guns of this period could attain two or more miles, the chances of a hit fired from a rolling ship, without instantaneous discharge, with no adequate range-finding apparatus and with an uncertain propellant was nil. The intention is to produce a fast and reasonably realistic battle for from two to a dozen people.
– Naval Napoleonic Rules (1795-1805) introduction
