Close Action Ship Logs for the March 15 2009 Event at World's Best Comics in Newport News Virginia

Two games of Close Action were played. The first was a pre-game warm up at 12 Noon of Close Action scenario CA18, "Mars vs. French Frigate Squadron". The second was MS09 "Cape of Good Hope: Johnstone's Second Opportunity". Unfortunately, no camera was available so there is no pictorial, However I do have scans of the top part of the ship logs below except the log of the HBMS Hero which turned up missing. The game turned out to be close to a draw, with a technical slight British win.

(The lower half of each PDF has been redacted to be in compliance with copyright permissions.)

1st Scenario: CA18 Mars vs. French Frigate Squadron

Ship Log PDF Comment British Victory Point Value French Victory Point Value British Victory Points Lost French Victory Points Lost
HBMS Mars 74L Mars started taking lots of damage starting Turn 8, and finally lost the first Rigging, Hull, and Crew sections on Turns 15, 12, and 16 respectively. 10225.50
FNC_Hermione_40 As a warm-up game, the Player forgot to mark the gunnery modifiers as sections were lost. This ship didn't fire during the turns concerned anyway. 309.00
FNC_Hortense_40 Got away without a single section lost. Pity. 300.00
FNC Rhin 40 Losing six sections, starting to lose morale, Rhin was on her way to striking. 2816.80
FNC Themis 36 Note the web page is correct and the VP tally on the sheet is not. (Didn't feel like scanning it again.) Themis was close to losing her first hull section. 223.30
Total Victory Points in each category: 10210025.5029.10

2nd Scenario: MS09 Cape of Good Hope: Johnstone's Second Opportunity

Ship Log PDF Comment British Victory Point Value French Victory Point Value British Victory Points Lost French Victory Points Lost
HBMS Isis 50 Lost one crew section on Turn 10. 464.60
HBMS Jupiter 50 Lost two rigging sections by Turn 9. The second hull and crew sections on Turn 10 and failed two morale checks, bringing it to a CQ of "D". 5326.50
HBMS Monmouth 64 Monmouth lost one rigging and one crew section on Turn 13. Then lost the second rigging, one hull, and on Marine section on Turn 16. She failed two morale checks bringing her down to quality of "E". 6425.60
HBMS Romney 50 Romney lost her first rigging section on turn 7, a hull section on turn 9, a crew section on turn 12. Then the second rigging section was lost on turn 14, the second hull on turn 15. She failed one morale check down to CQ of "E" and was only one box away from losing the 3rd rigging section. 4216.80
HBMS Hero 74 Although the sheet to this ship was lost in the shuffle, it should be noted that the final point loss for the game did not exceed 87.0 for the British. So the Hero did not give up more than 11 points. 76??.??
HXMS Artesien 64 Artesien lost her first rigging and hull section on turn 7. Her first crew section on turn 10 and her second rigging and hull on turns 15 and 16 respectively. She failed two morale checks and was down to CQ of "E". 6424.00
HXMS Heros 74 Heros lasted longer before giving up her first section. Rigging and hull on turn 11. One crew section on Turn 13 and her second hull section on turn 17. She failed two morale checks and was down to quality "E". 8730.45
HXMS Sphinx 64s Sphinx did not suffer from the morale problems as most of the others. She lost her first hull section on turn 7. A rigging on turn 10, a crew section on turn 13, and her second hull and rigging sections on turns 16 and 17 respectively. She failed only one morale check bringing her down to a quality "D". 5923.60
HXMS Vengeur 64 Although losing the most sections Vengeur failed only one morale check bringing her down to a "E". Otherwise she lost her first rigging on turn 8, crew on turn 9, hull on turn 10. She lost her second rigging and crew on turn 15, her second hull and her marine section on turn 18. 5432.40
Total Victory Points in each category: 28126473.50+110.45
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