A battle report of sorts.

Well, I played in a really fun Span-Am war naval game last night. I had intended to write a bit of a battle report about it, but have found my memory is some what lacking when it comes to details.
I was a spanish play along with three of my fellow gamers (Jack, Rob, and Woody), We had seven spanish ships, For capitol ships and three torpedo destroyers. Out objective was to escape off the opposite side of the board, while dealing as much destruction as we could. We found out later that sinking a single American ship would have one us the game.

On the First turn our four capital ship advanced towards the opposite table edge, at full bore. While Jack took the Torpedo Destroyers (they didn't count for Victory Points if they got off the edge) straight for the American Fleet, in attempt to slow down the Americans while we headed for our objective, taking potshots at the yanks as we went. This had moderate success in the first turn, while we inflicted some damage on the American ships, Billy Ray and has boxcars caused a catastrophic critical hit on Rob's ship the Vizcayo and sunk it befor the turn was out. The second turn proceeded about the same way. We inflicted some more damage on the Texas and the Brooklyn and advanced forward. The third turn rolled around at full steam and we inflicted even more damage on the Texas and the Brooklyn, but a withering hail of fire from Billy Ray's ship sent my ship the Cristobolo Colon straight to the bottom of the sea. In the fourth turn, we dealt yet more damage to the Texas and Jack successfully rammed the Texas with one of his torpedo destroyers while taking only minimal damage himself, the Texas was listing to port and her bilge pumps were going full bore. The game went on for a few turns after this with Mr. John's Texas pulling back and the Brooklyn taking quite a beating trying to cover the Texas' retreat. In the end all our ships were sunk and the Texas had one hull point left, the Brooklyn had 2. So it was a victory for the Yanks, but we sure gave them hell.