Today we played with Duderson our never ending naval clash of empires of XIX/XX century – on my side tzar Empire of Romanow dynasty and on Duderson side Japan Empire. We played scenario called „Clash on the counter-courses”, where both fleets had to cross board on the opposite corner of the table. As always we played in Bolter, official partner of GM Boardgames – studio which released Gods of War: Togo and older Gods of War: Rober E. Lee and Gods of War: Napoleon.

If you are interested in this great game – we have one important news – rulebook is under translation to English and Royal Navy will be another fleet in this simple but not trivial game – HERE are more informations about it.

After first turn both fleets were in such positions.
Japanese torpedo boats moved to cross path of Russian navy.
Island made our hitting harder, as we shot over it.
Japanese torpedo boat sent torpedos, but none of them scored a hit.
Massive fire from Russian fleet sunk one group of torpedo boats.
Other group of torpedo boats succesfully passed beetwen Russian ships.
First ramming, Buynyi class started getting water, with it crew trying to safe ship from sunking.
Second ramming, succesful – ship which got many hits before from Russian Borodino class ships: Suworow and Borodin sunk after being rammed.
Third ramming… Aurora rammed Suworow, both ships survived, but started sunking.
Torpedo boats captain decided to surrender – were destroyed by they own ship, as Japanese do not surrender.
Japanese fleet moving into the correct exit corner.
Russian ship also preparing to leave board.
Aurora being flood by water.
Last ship on the table which missed crossing corner was Aurora.

Summary:
– great game, thank you Duderson! Waiting for one more game soon.
– this time it was my victory – 70 to 43.