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  • joe replied to the topic Points cost sloop of war in the forum Black Seas 2 years, 7 months ago

    I don’t see a photo but if you’re referring to this useless thing (it’s basically another brig with a poop deck), then Warlord has dropped the ball…what was needed was a ship-rigged (3 masts) sloop to fill the gap. Oh well, looks like I’ll have to keep scratch-building my sloops of war…..

  • joe replied to the topic Points cost sloop of war in the forum Black Seas 2 years, 9 months ago

    “the Sloop is based on the contemporary 10-gun Cherokee-class”

    Exactly, but I was referring to larger ship-rigged sloops such as the HMS Detroit and Queen Charlotte which were based on Snake class sloops and carried up to 20 guns. I will game these ships using the brig card since the “sloop” category is a bit undergunned, especially when playing…

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  • hello everyone,

    I was wondering if anyone has yet to use a sloop of war in play. I’m especially interested in playing great lakes scenarios so I will be getting some sloop of war models soon. I’m curious though as to points and armaments as it’s not present on the fleet table in the rulebook. Technically it would fall somewhere between a brig and…[Read more]

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