Wargaming with pencil sharpeners.

Quite a few year ago I bought,from a market trader in Durham City, 14 pencil sharpeners,hoping to wargame with them.....................

Just kidding-my idea of a jolly joke(ha,ha!)-The ones I bought to wargame with are these.........

Yes,18th century sailing ships!-with a basic paint job and some added thread for rigging,the result was a passable fleet of British,Spanish and French ships.The sceptics among you won't be satisfied until I prove they are pencil sharpeners,so......................

Top photo is the Spanish "Argonauta"-bottom photo is the stern(note seafaring parlance!) showing the hole for inserting a pencil-hence the term pencil sharpener!
All I need now,for a game,is some paraphernalia linked to sailing ships..................

Cotton wool for gun fire smoke,wrecked hulks,turning circles(port and starboard-I'm really getting into this parlance!) and of course a "Wind" direction arrow(which should, by definition, always point towards Brian!!) and finally some damage markers.

Simple damage recording sheets and rules-speeds are in Distance sticks(see last blog!) and away we go(or "cast off" if,like me, you're really into the seafaring parlance!)

For the first test game I only used 4 ships per side,and everything was going "swimingly"(yes,pun intended!) until all the ships managed to get themselves embroiled in boarding melees!

The second game involved much more "social distancing" and long range fire,and was,consequently, a much better and enjoyable game,although there were some casualties......

Some pencil sharpeners had to be sacrificed to become "Sunken Hulks"

A fine broadside delivered by the British ship "Ajax"(I suppose you could say it's cleaning up the sea!!)
Hmmm,on that note I can only say that I'm looking forward to midnight when the Government say I can visit someone from outside my household-I don't know who I'm going to visit,but somebody had better watch out-I'm coming!!!!!!!!
Roll on the end to this madness.