TURNING

I tried with 1/300 ships to accurately replicate how a galley moves for turns . This led to wonderful turning templates and tables etc. Simplification has led to them being ditched in favour of figure-game style wheels and penalties for increased angles of turn which function for 1/400.

TURNS and TEMPLATES

Playtesting has shown that my dearly-beloved templates which I used with 1/300 in order to mimic the real movement of ships in water can be laid to rest. Instead, the pivot-turns and wheels seem to do the trick at 1/400 without much bother and when handling lots of ships.

The only things needed are an angle indicator to show what penalties are due for what turn and a rule which gives 'ship lengths'.The first made from a defunct CD and the other a piece of tommestok.