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The ships
The crew
The lawn mower
Chris's North Carolina runs aground and gets pounded
A Northampton class cruiser does not last much longer
Before being joined by a German Battlecruiser
While a Queen Elizabeth and an Invincible trade a thumping
Battle at Bray's. The really big difference between Biggun and Smallgun being that the small gunners use reverse, which makes battles often start with a positional joust, while Biggun battles are always swirling melees
Sometimes it takes not battle damage to put you under, with ships regularly dragging their decks under as they slam around the pond, a less than perfect deck seal can have very negative consequences
A nice WWII refit of an old American battlewagon
What you don't want to happen. A North Carolina gets caught by a Bismark and before she can shake the Bismark loose, is so peppered all the skipper can do is stand back and watch ....
The Northampton class cruiser does it again
A North Carolina has another glancing runing with a Bismark
This Queen in the forground looks like its sinking, but actually its just manouvering astern - at speed
The other North Carolina takes the refreshing plunge
German Battlecruiser sandwich
There is a real problem with over use of 'full astern'
Though not everyone who is sunk sucumbs to this peril
There does though seem to be something wrong with the North Carolina's this weekend
In biggun we don't use pyrotechnics, but they sure are impressive
Sunday afternoon cruiser battle. After being totally unable to sink Flugel's K class cruiser, the opposition comes up with a cunning plan ...
Before losing one of their own, twice ...