Today I played my first amphibious scenario of the game. It was a real blast. The objective was to plunder the two cabins on the beach. My Anglo-French Brethen of the Coast was attacking and My buddy was defending with Spanish Guarda Costa.
One unit of Spanish militia was guarding the beach and a longboat full of militia together with a light frigate was the relief force.
The attackers had two longboats filled with boucaniers, filibusters, freebooters and marins and a sloop.
The first two turns we were maneuvering the ships to firing positions as the longboats tried get to the shore. The spanish ship fired a broadside, but failed to hit the sloop.
On the third turn the Anglo-French longboats hit the beach. The Sloop fired its cannon at the Spanish longboat managing to damage it and then promptly rammed the boat. The long boat started to sink. The light frigate managed to get a lucky hit to sloop causing a leak on the front deck.
However on the forth turn the cunning Spanish captain tacked his ship through the wind's eye and unleashed the other broadside at point-blank range causing a devastating 13 points of damage to the sloop. The poor sloop got multiple leaks and a fire. The French captain had to run the ship aground to escape death by drowning.
In the end the Brethen managed to land troops and drive away the Spanish guarding the beach, but doing that they had lost their sloop which was reduced to integrity of 1, run aground and sunk.
As I said in the beginning of the post: It was a real fun game. However I'm not sure how to count the strike points for the ship. We counted three strike points for the sloop. One for having it's hull reduced to less than half, one for running aground and one for sinking. If it was not right, it sure was thematic as the Anglo-French coalition escaped through the jungle and the Guarda Costa patrolled the coastline.