[Commercial] Castles in the Sky- Available on the Osprey Website

[The_Beast]

I hope this helps/works.....

Big thanks, Eric!

Oh, looks like someone, or six someones, beat me to it. ;->=

Doug

[Easy E]

This week on the blog, I have a post with a bunch of resources and photos for Castles in the Sky.



The resources include:
- Quick Reference Sheet
- Tokens for game play
- Record Sheets
- Ship templates



http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/01/castles-in-sky-random-photo-dump-and.html

[The_Beast]

Much thanks to you and Mr. Kurcina! I susspect the ship templates will be as much an assist to my endeavours as the quick ref has been.

I will point out that, currently, the Quick Ref link in this blog post is broken, though copy-and-paste of the URL works just fine.

As for keeping info on the board, I wonder if I may try scenario bashing to keep numbers within a d6 range, as there are plenty of bases about that will hold same.

Doug

[Easy E]

As many of you know, when I was writing Castles in the Sky there was a strict word count for the book.  However, I wrote so much content that I had to go back and remove some of it from the book.  Even with my edits, the final book is still larger than any of the other Osprey Wargaming Series books!  Instead of the normal 64 pages, it is 80 pages of content! 

To make the rules fit to the new expanded size, I still had to cut out some rules and other details that I wanted to keep in.  The biggest space eater, was the ship templates.  Therefore, I had to remove a lot of ships.  Therefore, each fleet was left with only 1 Battleship, a cruiser of two, and 1 or two escorts.  All nationalities lost at least a single ship to make space.  I want to make these ships available to the community here on the blog!

Over the next few weeks the blog will have new and expanded content for Castles in the Sky.  You can see the first entry with some new ships for the British, French, and Germans.  In addition, there are rules for the Regional Powers that never made the book.  You can find this new content here:

http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/02/wargame-design-castles-in-sky-new-ship.html

[Golgotha]

Very nice to have these additions.

[Easy E]

As many of you know, when I was writing Castles in the Sky there was a strict word count for the book.  However, I wrote so much content that I had to go back and remove some of it from the book.  Even with my edits, the final book is still larger than any of the other Osprey Wargaming Series books!  Instead of the normal 64 pages, it is 80 pages of content! 

To make the rules fit to the new expanded size, I still had to cut out some rules and other details that I wanted to keep in.  The biggest space eater, was the ship templates.  Therefore, I had to remove a lot of ships.  Therefore, each fleet was left with only 1 Battleship, a cruiser of two, and 1 or two escorts.  All nationalities lost at least a single ship to make space.  I want to make these ships available to the community on the blog!

You can find them here:
http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2023/04/wargame-design-castles-in-sky-new-ship.html

[fred]

Thanks for sharing these.

The blog post seems to have messed up the formatting somewhat, are you able to share in another format either PDF or spreadsheet?

[Easy E]

Once I get them all out, I will put them in a PDF with all of them in it and link it on the Blog.

[Golgotha]

Looking forward to it...

[The_Beast]

Thanks for sharing these.

The blog post seems to have messed up the formatting somewhat, are you able to share in another format either PDF or spreadsheet?

I tried copy-paste into Notepad, then stretched wide the window, and seemed to help some; I assume a bit of further edit would make it better, but will have to wait for my being not so sleepy... 

Doug

[The_Beast]

Class: Borodino
Category: Cruiser (Battle Cruiser)       
Armor: 7
Speed: 1- 8                   
Altitude: 7                     
Turns: 1/45     
Lift: 1
Armament:       Firepower:   Power:      Fire Arc:      Ammo:
Heavy Battery   -/6/4/2      +3/+2/+1   Bow/Port/Starboard   4+
Heavy Battery   -/6/4/2      +3/+2/+1   Stern/Port/Starboard   4+
Light Battery   -/2/1/-      -/-/-      Bow/Port/Starboard   5+
Point Defense   3/-/-/-      -/-/-      All
Operational Cost: 5

Sorry, still looks like c**p, but tell me if that will get you by, and you want me to continue.

Doug

[Easy E]

When I look at it on the writing part of blogger, it looks fine.  But when it fits it into the blog... no such luck.  I will keep playing around with it.   
 
In the meantime....



Ruckdog from the Man Battlestations podcast/forum/blog get together and chat a bit about the future of Castles in the Sky.

http://www.manbattlestations.com/blog/2023/04/07/mbs-podcast-episode-79-eric-farrington-interview/

[Easy E]

FYI- I fixed the formatting on the blog.

When all the fleet updates and rules are posted, I will put them in a PDF version.  Thanks.

[The_Beast]

No, thanks to you!

My 'edit' pulled the same trick when I pasted to the forum. 

Finally put ships-on-the-table, solo mode. Having fun, but getting itch to resurrect other rule sets again, as well.

Hope you're happy...

Doug

[Easy E]

An amazing method for basing ships for Castles in the Sky.