1. Fleets comprise triremes plus extra ships due to sea warrior experience. These are as follows: 25+ Famous 2 Triremes 35+ Legendary 6 Triremes 2. Fleets can sail into estuaries to make landings. Maps should be marked with the point beyond which only river craft can go. 3. Storms at Sea Fleets & Army Transports: Winter - No movement Spring - 1D6, if 1, storm has struck Summer - Storms deemed ineffectual Autumn - 1D6, if 1, storm has struck Army transports 1D6 for shipwrecked army units lost. Fleets in a coastal Triban run for a beach. 1D6 1,2 Rocky Shore 1D6 + 2 for losses 3,4 Moderate Beach 1D6 for losses 5,6 Good Beach No losses 4. Movement Used a fixed compass on your map and assign dice numbers as follows, decide the predominant "Trade Wind" so if it is north-south assign die numbers as follows: North = 1, 2 South = 5, 6 East = 3 West = 4 (these are permanent) Every north die roll for wind direction. Normal movement = 4 Tribans (the sea should be roughly divided up in Triban sized areas). Running with the wind = 8 Tribans. Running against the wind = 2 Tribans. 5. Over wintering and returning to safe haven. The decision to over winter is a combination of distance from home waters, leadership and enemy threat, plus some luck (1D6). Over wintering in foreign waters Each fleet must find a beaching place. Each beaching place can accommodate max 10 ships. Each separate fleet of up to 10 ships must dice once. Throw 1st D6 : 1, 2 fleet discovered by enemy 2nd D6 : 3, 4, 5, 6 fleet driven away 3rd D6 : 1, 2 fleet destroyed i.e. storms before safely beaching elsewhere modified by - where fleets are beached with their own army units throw 2nd D6: if 5, 6 fleet still driven away Safe havens home or abroad All fleets keep dicing for storms for each move they have to make to find a safe haven. SEA BATTLES 1. Calculate Navy value + 1 point for each ship + 2 points for famous sea warrior leader + 4 points for legendary sea warrior leader 2. Compare points score for each force and work out ratio then throw 1D10 and read off result. 3. Table Results are shown victory normally applies to larger force smaller force victories are boxed D is a draw BW is a delay of any kind - usually weather number is losses for losing side or both in the case of a draw victors 1D6 for their losses Decimo Part 2 Sea Battles Blight and Trade Cards Chance Events Kingdoms and Empires More Decimo Part 1 Introduction Rules People, Peace, and War Preparations for War...and Battles Decimo Part 3 Land and Peoples Creation Campaign Report Diary of the Campaign Back to Table of Contents -- Lone Warrior #140 Back to Lone Warrior List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2002 by Solo Wargamers Association. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com