Sails of Glory: Sails of Glory Starter Set
$89.90 SRP
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Sails of Glory is a game system that allows players to recreate naval battles during the Age of Sail, using cards and pre-painted and assembled ship miniatures. In Sails of Glory players will sail and fight with massive ships-of-the-line or swift frigates, in an age where the armies and fleets of the French Emperor Napoleon I battled across the seas, against the powerful Royal Navy of the British Empire in dramatic naval battles, such as Trafalgar and the Battle of the Nile. This Sails of Glory Starter Set is a complete game for 2-4 players that includes everything you need to recreate the epic naval battles of the of the “Age of Sail”, but may be expanded with additional Ship Packs to allow for larger battles with different ships.
Sails of Glory: Frigate Ship Pack: HMS Concorde 1783 – British Frigate
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The Concorde Class frigates were fifth-rate, 32-guns, fast and maneuverable ships. They were armed with twenty-six 12-pounder long guns on the main battery and lighter pieces of artillery – four 6-pounder guns on the forecastle and two on the poop deck and were designed for a crew of 280.
The HMS Concorde 1783 was a frigate of the Royal Navy that had previously served in the French Navy under the name La Concorde. Captured in February 1783 by HMS Magnificent, it returned to active service under the White Ensign after repairs with the outbreak of war with France in 1793.
Requires Sails of Glory Starter Set.
Sails of Glory: Frigate Ship Pack: Hermione 1779 - French Frigate
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The Concorde Class frigates were fifth-rate, 32-guns, fast and maneuverable ships. They were armed with twenty-six 12-pounder long guns on the main battery and lighter pieces of artillery - four 6-pounder guns on the forecastle and two on the poop deck – and were designed for a crew of 280.
The Hermione 1779 became famous in 1780, when she carried General Lafayette, embarked at Rochefort, to the United States to bring help and support (5,500 men and 5 frigates) to the American insurgents in the American Revolutionary War guided by George Washington.
Requires Sails of Glory Starter Set.
Sails of Glory: Frigate Ship Pack: Embuscade 1798 – French
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The Amazon Class frigates of 1773 were fifth-rate, 32-guns British ships with a main battery of 12-pounder guns, plus 18-pound carronades and 6-pounder guns in the quarterdeck and in the forecastle. The designed crew was of 220.
The HMS Ambuscade 1773 was built at Depford and served in the Royal Navy during the American Revolution. It was captured by the French corvette Bayonnaise in December 1798, when blockading Rochefort, and then brought into French service as Embuscade. The frigate was recaptured by the British in May 1803.
Requires Sails of Glory Starter Set.
Sails of Glory: Frigate Ship Pack: HMS Cleopatra 1779 – British
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The Amazon Class frigates of 1773 were fifth-rate, 32- guns British ships with a main battery of 12-pounder guns, plus 18-pound carronades and 6-pounder guns in the quarterdeck and in the forecastle. The designed crew was of 220.
The HMS Cleopatra 1779 had a long career in the Royal Navy, seeing service during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. During the latter wars she fought two notable engagements with larger French opponents.
Requires Sails of Glory Starter Set.
Sails of Glory: Ships of the Line: Ship Pack: HMS Impétueux 1796 – British
$21.90 SRP
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The Téméraire Class is the most numerous class of capital ships ever built, with 67 built between 1782 and 1824 for the French navy. These third-rate, 74-guns ships had a designed crew of 700. They were armed with 28 36-Pounder guns in the lower deck, 30 18-Pounder guns in the upperdeck, and 16 8-Pounder guns in the quarterdeck and in the forecastle.
The British HMS Impétueux 1796 was the former French ship America 1788. The Royal Navy captured her in 1794 at the Battle of the Glorious First of June. She then served with the British under the name HMS Impétueux until she was broken up in 1813. She became the prototype for the Royal Navy America class ship of the line.
Requires Sails of Glory Starter Set.
Sails of Glory: Ships of the Line: Ship Pack: Commerce de Bordeaux 1784 - French
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The Téméraire Class is the most numerous class of capital ships ever built, with 67 built between 1782 and 1824 for the French navy. These third-rate, 74-guns ships had a designed crew of 700. They were armed with 28 36-Pounder guns in the lower deck, 30 18-Pounder guns in the upperdeck, and 16 8-Pounder guns in the quarterdeck and in the forecastle.
The Commerce de Bordeaux was funded by a "don des vaisseaux" (fundraising) donation from Bordeaux. She was laid dawn in 1784 and acquired in 1785. Renamed Timoléon in 1794, she took part in the Battle of the Nile under Captain Louis-Léonce Trullet, and was the last fighting French ship of the battle, exploding after three days, on August 2nd.
Requires Sails of Glory Starter Set.
Sails of Glory: Ships of the Line: Ship Pack: Le Berwick 1795 – French
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The Elizabeth class was almost identical in size, layout, and structure to the Bellona class, and had only slight variations in the shape of the underwater hull. The Elizabeth class ships of the line were a class of eight 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.
The Elizabeth Class comprised six ships: one of them was the HMS Berwick 1775, which fought the French at the Battle of Ushant (1778) and the Dutch at the Battle of Dogger Bank (1781). Captured during the French Revolutionary Wars, she served under the name Le Berwick with some success and at the start of the Napoleonic Wars until the British recaptured her at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Requires Sails of Glory Starter Set.
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Sails of Glory: Ships of the Line: Ship Pack: HMS Bellona 1760 – British
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The Bellona Class is considered a prototype for the iconic 74-gun ships of the latter part of the 18th century. The Bellona Class had a designed crew of 550 and was armed with 28 32-Pounder guns in the lower deck, 28 18-Pounder guns in the upper deck and 18 9-Pounder guns in the quarterdeck and in the forecastle.
The HMS Bellona 1760 was the first of the class, which comprised other four ships were launched from 1760 to 1762. She had a long career, having served in the navy for over 50 years, an unusually long time for one of the old wooden ships.
Requires Sails of Glory Starter Set.
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