France attacks Spain - Roberts SD 22nd November 2010 potbs

Santo domingo.

Map:Havana harbour
Dons 24 vs Frogs 19
Both sides had a hmc group. The main fleet makeup was similar with the french having 5 less.
Mainly 4ths couple of 3rds.

Leaders: Bennet. Ubert?

The dons left out of the kite shield door and sailed north to form up with land covering our flank and preventing the french from making full use of their wind advantage. Taking the default exit the french sailed east and then turn north and sat for a while presumably decideing what to do.

Eventually they sailed south and managed to pull us out of position, disengage then form up for another assault. They lost one ship who was caught out of position. At this point the french saw an oportunity and took it with half our fleet making a turn through the wind and half the fleet already turned the right way they split the two halves.

I got caught inbetween the 2 halves of our fleet with the whole french fleet staring at me from their broadsides, i did my best to survive and managed to make it through to the downwind segment of our fleet but my ship was inevitably sunk. However the upwind segment of our fleet was pushing into the french with a full wind advantage and the downwind segment was holding its own in the end most of the french were sunk, i think some surrenders were taken, 2 or 3.

We ended up losing only 2 of our ships, my reason and nacho muchachos hmc. I feel if the french had had a full fleet in this position the result could have been very differan't maybe even a win for the froggies.

Butchers bill:
Dons 1 Reason 1 hmc
Frogs 15 - 17 hmcs reasons macadons HHs montys and a cap mc.

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