World War 1 Naval battles.... oh yes I remember them.

Waaaaay way back in the 70's and 80-'s I had a thing about World War 1 naval battles, and naval gaming.  I could recite almost minute by minute the battle cruiser action as it unfolded in the Battle of Jutland. We'd tried several sets of naval rules, including a set published by Navwar at the time, before settling on General Quarters 1. We used these rules to refight the entire Jutland action. I bought and painted enough ships to model the entire High Seas Fleet. Good friend Gerard modelled the Grand Fleet, somethign. he did almost entirely from scratch. At that time he was a travelling salesman, and wiled away those lonely evenings in motels modelling.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Yorck

The interest waned after that. Other things took over. Ancients, girls, marriage, family, work .. you get the idea.

Until recently, when Keith and Alastair started using the Naval Thunder rules for some interesting small WW2 actions, mostly at cruiser and destroyer level. I resisted.... and resisted ... and resisted .. until.. yup, I bought a copy of 'Clash of Dreadnoughts', the WW1 version of the rules. I haven't read them yet, but I did go and dig out this:

Which had these:

With things like these (all 1/3000th scale, from Navwar IIRC):

I will need to acquire some Grand Fleet elements. I don't imagine too many, as I can't see us refighting Jutland any time soon.,. these days I lack the energy for such large games. But.... 

And as to deck colours, I have no idea why I painted them differently. Recent 'research' (aka internet digging) suggests that they are various shades of grey to charcoal black. Oh well. Thanks Keith, I need another wargames period like a need a. .... oh, who and I kidding.. on y va/let's go.

Watch this space .....