¡VIVA EL IMPERIO ESPAÑOL! (VASSAL Campaign Game 1 retrospective - Galleons Approaching)

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Credit to Veigar Margeirsson for the song "Galleons Approaching", which was the Spanish "theme song" for VASSAL Campaign Game 1. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j9zWobngBA Battle Reports for CG1: https://pirateswithben.com/vassal-campaign-game-1/ I understand that the text goes by quickly, but SO much happened during the game that this is a TINY portion of the pictures and events that occurred, and I couldn't really afford to show any less since this was barely long enough to tell the general story of the game. I also wanted the audio to match with the picture transitions, so it's best to read very quickly or watch it a couple times. Check out the battle reports above for the full story. :) Find my other epic battle reports here: https://pirateswithben.com/battle-reports-compendium/ Similar videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRq8fy93o3wGkBFIGRtt8ueSX3Zc8S83a The Huge Game Legacy thread: https://pirateswithben.com/the-huge-game-legacy-thread/ Guide to huge games: https://pirateswithben.com/guide-to-huge-games/ Spoiler alert... – VASSAL Campaign Game 1 (February-May 2016) Summary: After reviving the VASSAL module, Xerecs and I became excited by the possibilities of campaign games on the module. We hastily planned the first one, which would be a “regular” cumulative game with no special campaign ruleset or many house rules. Each of us controlled 3 fleets, which we HAD to play independently. Pros: First campaign game played remotely (as far as we know). The first of many campaign games between Xerecs and a7xfanben! Plenty of custom game pieces were used. In addition, the interaction between leaders through the VASSAL chat was very unique (much of it wasn’t recorded, but the game was more complex than the battle reports show). It also became the largest game of all time (making my Economy Edition the biggest physical game ever played haha). Cons: Typical negatives of a standard CG. The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer, almost without exception throughout the entire game. As the game swelled to enormous size, the map started to look a bit too small, but the chaotic and bloody War for CG1 brought the game to a relatively quick end. This was about as “normal” as campaign games get, but it was a fantastic test of VASSAL’s capability (as well as Xerecs and I’s capability!) to run a long campaign game. One of the biggest problems concerned the lag – when the game size reached ~2,000+ points, zooming out to see more of the ocean produced a lag in the module. This was countered by simply ignoring the lag, and sometimes by not zooming out at all. Overall size: Official new records: (some since broken, see Command the Oceans below) Total points: 3,516 (likely reached about 3,700 soon afterwards) Total ships: 208 Largest single-turn launching: 628 gold (English battle fleet) Largest recorded single-fleet point total: Spanish at 1,631 points Largest fleet of any faction: Spanish at 111 ships Ocean size: Using a pixel-to-feet converter (a standard ocean block on the module is 3000×3000 pixels), the ocean was 7.8 feet long by 5.2 feet wide (40.56 square feet). ~~~~~ Pirates Constructible Strategy Game My fansite: https://pirateswithben.com/ Join the Forum: https://pirateswithben.com/forums/forum/pirates-csg/ VASSAL module for virtual play: https://pirateswithben.com/vassal/ Instagram: @piratescsg (https://www.instagram.com/piratescsg/) Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/piratescsg/ Discord server: https://discord.gg/qeY7e3Q Master Spreadsheet with all game pieces: http://bit.ly/PiratesCSGMasterSpreadsheet Game page at Board Game Geek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10653/pirates-spanish-main Pojo forum page: http://www.pojo.biz/board/forumdisplay.php?f=126 Forum for a fan made set: http://custompirate.proboards.com/ Cadet-Captain Mike's Pirates page: http://www.cke1st.com/m_games5.htm My Battle Reports: https://pirateswithben.com/category/battlereports/