Stato da Màr TABLE OF CONTENTS Historic Background ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................4 Campaign Map ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................5 The Game ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................6 Campaign Starting Positions............................................................................................................................................................................................................6 Campaign Turns ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................6 Initiative ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................6 Ship Building...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................6 Movement ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Cruising & Piracy ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Battles ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................8 Ports ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................9 Lifting Sieges ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................9 End of Turn Actions ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................10 Resolve Sieges .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................10 Storms ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................10 Collect Taxes, Pay Running Costs, Re-Direct Income due to Piracy ..........................................................................................................................................10 Ship Repairs and Transfers .............................................................................................................................................................................................11 Victory Conditions ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................11 Galley Fleet Battle Tactical Rules ........................................................................................................................................................................................................12 Game Sequence .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................12 Initiative ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................12 Movement ................................................................................................Sample................................ file......................................................................................................12 Firing .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................13 Boarding Combat ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................14 Morale ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................15 Kingdom of Naples & Republic of Genoa .............................................................................................................................................................................................16 Republic of Venice ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................18 Knights of St John ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................20 Barbary States ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................22 Mamluk Sultanate ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................24 Ottoman Empire ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................26 Index of Ports .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................28 Page 3 of 44 Stato da Màr HISTORIC BACKGROUND Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans on 29 May 1453. With the fall of the Byzantine Empire, three major naval powers established a dominance over different parts of the Mediterranean using galleys as their primary weapons at sea: the Ottomans in the east, Venice in the centre and Habsburg Spain in the west. The core of their fleets were concentrated in the three major, wholly dependable naval bases in the Mediterranean: Istanbul/Constantinople, Venice and Barcelona. 16th century naval warfare in the Mediterranean was fought mostly on a smaller scale, with raiding and minor actions dominating. Only three truly major fleet engagements were actually fought in the 16th century: the battles of Preveza in 1538, Djerba in 1560 and Lepanto in 1571. Lepanto was to be the last large all-galley battle, and was also one of the largest battles, in terms of participants, anywhere in early modern Europe before the Napoleonic Wars. Strategically 16th century naval warfare in the Mediterranean was centred on amphibious landings, sieges of key ports or islands and disruption of maritime trade. The galley was ideally suited to this style of warfare. Its’ shallow draft enabled it to beach and land troops directly on the shore. Its’ speed and manoeuvrability allowed it to easily out pace and capture merchant vessels. There were significant drawbacks to the use of CONTEMPORARY PAINTING DEPICTING THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO galleys however. Their low freeboard meant that they ran a high risk of foundering in a storm so limited operations to a defined campaigning season. Their reliance upon manpower at the oars both ensured that they could not venture far from land due to the need to take on large quantities of water for the oarsmen and also meant that it eventually became ruinously expensive in the long term to maintain large fleets of galleys.