*Oak & Iron* intro game with Owen. The intro game is constrained! It leaves out upgrade cards, nationalities (and their initiative cards), objectives, terrain, fortune points. It’s two sides, each of two ships, going at it until someone falters. Owen and I finished in about 4 turns (I didn’t keep careful track). We rapidly closed, dealing with a turn-two calm slowing things a bit. Some decent maneuvering on Owen’s part to bring his line to cut mine in half, but the sloop and the corvette having been hitting each other with broadsides meant I had to try for it, and as he approached, I took the chance to throw grapples and board him. That left a boarding action, with our flagships circling it. I was able to get two bow-rakes from my petite frégate on his corvette, and in the end, that decided things; his fluyt’s broadside on my sloop wasn’t enough to cripple it, too, and thus I eked out a victory with his corvette out of action and my sloop only crippled. ![[june_6-1.jpeg]]