Naval Boarding Action Melee Games - Fightcamp 2021

At the Fightcamp event 2021 we ran a Naval Boarding Action class with partnered drills and melee games based upon the 1812 work on the subject by Pringle Green. Obviously there are limitations to the location, equipment, lack of gunnery and numbers, but it gave a fun insight into some elements of the system. The rules varied between rounds, sometimes using spawn and sometimes limiting access and target zones. The weapons used are synthetic sabre, basket hilt and spadroon, as well as musket with bayonet trainers and also padded poles to act as boarding pikes.