From NoelW: Life’s a Beach: Adventurers’ Landing (266 points)

“I think all that guff about the Chambers being invaded by strange uniformed creatures from a hitherto unknown island are just scare stories,” says Titchy. “So we run away and forget about our noble quest for the GTTWHNS.”⁽¹⁾

“We have seen lots of men shooting lots of guns at lots of dungeon denizens, Titchy.”

“Illusion. Hocus Pokery. Magicianly tricks just to fool us. Fake news. But they can’t disguise reality for long. Here it is. This deserted beach.”

They look around the bay: idyllic dunes of silver sand, the glorious blue waves flecked with white foam, the graceful squawk and splash of seagulls.

“Can you see any sign of invasion?”

“Well, actually…” begins Elfbow. “What about that?”

He points out to the horizon.

“A sail! A sail!”

“Actually, I think more than one. And they seem to be heading directly for us.”

“Might not be an invasion. Might just be a pleasure cruise.”

“And it might be a flock of ugly ducklings pretending to be swans,” suggests Elfbow. “But I suspect not.”

“Well, look at the lovely clouds the ships are making. Surely that’s a celebratory greeting, saying something like ‘look how soft, friendly and cuddly we are’.”

“Or,” says Getrude, as the first of the cannon balls plummets into the sand at their feet, and the distant echoes of cannonfire arrive shortly behind them, “they may be saying something like ‘stand on that beach much longer, and see how quickly we can turn you into flotsam.’”

“Or jetsam.”

“Ay any rate, some sort of sam.”

“I believe,”says Elfbow, “we elves have an apposite word for situations like this.”

“What’s that, Elbow?”

“Scarper!”

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(1) Greatest Treasure The World Has Never Seen

My invasion fleet is not quite as large as I was planning, but it’s still a decent mass of ship and sail. It consists of 11 ships. 7 are more of the Simon Mann 3d prints I bought second hand, and the other four are Warlord’s Black Seas ships. 

The consist of:

1 x 2^nd rate Barfleur class

1 x 2^nd rate Temeraire class

1 x 3^rd rate Intrepid

2 x 5^th class (frigate) Southampton class

2 x 5^th class (frigate) Arethusa class

2 x Bomb ketch

1 x schooner

1 x cutter

The last two of these (the smallest of the vessels) I’ve not rigged, though they do have flags. I’ve made all of the flags and pennants detachable, so that the ships could, in principle, be used for navies other than the British. (I also made all the ratlines myself, as the 3D prints lack them, and I'm not too keen on the Warlord acetate jobs, even though I've used them on some of my other ships to save time.) Of all the ships in this fleet, I particularly like the bomb ketch, one of which I've painted in black and white, potentially suitable for Danish or US use against the English:

Following the precedents set by Adam on the relative size of vessels plus bonuses for rigging, sails and flags, I think plausible points are:

2 x 2^nd rate @ 33 = 66
1 x 3^rd rate @ 31 = 31
4 x 5^th rate @ 25 = 100
Cutter = 9
Schooner = 10
2 x Bomb ketch (somewhere between brig and frigate in size): 12 + 3 bonus? = 30

Adventurer’s landing: 20

Making a grand total of 266 points.