Naval War playtest Battle Report 1: US Navy vs Imperial Japanese Navy

First off, my apologies for the lack of content recently. I´ve been pretty busy over the holidays and haven´t managed to play much. I did play a ton of Team yankee games just prior to the holidays, but I didn´t take any pictures then.

Today, I decided to do somethign different and play a solo game to playtest Naval War, a new WW2 ruleset currently in development by Hendrik Jan Seijmonsbergen.
Visit http://navalwar.boards.net/ to learn more about the game and become a playtester.

Since this would be my first game with the system, I decided on a pretty simple scenario: an encounter battle during daytime, on open seas without any terrain or weather.

My collection of ships is a bit eclectic, since I got started with a bunch of random Axis and Allies Naval boosters, but mostly focuses on the Battle of the Java Sea. Since there isn't an order of battle for that yet in the playtest, I'll be using the Coral Sea forces (which have a lot of the same ships, especially on the IJN side) with a bunch of proxies.