Soviet Navy Fleet The Soviet Navy then is not a glamorous fleet for the gamer. Rather it’s a solid, unsophisticated affair, with no radar, little radio, few automatic cannons or other refinements. As ever with Russian forces, quantity has a quality all its own. Your best tactic is to get in quick, torpedo your target and escape fast as you are likely to...
Crueler Seas is a set of optional rules for Warlords naval game Cruel Seas. They are not designed to be complicated or make the game incredibly realistic. It keeps the flavor of the original while addressing 2 things that I felt needed to be addressed; namely spotting and the damage model. It adds rules for: spotting, differentiating quality of forces...
The Imperial Japanese Army started developing small gunboats for close support of amphibious landings in 1924 and by 1927 had the AB-Tei gunboat. By WWII these would be diesel-powered. They would be transported to the landing zones on merchant ships. They were also used as patrol boats in rivers, harbors and coastal zones and to escort supply barges. In...
Close Quarters! includes eleven new historic scenarios, spanning the seas of this global conflict as well as a random scenario generator. Also included are expanded ship rosters for the seafaring nations and new rosters for the Finnish Navy and Yugoslav Partisan Fleet. New rules for amphibious invasions and experimental Q-ships are presented as well as...
In the summer of 1943, the primary mission of the PT boats was to interdict Japanese supply lines by shooting up the enemy landing craft (referred to as barges by American reports) being used to transport supplies. It was at this point that Pacific PT boats were upgraded to have 40 mm/37 mm cannon on the bow and stern. Three old Elco 77’ boats were...
A player who fields ‘tiny boats’ in Cruel Seas will find their use most entertaining and will undoubtedly make his opposing commander very worried indeed! The great strength of such vessels is their size but this makes them equally vulnerable to all manner of incoming fire. As the Japanese merchant marine became ever more depleted the humble Sampan became...
This Starter Set contains everything you need to command your flotilla in this fast-paced 1/300th scale tabletop game. Plastic components. Contents: A4 Softback Rulebook A4 Quick Start Guide with Painting Guides and Flags 6 Vosper Motor Torpedo Boats 4 E-boats 1 Set of Torpedo Markers 1 Set of Plume Markers 1 A0 Double-sided Battle Mat 3 Die-cut...
Cruise of the Graf Spee is an Operational-Tactical level Solitaire wargame that puts you in command of the KMS Graf Spee, the German battlecruiser that made a historic epic voyage through the South Atlantic during the opening days of World War II. The player must accomplish a specific “objective” to win the game that will be generated at random at the...