Time for another battle report. Yesterday I was able to get together with Duncan and Stan to try out some more cruel seas. This time we are playing the ambush scenario and have expanded our fleets a bit.
The British were attacking so I took a Fairmile D and 3 Vosper MTB (commanded by Stan). Duncan had 2 E boats for defense and a merchant tanker and Flak Ship for us to hunt.
Ambush:
Here is the set up, I tossed down some islands and rocks haphazardly. We start of slow from the close edge and the Germans sail on 1-2 at a time from their corner and have to sail the 2 large ships of the far edge. We of course need to sink them!
Turn 1 being sneaky and taking it slow. Its night so the German's cant attack right away and we want to delay until the big ships arrive.
Just taking it slow.
Getting close now. This was the last round of sneaking, some targets coming on.
Next turn we kicked up to combat speed and started trading shots. Stan is fighting 1 MTB while I take the other. Managed a good 6 lbper hit. We kept getting torpedo crits but never cooked any off.
The battle gets real. The Fairmile D moves up and puts some torpedoes in the water, the second shot, and hammers the E boat. But is taking heavy damage and suffers an engine hit. The MTBs swarm the other boat.
First E Boat sinks! Feeling confident now but my ship is really limping. Just hoping to get a few torpedo hits.
The 88 on the flak ship finishes me off however. The MTBs fairing better sank the other E boat with 1 loss. Now they are lining up torpedoes.
They sink the merchant tank with ease getting 4 solid hits.
Next turn the flak ship hits back hard, I think we went down to 1 boat or maybe 2 but damaged. But Stan was able to get more torpedoes on target and just barely managed to sink it before it got to go again!
Was a very fun game, feel like it went better this time felt allot more balanced anyway, lots of sunk ships all around!
Hopefully I can get a few more ships painted for the next battle!
Thanks;
Mike
Stan had one boat left and it was relatively undamaged. I agree that we got the balance better this time.
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