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BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:11 am A second hand "Cruel Seas" starter box, with extra German sprue and the U-boat conning tower model. Not because I like the game itself, but because I have the TFL equivalent ("Coastal Patrol") and fancy doing it in a scale where I can still see the boats and make out which side is which...... Plus there's lots of extras, game markers, etc - and a "playing mat" (which was, hitherto, just something my children used to vomit on 20 years ago).

There's also David Manley's various sets of rules. If you do Facebook there's an active (non-Warlord) group here. https://www.facebook.com/groups/286537142167028/

Thanks - I have actually chatted to David Manley when he used to co-host a naval wargames day quite near me, on the South Coast. I think it stopped because the venue got a bit arsey. I also have a set of rules that you can download for free from a US website, run by David Gregory, who also owns P T Dockyard which produces 1/600 coastal vessels. Skytrex and a couple of others in the UK produce 1/600 as well (I think one of them also produces 1/300 naval boats to go with their 1/300 WW2 land-based ranges).

The problem is that 1/300 is way too big for the larger vessels (coastal rules usually go up to destroyer level and serious cargo ship/petrol tanker for merchants) - you only have to look at some of the PR shots for "Cruel Seas" to see the "traffic jams" and scale distortions (more danger of the equivalent of a motorway pile-up than a sinking from gunfire) - but it is quite good for the more "intimate" engagements involving just a few MTBs/E-boats etc, hence my purchase.

I agree with all of that! A larger sized playing area and a limitation to using smaller vessels only would sort out some of that. A handful of boats per side and maybe a couple of coasters as targets would be a more more typical encounter.

Heroics & Ross have some 1/300 models, which are probably the ones you're thinking of, but they're not very active at the moment. Scotia Grendel do too

A batch of mdf bases from PENDRAKEN. Ordered late on the 16th, delivered today early on the 22nd. Can't fault them.

Etranger wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:46 am I agree with all of that! A larger sized playing area and a limitation to using smaller vessels only would sort out some of that. A handful of boats per side and maybe a couple of coasters as targets would be a more more typical encounter.

My take on it exactly. Introduce corvettes and destroyers and frankly the only table top you are looking at is Table Mountain.

Etranger wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:46 am Heroics & Ross have some 1/300 models, which are probably the ones you're thinking of, but they're not very active at the moment. Scotia Grendel do too

That's the chaps - I have some of their 1/600 stuff, which is not bad. I think they were just altering some of their older (and larger) models from metal into resin when I last dealt with them.

H & R have the ex-Skytrex 1/600 range these days.

Hence my confusion.....

Peeler wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 1:32 pm A batch of mdf bases from PENDRAKEN. Ordered late on the 16th, delivered today early on the 22nd. Can't fault them.

Leon is nocturnal.

The Sarissa Dark Age farmstead for my Arthurian project. Then some RPG stuff - RQG screen pack, Cthulhu: Down Darker Trails rules and the Devil’s Gulch scenario to go with it.