cruel seas a Naval officer's persective

[Willz the Wargamer]

I have not played this game but it looks interesting, found this whilst net surfing.
This may be of use to any of you chaps who play it.

https://spqvi.com/2019/02/21/cruel-seas ... rspective/

Willz.

[Paul]

Interesting, but he might be making the mistake of equating his modern experience with a WW2 experience in some instances.
I am not sure about the sizes issue either. Obviously he has the categories in the right order but surely to an MTB crew a Destroyer is 'Huge' especially the Tribals which were pretty much in the light cruiser bracket!

[FreddBloggs]

Big issue of the starter set is apples vs oranges, vospers did not take on s boats if the could help it, fairmile mgbs did that.

[Etranger]

Dog Boats are coming Fred, not before time.

David Manley, who knows a thing or two about naval matters, is fairly positive about the rules, although a lot of us are waiting for his new set, out soon.

[grizzlymc]

I'm still wondering about the best scale to play these rules. Ironic really.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

My own take (fwiw) is that 1/300 is fine, if all you are doing is using the MTB/MGB and equivalent vessels. Anything bigger than that and it's like playing a WW2 skirmish on a 4x4 table using Action Men. You only have to look at their own pre-launch publicity photos to see the type of "traffic jam" you get once you allow smaller merchantmen and Flower-class corvettes onto the table, let alone destroyers and the like. Quite why they didn't go with 1/600, which has been the widely-accepted scale for this sort of naval game for a few decades now, is beyond me.

But then Warlord love to be "innovative"......

[grizzlymc]

Because they don't want you whoring around with other manufacturers' ranges.

My tinking exacary, 1:600 makes so much more sense.

[FreddBloggs]

Actually, with the revisions from the above rant, I could be really interested in it. Again, not sure about it in 1/300 though.

[Jeremy]

Thirty years ago, we were using 1:300 models and Fletcher Pratt rules in a massive hall on the floor. It’s the last time I enjoyed WW2 Naval wargaming

[grizzlymc]

SHIT! Those thumping great Tamiya battleships?

We used to do our Pretcher Flatt in a thumping great hall with 1:1200. I was such a lousy shot I'd take light forces. If the navy had still had torpedoes, I might have overcome my aversion to being told what to do. To stand on the bridge of a destroyer at 34 knots with six inch shell splashes all around, watching the target battleship getting larger and larger, calling the helmsman to throw a 90 degree port turn and then order the torpedo man to fire his matchsticks at will. What a way to get a VC!