Cruel Seas

We had some new boats painted, so had to have another go at Cruel Seas.

Game 1:
3 S-boots are escorting a disabled U-boot back to base.  (The U=boot can't submerge).
6 MTB's are trying to finish off the U-boat.
The U-boot is a 3-printed model made for me by Stewart.  It came up well. 

The Germans made a mistake splitting their force.  The 3 MTBs on the left took out an S-boot & closed in on the U-boot.  The leading boat's torps missed.  The 3rd boat shot their off to close to work, then ran into the U-boot & sunk. 

The torps failed, but a hail of gun fire from 5 boats sunk the U-boot while the other 2 escorts took out an MTB, but were too far off to help much.

Game 2:
Steve had made up a Minesweeper & a Flak-boot, so we had to use them, giving them an escort of 2 S-boots.  7 MTBs attacked them.  We used our hex blue hex sheets to give us a bigger area.

The germans sight a swarm of MTBs coming for them.

The S-boots go right through the swarm of MTBs with no serious damage either way.

Although the S-boots are now circling around & out of the action the MTBs are learning that they shouldn't get too close to bigger boats.  If they get too close & they can't use their torps effectively  & the bigger boats many guns are deadly up close.

The Minsweeper has taken one torp hit, but survived & th germans sail on through the wreakage of most of the MTBs.  The Germans win this time.