Sunday Cruel Seas

A flotilla of 2 Farmiles & 4 Vespers intercepted a convoy of 2 coastal freighters with an escort of a Minesweeper & 4 E-boats.  Jim v. Chris.

We overdid the table size a bit & sped up the first few turns by simply moving all the boats simultaneously.

The E-boats move out ahead to intercept the Brits before they get into torp range of the convoy. 

A Fairmile & a Vesper have slipped past the bloody melee between the islands.

The big ships are dodging torpedoes as small boats of both sides are mutually destroying each other.  The Minesweeper escaped the torps but the Farmile sunk her with gun fire.

The last E-boat had doubled back to intercept the last 2 Brit boats & got the Vesper.

But the Farmile got the E-boat leaving the freighters with only their own machine guns for their defence.

The Farmile was caught between the island & the Tankers & couldn't get out of machine gun range & had to slug it out.  It's guns inflicted serious damage on both ships, but it had already been damaged in its succesfull attack on the minesweeper & the merchantmen's machine guns finished her off.

The freighters are the only survivors so the Germans have won.  The death rate may have been unrealistic but it was a rattling good game.