It’s been a year since we had a game of little ships so after the last game of ACW the ladz elected to have a game of Victory at Sea.

Now with Russ overseas that left available fleets as Stevens British and my Japanese. A quick paint of a carrier and its 18 flights and my Japanese were ready. Russ even returned in time for the game and bought along a Japanese Carrier and Battleship plus 3 clip together prepainted Japanese kits of the Titanic and her sister ships!(he also bless his soul bought the 3 for me as well!).

Ignoring the fact we hadn’t played for a year I set up a scenario bound to fail…but it meant we had lots of ships and planes on the table … and some combat actually occurred!

So the scenario was the Japanese have to escort the 3 Troop carrying liners to some islands and the British have to stop them. Simple really.

The Japanese steaming towards the islands in the distance. Out front is a destroyer squadron led by an AA Cruiser. Tucked in behind them are 2 heavy cruisers, then the 3 troop transport’s, then the cover force for the capital ships of 2 heavy cruisers and 2 destroyers. Lastly the Carrier and her guardian Battleship. The carrier has a combat patrol up plus has launched her full attack force.

Close up of the Carrier…great paint job Russ!

My newly painted planes are from MagpieDesigner who Russ located as a source in the UK.

Here is a close up of the liners…beautiful.

Those nasty British have formed a very cool battle line.

Steve has the standard Warlord Games planes. Nice paint job.

Side on look at the British line.

Russ moved some flights in the direction of the Nelson….the Japanese destroyers also have REALLY GOOD TORPEDOS and extra tubes.

Japanese Capital Ships.

Now at the start of the game I told Stephen his light cruiser was an AA Cruiser..target planes…so he rushes off to take on the Nelson….. next game he is getting a tug.

So, the light cruiser has been smacked……couldn’t hurt a Tuna now……so British gunnery moves onto the front heavy cruiser. Japanese destroyers have sent some torpedoes into the cruiser flanking the Nelson. Russ has massed his planes to assault the Nelson.

Last turn of game……Japanese planes attack the Nelson…..Sea Hurricanes and Fulmars attempt to stop them. Smoke is the flanking cruiser.

Once the dogfight was over…only 2 flights were in contact with the Nelson….it didn’t sink.

British planes then hit the Mogami Heavy Cruiser…..it didn’t go well for the Mogami.

So that was that…..basically a rule refresher with another battle in 2 weeks where Russ is running a scenario where we will be a lot closer at the start of the game!

Til next time…Terry out.