Post by boomerbill on Sept 15, 2018 23:44:15 GMT
A wargaming colleague who had never tried WAS joined me for some Med-itation this afternoon.
Sorry, no pictures, and as an AAR, this is somewhat limited.
We squared up for a cruiser conflict in the Med, with me taking the RM and him taking the RN. He had three Brit cruisers (Euralyus and Jamaica were two of them) a mess of destroyers, a flight of Swordfish and a Sea Hurricane to provide air defence.
I grabbed two Italian cruisers (Garibaldi, Trento), a few destroyers (Pegaso, Tarigo and Camiccia Nere), two subs (Ambra and Leonardo) and some decent air (two Sparvieros and two C.202 Folgores).
Standard maps, with three objective markers in the centre of the board.
We both raced to the objectives, with my subs doing virtually no damage before they were dispatched by the ASW attacks. His Swordfish fired blanks, while the Sparviero accounted for a cruiser and a destroyer. But the volume of fire from three cruisers sent the RM to the bottom. Every Italian ship was sunk, while two RN cruisers and two destroyers remained to occupy the objectives.
Then we played a quick battleship battle: the Littorio and Veneto, backstopped by the three destroyers previously mentioned, while he tried to Rule Britannia with the Barham and Warspite, backed up by three destroyers (including the Glowworm) and the aforementioned Jamaica. No air; no subs. Last ship floating wins.
Extended Range 4 is a powerful tool, as long as you are undamaged. I scored an early hit that negated the ER4 SA of the main threat (Warspite), and a couple of "slow" rolls limited the RN's ability to command the board.
The RM closed quarters. Some major gunnery action, with first the cruiser being crippled and sunk, then the Veneto, then the Barham. One RN destroyer managed a torpedo attack on Littorio, but the Torpedo Defense SA made the injury palatable.
The destroyers then damaged each other and the BB's tertiary guns on both sides finished the job. Within six turns, it was the Littorio vs. Warspite, with Littorio taking two points of damage and the Warspite crippled.
The final round gave the Littorio another point of damage but sank the Warspite.
Victory RM, although a very painful and narrow one. The Littorio will be in dry dock for about two years.
Sorry, no pictures, and as an AAR, this is somewhat limited.
We squared up for a cruiser conflict in the Med, with me taking the RM and him taking the RN. He had three Brit cruisers (Euralyus and Jamaica were two of them) a mess of destroyers, a flight of Swordfish and a Sea Hurricane to provide air defence.
I grabbed two Italian cruisers (Garibaldi, Trento), a few destroyers (Pegaso, Tarigo and Camiccia Nere), two subs (Ambra and Leonardo) and some decent air (two Sparvieros and two C.202 Folgores).
Standard maps, with three objective markers in the centre of the board.
We both raced to the objectives, with my subs doing virtually no damage before they were dispatched by the ASW attacks. His Swordfish fired blanks, while the Sparviero accounted for a cruiser and a destroyer. But the volume of fire from three cruisers sent the RM to the bottom. Every Italian ship was sunk, while two RN cruisers and two destroyers remained to occupy the objectives.
Then we played a quick battleship battle: the Littorio and Veneto, backstopped by the three destroyers previously mentioned, while he tried to Rule Britannia with the Barham and Warspite, backed up by three destroyers (including the Glowworm) and the aforementioned Jamaica. No air; no subs. Last ship floating wins.
Extended Range 4 is a powerful tool, as long as you are undamaged. I scored an early hit that negated the ER4 SA of the main threat (Warspite), and a couple of "slow" rolls limited the RN's ability to command the board.
The RM closed quarters. Some major gunnery action, with first the cruiser being crippled and sunk, then the Veneto, then the Barham. One RN destroyer managed a torpedo attack on Littorio, but the Torpedo Defense SA made the injury palatable.
The destroyers then damaged each other and the BB's tertiary guns on both sides finished the job. Within six turns, it was the Littorio vs. Warspite, with Littorio taking two points of damage and the Warspite crippled.
The final round gave the Littorio another point of damage but sank the Warspite.
Victory RM, although a very painful and narrow one. The Littorio will be in dry dock for about two years.
