War at Sea Grand Campaign Headquarters

Current Battle 1

Basque Auxiliary Navy Campaign

After the rest of the Republican Navy was bottled up east of Gibraltar, the remaining Loyalist forces in northern Spain fell to the command of the autonomous government of the Basques (Vascos in Spanish, Euskadi in their own tongue). The Nationalists launched a concerted effort to bottle up the small navy of armed trawlers and destroyers by mining their home base at Portugalete.

The Campaign
The Axis fleet must mine the entire center row of Map 8. They always deploy first, on the right side of the map (the one with islands). Allies deploy second and may deploy in either the first or second row. In this scenario each Destroyer has an extra hull point and if a Ship is damaged it must move at full speed to exit the map from its ship deployment zone. Allied Ships cannot move past the center row but may enter it. Each game ends when one of these occurs:
1. All Ships are damaged.
2. No Ships are able to attack each other because of required movement.
3. All 8 sectors of the center row are mined.
Each game, reset the damage on all Ships that were not sunk. Sunken Ships are removed from Grand Campaign.

Axis Units
One of these Destroyers: Velasco, Lepanto
(Use Lepanto card)
Mines - Drop a mine instead of attacking, once per game

Allied Units
Two of these trawlers: Gipuzkoa, Bizcaia, Goizeko Izarra, Donostia, Nabarra

Gipuzkoa, Bizcaia, or Nabarra
Auxiliary - Cod Fishing Boat
Speed 1
Gunnery 3/2/2
AA 3
Armor 1/4/2
Sweep Mines - 3+ die roll to remove a mine instead of attacking

Goizeko Izarra or Donostia
Auxiliary - Cod Fishing Boat
Speed 1
Gunnery 2/1
AA 2
Armor 1/3/1
Sweep Mines - 3+ die roll to remove a mine instead of attacking

Checkpoints
1. If the Allies have swept all the mines off the map, the next game, use as many Axis destroyers as you have.
2. If you start a game with 4 or more mines on the map, also bring Axis minelayer Genoveva Fierro and Allied minesweeper Mari-Toya.

Genoveva Fierro
Auxiliary
Speed 1
Gunnery 1/1
AA 2
Armor 2/6/2
Mines
Lead the Attack 2

Mari-Toya
Use M1 card

3. If you start a game with 6 or more mines on the map, also bring Axis heavy cruiser Canarias and an Allied shore battery. The Allies can use any trawlers that have not yet been sunk.

Allied shore battery
Use Atlantikwall - 15 cm card

Victory Conditions
Axis total victory - Lay mines across the entire center row and destroy all Allied ships
Axis victory - Lay mines across the entire center row.
Allied victory - The Axis have not achieved victory conditions after 9 games.
Allied total victory - Sink any combination of two Destroyers or Cruisers.

Effects
The Nationalists are expected to succeed at neutralizing the Basque Auxiliary Navy in short order.

Axis total victory - All surviving Axis ships from this campaign are available next Civil War game.
Axis victory - All surviving Axis ships from this campaign are available next Civil War game with damage carried over from the last game of this campaign.
Allied victory - Axis ships from this campaign are unavailable next Civil War game.
Allied total victory - All surviving Allied ships from this campaign are available next Civil War game.

Current Battle 3

Red Sea Pirates 2

At dawn diligent escorts encounter a group of pirates pouncing on an Ethiopian convoy.

Axis forces
Luigi Cadorna
Espero
Folgore (destroyer)


6 convoy ships (use Jeremiah O’Brien card)
Prize Swag From Red Sea Pirates 1
Francesco Crispi
Quintino Sella (use Crispi card)


Allied forces
Pirate Ship x 5
Ship - Auxiliary
Speed 1
Gunnery 2/2/1
AA 3
Hull 1/4/2
Inactivity - This unit gets -1 on each attack die when making its first Main Gunnery attack of the game.


Game Conditions
Roll 1d6 for map
Daylight

Special Rules
1. The Axis get +1 initiative all game for having a professional navy.
2. Axis sets up first, placing all ships in a box in the center of the map at least 2 sectors away from the top or bottom of the map and at least 4 sectors from the deployment edges. Allies set up in ANY sectors that are on a map edge, including the top or bottom of the map.
4. Any Axis ships can exit the map by using a movement point while already on an edge of the map.

Victory Conditions
The pirates must be dealt with. A premium is placed on preserving Italian lives and goods.

Allied total victory: sink 2 or more Italian ships.
Allied victory: Sink an Italian ship.
Axis victory: Sink all Pirate Ships without suffering any ships sunk.
Axis total victory: Sink all Pirate Ships without suffering any damage.

Effects
Allied total victory: +1 Pirate Ship next game they appear, any destroyer unavailable until 1939 if crippled, or removed from campaign if destroyed
Allied victory: Any destroyer unavailable until 1939 if crippled, or removed from campaign if destroyed
Allied victory: +1 initiative once per game next game where Pirate Ship appears - you may declare you are using this ability after the dice are rolled
Allied total victory: Sella and Crispi added to next Pirate Ship game

Indian Ocean Pirates 1

At dusk diligent escorts encounter a group of pirates pouncing on a homeward bound Indian convoy.

Axis forces
Pirate Ship x 3
Ship - Auxiliary
Speed 1
Gunnery 2/2/1
AA 3
Hull 1/4/2
Inactivity - This unit gets -1 on each attack die when making its first Main Gunnery attack of the game.

Allied forces
HMS Boadicea

6 convoy ships (use Jeremiah O’Brien card)

Game Conditions
Roll 1d6 for map
Dusk - the first 3 turns are daylight and after that it is night. On turn 3, the Pirate Ships have to also take the -1 night penalty to gunnery.

Special Rules
1. The Allies get +1 initiative all game for having a professional navy.
2. Allies set up first, placing all ships in a box in the center of the map at least 2 sectors away from the top or bottom of the map and at least 4 sectors from the deployment edges. Axis sets up in ANY sectors that are on a map edge, including the top or bottom of the map.
4. Any Allied ships can exit the map by using a movement point while already on an edge of the map.

Victory Conditions
The pirates are a nuisance, but it’s better to limp away licking our wounds than to leave the convoy unguarded against future threats.
If Boadicea sinks, the convoy probably can’t get home.

Allied total victory: Sink all the Pirate Ships without losing any of your ships.
Allied victory: Exit all of your ships off the map.
Axis victory: Cripple HMS Boadicea and sink 2 transports.
Axis total victory: Sink HMS Boadicea.

Effects
Allied total victory: HMS Boadicea added to next Pirate Ship game
Allied victory: +1 initiative once per game next game where Pirate Ship appears - you may declare you are using this ability after the dice are rolled
Axis victory: HMS Boadicea unavailable until 1939
Axis total victory: +1 Pirate Ship next game they appear, HMS Boadicea unavailable until 1939 if crippled, or removed from campaign if destroyed