As we were still learning the rules we just went for the introductory scenarios. Scenario one saw two Norwegian Vospers facing one S-100 boat with the objective for both sides to exit from the opposite table edge.
The Vospers move forward, cunningly avoiding the mines that marked the edge of the playing area:
The enemy is sighted! The Norwegians split and open fire but with little effect:
One Vosper heads for safety, pouring fire into the S-Boat as they go:
The S-Boat sinks the other Vosper:
The first outing for the rafts marking the site where the Vosper was sunk:
The other Vosper escapes to safety:
Scenario two saw a single Vosper defending a Tanker against an S-38 boat:
The S-Boat is sighted! As the Vosper races to engage it the German looses two torpedoes!:
The Norwegians close to point blank range and try to shoot up the S-Boat but with low firepower don't do much damage. The torpedoes speed towards the Tanker:
The Vosper crosses the stern of the German but again fails to do much damage:
One torpedo closes in on the tanker! Luckily it manages to miss, probably going under the Tanker. The S-Boat does some damage to the Tanker with it's guns:
The S-Boat closes in on the Tanker doing more damage, even though the torpedoes missed the Tanker is badly damaged from gunfire. The Tanker crew heroically avoid two critical hits to keep the Tanker afloat.
The brave Tanker survives the last few shots from the Germans and escapes giving the Norwegians victory:
Scenario three saw three German S-Boats attempting to rescue the crew from a dead in the water S-Boat while four Norwegian Vospers tried to capture the German ship. The fight started badly for the Norwegians with one Vosper quickly being sunk:
The life rafts are on the table again! Vospers close from either side while the three mobile S-Boats stay together:
Vospers close in but again their lack of firepower does little damage:
One Vosper is rammed by an S-Boat that had taken a bridge hit and couldn't change course! The Vosper takes the worst of the damage:
The rammed Vosper is sunk by German gunfire:
Another Vosper sinks in a storm of German fire:
The damaged S-Boat slips below the waves and the crew take to the life rafts, it was well worth making them!:
The last Vosper is sunk with no losses to the Germans:
After buying the rules I realised we had been doing the shooting wrongly and it was in fact much harder to hit than we had thought. Dave commanded his ships very well, using the tactic of dropping to slow speed (and even stopping!) to improve his chances of hitting which was an idea I'd not seen before.
The Vospers are seriously under-powered against the German S-Boats though, especially the S-100's. Their firepower is much worse, they are slower and they take far less damage to sink.
In the three games I don't think I got that close to sinking a single S-Boat while Dave sunk five Vospers. The Vospers do have more torpedoes but, since they can't hit small or medium boats, they were no use in the scenarios we played.
None the less I enjoyed the game and I'm sure Dave did too, next time perhaps we can play to a points total to give the Norwegians more options.
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