Another Nimitz game against Andy with equal points of Germans and British battling it out over an open sea!
I chose the Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and six destroyers for a small but very powerful force which could quickly overwhelm any larger RN ships then mop up the rest!
The fleets approach. As expected the RN fleet is considerably larger but only has two battleships:
Action Stations! The Warspite and Nelson engage the Germans:
The Warspite is quickly sunk:
The German destroyers fare less well against the more numerous British:
The Nelson follows the Warspite to the bottom of the sea:
The British now have no answer to the German's big ships, with minimal damage inflicted on them and most of the British having fired their torpedoes the British retire what is left of their fleet:
We actually played two more Nimitz games last year that I didn't write up, the first being the Norway campaign which ended in a decisive British victory without having an actual surface engagement played out and the second a points based game with the RN against Italians which the British lost comprehensively!
An interesting set of rules and a fun game but I suspect it is quite hard to achieve reasonably balanced forces especially if you use some of the tougher ships.
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