1/300 scale Coastal Warfare game from Warlord "Cruel Seas"

[Ballardian]

 Love the idea of the game & the models are nice, but I'm also a little lairy of the play area being so small (in the UK at least tinywargames.co.uk do a nice sea mat - 7' x 5' in cloth for £55).

[has.been]

With reference to ship size V table size. Wargames Research Group's excellent naval game
Sea-Strike has ship counters of a reasonable size (about 50mm for a frigate) BUT points out
that in the true scale it should be only a millimetre or two long, so all measurement is from a
dot on the ship (they call it the fire control centre). The game is great by the way.

[robh]

A 50mm counter for a modern frigate (about 350/360 ft long) puts the scale at about 1/2000 to 1/2400 which is normal for naval battle games. In this game (1/300) that same ship would be around 360mm 

Or in actual WW2 Coastal terms the ubiquitous Flower class corvette (205ft in reality) is going to take up 213mm on a table that is only 936mm wide. It is going to look stupid.

[Truscott Trotter]

It is going to look pretty.......and stupid when it tries to turn to avoid the table edge 

[robh]

It is going to look pretty.......and stupid when it tries to turn to avoid the table edge 

 

[Commander Roj]

Also reminds me of David Manley's (Edinburgh Wargames) Narrow Seas rules that are due out soonish:
http://www.edinburghwargames.com/category/naval-warfare/coastal-forces/

They're using 1/600 scale models for this type of game

Due out from a publisher?

[von Lucky]

No idea - I'm not connected to him or the Edinburgh Wargames group.

[Poiter50]

I have asked on the SESWC FB page.

[robh]

David has discussed this on TMP.  In final proof stages but due to Warlord pushing this game he is holding off on the release for a while.  Still will be forthcoming next year but no date set.

If you are looking for some rules in the meantime; David's "Schnellboote" are available for free download somewhere on the web as are a set called WW2 Coastal Warfare Rules (author not named on my copy). Both very easy to pick up.

[Commander Roj]

David has discussed this on TMP.  In final proof stages but due to Warlord pushing this game he is holding off on the release for a while.  Still will be forthcoming next year but no date set.

If you are looking for some rules in the meantime; David's "Schnellboote" are available for free download somewhere on the web as are a set called WW2 Coastal Warfare Rules (author not named on my copy). Both very easy to pick up.

Thanks. I believe I have Schnellboote somewhere.

[Commander Roj]

David has discussed this on TMP.  In final proof stages but due to Warlord pushing this game he is holding off on the release for a while.  Still will be forthcoming next year but no date set.

If you are looking for some rules in the meantime; David's "Schnellboote" are available for free download somewhere on the web as are a set called WW2 Coastal Warfare Rules (author not named on my copy). Both very easy to pick up.

[Billchuck]

David has discussed this on TMP.  In final proof stages but due to Warlord pushing this game he is holding off on the release for a while.  Still will be forthcoming next year but no date set.

If you are looking for some rules in the meantime; David's "Schnellboote" are available for free download somewhere on the web as are a set called WW2 Coastal Warfare Rules (author not named on my copy). Both very easy to pick up.

Schnell Rules for Schnellboote are available on the “Narrow Wars” Yahoo group.
It looks like Panzer8’s website (which had his 2 page costal warfare rules) is gone. That’s a shame, he had quite a few cool short rulesets.

[mellis1644]

I must admit after Blood Red Skies which has turned out to be a fun set of simple air rules, I am hopeful for Cruel Seas.

[carlos marighela]

It is going to look pretty.......and stupid when it tries to turn to avoid the table edge 

They're plastic models. Just build a keel and play it at your local municipal swimming pool. You might want to consider laminating the quick reference cards.  Think of the fun you can have diving under your opponent's models and plucking them from the surface with a cry of 'The Kraken awakes!'

Seriously though, this is daft. Nice models and a boon to anyone who fancies dressing a table edge for micro armour but a silly gaming scale and an even dafter one for the crossover model ship market, where 1/350 would have made so much more sense.  3/10 for marketing sense.

[grant]

Even as a micro armour fan, I’m having a hard time with this - except as terrain for my micro games