Torpedoes and Tides - Making a Beginning Again

Having identified mistakes made in the first game and also deciding to try a different scale (1/600th this time) we were ready to set sail again.  Mark B again took the MGBs and I took the S-boats.

Second turn and the S-boats have closed to automatic spotting range.

Immediate close quarters action.

One of the S-boats is looking a little wobbly

(I think I used too much glue on the Cardboard Standee).

We were using templates off table to track damage,

but here you can see one of the S-boats supressed.

By this stage one of the MGBs has been battered,

but both S-boats have taken substantial damage.

One S-boat captain has lost his nerve and has decided to flee.

Wise move!

The next turn the other S-boat decided fleeing was the best course of action.

One of the MGBs gives chase.

But contact is soon broken off.

The British had one battered boat giving the Germans 1 VP.  However, the Germans had at least one battered boat, and both boats fled the scene providing an extra 2 VPs for three in total to the British.

Next job is to replace the Cardboard Standees with models.  This will be 1/700th thanks to Simon who gave me the Skywave Motor Torpedo Boats construction kit which provides plenty.  But they ain't half fiddly!

Something that wasn't fiddly: