Seekrieg 5 – Dreadnought 1906

This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a WWI naval game using the Seekrieg 5 rules. The year is 1906. The British have just completed a new battleship. Navel experts claim it makes every other battleship obsolete. HMS Dreadnought and two British pre-dreadnoughts take on six German pre-dreadnoughts.

There is land off the bottom of this photo, so both forces will need to reverse course. The initial range is about 24,000 yards.

The Germans: three players with two ships each.

The British: two players with one commanding the Dreadnought and one commanding the two prdreadnoughts.

The British turn away to keep the range from falling.

The Germans attempt to shorten the range at the expense of masking their after turrets.

The Pommern falls behind after hits from Dreadnought reduce her speed.

Braunschweig falls behind when two engines take temproary damage. Dreadnought’s speed falls to 17 knots due to boiler damage.

Deutschland is slowed by engine and boiler damage.

After about 4 hours of play and 20 game turns (40 minutes) we called the game. Damage results:

Pommern, 3 tiers, 12 knots
Schlesien, no damage
Braunschweig, 1 tier, boiler damage repaired
Schleswig-Holstein, light damage
Deutschland, 4 tiers, 15 knots
Hannover, 1 tier, 6 knots

Dreadnought, 4 tiers, 17 knots, both wing turrets out
Hindustan, light damage
Prince of Wales, light damage

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