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.
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- 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.
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- The Germans: three players with two ships each.
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- The British: two players with one commanding the Dreadnought and one commanding the two prdreadnoughts.
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- The British turn away to keep the range from falling.
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- Turning to avoid the land.
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- The Germans attempt to shorten the range at the expense of masking their after turrets.
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- The Pommern falls behind after hits from Dreadnought reduce her speed.
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- Braunschweig falls behind when two engines take temproary damage. Dreadnought’s speed falls to 17 knots due to boiler damage.
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- 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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