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WW1 Naval – 1/6000 Scale Japanese Ships

WWI Japanses ships by Figurehead miniatures.

Pre-Dreadnoughts and cruisers.

Dreadnoughts. The names for the ‘No13’ class were taken from battleships at Tsushima.

Rhodes, 305 BC

Saturday the local HMGS-South group played a game of Hail, Agrippa!. The Hail, Agrippa! rules are a modification of Hail Caesar published in Issue 66 of ‘Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy’ magazine. [Hail Agrippa! rules link]

The scenario was a hypothetical battle set during the siege of Rhodes by Demetrius son of Antigonus. Ptolemy has sent a fleet to lift the siege. It is met by the Antigonid fleet in the narrows between Evlimnia (Alimia) island and the mainland of Rhodes.

View from the island of Rhodes toward Makry (Makri) island with Evlimnia (Alimia) and Chalki in the distance.

Good command rolls allow the Antigonid divisions to race forward to support their isolated ships near Evlimnia.

One Antigonid division continues to advance while another balks. Blunders in the Ptolemaic center delay the advance.

Casualties accumulate for both sides in the center. The Ptolemaic division near Makry blunders several times and never gets into action.

The flank attack by the Antigonid heavy ships from Evlimnia finally goes in, but does little damage initially.

The flank attack becomes effective, but losses are still about even.

We quit at this point due to the time. With the battle a draw, the siege of Rhodes can continue.

WW1 Naval – 1/6000 Scale Ships

A few recent additions to my 1/6000 scale WWI ships by Figurehead miniatures.

French Lyon class, French 1913 Battlecruiser class (with fictitious names), British G3 class.

British Armoured Cruisers.

German Gazelle class.

Kagas, N3s (fictitious names), British CLs, US ACs (Shapeways)

WWI Naval – Gulf of Finland

This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a WWI naval battle. In this hypothetical engagement, the Germans send a portion of the High Seas Fleet into the Gulf of Finland in an attempt to engage and destroy the Russian Baltic Fleet. The date is March 15, 1915. The scenario is similar to a previous test.

Scale: 1/6000 miniatures, 500 yards/in ground scale.

Rules: Computer code (described here).

Visibility 16,000 yards. Wind southerly at 8 knots. Seastate 2.

Status at the end of the game: Fin2-end-status

Damage output file: SK-Normal-Fin2-2016-1-23 excerpt.txt

Plot of ship movements:
All Fin2-plot-all
First 20 minutes Fin2-plot-1to20
20 minutes to 40 minutes Fin2-plot-20to40
40 minutes to end Fin2-plot-40toend

German CLs form up and attack the threatening Russian DDs to the north.

German DNs maneuver to avoid Russian torpedo attacks. The Russian boats are heavily damaged by German CLs.

German DNs and CLs evade torpedo attacks.

We quit at this point due to time. The damage was relatively even. The Russian destroyers and torpedo boats and the German light cruisers did most of the fighting. One dreadnought had been sunk on each side.

Fire and Fury Brigade AAR

This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a Civil War scenario using the brigade Fire and Fury rules. Each side had three infantry divisions and one cavalry division. Eight players participated and each commanded a division. The scenario was a non-historical meeting engagement.

Large wooded areas will restrict movement of units entering the table.

Confederate cavalry temporarily occupies a central hill.

The weakest confederate division screens the right flank while the main force advances on the left. Union troops deploy from their road columns all across the front.

Union cavalry advances dismounted on the (Confederate) right. The main Union advance seems to be on the left. Several Union batteries massed on a hill begin to pound the Confederate lines.