Naval Wargames

1/1200 Ancient Naval – Hexeres

Posted January 14, 2020

Here are a few 1/1200 scale Hexeres (or Hexareme) to add to my Navwar and Langton models. They are intended for Hail Agrippa! battles. [Hail Agrippa! rules link]

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1/6000 Naval – 1905 British Scout Cruisers

These are eight scout cruisers completed in 1905 and modeled in 1/6000 scale.

From Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships 1860-1905, pages 84-85:

“These eight cruisers were intended to work in company with destroyers as scouts, to lead torpedo attacks and to back up their flotillas when attacked by enemy destroyers. The Admiralty provided a broad specification …. for a 25kt ship, with a 1-1/2 inch protective deck or equivalent side armour, shallow draught … 10-12pdr, 8-3pdr and 2TT. …[This] resulted in four sub-classes … that varied substantially in form, machinery and structure. … During 1911/12 they were rearmed with 9-4in guns.”

1/6000 Naval – Never Built US Torpedo Battleship Design

This is a US design from 1912, modeled in 1/6000 scale.

Displacement 30,000 tons
Waterline length 780 feet
Six 14 inch guns
Sixteen 6 inch guns
Eight 21 inch submerged torpedo tubes
Oil fired, 27 knots

WW1 Naval – Baltic Convoy 1916

This scenario was inspired by the Russian attack on a convoy of iron ore sailing from Sweden to Germany described in “After Jutland“, Chapter 6, pages 90-91. The Russian attack group of destroyers has a close cover force of cruisers and a distant cover force of dreadnoughts. The Germans expect the operation and counter with their own cruiser and dreadnought supporting forces.

Winds WSW at 5 knots. Sea state 2. Visibility 6 NM.

Narrative

Player reports
Russian
German

Plots
0-25 minutes
25-50 minutes
50-75 minutes
All

End game status

Computer code (described here)

Convoy escorts (one armed merchant cruiser and two groups of trawlers) attempt to distract the attacking Russian destroyers.

The convoy makes smoke and heads south at its best speed of 10 knots.

The convoy is destroyed. The old German cruisers are losing the fight with the Russian cruisers.

The Russian dreadnoughts press on southwestward to support their cruisers.

The German dreadnought divisions deploy into a battleline while the Russian dreadnoughts reverse course and head northeast.

Cruisers and destroyers clear the line of fire for the dreadnought action.

With the visibility only 12,000 yards the battlelines close to under 10,000 yards. Hits accumulate rapidly.

The two lead Russian dreadnoughts are overwhelmed by a fortunate series of hits from four German dreadnoughts.

With only two Russian dreadnoughts left to face six relatively intact German dreadnoughts, we called the game. The convoy and most of the German cruisers had been destroyed, but the loss of the Russians dreadnoughts was a high price to pay for meeting the mission objective.

1/6000 Naval – Never Built Dutch Dreadnoughts

This is a Dutch dreadnought design from 1913, modeled in 1/6000 scale. Various designs were proposed from 1912 through 1914, as described in Warship International No. 4, 1988, No. 1, 1989 and No. 4, 1989. The 1913 quadruple turret design was chosen because it differed the most from contemporary German designs.

Normal displacement 20,700 tons
Length 169.2 meters
Eight 34.3cm L/45 in quadruple turrets
Sixteen 15cm L/50in casemates
Oil fired, 22-23 knots

The names were taken from late 19th Century Dutch cruisers.