WWII Naval

I can't tell you much about what we played at the club last night, since we're playtesting something, but aren't allowed to divulge any details. All I can say is that we were playing WWII naval - three American cruisers and a couple of destroyers encountered three Japanese cruisers with three destroyers.

To add to the lack of detail in this post I can't even tell you what scale the models are. They're nice though.

Anyway, here are the two flotillas approaching each other. The Japanese (left) are loaded up with good torpedoes. The US flotilla (right) ... less so.

Japanese destroyers approach the US cruisers.

The Japanese cruisers form a nice line to pound the Americans. The American destroyers try to slip around the top of the picture to get into torpedo range.

I was playing the Americans. This was my one success; a long range shot with destroyer guns hit the magazine of a Japanese destroyer, and it blew up.

After that it pretty much went downhill for the Americans, who were slightly outnumbered and very much outclassed. Two cruisers were sunk and the survivor, along with the destroyers, fled.

But we generated some good feedback which, nicely, was more small issues of presentation and peripheral details, rather than any serious concerns about the broad structure of the game. So the game is looking good now.

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