Back Into The Fjords

Last night we played a Nimitz game - the Battle of Ofotfjord, loosely based on the Second Battle of Narvik in 1940. 

It was a quick game. The British had a force of nine destroyers, of mixed types.

The Germans had a scattered force of four destroyers and a light cruiser. They were at the other end of teh fjord, looking to break out and head into the open sea.

The British split up, the lead destroyers going after their German counterparts, whilst four remain behind to take on the cruiser Konigsberg as it makes a sneaky run down the shoreline.

Slick British maneuvers.

The Konigsberg tried piling on speed, but git badly damaged and slowed right down.

The British lined up four destroyers on it. That would be a lot of torpedoes coming in.

Except that a lucky hit from a Polish destroyers blew up the German cruiser.

That was pretty much it for the Germans. They did sink a couple of the lead British destroyers. But with the cruiser gone their own destroyers didn't last long at all, and all four were destroyed.

So a swift win for the British. The Germans were really up against it though.

And, yes, those are 1/700th scale models in use there. We doubled all distanced to use them with Nimitz.