TheMackster here using the store's account.
Much bigger battle played Saturday night after we kicked all the customers out (but whimpier battle report).
We shoved the 6x4 and 6x3 tables together for a great 6x7 sea battle. Found out very fast that gave their longer ranged ships way too much extra time to pound us with.
We played 6 pts Battle level, 3 pts/player on each side with teams of two.
Short form, the Allies (Chris & me) got hammered!
Jay & my son Malcolm played Japanese * Germans respectively against Chris's USN and my Brits. They took newer(?) longer ranged guns on their ships against our older BB's
and were pounding us outside our own range pretty hard even before the dreaded electric U-boats appeared and began wrecking havoc. They started nailing my DD's and left us pretty defenceless against the subs, one of my J-class destroyers vanished in a single hit with a magazine critical.
Not to mention the fact they took 1 German and 1 Japanese carrier against our 2 Essex class ones. They had superior fighters and we had better and more dive bombers. The massive air battle lasted most of the game until the bombers outnumbered the surviving fighters and finally got thru the caps and made their attacks on both sides BB's.
Suffice it to say we got hosed big time and barely dented their capitol ships while they crippled one of our older Washingtons and one of my Cruisers, and shot up my destroyers pretty bad. My own Queen Elizabeth BB only had a couple points of damage on it but was being hemmed in by 3 German subs.
We called it a night at 11pm due to family commitments and awarded the victory to the Axis players. Rematch tomorrow night where my Brits will be howling for blood.
Great game!
BTW- of interest, we ignore the flank speed special action as well as the rule limiting only 3 stands of aircraft being able to attack a ship.
