"Rules for Coastal Command in 1:600 scale" Topic

Looking for straightforward rules to give a game of Coastal Command against U-boats/shipping as well as fending off Condors/Ju88s/etc.. so a bit of a mix of naval and air combat (although not necessarily at the same time of course).

I've used Action Stations for this, with a mix of house rules for flavor.

You can also bolt on your favorite WWII air rules, if you want more detail for that. We used to use Duel of Eagles when adding that on.

Actions Stations…great set of rules for this setting.

Had great fun with some Mossies with rockets trying to beat up a pair of U-Boats, during the "Fight Back" period declared, while Ju-88Cs flew overhead to provide cover.

Great gun.

If you dislike rockets, you can use the Tse-Tse Mosquitos instead.

Now, want to try some anti-shipping raids using Mossies and/or Beaufighters with rockets, vs. German merchants and flakships.

Of course, on the flipside, you can always use Ju-87s and Ju-88s vs. the British coastal convoys as well.

Thanks: that's the sort of game I am looking for.

What models did you use for the U-boats?

I used 1/600th Skytrex U-Boats with Tumbling Dice aircraft.

Skytrex, now owned by H&R, produce some very nice aircraft to go with their Coastal Forces vessels and subs too.

They make the Type VII and Type IX subs, as well as various small merchants and German VP Boats/Flakships.

Sadly, no one produces Ju-88Cs in 1/600th scale, so I had to go with the A models, but they look okay with the right paintjob – went with the light-gray paint scheme used by them for Kriegsmarine support.

Subs are also available in plastic, in 1/700th scale, and probably in 1/350th scale as well, if you want larger aircraft.

I was just pondering doing this in 1/144th scale, if I can find some subs in that scale. That would be stunning to see on the tabletop, I suspect.

Of course, then I'd need to scratch build some small Coastal Forces merchants to beat up as well, but a game like that would look impressive on the tabletop.

They don't have an air element, but Coastal Patrol is a fun game. It's in the Summer 2011 TooFatLardies Specials, and supporting materials are in the TFL Yahoo group.

The games of it I've played have been set at night or dawn before a/c are up.

Here's my blog write-up of my first time playing it at a convention:
"That game was Coastal Patrol, found in Too Fat Lardie's Summer 2011 Special, and is a set of rules for WWII coastal actions. This game was the Royal Navy vs. Kriegsmarine, and saw seven of us go at it. When the game started (a night action), we were all on blinds, and only a couple of players knew who their teammates were. I was one of the ones in the dark (figuratively and literally), having to escort a slow as molasses German tanker from one end of the table to the other, with a converted trawler and a well-armed R-Boat to do it.

The game got off to a fast and furious start at the other end of the table, at my end I played peekaboo with what turned out to be a comrade – a U-Boat unable to submerge. After various adventures that didn't involve me, I used my R-Boat to beat down a British Fairmile that had shot up the U-Boat, eventually driving it back off the table. However, as I was doing that a British MTB that I'd thought my comrades at the end of the table had dealt with scooted into the open and launched two torpedoes at the tanker. On my activation I blew him out of the water, but had to wait a turn for those torpedoes to intersect with the tanker…and miss! Each needed an 8 or less to hit on 2d6, and both times the player rolled 9s. That pretty much wrapped up the game as a German victory. The rules were fun and I'm going to have to round up my few 1/600 coastal ships soon."

There is also a neat system in one of the 2fatlardies supplement.

Flaklighter is another set of rules, sold by PT Dockyard.

Don't know if it has air and anti-shipping rules included in it though.

I have the TooFatLardies set and they're very good. Thanks.