Cruel Seas

Cruel Seas is a 1/300th scale tabletop miniatures game; you command flotillas of small ships in battle. With six or more ships per side, action is fast-paced; a thrilling seaborne dogfight can be fought in forty-five minutes or less.

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The Imperial Japanese Navy in Cruel Seas

The Imperial Japanese Navy in Cruel Seas

Menaced by the fast-moving PT Boats of the US Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy found itself on the back foot. They attempted, through various, methods, to tip the odds back in their favour… Land of the Rising Sun After centuries of splendid self-imposed isolation, with an obsession that the old Japanese ways were best, Japan…

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Operation Chariot: A Most Daring Raid

Operation Chariot: A Most Daring Raid

The largest drydock in the world, situated at Saint-Nazaire in northwest France, represented a very real threat to Allied naval efforts in the Atlantic. This dry-dock was the only facility large enough to house the feared battleships of the Kriegsmarine, the Bismarck and the Tirpitz, for repairs. The Allies could not afford these fearsome vessels…

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A Look Inside: Cruel Seas Close Quarters!

A Look Inside: Cruel Seas Close Quarters!

  What is Close Quarters? Cruel Seas enjoyed enormous success when it was launched back in 2018. As a result, there emerged quite a scope for further development of the system. The result of these labours is Close Quarters! Written by John Lambshead, the supplement expands the game in three key areas: with the introduction…

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Close Quarters: The Yugoslav Tiger Fleet

Tito’s partisans were one of the most effective resistance movements in occupied Europe. The Yugoslav Tiger fleet ruled the Adriatic! With the support of both the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, Communist Party leader Josip Tito forged several disparate bands of resistance fighters into one of the most formidable irregular forces in occupied Europe….

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Cruel Seas: Evacuate the Beaches

Pinned down by strafing fighters and shrieking dive bombers, several divisions of Allied troops must be rescued from the Dunkirk beaches!   With the release of Close Quarters, designer John Lambshead has provided a system for embarking and disembarking troops during a game of Cruel Seas. We’re using these rules to recreate the daring rescue…