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.
You’re not a true sea dog worth your salt if you don’t have a Cruel Seas dice bag with nation-matching dice packs! Up for Pre-order Cruel Seas Dice Bag and Commandos Dice pack Pre-order in Store Cruel Seas Dice Bag and Italian Dice pack Pre-order in Store New! Cruel Seas Dice Bag and German Dice…
A FREE PDF download of your wake markers to complete your Wargames Illustrated cover mounted ships, plus an announcement for those purchasing Cruel Seas from their local retailer. Free Ships & Wake Markers If you’ve got your cover mount from last month’s Wargames Illustrated ready to take to the high seas, you’ll definitely need to download…
As we prepare to launch Cruel Seas in stores across the world this weekend, we’ve got a bit of an insight on playing the game along with a few bits and pieces you might have missed along the way… Playing the Game Cruel Seas is a fast-paced high-octane (or diesel) naval wargame pitting squadrons of…
Crucial for naval trade, these mammoth sized merchant tanker ships were often preyed upon by enemy vessels. View in Store Tasked with the ferry of supplies such as food, fuel, steel, clothing to munitions and weaponry. Many nations were heavily reliant on such ships completing the journey and securing their goods. As a result, this…
Lighting the way on perilous coastal journeys, the lighthouse can be a spectator or a casualty of battle. Lighthouse View in Store Diaries and memories of serving naval officers in WWII often mention lighthouses. As most encounters took place at night, it is understandable that the piercing finger of bright light would resonate with nervous,…
With the release of Cruel Seas, we add a different scale to our catalogue. This week, we’re looking at how each games models compare. We’ve lined up a Cruel Seas E-Boat, a Blood Red Skies Bf109 and a Bolt Action German Infantryman on our photography table to show how they scale up against each other….
As British Vospers and German S-Boats are now available on the front cover of Wargames Illustrated 374, we thought we should share these Cruel Seas Assembly Leaflets to give you a better idea what each of the parts is and how you might equip your boats. This leaflet shows you the parts for the German…
Taking the action into the azule waters of the Pacific, we’re having a look at how the US Navy operates in the upcoming Cruel Seas! Plywood Derby America was a latecomer relatively speaking to WWII, going to war when forced to do so by a cunning Japan and an overconfident Germany. She had however not…
Travelling in the turbulent wake of last week’s article on the Royal Navy is a look at the Kriegsmarine and their fearsome fleet of small boats. Schnellboot Kaiser Wilhelm’s vision, indeed obsession, with building a vast fleet of dreadnoughts came to nought during the Great War. He knew that his excellent fleet could not risk…
With the launch of Cruel Seas drifting ever closer, we’re taking a look at each of the fleets that feature in this new game of motor torpedo boat action. This week, it’s the turn of the Royal Navy. Coastal Warfare! Despite the Royal Navy’s successful use of light coastal forces in the Great War, the…
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