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.
In 1940 Britain and her empire stood alone. She had to re-equip as soon as she could to take on the Axis might. Whilst excellent weapons were being churned out by Britain’s factories, local folk with the best of intentions stepped in to lend a hand, sometimes it even helped… The Holman Projector The Holman…
Sound the air raid sirens! Three new flights of aircraft are taking off over Cruel Seas! Ju 87D Stuka flight View in Store The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (Sturzkampfflugzeug meaning “dive bomber” in translation), was a dive bomber for the Luftwaffe. This is also the infamous aircraft that was equipped with its wailing sirens,…
Outfit your ships with a variety of weaponry using the new Cruel Seas Weapon Packs! A lot of naval vessels were armed to the teeth with a variety of weaponry. Ranging from anti-infantry to anti-vessel and anti-air, a lot of ships were basically made to be a ‘jack of all trades’ type of threat, able…
Trumpeter is a world-renowned company when it comes to Naval models and this particular ship is crammed with detail! View in Store The England was one of 149 turbo-electric (TE) series destroyer escorts commissioned between April 1943 and March 1944, named after Ensign John Charles England who was killed onboard the Oklahoma (BB-37) during the…
Trumpeter is a world-renowned company when it comes to Naval models and this particular ship is crammed with detail! View in Store The DD-537 was originally named Putnam, on 6 February 1943 she was renamed the Sullivans to honour the memory of the five Sullivan brothers who were lost when the light cruiser Juneau (CL-52)…
Trumpeter is a world-renowned company when it comes to Naval models and this particular ship is crammed with detail! View in Store SS John W. Brown is a liberty ship, one of two remaining still floating today. The ship is today a museum ship located at the Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore Harbor. The ship…
Trumpeter is a world-renowned company when it comes to Naval models and this particular ship is crammed with detail! View in Store Liberty ships were American-made cargo ships that were designed to make only one solitary ocean voyage. Jeremiah O’Brien was built in Portland, Maine, in 56 days and launched on June 19, 1943. The…
The small harbours of North Africa were impassable to larger merchantmen. Enter the F-Lighter, half landing craft, half gunboat. Humble Beginnings “An MFP could hold its own with a destroyer, let alone a PT which had nothing more powerful than a 20-mm machine gun to shoot with.” – Samuel Eliot Morison The Marinefährprahm (Naval ferry barge,…
As many of the scenarios in Cruel Seas feature coastal skulduggery, we’ve sat down with studio head Paul Sawyer to talk about how he built his islands! Materials & Tools MDF Sheet Blue Styrofoam Desert Sand Grass Flock Summer Undergrowth Cocktail Sticks No More Nails Glue PVA Glue Craft Knife Hot Wire Cutter/Very Sharp Knife…
Trumpeter is a world-renowned company when it comes to Naval models and these particular ships are crammed with detail! Challenge your skills with the German Zerstorer Z-25 1944, Z-30 1942 and Z-43 1944. German Zerstorer Z-25 1944 View in Store Z-25, a Type 1936A destroyer, was commissioned on November 30th, 1940. During the war, her…
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