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.
We have a Cruel Seas Quick Reference Sheet for you to round out 2018. This Cruel Seas Quick Reference Sheet contains all the handy process reminders and information tables that you need to keep your games streamlined. From the sequence of play to critical damage tables, this 3-page sheet will keep you on the right…
HMS Zulu Tribal-class destroyer View in Store HMS Zulu was a Tribal-class British destroyer, built in Glasgow by A. Stephens & Sons, her keel laid down on Aug 10th 1936 and launched on Sept 23rd 1937. She was launched with boilers and funnels in place, and this gave her the reputation of a lucky ship….
HMS Abercrombie Monitor-class View in Store Abercrombie was an upgraded version of elder sister ship Roberts. The original main gun turret was spare from Furious, fitted with two 15 inch guns type Mark I*/N. Other improvements included larger living space, more artillery reserve and increased engine room deck thickness. Abercrombie was also equipped with four…
With the action on the coastal waters heating up, more ships are required! Consider if you will the Armed Trawler, a stopgap (or backbone) of many a navy! View in Store In Cruel Seas, the focus may be on the fast MTB’s but these boats were also ably supported by many hundreds of other…
Protect your home ports and coastal ships with these 2 big ships for the German Kriegsmarine in Cruel Seas! The M-Class Minesweeper and Vorposten Boot flakship… Vorposten Boot flakship Of the many German patrol boats that served during the war, the VP-Boot or Vorpostenboot was perhaps the most feared by the Royal Navy. Built…
Regain control of the Pacific or hunt down enemy convoys in the Mediterranean with these ships of the US Navy for Cruel Seas! US LCI (L) Landing Craft The US Navy employed LCI (L) Landing Craft, large amphibious assault ships, to land large numbers of infantry directly onto beaches. Effectively they were a small…
Expand your Empire and protect your convoys with these ships for the Imperial Japanese Navy in Cruel Seas! The Type Hei Minesweeper, T-14 class MTB and Large Sampans… IJN Escort Type Hei Minesweeper In an attempt to regain some measure of convoy protection, the IJN built over 170 Kaibōkan (ocean defence ships). They came…
With 2018 coming to a close we sought to round up some of our favourite releases of the year! January We started off 2018 with a bang with the Bolt Action campaign book: Market Garden. For Bolt Action players Market Garden has it all – daring attacks, determined resistance and heroic last stands by American,…
Since the release of Cruel Seas, we’ve been hard at work to improve the game and address any issues that have arisen since it arrived with you. We’ve combined those improvements and corrections into this Cruel Seas Errata document. The errata is available to download by clicking the links below. If you have any questions…
Rounding out our coverage of the different forces available in Cruel Seas, we’ve got a look at the Red Fleet and the array of unusual small craft that fought on Finnish lakes and along the coastline of the Black Sea. The Red Fleet Russia led the world in all manner of military development. Its huge…
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