[George]

There are stats cards for these boats on the facebook sites (Mosquito Fleet; Dockyard Office). I made some conversions ( plastic card and filler for the whaleback) of the early Vosper and PT boat to represent them -as wargame standard models only!.

[George]

Good to hear about the custom cards. Are you working on a xebec? It’s a type of vessel not listed in the ships’stats section, but is mentioned in the US Navy/Barbary pirate section.

[George]

I didn’t find the definition of ‘gun position’ too clear either. It seems an inappropiate term for AoS warfare, and perhaps a left over from Cruel Seas?
I agree with your first definition ( since with the second definition you would go beyond four ‘gun positions’). There is a diagram early in the rules illustrating the four gun positions, viz:
(in no particular order) starboard broadside
port broadside
bow chaser
stern chaser
Hope this helps. And perhaps the author could clarify?

[George]

Black Seas (age of Sail game) due out in the Autumn. I hope the models are as good as Cruel Seas, and the rules better.

Does anyone have anymore information on this future release?

[George]

“R Boote. They will be out soon.” Will they?

The latest iterations are a 1/350 scale corvette; and Barrage balloons, for god sake! Have you got a ceiling high enough to take them in scale?

Thanks for the E-boot/ R boot suggestion. I hadn’t thought of it.

As for conversions, I’ve made two proxy BPB MGB from the Vosper Mark II hull and the PT boat hull. Not modeller’s models, but good enough for wargames. They have the same hull points as a Vosper.

[George]

I think the steam gun boats had oil fired steam turbine engines. If that helps.

[George]

Before Christmas, the scale of the game seemed to be 1/300 coastal actions. Since the New Year the scale now seems to be 1/350 convoy/destroyer actions.

Perhaps, as has been said, ‘Cruel Seas’ has less to do with naval tactics than it was with marketing tactics?

[George]

Almost four months since Cruel Seas was launched, and there really are no NEW boats e.g. Fairmile ‘B’ or Raumbooote. The corvette is advertised as for ‘those submarine games’, but there are virtually NO submarine rules in Cruel Seas…. Or is that ‘Cruel Joke’?

[George]

The DC float sounds like a neat idea. How could we work that one into the game?

[George]

Yes. I’m aware E-boats carried depth charges; but did they use the tactic of dropping them in front of the bows of enemy vessels while passing at high speed?

[George]

Ah. So the term ‘MTB’ in the rules includes E-boats? Are there any instances of the Germans using this tactic?

[George]

Does it matter with boats so small, and weapons so automatic?

[George]

The victors write the history: the war criminals are on the other side.

[George]

… but what “IS” it?

[George]

Wasn’t there a British MGB flotilla made up of Higgins boats?

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