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…
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WW II – Vol I (Hardback) View in Store Author: Malcolm George Wright Seaforth Publishing Number of Pages: 160 During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea,…
German Naval Camouflage Vol I: 1939-41 View in Store Author: John Asmussen, Eric Leon Seaforth Publishing Number of Pages: 192 For half a century German warship camouflage has been something of a mystery for warship enthusiasts and modelmakers. The widespread destruction of naval archives at the end of the war left little documentation, while the…
View in Store Author: Lawrence Paterson Seaforth Publishing Number of Pages: 352 This study of the Kriegsmarine’s Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a glaring gap in the study of the German navy in World War Two. This wide array of vessels included patrol boats, minesweepers, submarine hunters, barrage breakers, landing craft, minelayers and even the…
View in Store Voyenno-morskoy flot SSSR (VMF) – i.e. The Military Maritime Fleet of the USSR, or the ‘Red Fleet’ for short. The Russian Armed forces of WWII are an interesting blend of extraordinary innovation and technical achievement, and extraordinary inexperience and foolish management of its huge forces. Russia had plenty of small ships and…
View in Store The Regia Marina was confident, had indisputably the most handsome ships in the world and referred to the troubled waters of the Mediterranean as Mare nostrum(our sea). By the start of the war, as well as capital ships, it fielded 59 destroyers and 67 torpedo boats, a fast class of small destroyers…
Prepare to add more ships to your fleet and rule the coastal waters with a pair of new Fairmile D-class MGB/MTB for the Royal Navy! View in Store The Fairmile company produced a mass production vessel, which had good seagoing qualities and was used also for mine laying. The Fairmile B followed this, 398…
E-Boat vs MTB – The English Channel 1941-45 View in Store Author: Gordon Williamson Illustrator: Ian Palmer, Howard Gerrard Publication Date: 20 Jun 2011 Number of Pages: 80 During WWII, German E-Boats were so active in the English Channel that the narrow stretch of water became known as ‘E-Boat Alley’. To counter the threat of…
U-boats vs Destroyer Escorts – The Battle of the Atlantic View in Store Author: Gordon Williamson Publication Date: 3 Oct 2007 Number of Pages: 80 Winston Churchill claimed the ‘U-boat peril’ was the only thing that frightened him during World War II. The U-boat was developed from a small coastal vessel into a state-of-the-art killer,…
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…
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