Cruel Seas

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.

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New: British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WW II – Vol I + Vol II + Vol III (Hardback)

December 14, 2018

Josh Berridge

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,…

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New: German Naval Camouflage Vol I + Vol II: 1939-45 (Hardback)

December 14, 2018

Josh Berridge

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…

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New: Hitler’s Forgotten Flotillas (Hardback)

December 14, 2018

Josh Berridge

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…

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Spotlight: The Regia Marina in Cruel Seas

December 12, 2018

Tom Mecredy

We’re heading for sunnier climes in Cruel Seas this week, with a look at the Italian Regia Marina. Renowned for their speed, the MAS boat takes to the seas! The Italian Navy was a professional force that had high hopes for its performance in WW2. In WWI it performed well enough, its small torpedo boats…

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Spotlight: The Free French Naval Forces

December 12, 2018

Tom Mecredy

For those of you looking for something a little bit different, we’re taking a look at the Free French Naval Forces and how you can use them in Cruel Seas! The Free French Naval Forces “I, General de Gaulle, currently in London, invite the officers and the French soldiers who are located in British territory…

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New: The Soviet Navy Fleet

December 7, 2018

RichC

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…

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New: Regia Marina Fleet

December 7, 2018

RichC

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…

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Cruel Seas: Fairmile D-class MGB/MTB

December 7, 2018

Josh Berridge

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…

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New: Osprey – E-Boat vs MTB – The English Channel 1941-45

December 7, 2018

Josh Berridge

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…

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New: Osprey – U-boats vs Destroyer Escorts – The Battle of the Atlantic

December 7, 2018

Josh Berridge

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,…

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