Rules Queries

[Colonel]

This is from the Warlord Sales page on their web site:
“The F-lighter was originally a converted tank landing craft that was being developed for the Kriegsmarine. Up armoured, shallow drafted and equipped with 88mm guns and flak guns, the F-lighter were small silhouette targets that proved very tricky to sink, invulnerable to torpedo attack and capable of dishing out heavy punishment.”

[Bill McGill]

All true, apart from the invulnerability to torpedo attacks. They were difficult to get a torpedo hit, but not impossible.

[invisible officer]

There is a big mix in English writing about the “F-Lighter”. There are many types of Marinefährprähme. For Germans short MFP, not just F. The F was used with the number to name the individual. Fährprahm …

In addition there was a letter. That gave the type. For example F 220 AM was a MFP type A converted for minelaying. An A type had a draught of 1,45 m but a AM 1,48 m.

Many (From types A, B, C and C2) got converted (on stocks or later) into Artilleriefährpräme. These got an armor of beton for amo chambers and steel at bridge. With the conversion a MFP got a new name.

For example F 817 D became AF 97. 8. AT Flotille, sunk 26.8.44 bei MTB near Capa d’Antifer. One of the very few AFP sunk by Torpedo. Draught of the AFP was 1,70 m.

A bit more confusion? AFP in Northern seas and Black sea got named AF in Kriegsmarine use but in Mediterranean KF. And Danube AT.

Some only part converted in Med. got named KF F and original AFP number.

MFP 701 – 800 are built in Italy. Many became German post September 1943. So MZ 704 A that became F 704 A.
There had been A, B and D Versions among the Italian MZ.

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