Historical vs. "What If"

[E Nicely]

Ok from an organisational level it don't fly. The scope of VaS is pure combat, as you know. Some operational command rules for campaings? hmmmm...

 

[DM]

Some operational command rules for campaings? hmmmm...

Yup, you guessed it - another S&P article

 

[Itkovian]

The Royal Navy made use of submarines in the Med, too. They had a right old time of it, torpedoing Italian supply ships and transports trying to keep their blokes in North Africa going.

The Med was about the limit of RN submarine ops, though, from what I've gathered. They weren't much use in the Atlantic for ASW and the Germans didn't have masses of convoys to attack.

A few British subs made it to the far east, HMS Trenchant and Stygian combining to sink the Japanese heavy cruiser Ashigara, while submarines operating out of Ceylon annihilated Japanese merchant shipping along the Burma coast.

An amusing side note, the RN forward supply base in the Pacific at Manus Atoll was described by one officer as 'Scapa Flow with bloody palm trees!'

 

[captainsmirk]

I imagine that RN crews in the Atlantic were too jumpy about seeing periscopes to worry whether it was a friendly or not before trying to sink it...

Plus there not being many German surface ships to attack and WW2 submarines being fairly ineffective in anti-sub ops probably wasn't much point in using them there any way.

RN sub operations in WW1 were quite wide spread though, infiltrating the Dardenelles and in the Baltic.

Nick

 

[DM]

Lots of RN submarine ops in the North Sea, what with them being quite good at blockading anchorages and harbours. Several German heavy units were attacked and hit by RN subs, and they did a good job of reporting enemy movements. Their infamous failing was at Brest in 1942 where various factors (including a spate of radar failures in RAF aircraft) allowed S&G to escape detection at the start of the famous "Channel Dash"

 

[Lord David the Denied]

A few British subs made it to the far east, HMS Trenchant and Stygian combining to sink the Japanese heavy cruiser Ashigara, while submarines operating out of Ceylon annihilated Japanese merchant shipping along the Burma coast.

An amusing side note, the RN forward supply base in the Pacific at Manus Atoll was described by one officer as 'Scapa Flow with bloody palm trees!'

Awesome. They're just glorified pirates, you know... :wink:

 

[Twin-Linked Aldades]

Mostly historical set-ups, and see if I can beat the historic outcome. Guess thats the result of mainly historical gaming anyways and a club which focusses more on historical games as well