The Club Med Incident - A Lost Goblin After Action Report

[Taellik]

FLASH !

Attention Mr. & Mrs. America And All The Ships At Sea !

Dateline : Off the coast of Greece Saturday 3/17 1200 hours

Italian forces consisting of squadron of three (3) Navigatori-class
destroyers escorting a Zara-class cruiser attempted a sortie into
Greecian waters using the numerous islands there as cover were engaged
by units of His Majesty's Navy, a York-class and two (2) Southhampton
class warships. Initial reports in report that the York suffered
numerous torpedo and shell hits. However, the Zara was sunk by
combined torpedo attacks by all three British ships.

In this reporter's opinion, el Duce better stay in his swimming pool at
his villa, the Mediterranean belongs to His Majesty!

Thanks to Lost Goblin Games for making table space available for running VaS games !

 

[Keith]

Was this basd on a true historical event? Not exactly a fair scrap based on the priority levels (2 raid and a skirmish vs a skirmish and 3 patrol) but I trust a good time was had by all so not a problem.

 

[Taellik]

Was this basd on a true historical event? Not exactly a fair scrap based on the priority levels (2 raid and a skirmish vs a skirmish and 3 patrol) but I trust a good time was had by all so not a problem.

Hiya Keith,

Not a historical re-creation scenario.

We did an ad-hoc, pick-up game where we were experimenting how the UK CL cruisers would have fared against a single CA with destroyer squadron screen.

Also, we included different pieces of styrofoam terrain to simulate the islands the Italian fleet had available to hide movement and the UK needed to cover the numerous "slots" of access to open water. The Italian player tried a nice feint by having the CA change course during movement in an attempt to draw off some of the UK force and make it easier for the DD's to engage but ended up resuming couse along with the DD screening line-ahead for it.

We typically use fleet allocation points & priority level setups...this was just a wild impulse to try since we had the spare time to do it on Saturday.