Combined arms - Battle over the Crimea Campaign Turn 11 - Part 2 of 3 Clear the Beach

 Laying mines south of the Kerch Peninsula the Kriegsmarine was preparing to defend against another thrust by the Soviet navy through the Black Sea. Air recon showed large scale boarding of Soviet troops onto transports only to discover the ships sail directly for the Peninsula rather than swinging south. All ships were immediately despatched to attack the convoy.

 This game we played scenario 7 'Invasion', modifying it slightly to double the points to 2000pts, doubling the number of transports as well as swapping the roles from Germany being the attacker to being the defender and the Soviets the attacker. Victory is achieved once one fleet loses half of it's ships or 4 of the transports land troops.

 The game began with both fleets closing, only the soviet Fugas minesweepers had guns that could hit across the board at this stage and both ship put shots into the Verpostenboote.

End of turn 1 the soviets had released torpedoes and began moving towards the beach.

Turn 2 the 4 soviet bombers came in and began strafing the Schnellboot's, the combined fire from the IL-2's and the Bronekators started to systematically destroy them.

The G-5's push forward and began laying down extensive smoke screens to protect the transports from the long range guns of the German Large ships.

By turn 4 the Germans lost 5 Sboats out of the 10 total ships in their fleet, the soviets had lost 1 G-5 Torpedo boat

End of the game I rolled to destroy the Germans fleets but rolled a 1 and 2 so they only retreated!