Victory at Sea

At the time of Italy’s entry into World War Two, she possessed a modern and – on paper at least – highly effective fleet. Four battleships and eigh...

Victory at Sea: US Navy Fleet   Although the United States of America contains a vast area of land, almost all of its allies and trading partners a...

Victory at Sea: Kriegsmarine Fleet   The Kriegsmarine had to be virtually rebuilt after the First World War. Forbidden to own capital ships and sub...

Victory at Sea: IJN Fleet    For centuries, Japan's policy of seclusion (sakoku) saw it concentrate on coastal defences in order to repel foreign v...

Victory at Sea: Royal Navy Fleet  The Royal Navy of Great Britain was the world’s greatest navy at the outbreak of the Second World War. However, B...

Victory at Sea Merchant Convoy Preventing attacks on defenceless merchant ships is the other main role of the navy, and it was here that the war wa...

Victory at Sea: Battle for the Pacific Starter Set   Victory at Sea is the game of naval combat during the Second World War. Throughout 1939–45, th...

Bolt Action: Combined Arms Campaign Game Bolt Action - Combined Arms is a strategic board game that commands the players to face off, seize the ini...

Submarines: Compared to a German Type VII C submarine, the Marcello-class were much larger, displacing 1,060 tons versus 769. Speed and range betwe...

Witnessing massed airpower at the Battle of Taranto, the Japanese were quick to master the tactic, as seen in their infamous attack on Pearl Harbor...

Victory at Sea - US Navy Aircraft    After the devastation of Pearl Harbor the Americans relied heavily on the aircraft of their carrier fleets. By...

Victory at Sea - Royal Navy Aircraft   The British air raid on the Italian port of Taranto demonstrated to the world the vulnerability of ships aga...

Victory at Sea - Kriegsmarine Aircraft   With carriers planned but not built, Germany’s airpower was limited to launching from airfields far from o...

Submarines: The Gato-class of submarine was the first mass production US submarine class of the Second World War, forming the majority of the Unite...

Submarines: Designed for use in North European and Mediterranean waters, the S-class was manoeuvrable with a noted ability to crash dive extremely ...

Victory at Sea - IJN Submarines & MTB sections  Submarines: The Kaidai-7-class, or KD-7, was developed in the late 1930s, following on from the...

Warlord Games Victory at Sea - Kriegsmarine U-Boats & MTB sections Submarines: A long-ranged submersible, the Type IX was the most successful U...

Victory at Sea Fubuki-class Destroyers   Described as the world’s first “modern” destroyer, twenty-four of the class served in the Imperial Japanes...

Victory at Sea - Kagero-class Destroyers   Essentially an enlarged Fubuki-class, the Kagerō-class hull design was scaled up to overcome earlier des...

Victory at Sea - Chacal-class destroyers Also known as the Jaguar-class, Chacal (Jackal)-class destroyers were designed to fulfil a scouting role f...

Victory at Sea – Shōkako   The two ships of the Shōkaku-class (Shōkaku and Zuikaku) were used with extreme effectiveness in many engagements within...

Victory at Sea - Zuikaku   Zuikaku ( 瑞鶴 “Auspicious Crane”), a Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier, along with her sister ship, were the most successful...

Victory at Sea - Bearn In 1923 it was decided to convert an incomplete Normandie-class battleship to a carrier. Despite a refit in 1935, she was fa...

Victory at Sea German Admiral Graf Spee & Admiral Scheer The Deutschland-class of warships were relatively small, by battleship standards, but ...