Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Thanks Kerry, the torpedoes have come up a treat! Couple of free S Boats, thanks to my old Friend Rob Thompson (all the way from Poland, no less), thanks mate, really enjoyed doing these! After my friend John pointed out I had my guns wrong on my MkI Vospers, I bought the Warlord Games British weapons pack add-on. Well worth it. I also bought myself a tanker while visiting Boards and Swords, just because you need a target! Upgraded Vospers Tanker Top view Under escourt by a Vospers Decided my 10 Vospers needed some serious fire support, so I bought a set of Fairmile D Dog Boats Really nice kit, had a lot of fun putting these together and painting them. Nick Overland (of Sabresquadron fame) kindly donated his pair of Vospers to me too. Is 10 too much? I think not!   ID numbers on the sternsr as last time, it was getting hard to spot which boat was which!  Mike sent me these to add to my collecti...

Last night, we broke out the Cruel Seas, with four of us playing, and three fleets, we decided first off that my British fleet should take on John's Germans. John wanted to use his Sboats, as after four games, he still hasn't launched a torpedo. We decided to play 'Destroy the convoy' as we had three tankers between us.This was an excuse to finally get my Fairmiles on table. We had two Fairmile 'B's and one Vospers I and a Vospers 2 on escort duties. John fielded four S100, gunned his engines and came in to attack. Two more S100s appear, all up gunned with quad 20mms too. The first S100 run by Mike puts an eel in the water to scatter the convoy, while Dave swings a Vosper in to intercept, but at this range, the smaller guns will be difficult to hit with. But a Fairmile B, with two six pounders, is a difficult proposition, as their range is massive, and our dice were rolling very low! I peel off to deal with the second two S boats, while the ...