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Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Little bit of a side-project: Modern US CVN Battlegroup 1/3000

This is one I have been thinking about doing for a while (as well as the 1980 RN Falklands Campaign), the advantage being this is less than a dozen ships all told (see Wikipedia detail):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_strike_group#Typical_CSG_composition


Order of Battle:

  • CVN
  • 1-2 Guided Missile Cruiser
  • 2-3 Guided Missile Destroyers
  • 1-2 Attack (688) Submarines
  • Specialist Ammo Supply and Oiler Support Ship

Possible rules for this are the traditional (pro-US) Harpoon or the more recent ShipWreck. Topical campaigns could include US tension with the Chinese over the Spratly chain of islands in the South China Sea.

Nice to see that I am NOT maintaining focus!
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3 comments:

  1. Monty31 January 2017 at 11:04

    Go for it, Geordie! I know all about wandering concentration levels coupled with no time resources...

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  2. Geordie an Exiled FoG31 January 2017 at 16:10

    A short focused distraction that could model real world events

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  3. Soldaten10 April 2017 at 02:09

    See if you can find an old copy of SPIs Sixth Fleet (not the newer and easier to find rules). That game is a gem, using double blind movement...and could easily port over to modern miniatures. 1/6000 is the best scale for that!

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