Recent content by bill44

Boyo you really blooded the Brits. Well done mate.

A Black Day for the RN HMS Abdiel and DD Oak ahd been dispated to lay minesoff Willemshaven, they ran in to some DD's accounting for V152, before the CL's Thetis and Niobe came in to veiw, outgunned the two ships beat a hasty retreat, sending a WT on the pursuing ships course and speed...

War Update: RN losses: Torpedoed: DD Sparrowhawk. LC's Royalist, Bellona. AMC's Otway, Alsatian, Hiliry. Mined but not sunk: Erin, Tiger, Ajax, Invincible. German Losses: V47, Probable torpedoe. Damaged by torpedoe: Derffliner, Posen.

The British were determined to sink the remnants of the HSF scouting force, to this end HMS New Zealand sailed, she still carried damage form a previous encounter but her captain was determined to bring the Germans to account no matter what the cost. nine kilometers NE of Granton at 10:16 and...

Part VII Lutzow began to settle deeper in the water, her men hurried over the side, counterflooding had kept her on an even keel, three of her boats were already in the water. Roxburgh continued to hamer away at the German DD's, Manxman who had been ordered to the rear , now reversed...

Part VI Lutzow's hull had been strained by the two torpedoe hits, now her port side torpedoe net came loose level with the after turret. This extra drag slowed her even further. The remnants of the German destroyers flotilla's charged towards Roxburgh, she turned to starboard and engaged...

Part V The German BC's were now hammering away at the 1.13 flotilla, Nicator, her entire crew dead sailed aimlessly, Onslow had 42 casualties, and only her midships gun working, worse her fires were now out of control. Gabriel had light steering damage, Moresby had both tubes damaged and her...

Part IV FL Gabriel and her DD's had commenced a turn to starboard and had rung up full speed as the BC's came in to view, seeing the enemy turn in their gereral direction all ships launched torpedoes, and continued their race to safety. On board the Lutzow her lokuts spotted the British DD's...

Thanks mate, Yeah they do get kinda full on. I love this game :clap:

Part III As the German DD's raced towards the British line the BC's continued to fire on the British, now as before the DD's were in mortal danger, the lead German DD was hit by a 30 cm shell, her engine room wrecked and an uncontrollable fire started. S34's lookouts spotted torpedoe tracks...

Part II Champion's torpedoes had barley cleared their tubes when the first shells hit her, followed by even more, her exposed gunners were cut down by the murderous hail of shells, likewise her engine room crew were also killed by the shells tearing into her, in short time her engines were a...

No it's not new just a continuation of the old one. I jsut thought that the thread would get way too large continually adding new battles. As I said I'm happy for you to merge them.

Hi mate, um, I just thought that this would keep people interested, seeing a "new adventure" so to speak. But I'm happy for for you to merge them back. This ones going to be a doosy.

TF37 centered on the armoured Cruiser Roxburgh with the CL Champion, and FL Gabriel and seven DD's plus the AV Manxman had set sail just after the 1/8 and 2/8 DD flotilla's, Roxburg's captain had heard the desperate WT messages from the flotilla's as the German BC's sank them one by one, and...

Thankyou, it was really a challenge, I did have a ball playing that, you think that was good, wait till you read the next installment. These types of engagments are really full on and take a lot of concentration to manage, it's so easy to miss something.