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This listing includes the Cruel Seas Starter Set PLUS the hard to find British and German Fleet Boxes. All items are new and in original packaging.

This is you chance to get them all together. Grab it before its gone.

There was much confusion in the dogfight that was a WW2 motor torpedo boat battle. Poor visibility, gunfire, smoke and noise could overwhelm the senses of even experienced captains. In ‘Cruel Seas’, things are rather more predictable whilst ensuring the best-laid plans can go awry at the last minute…

The Cruel Seas Starter Set contains everything you need to command your flotilla in this fast-paced 1/300th scale tabletop game.

The Cruel Seas boxed game, ‘Strike Fast, Strike Hard!’, contains:

A4 softback rulebook
A4 quick start guide with painting guides and flags
6 x Plastic Vosper Motor Torpedo Boats
4 x plastic E-boats
1 x set of plastic torpedo markers
1 x set of plastic plume markers
1 x A0 double-sided battle mat
3x die-cut punchboards - double sided and full colour (islands, sandbars, rulers, mine markers, game tokens, lighthouse, aircraft, etc)
Ship data-cards for Vosper MTBs, E-boats and a merchant ship
Wake markers
Fleet order chits (Axis and Allies)
Set of game dice (D10 & D6)

Great Britain never built a vessel as fast or as deadly as the E-boats, instead, fielding many types of MTB and motor gunboats. After a slow start, the Royal Navy helped by construction in the USA, Canada and India, built an extraordinary catalogue of excellent small boats, supported by larger vessels which gave serious firepower and, using the characteristics of each boat to maximum effect, fielded mixed formations supported by destroyers or powerful gun equipped LCTs. They generally fought at night and using radar and radiotelephone, coupled with RAF and fleet air arm support and even secret information from intercepts they fought the Kriegsmarine to a standstill and by 1944, with hugely superior numbers and technological advantage truly ruled any waters which they chose to dominate.

The British Royal Navy Fleet Contains:

2 x Plastic Early Vosper MTBs
2 x Plastic Mid/Late Vosper MTBs
2 x Fairmile D (resin and metal)
1 x Armed Trawler (resin and metal)
1 x Bristol Beaufighter Mk Ic (metal)
Ship Cards
Plastic Torpedo markers

Kaiser Wilhelm’s vision, indeed obsession, with building a vast fleet of dreadnoughts came to nought during the Great War. He knew that his excellent fleet could not risk significant battles with the Royal Navy, it was a one-shot weapon. The lighter units, particularly the U Boats, did most of the real work on a weekly basis.

The German Navy was only raised in 1871, with a brief to concentrate on the North Sea and Baltic Coasts. Perhaps because of its youth, the Kriegsmarine was quick to appreciate the power of the humble torpedo that could cripple or kill a vessel worth millions of marks. They were thus also keen to develop the promise of the torpedo boat, cheap, potentially deadly and of great use in restricted waters.

The German Kriegsmarine Fleet Contains:

2 x Plastic S-100 E-boats
2 x Plastic S-38 E-boats
1 x Vorpostenboot flakship (resin and metal)
1 x M-class minesweeper (resin and metal)
1 x Ju-87D Stuka (metal)
Ship Cards
Plastic Torpedo markers