The Battle of Norfolk Bank, 1. Edinburgh Wargames. The Great War at Sea, Fleet Action Imminent, 1/2. At the moment I’m working double tides, trying to finish my book on Jutland. So, in a rare evening off, this seems a strange choice for a game! Yup, there’s no escape from battlecruisers at the moment. ![]() This fictitious action – loosely based on Dogger Bank 1. German raid on Lowestoft, and the interception of the bombarding force by Beatty. Both sides had five battlecruisers, supported by three light cruisers. That worked out at four ship per player. It wasn’t quite an equal fight though, as to even the odds in terms of points one of the German battlecruisers was replaced by the armoured cruiser Blucher, and twoof the British light cruisers with the armoured cruiser Hampshire. We began the game with a try out of a campaign system. This came from the old Avalon Hill boardgame Jutland, published in the late 6. Essentially, the game included a hex map of the North Sea, and we used this to stage the raid on Lowestoft, and the reactions of the British. Beatty came racing down from Rosyth, followed by Jellicoe from Scapa Flow, while Hipper’s Scouting Groups made for Lowestoft, and the High Seas Fleet under von Pohl lurked off the Dogger Bank, hoping Beatty would run cross their path. In fact there wasn’t a contact at all – Beatty passed within 2. Pohl and Hipper, and the two sides missed each other. So, for the purposes of our game we had to usge things a little, and presumed that Hipper’s Scouting Groups and Beatty’s forces met between the Dogger Bank and the coast of Norfolk. ![]() The battle began with both sides entering the 8. The cunning German plan was to divide forces, hoping to lure the British into a duel with one half of the German force, while the other worked behind them and crossed their “T”. In anticipation of a campaign next year we also tinkered with the rules slightly. As it stands, a battlecruiser can only blow up if the firer rolls a Critical Hit (a “1. D1. 2), at a range when the firing guns can penetrate the target’s armour. One of the principal options is an “Ammunition hit”. That means a shell from the salvo has penetrated a turret or a barbette. The target ship loses a turret, and its owner takes a Damage Control test. The Germans have a 7. British just 5. 0%. Failure means the explosion reaches the magazine, and the ship blows up. Basically it would never happen. So, we decided to spice things up by making players roll every time a main turret was knocked out. Wow – what a difference that made! The thing is, we didn’t do our sums. The German shells can penetrate the armour of a British battlecruiser at 1. ![]() Older British battlecruisers armed with 1. So, the Germans have a large window when only the 1. Lion and Tiger could hit the Germans, but four German battlecruisers could hit them! To make things trickier for our British commanders (Bill and Campbell) the initial British salvo was considered a ranging one (in line with docrine), and so only a single die was rolled. The German could pelt away from the start. Worse, due to Beatty’s poor gunnery record, his battlecruisers fired using a D2. The Germans used a D1. ![]() ![]() Get this from a library! Die Bank von England, mit besonder Ber. Home; Home & Living. On this day in History, Lusitania sinks on May 07, 1915. Learn more about what happened today on History. The Bank (1915) Die Bank (1915) In a departure from the tramp character, Chaplin plays a janitor at a bank. Edna Purviance plays the secretary on whom Charlie has a. Download and find all subtitles for : The Bank (1915) - Download this Movie Subtitles in 4 languages. This made it less likely that the British salvos would hit. So, the British were on something of a hiding to nothing. The real problem though, was that on the charts any penetrating hit has a one in three chance of hitting a turret. Under our amendments that meant a Damage Control test, with a 5. Find great deals on eBay for banthrico banks 1915. Vintage Banthrico 1915 Metal Die Cast Car Piggy Still Bank. Historical events in 1915. See what famous, scandalous and important events happened in 1915 or search by date or keyword. The Bank (1915) Release Info. Die Bank: Denmark: Chaplin som Bankbud: Spain (reissue title) Charlot en el banco: Spain (alternative title). Here we have coins, paper money, and bank notes from the year 1915 on eBay. If you have questions about a listing, please feel free to join the coin forum and ask. So, with a German battlecruiser firing eight guns each, that was a lot of shells flying about – and a high chance of a fatal hit! Tags: Fleet Action Imminent. Historical Events in 1.
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