Got a game at the club this afternoon and here are the briefings for the players.
Kreigsmarine Briefing
03:37 9th
April 1940, off Lofoten.
A flotilla of ten
German destroyers are heading for Narvik to land troops. The battleships Gneisenau (flagship of Fleet
Commander Admiral Günther Lütjens) and Scharnhorst
with the heavy cruiser Hipper are
providing heavy cover.
On the 6th Hipper was attacked and rammed by a British destroyer. This has caused her to be ordered to pull back to the south whilst you remain to cover the troop carrying destroyers from the expected British attack.
On the 6th Hipper was attacked and rammed by a British destroyer. This has caused her to be ordered to pull back to the south whilst you remain to cover the troop carrying destroyers from the expected British attack.
Your orders are to prevent any British Units from heading
eastwards to interfere with the invasion whilst simultaneously preventing
either of your ships from becoming crippled. Sinking any British units is of
secondary importance.
You are steering a north westerly course at 9 knots. Weather
conditions are rough, with a force 10 gale from the north west, intermittent
snow squalls and heavy seas. Visibility is down to 40 inches.
Royal Navy Briefing
03:37 9th
April 1940, off Lofoten
Your fleet was moving
to lay a minefield off Vestfiord between the Lofoten Islands and the mainland.
Cover was being provided by the battlecruiser Renown flying the flag of Vice-Admiral William J. Whitworth with
her escort of destroyers.
After receiving a
fleeting message from HMS Glowworm that was dispatched to look for a man lost
overboard on the 6th that she was engaging a Pocket Battleship you
have called up reinforcements to find and destroy the German ship whilst
dispatching your minelaying destroyers south to continue with the original
mission.
Your orders are to find and destroy the German ships,
sinking more capital ships then you yourself lose. You must not allow the
Germans to head too far south as they will receive friendly air cover at dawn,
draw them north or west if you cannot sink them.
Your course is south east , speed 12 knots. Weather conditions are rough, with a force 10
gale from the north west, intermittent snow squalls and heavy seas. Visibility
is down to 40 inches.
Should be interesting, Renown and Repulse doing what they were designed to do and hunting German battlecruisers!
