The Kriegsmarine Breakout
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May 25, 1941: The Bismarck has sunk the Hood and damaged the Prince of Wales. But she has also taken some damage. With the Home Fleet coming out to finish the raiders, Adm. Raeder sends all of his available units to resuce the great ship from destruction.
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by Grant Michaud
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Sink the Edinburgh
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Damaged by two torpedoes form U456, the British CL Edinburgh tries to escape to Murmansk with its destroyer escort. Three German destroyers , the Hermann Schoemann, Z25 and Z26 are ordered to intercept and sink the damaged cruiser. After a two hour battle, the Hermann Schoemann had to be scuttled after its engines were disabled. Unknown to the Germans, the British cruisers had to be scuttled after the battle as well because of the damage archived by the destroyer attack.
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by Michael Emmerich
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Rodney Escort
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In March of 1941 Scharnhorst and Gneisenau while on patrol in the Atlantic came across a convoy escorted by Rodney. This one is tough on the Germans.
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by Grant Michaud
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Second Battle of Narvik
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On 13 April, 1940, The battleship Warspite and 9 destroyers enter Narvik to clear the harbor of enemy ships in preparation of landing troops. The Germans muster 8 battered destroyers (survivors of the first Narvik battle) in a desperate attempt to thwart the British attack.
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by Robert Schoneman
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Resupply
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During its Atlantic Operation in 1940/1941 , the Panzerschiff Admiral Scheer meet with several German supply ship. There was always the danger that the German ships could have been detected during their supply operation. This hypothetical battle recreates such an engagement in the early evening hours.
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by Michael Emmerich
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Sink the Scharnhorst - Part 1
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In December 1943 the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was sent into the arctic sea to intercept the Murmansk convoy JW55B, an operation that would lead to the destruction of the battlecruiser. Part one of the this battle replays the initial engagement when the Scharnhorst was detected by British forces while its destroyer escort was searching for the convoy.
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by Michael Emmerich
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Sink the Scharnhorst - Part 2
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Early in the war, the German Kriegsmarine sent out several sorties of destroyers to lay mine fields off the British coast. On December 7th 1939, the Destroyers Hans Lody and Erich Giese are on such a mission near Cromer, when they detect two British destroyers. The Germans could surprise the British and torpedo the DD Jervis.
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by Michael Emmerich
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Sink the Scharnhorst - Part 3
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After over six hours of various engagements with the British ships, the Scharnhorst was damaged and its crew exhausted. In the bad weather of the Arctic Sea the gunfire lead by the superior British Radar and more than 10 torpedoes finally sunk the German ship . Only 36 of its crew members survived.
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by Michael Emmerich
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Spanish Intervention
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In 1937, the Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer were in the Spanish waters in 1937. The Hood was on station near or at the same time, this leads to the Admiral Scheer and Admiral Graf Spee guarding some blockade runners when the Hood attempts to stop them. You must hold off the Hood or fight through the pocket battleships to the transports.
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by Grant Michaud
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Suriago Straits - an alternative
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In October of 1944, the last surface battle between battleship lines took place: The night battle at the Suriago Straits. As part of the Japanese attempts to stop the US landing operation in the Philippines, a Japanese force consisting of two battleships, one cruiser and four destroyers tried to sneak through the Suriago Straits to attack the US landing fleet. But they ware intercepted by six old US battleships, veterans and survivors of Pearl Harbor. With their radar guided fire, they were able to sink the attacking Japanese without a loss on their side.
This scenarios gives an alternative setup for the battle - would more powerful Japanese fleet had a better chance?
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by Steve J. Hummel
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The Escort
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A major, hypothetical battle between the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy. All German battleships and battlecruisers against four old British battleships and their escorts.
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by Grant Michaud
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