How many of you remember the old Avalon Hill Jutland game? I had it and always wanted to play it. Something about big fleets of battleships. But it never happened. Could not get people interested enough to learn the rules and not enough space. So my game sat and gathered dust. Fast forward to this week and I finally got to play a game.
John, who hosted the game has made it visually interesting. He took and Xeroxed the card board counter. These were cut out and glued to magnetic bases. He then painted 1:48000 scale ships and glued them to the counters. You now have a visually pleasing game which plays simply but looks good. Outstanding! Rules used were right out of the box which provided a simple but enjoyable game.
As to the battle itself it was a tactical German victory but a strategic British victory. British battle crusiers sunk at a alarming rate but otherwise the capital ships took and gave out tremendous damage.
The Germans lost one capital ship when it lost all power for four turns and the British main line if ships passed by firing at it one ship at a time. Otherwise the German fleet sunk a number of weak battle crusiers then turned tail to run home to Germany.
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