Post by Lord Harrab on Jul 22, 2015 11:54:33 GMT
Standard OOC stuff gents
Class: U-boat
HP: 15
Speed: Slow (submerged), Fast (surfaced)
Armour: 6+
Evasion: 4+
Firepower: d5
Torpedoes: 3d10
Anti-aircraft (only while surfaced): N/A
Armament:
• 6 × torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern) 53.3 cm (24 in) torpedoes
• 1 × 10.5 cm SK C/32 naval gun
Captain: Kapitanleutnant Ulrich Wulfhetz
History
Despite the utter annihilation of the German military by the axis during the years of the occupation of the homeland there still remained quite a few notable members of the resistance, particularly amongst the Kriegsmarine. Captain Wulfhetz was one of the more notable ones; having been one of the few U-boat captains not only to survive the initial axis onslaught at sea but also return the favor to his enemies. For a little while he became a bit of a figurehead for the German resistance, leading attacks both alone and with fellow U-boat captains onto the initially sparsely guarded axis convoys. It was at this time that he gained the moniker "Einzelganger" for his increasing desire to put his boat, and his boat alone, in harms way to fight the axis. By the time he was thought lost at sea, his GRT score was nearing 100,000 tons of sunken alien shipping. Just before heading out into the Atlantic for the last time, Wulfhetz was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his excellent track record and leadership abilities.
It was not to last, however. During the operation of a wolfpack dubbed Dolch in the mid Atlantic German command lost all contact with Wulfhetz and the other boats in the wolfpack and assumed them lost. They were not lost, however, and had simply been held up by heavier resistance during the operation than expected. With damage to several of his boat's vital systems, Wulfhetz was forced to sail for friendly South American shores instead of limping all the way back to the Baltic which might as well have been on another planet for all that he could reach it.
U-107, U-124, and U-94, the members of wolfpack Dolch did not allow this setback to keep them out of the war. Without orders and without contact with German high command, they pursued their own personal wars of vengeance upon those who would invade their homes. How many ships they sunk before all was told remains uncertain but certain events pertaining to the destruction of U-107 are known due to the survival of U-124 and U-94. In early 1942 wolfpack Dolch was running out of options. Supplies and ammunition were hard to come by and on one particular day while patrolling, the group ran into an axis splinter fleet by chance. With little other option besides fight or watch the fleet destroy the South American coastline, Wulfhetz made his fateful decision and ordered the wolfpack to follow the fleet. Two days were spent tailing it, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Finally, the third day came and a passing storm made conditions ideal for an ambush.
Under cover of darkness, in the stormy Atlantic waters, Dolch managed to sneak by the fleet's escort picket and navigate to within just a single kilometer of the fleet's flagship; a massive axis portal carrier the likes of which few allied crews have lived to tell about. U-124 and U-94 both launched two torpedoes, three of which found their target and turned the carrier into a flaming ruin. As the stunned escorts closed in around them, U-107 moved into the attack, firing torpedoes and actually coming up to surface at full speed to grab the fleet's attention. It worked. The confused escorts, still hampered by the storm, were able to see U-107 clearly and closed in on it, leaving the other two U-boats to escape.
The commanders of U-124 and U-94 have both sworn individually that Wulfhetz made a fight of it before succumbing; shooting off torpedoes from the stern and damaging at least one escort in this way.
The last transmission from the U-107 as received by the radioman of U-124; "Gute Jagd, meine Herren. Rächt uns. Rächt uns. Rächt uns. Für das Vaterland."
Ship type: Destroyer
HP 20
Speed: Fast
Armour: 6+
Evasion: 2+
Firepower: d6
Torpedoes: 5d6
Anti-aircraft: d6
Anti-Submarine Warfare: 2d10
Perk:
Shroud: Carries 5 smoke charges per sortie, once deployed, friendly ships behind the smoke become harder to hit
Armament:
5 × 138 mm (5.4-inch) guns (2 forward, 3 aft)
4 × 37 mm AA guns
4 × 13 mm AA machine guns
9 × 550 mm torpedo tubes in three triple mounts
40 mines
Captain: Gabriel Authian
History:
while the Fantasque was not the biggest or most armed ship, she was fast. Originally patrolling the Atlantic , when the alien invasion happened, she was sent into the Mediterranean in an attempt to keep it under allied control.
However, few truly knew just how capable the alien invaders really were, and the Fantasque and fleet found themselves constantly being pushed back ,forced to leave comrade ships and their crew to sink into the ocean to avoid being sunk themselves.
It was only one month into the Mediterranean push, before the Fantasque, 3 battleships, 1 sub, and 4 other destroyers found themselves cut off from the Atlantic, alone with no way out, and enemy fleets slowly surrounding them.
It was 3 days later when Gabriel saw the first of the enemy bombers approaching, the enemy fleets ever growing specs in the distance.
Within less than an hour, they had lost a battleship and a destroyer to the sheer onslaught of planes alone, before the first shots from the alien ships started to spurn the water around the minuscule french fleet. Every ship gave everything it could, but surrounded and outnumbered, it was less then 3 hours later that The Fantasque found herself with only a damaged battleship and the sub as allies.
Seeing the inevitable, Gabriel called on his allies, forming a impossible plan. With what little they had left, Gabriel Ordered the Fantasque to charge between two of the enemy ships at full speed.
It was inevitable, Gabriel knew, as his ship was torn apart by the two Battleships secondary fire, but as his ship stuttered and started to split, every single one of his ships torpedos made it into the water, too close to miss.
Both enemy Battleships slowly sunk into the water, to join the Le Fantasque in demise, Gabriel already slumped back in his chair, dead from shrapnel from the sheer amount of fire tearing into his small ship.
Sadly, the Fantasques sacrifice would be in vain. The Battleship it had sought to save did attempt to make its way through the gap, however its already damaged hull took one to many hits, piercing its engine, and it sadly scuttled to a stop not far outside the gap, where it lasted 30 more minutes, valiantly sinking an enemy cruiser before too joining its comrades at the bottom on the sea.
Only the Sub was able to get away, forced to flee from an un winnable fight, unable to do anything but leave its comrades to their fate.
Ship Name: RN Roma
Class: Littorio Class Battleship
Stats;
HP 70
Speed: Slow
Armour: 5+
Evasion: 5+
Firepower: 4d10
Anti-Aircraft: 1d6
Perk:
Defiant: regens an extra d3 hp per turn, this is not bound by the regen cap
, but does not restore health outside of battle.
Armament;
3 x 3 Cannone da 381/50 Ansaldo M1934
4 x 3 Cannone da 152/55 Ansaldo M1936
4 x 1 40-caliber Armstrong 1891(British QF 4,7 Inch Gun Mk III)
12 x 1 Cannone da 90/50 Ansaldo M1938
20 x (8 × 2; 4 × 1) 37/54 M1938/39
32 x 2 Cannone-Mitragliera da 20/65 modello 35
3 IMAM Ro.43 Recon floatplanes
1 Catapult
Captain: Capitano di Vascello Davide Floris
History: The pride of the Regia Marina, the RN Roma was undergoing final refits before commissioning when the invaders attacked Italy. Hastily refitted to maximize firepower at the expense of several inches of armor she was commissioned and launched just 3 days before the fall of Rome. With Italy rapidly collapsing the 151 warships and 116 submarines of the Regia Marina were forced to run for friendly ports, half the fleet sailed Eastward to link up with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, Sardinian native Capitano di Vascello Davide Floris and the remaining 133 ships and subs of the Regia Marina had one choice, force through the Alien fleet at Gibraltar, and escape to British or American ports or die trying. Under heavy fire from Alien air forces and facing down a vastly superior fleet the Regia Marina gave it their all over four days of the fiercest naval fighting since the Great War, ending with a final push led by the Roma and her sister ships, the RN Vittorio Veneto and RN Littorio barely managing to break through the straits. At the cost of all but 29 Italian vessels. The Roma' sister ships were among the destroyed, despite accounting for as many as 14 Alien warships, including 3 Tyrant class Battleships, the numbers were simply too much for the trio of Battleship's impressive firepower.
2 days after escaping into the Atlantic, the severely damaged Roma fell behind the rest of the survivors. Capitano di Vascello Floris gave the order to begin broadcasting emergency distress signals and turn around, leading pursuing forces away from, the survivors. 4 days after escaping the Mediterranean the Roma went down after nearly an hour long engagement, outnumbered and outgunned by a pack of enemy Cruisers sent to finish off the surviving Italian ships the Roma was nonetheless able to send at least 3 more enemy ships to the sea floor before a magazine explosion nearly sheared the vessel in half.
Ship type: AA cruiser
HP 30
Speed: Fast
Armour 6+
Evasion: 3+
Firepower: 2d6
Anti-aircraft: 3d10
Perk: Clear skies, one every three turns, can force hostile aircraft hit by their AA to reroll successful evasions.
Armament:
16 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal guns
16 × 1.1 in (27 mm)/75 cal guns
12 × 20 mm/70 cal anti-aircraft cannons
Captain: Colin Richter
History: Unlike some of her comrades, Atlanta's end wasn't too glamorous. Assigned as escort to carrier group in pacific front, she fought against the axis in several battles until she finally met her end during a sortie after getting hit by submarine based torpedo which caused her to lose her ability to steer properly. Dead on water and with several hostile carrier flights inbound, her crew decided to make last stand so that rest of her group could escape. Using what little command she had, her crew swivelled towards the enemy and met them with a broadside. According to survivor statements from other ships, Atlanta didn't stop firing even after she was blow in half by a bomb and only stopped firing after her gun barrels went underwater.
Class: Battleship
Stats: (I reduced evasion by 1 and added 1 to armour)
HP 70
Speed: Slow
Armour: 3+
Evasion: 6+
Firepower: 3d10
Anti-Aircraft: 1d6
Perk:
Defiant: regens an extra d3 hp per turn, this is not bound by the regen cap
but does not restore health outside of battle.
Armament:
8 × BL 15-inch Mk I guns (4 x 2)
14 × single BL 6-inch Mk XII guns
8 × 15 in (381 mm) guns (4 × 2)
8 × 6 in (152 mm) guns
8 × 4-inch Mk XVI anti-aircraft guns (4×2)
32 × 2 pounder anti-aircraft guns (4×8)
4 × quadruple 0.5 in Vickers machine guns
1 catapult and 1 spotter aircraft
Captain: Percival Richard Jones
History: after having been refurbished and given a new commander, the Warspite was sunk on captain Jones' maiden voyage. She had two escorts and she fought valiantly against an enemy fleet, outnumbered three to one. The captain ordered them to charge fearlessly into the midst of the enemy with no regard for their own safety, trusting in the Warspite's own heavy armour to keep her safe... at least long enough to do some damage and allow her escorts to retreat to safety. To her credit, she managed to destroy one enemy vessel and cripple another before overwhelming firepower and alien air support riddled her with holes. Sailors jumped from her deck as she was claimed by Poseidon, but captain Percival Jones refused to abandon his ship. It is said that in his final moments he climbed the exterior of the ship and shouted expletives at the enemy, waving his hat furiously in the air and firing his service pistol in the general direction of the enemy. The last anyone saw of the Warspite, she was ramming full speed into the side of an enemy cruiser, damn near splitting her in half even as the Warspite herself went down.
Although many lives were lost that day, two vessels escaped to tell the tale of the Warspite because of the sacrifice captain Jones made. Some say he was a madman with no regard for the safety of his vessel, while others claimed him to be a hero without equal for his bravery and selflessness.
Ship Name: U-107
Class: U-boat
HP: 15
Speed: Slow (submerged), Fast (surfaced)
Armour: 6+
Evasion: 4+
Firepower: d5
Torpedoes: 3d10
Anti-aircraft (only while surfaced): N/A
Armament:
• 6 × torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern) 53.3 cm (24 in) torpedoes
• 1 × 10.5 cm SK C/32 naval gun
Captain: Kapitanleutnant Ulrich Wulfhetz
History
Despite the utter annihilation of the German military by the axis during the years of the occupation of the homeland there still remained quite a few notable members of the resistance, particularly amongst the Kriegsmarine. Captain Wulfhetz was one of the more notable ones; having been one of the few U-boat captains not only to survive the initial axis onslaught at sea but also return the favor to his enemies. For a little while he became a bit of a figurehead for the German resistance, leading attacks both alone and with fellow U-boat captains onto the initially sparsely guarded axis convoys. It was at this time that he gained the moniker "Einzelganger" for his increasing desire to put his boat, and his boat alone, in harms way to fight the axis. By the time he was thought lost at sea, his GRT score was nearing 100,000 tons of sunken alien shipping. Just before heading out into the Atlantic for the last time, Wulfhetz was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his excellent track record and leadership abilities.
It was not to last, however. During the operation of a wolfpack dubbed Dolch in the mid Atlantic German command lost all contact with Wulfhetz and the other boats in the wolfpack and assumed them lost. They were not lost, however, and had simply been held up by heavier resistance during the operation than expected. With damage to several of his boat's vital systems, Wulfhetz was forced to sail for friendly South American shores instead of limping all the way back to the Baltic which might as well have been on another planet for all that he could reach it.
U-107, U-124, and U-94, the members of wolfpack Dolch did not allow this setback to keep them out of the war. Without orders and without contact with German high command, they pursued their own personal wars of vengeance upon those who would invade their homes. How many ships they sunk before all was told remains uncertain but certain events pertaining to the destruction of U-107 are known due to the survival of U-124 and U-94. In early 1942 wolfpack Dolch was running out of options. Supplies and ammunition were hard to come by and on one particular day while patrolling, the group ran into an axis splinter fleet by chance. With little other option besides fight or watch the fleet destroy the South American coastline, Wulfhetz made his fateful decision and ordered the wolfpack to follow the fleet. Two days were spent tailing it, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Finally, the third day came and a passing storm made conditions ideal for an ambush.
Under cover of darkness, in the stormy Atlantic waters, Dolch managed to sneak by the fleet's escort picket and navigate to within just a single kilometer of the fleet's flagship; a massive axis portal carrier the likes of which few allied crews have lived to tell about. U-124 and U-94 both launched two torpedoes, three of which found their target and turned the carrier into a flaming ruin. As the stunned escorts closed in around them, U-107 moved into the attack, firing torpedoes and actually coming up to surface at full speed to grab the fleet's attention. It worked. The confused escorts, still hampered by the storm, were able to see U-107 clearly and closed in on it, leaving the other two U-boats to escape.
The commanders of U-124 and U-94 have both sworn individually that Wulfhetz made a fight of it before succumbing; shooting off torpedoes from the stern and damaging at least one escort in this way.
The last transmission from the U-107 as received by the radioman of U-124; "Gute Jagd, meine Herren. Rächt uns. Rächt uns. Rächt uns. Für das Vaterland."
Jul 3, 2015 9:28:50 GMT @klimino said:
Ship name: Le FantasqueShip type: Destroyer
HP 20
Speed: Fast
Armour: 6+
Evasion: 2+
Firepower: d6
Torpedoes: 5d6
Anti-aircraft: d6
Anti-Submarine Warfare: 2d10
Perk:
Shroud: Carries 5 smoke charges per sortie, once deployed, friendly ships behind the smoke become harder to hit
Armament:
5 × 138 mm (5.4-inch) guns (2 forward, 3 aft)
4 × 37 mm AA guns
4 × 13 mm AA machine guns
9 × 550 mm torpedo tubes in three triple mounts
40 mines
Captain: Gabriel Authian
History:
while the Fantasque was not the biggest or most armed ship, she was fast. Originally patrolling the Atlantic , when the alien invasion happened, she was sent into the Mediterranean in an attempt to keep it under allied control.
However, few truly knew just how capable the alien invaders really were, and the Fantasque and fleet found themselves constantly being pushed back ,forced to leave comrade ships and their crew to sink into the ocean to avoid being sunk themselves.
It was only one month into the Mediterranean push, before the Fantasque, 3 battleships, 1 sub, and 4 other destroyers found themselves cut off from the Atlantic, alone with no way out, and enemy fleets slowly surrounding them.
It was 3 days later when Gabriel saw the first of the enemy bombers approaching, the enemy fleets ever growing specs in the distance.
Within less than an hour, they had lost a battleship and a destroyer to the sheer onslaught of planes alone, before the first shots from the alien ships started to spurn the water around the minuscule french fleet. Every ship gave everything it could, but surrounded and outnumbered, it was less then 3 hours later that The Fantasque found herself with only a damaged battleship and the sub as allies.
Seeing the inevitable, Gabriel called on his allies, forming a impossible plan. With what little they had left, Gabriel Ordered the Fantasque to charge between two of the enemy ships at full speed.
It was inevitable, Gabriel knew, as his ship was torn apart by the two Battleships secondary fire, but as his ship stuttered and started to split, every single one of his ships torpedos made it into the water, too close to miss.
Both enemy Battleships slowly sunk into the water, to join the Le Fantasque in demise, Gabriel already slumped back in his chair, dead from shrapnel from the sheer amount of fire tearing into his small ship.
Sadly, the Fantasques sacrifice would be in vain. The Battleship it had sought to save did attempt to make its way through the gap, however its already damaged hull took one to many hits, piercing its engine, and it sadly scuttled to a stop not far outside the gap, where it lasted 30 more minutes, valiantly sinking an enemy cruiser before too joining its comrades at the bottom on the sea.
Only the Sub was able to get away, forced to flee from an un winnable fight, unable to do anything but leave its comrades to their fate.
Jul 22, 2015 4:01:28 GMT @cashdash said:
Gonna drop in at the last minute here.Ship Name: RN Roma
Class: Littorio Class Battleship
Stats;
HP 70
Speed: Slow
Armour: 5+
Evasion: 5+
Firepower: 4d10
Anti-Aircraft: 1d6
Perk:
Defiant: regens an extra d3 hp per turn, this is not bound by the regen cap
, but does not restore health outside of battle.
Armament;
3 x 3 Cannone da 381/50 Ansaldo M1934
4 x 3 Cannone da 152/55 Ansaldo M1936
4 x 1 40-caliber Armstrong 1891(British QF 4,7 Inch Gun Mk III)
12 x 1 Cannone da 90/50 Ansaldo M1938
20 x (8 × 2; 4 × 1) 37/54 M1938/39
32 x 2 Cannone-Mitragliera da 20/65 modello 35
3 IMAM Ro.43 Recon floatplanes
1 Catapult
Captain: Capitano di Vascello Davide Floris
History: The pride of the Regia Marina, the RN Roma was undergoing final refits before commissioning when the invaders attacked Italy. Hastily refitted to maximize firepower at the expense of several inches of armor she was commissioned and launched just 3 days before the fall of Rome. With Italy rapidly collapsing the 151 warships and 116 submarines of the Regia Marina were forced to run for friendly ports, half the fleet sailed Eastward to link up with the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, Sardinian native Capitano di Vascello Davide Floris and the remaining 133 ships and subs of the Regia Marina had one choice, force through the Alien fleet at Gibraltar, and escape to British or American ports or die trying. Under heavy fire from Alien air forces and facing down a vastly superior fleet the Regia Marina gave it their all over four days of the fiercest naval fighting since the Great War, ending with a final push led by the Roma and her sister ships, the RN Vittorio Veneto and RN Littorio barely managing to break through the straits. At the cost of all but 29 Italian vessels. The Roma' sister ships were among the destroyed, despite accounting for as many as 14 Alien warships, including 3 Tyrant class Battleships, the numbers were simply too much for the trio of Battleship's impressive firepower.
2 days after escaping into the Atlantic, the severely damaged Roma fell behind the rest of the survivors. Capitano di Vascello Floris gave the order to begin broadcasting emergency distress signals and turn around, leading pursuing forces away from, the survivors. 4 days after escaping the Mediterranean the Roma went down after nearly an hour long engagement, outnumbered and outgunned by a pack of enemy Cruisers sent to finish off the surviving Italian ships the Roma was nonetheless able to send at least 3 more enemy ships to the sea floor before a magazine explosion nearly sheared the vessel in half.
Ship name: Atlanta
Ship type: AA cruiser
HP 30
Speed: Fast
Armour 6+
Evasion: 3+
Firepower: 2d6
Anti-aircraft: 3d10
Perk: Clear skies, one every three turns, can force hostile aircraft hit by their AA to reroll successful evasions.
Armament:
16 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal guns
16 × 1.1 in (27 mm)/75 cal guns
12 × 20 mm/70 cal anti-aircraft cannons
Captain: Colin Richter
History: Unlike some of her comrades, Atlanta's end wasn't too glamorous. Assigned as escort to carrier group in pacific front, she fought against the axis in several battles until she finally met her end during a sortie after getting hit by submarine based torpedo which caused her to lose her ability to steer properly. Dead on water and with several hostile carrier flights inbound, her crew decided to make last stand so that rest of her group could escape. Using what little command she had, her crew swivelled towards the enemy and met them with a broadside. According to survivor statements from other ships, Atlanta didn't stop firing even after she was blow in half by a bomb and only stopped firing after her gun barrels went underwater.
Ship Name: HMS Warspite
Class: Battleship
Stats: (I reduced evasion by 1 and added 1 to armour)
HP 70
Speed: Slow
Armour: 3+
Evasion: 6+
Firepower: 3d10
Anti-Aircraft: 1d6
Perk:
Defiant: regens an extra d3 hp per turn, this is not bound by the regen cap
but does not restore health outside of battle.
Armament:
8 × BL 15-inch Mk I guns (4 x 2)
14 × single BL 6-inch Mk XII guns
8 × 15 in (381 mm) guns (4 × 2)
8 × 6 in (152 mm) guns
8 × 4-inch Mk XVI anti-aircraft guns (4×2)
32 × 2 pounder anti-aircraft guns (4×8)
4 × quadruple 0.5 in Vickers machine guns
1 catapult and 1 spotter aircraft
Captain: Percival Richard Jones
History: after having been refurbished and given a new commander, the Warspite was sunk on captain Jones' maiden voyage. She had two escorts and she fought valiantly against an enemy fleet, outnumbered three to one. The captain ordered them to charge fearlessly into the midst of the enemy with no regard for their own safety, trusting in the Warspite's own heavy armour to keep her safe... at least long enough to do some damage and allow her escorts to retreat to safety. To her credit, she managed to destroy one enemy vessel and cripple another before overwhelming firepower and alien air support riddled her with holes. Sailors jumped from her deck as she was claimed by Poseidon, but captain Percival Jones refused to abandon his ship. It is said that in his final moments he climbed the exterior of the ship and shouted expletives at the enemy, waving his hat furiously in the air and firing his service pistol in the general direction of the enemy. The last anyone saw of the Warspite, she was ramming full speed into the side of an enemy cruiser, damn near splitting her in half even as the Warspite herself went down.
Although many lives were lost that day, two vessels escaped to tell the tale of the Warspite because of the sacrifice captain Jones made. Some say he was a madman with no regard for the safety of his vessel, while others claimed him to be a hero without equal for his bravery and selflessness.