State of Fleets World War II United States

 

4 US carriers Saratoga, Enterprise, Yorktown and Hornet.

Four Fast Battleships two North Carolinas and two South Dakotas.

Seven Standard type Battleships and one Dreadnought type.

Ten Cruisers 3 light and 7 Heavy 

24 Destroyers of various classes. 

State of the Fleets World War II Japan Feb2026

 The Arms race ahead of my Two game mini-campaign I will be running at Mayhem and Huzzah so it seems like a good time to update the status of my various fleets (even as I paint more) 

4 Big Japanese carriers, Akagi Shokaku, Zuikaku and Hiryu. 

7 Japanese Battle ships,  Nagato, Mutsu, Ise, Huyga, Fuso, Yamashiro  

Three examples of the Kongo Class Karishma, Kong and Hiei  I'll let you decide if they are Fast Battleships or Battle Cruisers. 

Nine Japanese Cruisers  Tone Agano, Chokai, Takao, Atago, Frunitaka, Kinugasa, Mikuma, Nagara

Twenty Japanese Destroyers of various classes. 

Mogami in her seaplane cruiser configuration with 4 Arashio class Destroyers

Two More Mogami Class Cruisers Suzuya and Kumano 

Finally a sinking example of a Mogami lass Cruiser 

Active armor Clash at Oisement

 

The Cross road town of Oisement my First objective for the game Defended by Britsih 

German Forces (mine) move on and Alex moves up British and French armor to oppose them 

Battle erupts all along the front as Panzers push forward and infantry assaults Oisement. 

British Planes strike... then the 3rd Cursers rally and drives the 2nd Panzer back in confusion. 

Fortunately my infantry score a couple quick successes in repones. 

Infantry disorder the British tanks and my Panzers move in for the kill. 

Air Strike hits the British Matilda's and Artillery 

The Aufkluar.. take out the British Armored recon. 

Allied Forces begin to break and we have men in the town of Oisement

Allied forces are fleeing in disorder with Highland Infantry trying to line for a finial stand but they have to withdrawn. 

Active armor Selarno

 

Heading for the beach under cover of bombardment 

The FritzX strikes the fleet! 

the First infantry storms ashore with airpower opening the way. 

Armor has landed. 

Resistance is fierce and deadly 

Kill the Panzers Kill the Panzers! 

My troops fight valiantly but struggle to make progress or even hold on. 

Air Power is our holey hope

Time to Dig In and hope we can hold until night fall or British relief. 

Reinforcements coming 

Men storm out of their landing craft and into desperate counter attacks

The Germans drive us into the sea

Active Armor Thrown to the Wolves Hurtgen Forest

 

We have a difficulted situation driving in on a fortified German position in the Hurtgen Forest 

the 7th engenders clear the wire the fall back with heavy losses to regroup off board while the 1st and 6ht battalions move in to assault the town. The 4th and 5th prepare to assault the fortified line

Fighting is close, fierce and indecisive

Armored forces move to secure the bridges 

2nd Battalion takes Bergstein Castes

The 6th gets into the town of Vossenack but the StuGs are still out of the.

The second assaulted the stuGs and drive them off I got my objectives but the counter attack would probably crush my depleted force 

Hittites Vs Assyrians ALDG

Last Friday  Frank and I had command of the Hittites while Arofan and Kelly had the Assyrians 

The center chariot forces the Assyrians have bow and scored some early hits. 

Hittite archers take the high ground 

Frank used his Chariots aggressively driving the Assyrian light chariots back on their heavy chariots. 

The battle initially goes well 

on the right my men take up position and Arofan approaches up deliberately

Chariots on the left advance and the battel swings back and fort as I bring up the kings heavy chariots. 

My elite chariots on the right drive off a number of their Assyrian conter part... 

The king move forward but falls in the midst of battle 

My infantry does surprisingly well and my chariots advance on the right... . 

The final few turns are a swirling battle as formations break on both sides the Hittites will the battle by the thinnest of margins.  The Cavalry battle was about even and favored the Assyrians a bit but my infantry punching above their weight (and Arofan having some really bad dice just as I had some really good dice) gave us the win.  Franks aggressive  tactic kept the Assyrians on the back foot.