The Soviets & Italians Take To The Coast For Warlord’s Cruel Seas
December 10, 2018 by brennon
Cruel Seas is up and running on the Warlord Games webstore but the team are already looking to the future with both the Soviets and Italians taking to the coastland in World War II. The Cruel Seas Starter Set is a good starting point however for your sea-based adventures.
Cruel Seas is a 1/300th scale game which brings into play some of the smaller boats from World War II that would have skirmished with each other during the period. The main set brings you the Royal Navy and Kriegsmarine but you can already get your hands on US and Japanese fleets too.
Soviets & Italians
As stated above, however, the new previews for this month that will be arriving in January include the Soviets and Italians. The first is the Soviet Navy...
As you might have imagined, the Soviets aren't exactly the most subtle of forces in Cruel Seas. They have no new technology and favour numbers and sheer brute force over tactical play. Unlike the other fleets, you're not going to be finding radars and automatic cannons here.
According to Warlord Games, the best thing to do with the Soviets is to get in fast, unleash your torpedos and be gone before the enemy can properly react.
We also have the Italians and the Regia Marina.
Here once again we have a force that, whilst maybe not as archaic as the Soviets, favoured numbers and quick ships (for the most part). You'll be looking to get stuck into combat quickly and unload their rather extensive arsenal whilst also being able to outmanoeuvre other factions.
Royal Navy Support
As well as these two new Starter Sets which help give you some interesting avenues into Cruel Seas there's also a new boat for the Royal Navy. Check out the Fairmile D-class MGB/MTB.
For its size, this boat was one of the most heavily armed of its kind. It looks rather awesome too, hefting around plenty of guns and options for torpedos. I can see folks immediately wanting to drop these into their British force.
Have you been wanting to get stuck into Cruel Seas?
"I can see folks immediately wanting to drop these into their British force..."
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I do like the “crewed” guns on the resin and metal ships. I REALLY think Warlord should look to doing metal guns (with crew) for the plastics as an additional purchase. As the plastic MTB are all using smaller guns, these could also be used for future resin ships.
Sound like a good fasted paced game of hit n run raider’s to control coastal water’s
Those look really good.
Really like these, the Italians are stand out.
Game is definitely drawing me in. Also temptation to add to Blood red skies and a para/commando BA force for linked games is really appealing.
Was going to give this game a miss at first, but now that they’re releasing the Soviets and the Italians it’s starting to draw me in, Mediterranean supply convoys, patrol boats around the Greek islands, actions in the Black Sea like the evacuation of Sevastopol – all areas I can get behind with this niche area of WW2 gaming. Would still like to see some big ships, even if I just had them as display pieces haha
this is on my to get list. a list that grows so fast, i will need the christmas holidays to sort out what is actually going to he done. Dang you warlord…..first Blood Red Skies, then Cruel Seas to add to my Bolt Action force. If i hadn’t gotten into Test of Honour, then maybe it would be manageable but no….so many new releases.
After enjoying a great demo game of this I was thinking of picking up a Japanese starter fleet along with the hardback rulebook. Now my question is would I need to also buy the starter set for the wake templates and tokens etc.. ?
Been trying not to get too interested as I’m skint from other games, but the more they show I’m crumbling fast. Will do short straws with kids tomorrow see which one has to leave home,