Draco's Cruel Seas - Germans

So whilst I was waiting for the factories to churn out a few new vessels (and for other classes to be tooled up for – looking at you R-Boats…), I got stuck in and put the first few licks of paint on my S-Boats. In some respects, we’re lucky with Cruel Seas, as historical modellers have been doing up S-Boats and Vospers etc for years, which give us a bunch of pseudo-historical colour schemes to use of we so choose. But it the flexibility and the fact that this is a wargame also allows us to do our own thing we so choose.

Blue and Grey have been a colour scheme of mine for ages, and the disruptive pattern is somthing I think I’ll keep for the full German fleet – a unifying feature so that the disparate ships still look like they’re part of the same force.

Yes, I know, i’m not that fast a painter – I’ve made the mistake of buying too many minis before and not knowing how long it’ll take me to finish a force. Which is why I like Cruel Seas – only half a dozen models needed for a flotilla and I’m done.

But I then compensate for this by having multiple fleets….send help…

On the other front however, the first of the new arrivals finally showed up

I’ve got one more large boat in mind for the Germans, but that’ll take a while to get…

It was also in this delivery that I got my Italian fleet, and I immediately looked at it as to whether or not I could use the F-Lighter in there as a German variant…but now I’m not so sure. The guns would look completely different, I’d have to do some converting to get other guns right…maybe it’d just be better to wait for a dedicated German version – if Warlord ever releases one.