r/victoryatsea

Hello everyone, as the title says I’m a new player to Victory at Sea having played both Bolt Action and Warhammer 40K. I recently split the starter box with a friend of mine and got the Japanese half and I also used a birthday gift card to pick up a Kongo battleship. I chose the Kongo just because I think the superstructure looks cool and remember it from this game I used to play growing up called Battle Stations Pacific on the Xbox 360. However, with growing my fleet in the future, I was just wondering what some essentials or even just some fun ships to use with the Japanese. I know they get a special torpedo, but I don’t know how to play them or what the best way to play them is and I am also interested in what is the glue that holds your fleet together?

Also, I was wondering as a new player what is the typical point size for a regular game?

Continuing out Combined arms Normandy campaign a massive fight develops in the north, The KM are pressing their advantage and trying to cut off reinforcements to the mainland.

The Kriegsmarine rolled Maximum attrition, they had to destroy more of their opponent than they themselves lost. Whilst the Allies rolled priority target and had to try and sink the Tirpitz and cause maximum damage themselves.

The Allies had to deploy first, the KM countered with a bundled corner deployment trying to defeat the RN in detail. The Game went from an early volley from the Tirpitz that caused a catastrophic explosion on the Dido to Torpedo duels in the middle ending the career of the Koln. The Bombers then came in sinking 2 tribal class destroyers however the allied bombers failed to land a hit on the Tirpitz.

The German Destroyers put 24 torpedos into the Warspite before the Duel between the Battleships began as the Koenigsburg retreated off of the board. After 3 turns the Tirpitz had damage to Engines, Crew and Weapons whilst the Warspite had Damage to 2 Damage to engines, Crew and Weapons, on the last turn the Tirpitz crippled the Warspite destroying AB/XY turrets and the game ended.

The Kriegsmarine lost 137.5 points, whilst the Royal navy lost 606.5 points leading to a clean Kriegsmarine win.

With nowhere for the ship and infantry in transports to run they were both destroyed automatically.

Next game the Germans launch and armoured assault on the Communication bunker!

https://scorpionstrike.blogspot.com/2026/08/combined-arms-normandy-log-entry-5.html