AAR Jutland

[Jolly Roger]

AFTER ACTION REPORT - 4th HPS Jutland online battle
- Encounter at Memel -
Imperial Russian Fleet: Tankred_garm
High Sea Fleet: Maseda, Jolly Roger
Duration 60 min.

A Detachment of the Russian Baltic Fleet was first spotted at 0:57,
5 pre-dreadnoughts battleships, 4 Cruisers and 13 destroyers heading west. III. Scouting group of High Sea Fleet closed in to keep contact,
the russian battleship squadron opened fire at a distance of 10000m,
without any effects. 0:48 German Battlecruiser von der Tann spotted
Russian Cruiser Group, 0:41 German (pre - dreadnought ) battleship group, consisting of 3 "Brandenburg - Class" engages enemy cruisers with primary 11 inch armament. 0:40 10 German Torpedoboats layed smoke shielding own main force. 10 Russian destroyers detached from main fleet and approached Battlecruiser von d. Tann.
0:36 Destroyers launched several torpedos, von der Tann evades Torpedo attacks. Battleship Braunschweig under heavy fire of enemy battleships and cruisers, detached damaged from battlegroup.
0:28 5 Russian destroyers, 4 Torpedoboats sunk. 0:13 Braunschweig retreats. Battleship Hessen running at maximum speed for over 1/2 hour handicapped by engine breakdown, von der Tann and Torpedoboats protected Hessen from advancing Russian forces.
Russian Navy looses two additional destroyers, High sea fleet one more TB. - end of battle - Jolly Roger

[Jolly Roger]

HPS Jutland covers the famous seabattle of WWI, but other minor engagements of WW I too. The included editor allows construction of additional scenarios.
The battlefleets consist of BB ( Dreadnoughts ) B (Pre-dreadn. battleships, BC ( Battlecruisers ), CA ( Heavy Cruisers ),
CL ( Light Crusiers ), D ( Destroyers ), TB ( Torpedoboats ).
The bigger ships are equipped with primary art. ( 11 - 15 inches )
and secondary art., and Torpedos the smaller vessels like CL, D, TB´s
have smaller primary guns, but can fire torpedos, deploy mines or lay smoke. Under player command are:
- increase / decrease speed
- change direction
- lay smoke
- fire torpedos
- select target for prim. weapons
- deploy mines
- formation
etc..
Online MP games with parties of up to 8 participants have been played already.
Join the HPS Jutland community :whis:

Cheers, Klaus

[Andrew Young]

Klaus,

An excellent story , about how fun , such battles can be.

Go on.

Maybe we can play next week?



Andrew