From: Arnaud Bouis Subject: 7 Seas Markus, We played a full game of 7 Seas to Victory. It lasted 12 hours, from 2 pm to 2 am, and I was the referee since we had 3 players plus me. It ended in a U.S. Victory, after a magnificent series of air and sea battles in which the following were sunk: Axis lost Allied lost ----------- ----------- Super Battleships 2 2 BB 6 9 CVB 0 0 CV 7 1 PB 1 0 CVL 2 2 CA groups 3 12 Transport groups 1 1 Ground units 7 8 Jet units 7 2 Heavy Bb units 1 2 prop air units 27 40 VP for losses : 70.75 79 Allied VP: 70.75 (kills) + 8 (convoys exited) + 20 (northern lock) = 98.75 Axis VP : 79 (kills) + 5 (Port of Spain refinery) = 84 We played all along with our heavily modified rules, which postulated simultaneous fire and more. They're now fully tested and hopefully they're final I think. If you're interested I'll try to take the time to write them up. The game saw the Axis Navy suffer a defeat on the first day as air strikes hit 4 Nazi CVs, trapping lots of jets inside. This broke the Axis player morally. The Americans launched a similar strike against the Jap fleet but it was badly unescorted and decimated. Meanwhile the Jap player crushed the Galapagos then the Cocos islands and caught and destroyed the weaker US Pacific Fleet, helped by some blunders by the American players. Then jutland-style surface battles occured when the European fleet met the US battleships. Though tactically draws, like at the Coral Sea they stopped the Nazi advance which nevertheless took Port of Spain, landing heavy bombers there. A night US paradrop failed to retake the island. The Italo-Germans also landed at San Juan but their assault force was destroyed. The European fleets then eyed each other wearily, one in based at Port of spain and the other in Willernsted. Around midnight our Basque (US) Admiral started acting showing signs of fatigue. The Atlantic fleet tried a bold move to retake Port of Spain but it ended in disaster (2 US transports sunk). The US air forces launched very well timed strikes which virtually destroyed the Japanese air. Then the Japanese surface ships and transports arrived south of Panama and the US Atlantic fleet hurried through the canal, but being committed peacemal, they again suffered heavy losses at the hand of the Jap ships and what remained escaped back into the Atlantic. Unfortunately the Italo-German ships had stealthly sortied from Port of Spain, escaping American surveillance, and caught several of those retreating US surface task forces in the middle of the Carribean, sinking several U.S. BBs. The Axis heavy bombers from Port of Spain now bombarded the refinery in Willernsted, destroying it. Before Panama the large Jap fleet had come for the big show. They engaged in a series of bombardments against the US coastal batteries and troops, but did so too long, and this was a mistake. The troops landed only on turn 32. The delay proved fatal. US air sorties finally hit Jap transports. Though a heavy land battle developped on the southern locks, the northern Panama locks would remain in US control at game's end. This brought the US a close victory. The biggest laugh of the game was when GD and KG Peiper landed in Puerto Rico and were eliminated after lamentable die rolls. Der Fuhrer entered a black fuhror in Berlin ! Lots of fun, thank you Ben Knight. Arnaud P.S. Pierre, je t'envoie ce resume qui, quoiqu'en anglais, t'amusera peut-etre.