Coastal Forces, Pride of Seaburn.

 Around the Outer Gabbard

The Pride of Seaburn!

Mission Card Two

Around the Outer Gabbard

Good Morning Lieutenant

The mission is a patrol out to the swept channel to the south of the Cork Sand, and Inner Gabbard, beyond to the Outer Gabbard, proceeding onward to Lowestoft and HMS Mantis.  If any enemy are encountered follow your standing orders.

1.  No encounter

2.  Downed pilot drifting

3.  Weather change

4.  RAF Rescue Launch

5.  Single S-boat

6.  German Submarine with rudder damage, and German aircraft.

A simple scenario linker for grouping coastal forces games.  A chart of Patrol areas linked to Six mission briefing cards.  Keeping it simple seems like a good idea. 

My back of a postcard rules, so far... Work in Progress.
1 inch = 5 knots Weapons roll multiple d6 spotting within 12".  Vessels moving half speed heard, and bearing detected at 36" Vessels firing or planing at full speed with a plume are visible.	Two sixes are a critical hit, roll 2d6 2.  Life belts,  3.  Raft 3.  Command,  4.  Waterline hull,  5.   A weapons point 6.   Rudder,  7.   Props,  8.   Engines 9.   Wireless Transmitter 10. Aldis lamp 11. Command 12. Fuel fire
To Hit dice      5 or 6. Machine gun  1d6 HMG              2d6 20mm             3d6 4cm/2pdr        4d6 Over 12"        6 needed for hit. Within 3"       4,5,6 hits
Damage dice 1  Through the woodwork 2  Into the upper hull 3  Sheer off 4  Sheer off 5. Hit 6. Hit	Captain`s Character 6  Inspirational Hero 6 Crew points 5  Bold Brass Balls 5 Crew points 4  Solid and Dependable 3  Sound Chap. 3 Crew Points 2  Wobbly and Losing it 2 crew points. 1  Pretty Piss Poor.  1 Crew Point.

HM Armed Trawler Pride of Seaburn

My Captain is Lt Johnny Stiff-Rodde, a sound chap.  As crew he has a skilled Coxswain, P/O William Allcock (+1) and an exceptional Gunner (+1) Leading Seaman Wankum.

The Patrol

Pride of Seaham is conducting a patrol out to the Broad Fourteens.  Primarily an AS mission the boat is also under orders to look out for downed aircrew 

1.  The Swept Channel

The vessel enters the swept channel and rolls 1.  No encounter.

2.  The Cork Sand 

Pride steams around the southern edge of the Sand.  

An on-board event, Able Seaman Norman Wisdom injured in slapstick fall from the 2pdr mount.

A single S-boat.  One of my scratch builds.

Pride drops a 2pdr across the enemy

But it's a poor hit.

My MTB escort closes up on the Trawler but they are too far back.

But the Germans put a fish into the side of Pride before running.  It's the second minesweeper I've lost!