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Cyberman image © BBC/Kit Pedler/Gerry Davis 1966. BBC, DOCTOR WHO (word marks, logos and devices), TARDIS, DALEKS, CYBERMAN and K-9 (word marks and devices) are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under licence. Warlord Games, Bolt Action, Pike & Shotte, Hail Caesar, Cruel Seas, Black Powder, Black Seas, Warlords of Erehwon, Blood Red Skies, SPQR, Beyond the Gates of Antares, Gates of Antares, Algoryn, Boromite, Lavamite, Isorian Shard, Concord, Ghar, NuHu and Freeborn are either ® or ™, and/or © Warlord Games Limited, variably registered around the world. Dive Bomber Aircraft – Junker Ju-87 Stuka flight x4 flights.Königsberg -class cruiser – Königsberg 1940.Admiral Hipper-class cruiser – Admiral Hipper 1939.Admiral Hipper -class cruiser – Prinz Eugen 1940.Admiral Hipper -class cruiser – Blücher 1940.Scharnhorst-class Battleship – Scharnhorst 1939.The vessels detailed above can all be found in the Kriegsmarine Starter Box for Victory at Sea, along with four Ju-87 aircraft flights. These vessels were known to the Allies as the Narvik-class. The Type 1936A was more seaworthy, with much more reliable machinery. As with the preceding class, an enlarged version, designated Type 1936A, was developed from the original. The intended twin turrets were not available in time, so planned armament was reduced to single mounts in some positions. The Type 1936 was a large and very powerful design mounting 5.9-inch guns, based on the general layout of the Type 1934. Admiral Hipper returned to Germany and was never restored to operational status after being bombed by the Royal Air Force in May 1945. ON New Year’s Eve 1942, at the Battle of the Barents Sea, after sinking a destroyer and a minesweeper she was forced to withdraw due to the efforts of HMS Sheffield and HMS Jamaica. Following the failure to destroy any merchant vessels in this battle, Hitler ordered the majority of surface warships scrapped. Her next sortie in February 1941 saw much more success when she sank several merchant vessels, before being transferred back to Norway to raid convoys to the Soviet Union. In December of 1940, she successfully broke out to the Atlantic in an effort to disrupt Allied Merchant convoys, but failed to achieve much success. She also led the assault on Trondberg during Germany’s invasion of Norway, sinking the British destroyer HMS Glowworm in the process. It was for him that Admiral Hipper was named, the lead ship of her class.Īdmiral Hipper saw significant action over the course of the war, with a heavy emphasis on the Battle of the Atlantic. Admiral HipperĪdmiral Franz von Hipper was commander of the German battlecruiser squadron of the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and subsequently became commander-in-chief of the German high seas fleet. The wreck remains partially visible to this day. Despite surviving the atomic blasts, she capsized after being towed to Kwajalein Atoll in December 1946. In May 1945 she was surrendered to the US Navy as a war prize, and was subjected to the nuclear tests of Operation Crossroads. IN the latter stages of the war, she served as artillery support for the retreating German army from the Baltic Sea. Shortly after, Prinz Eugen put into France to enact repairs following engine difficulties.īriefly deploying to Norway, she was put out of action for repairs in Germany after being struck by a torpedo from a submarine. The two ships destroyed the British cruiser Hood and damaged HMS Prince of Wales in the Battle of Denmark Strait. She saw action during the German operation Rheinübung of 1941, in which, along with Bismarck, she attempted to breakout into the Atlantic to sow chaos amongst merchant convoys. The third of the Admiral-Hipper-class of heavy cruisers, Prinz Eugen was named for Prince Eugene of Savoy, and 18 th century Austrian general. During the Battle of the North Cape, Scharnhorst was sunk by HMS Duke of York and her escorts. In early 1943, the Scharnhorst joined the Tirpitz in Norway, hoping to interdict Allied convoys to the Soviet Union, but were intercepted by Royal Navy patrols. She subsequently participated in the invasion of Norway and sank HMS Renown, a battlecruiser, and HMS Glorious, an aircraft carrier, as well as their escort destroyers – in the course of these battle achieving one of the longest range gunfire-hits in military naval history. An early victory was the sinking of HMS Rawalpindiin November 1939. Throught the early war, Scharnhorst, operated in tandem with her sister ship, Gneisenau, in raiding British merchant shipping in the Atlantic. Though plans were drawn up to 38cm guns, these plans were never enacted. She was armed with a main battery of nine 28cm C/34 guns in three triple turrets. The German capital ship Scharnhorst was the lead of her two-ship class, launching in October 1936.