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All My Painted British Ships - Oct. 19, 1941 (aka The battle of "Napatam Epac")

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      S cenario rationale and constraints (which influenced the rationale ) The title says it all. :-) But I will spell it out just in case it wasn’t completely obvious. This was my first foray into the Mediterranean Sea and I ran into a problem building a scenario: I just didn’t have that many painted British ships. The few I did have were from the ‘standard’ scenarios Hood vs. Bismark, Battle of River Platte, and the few Pacific scenarios I had done. So not enough destroyers or light cruisers and no Queen Elizabeth class: Barham, Warspite ,ect. And I didn’t even own any ships of the Royal Sovereign class. So I started looking on line for a solution and was relieved to see that HMS Rodney had actually been in the Med for a few months in 1941. So then it was a case of just scanning the lists participating ships in the battles that had actually happened…  And then making up something entirely different. Because none of the actual battles really lined up wi...