The Naval SITREP: The Journal of the Admiralty Trilogy Game System released issue #66 in April 2024. The Naval SITREP is the “house rag” from Admiralty Trilogy Games that supports the various naval wargames in their “expanded” trilogy of titles that include:
- Dawn of the Battleship: Tactical Naval Warfare 1890-1904
- Fear God and Dread Nought: Tactical Naval Warfare 1906-1925
- Command at Sea: War at Sea 1926-1955
- Harpoon V: Modern Tactical Naval Combat 1955-2020.
The Naval SITREP #66 is a 32-page digital magazine that sells for a whole $3.00. This focus navy of this issue is the Republic of Korea Navy.
For myself, I have a deep personal connection to the ROK Navy. I was but a young Lieutenant (junior grade) when I first landed in South Korea in 1992 for an assignment with the Combined Forces Command / U.S. Forces Korea working alongside counterparts from the ROK Navy. Looking at the ships in Annex A for the ROK Navy, an overwhelming majority of the ship and submarine classes presented entered service after my first landing in Seoul. Much like South Korea has changed over the past three decades, so has its navy.
While the news from North Korea these days is dominated by threats from nuclear missiles, it is important to remember that the two Korea’s have faced off—violently at times—over the Northern Limit Line.
For those that are interested in gaming out those more naval confrontations, the North Korean Navy was presented in The Naval SITREP #54 in April 2018 with updates in various issues since.
As always, many different articles appear in The Naval SITREP to support the various games of the xTrilogy of games.
Command at Sea
“HMS Aurora’s Final Course in China” is a history of ex-British light cruiser HMS Aurora. Transferred to China after World War II, Chongquing defected to the Chinese Communists in February 1949 during the Civil War. The editors note that this history, based on declassified documents and recollections, may be the first time the story has been told in the West. A Command at Sea Annex A for the ship’s data is provided.
“Command at Sea Scenario: The Battle for Attu” is a scenario that postulates a more aggressive Japanese response than the historical.
Harpoon
“A Missing Cutter” is the Annex A entry for the Marine Protector-class 87-foot cutter that was missed in the data annex America’s Navy.
“Kim’s New Amnok Corvette” is an early look at the North Korean Amnok FFL.
“New Aircraft for Iran” is the Annex B entry for the Yak-130 [Mitten] in Iranian service. “Annex H2 – Iranian Guided Air Ordnance” is also included.
“Harpoon Scenario: Indian Interception” is a hypothetical scenario that sees the United States attempting to supply Pakistan by sea in 1984. Various annexes for Indian ships and aircraft in their 1984 configuration of weapons and sensors are included. A bit annoyingly, a single column of data for South Korea is interspersed here.
“New Aircraft Cards for Persian Incursion” are included. The two small graphics lead into another scenario “Hunting the Bear” which takes place within Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising book timeline. If that is not enough to hook players I don’t know what is!
Across the Trilogy
“Realistic Sighting Reports” is a rule for contact sighting reports aimed at Fear God & Dread Nought and Command at Sea multi-player scenarios.
“Changing EO [Electro-Optical] Notation” is a rules update to clarify describing EO weapons and sensors in Harpoon.
The usual book reviews are presented including Tail Ships: The Hunt for Soviet Submarines in the Mediterranean, 1970-1973 by John Rodgard published by Helion Company and Off Target – America’s Guided Bombs, Missiles, and Drones 1917-1950 by William Wolf from Fronthill.
The product updates section is very exciting with the announcement that High Tide, Second Edition (HT2) is releasing soon. High Tide is a special 1980’s Cold War at Sea module for Harpoon. Given that was the Navy I grew up with, made famous in no small part by Clancy’s books The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising, the title will be an auto-buy for me!
Feature image courtesy ROK Navy
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