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High Flying Dice Games Fires a Salvo with Mediterranean Fury: The Battle of Cape Matapan

Feb 21, 2013

Now available for order from High Flying Dice Games is Mediterranean Fury: The Battle of Cape Matapan and those who dig naval wargames (like myself) should take notice. The game is for two players and simulates the 1941 battle which saw the forces of the British Royal Navy take on those of the Italian Regia Marina with the fate of Greece and, possibly, the entire Mediterranean hanging in the balance. Mediterranean Fury can be had with mounted counters for $17.95.

From HFD Games:

Mediterranean Fury: The Battle of Cape Matapan is a wargame simulation on the naval action that occurred near Crete during World War II. The game design is and highly playable, yet one that portrays the historical challenges facing the combatants.

Goaded by their German Allies into taking some sort of action to disrupt the British reinforcements being rushed to Greece, and smarting from the humiliation of the British air raid a few months earlier at Taranto, the Italian fleet set sail on March 27, 1941. Italian Admiral Iachino sought to intercept the British reinforcement convoys east of Crete. Admiral Cunningham, alerted to the Italian fleet’s sortie, set sail to do battle. The resultant clash off of Greece’s Cape Matapan on the 28th would be the only time the Italian Navy challenged the English for control of the Middle Sea. It would also be the last time the Royal Navy would do battle on the high seas with an enemy fleet.

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