November/december 1940, Allied impulse number 3.
Now where are those rains, storms, blizzards and snow when you need them? Bright shiny november weather! That's awful and not good at all. Churchill thinks about firing his weathermen...
The CW and the US take combined actions, the USSR a land and the French a naval action.
During naval movement, the CW slips a cruiser into the Cape St. Vincent (and hope it will survive, so the land units in Morocco will again be in supply). HMS Warspite leads the Home Fleet into the Faroes Gap, hoping to catch the old German BB's and the AMPH there. If they find the enemy, they will blow those relics out of the water...
Time for some music. Here is: In The Blue Of Evening, played by Tommy Dorsey and sung by Frank Sinatra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgi3Tk2Gue0
The French also sails a cruiser into the Cape St. Vincent...
Does the CW wants to initiate combat in the Faroes Gap? Of course! They even fly another Swordfish NAV into the area. Now for the search rolls. Hmmm. Fine november weather, clear skies, but the ocean is very, very big. Search rolls are a 5 for the Allies and an 8 for the Axis. No revenge possible here...
Of course the Allies don't want to fight in the Cape Verde Bassin and the Cape St. Vincent. But in the Italian Coast, the French SUB wants to see if it can do anything against Italian shipping there.
But again, search rolls don't initiate a naval combat (boring...).
Next, the Germans are asked if they want to initiate combat in the Cape St. Vincent. Of course! Admiral Lütjens did received unconfirmed reports of Allied shipping in the area and his big guns are hungry for more Allied cruisers. And with the nice november weather you can see very far on top of the mast of the Bismarck...
However, it is the Caïro who spots the lone Königsberg. And a moment later, the look out from that ship spots the Montcalm coming from the other side. A gun battle starts:
