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She was launched in June 1917 and commissioned in March 1919. She was armed with a battery of twelve 14” guns in four turrets and was protected with heavy armour plate (13.5” thick in the main belt).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the 20s and 30s, Idaho spent the majority of her time as part of the Pacific Fleet, conducting routine training exercises. She was modernised in the early 30s. During World War II, but before the United States’ entry into hostilities, she was assigned to join the Neutrality Patrols that protected American shipping during the Battle of the Pacific. Following the attack on Pearl Harbour, she was redeployed to the Pacific Theatre, along with her sister ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the remainder of the war she supported amphibious operations in the Pacific, shelling Japanese forces during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and Philippines campaigns. She also supported the invasions of Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Idaho was present in Tokyo Bay when Japan formally surrendered on 2 September 1945. Idaho was decommissioned the next year and dismantled in 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContains one ship in Resin and Warlord Resin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003eModels supplied unassembled and unpainted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warlord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31965564698704,"sku":"742412052","price":20.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/0949\/4864\/products\/742412052-Victory-at-Sea-USS-Idaho1.jpg?v=1654864118"},{"product_id":"victory-at-sea-bismarck","title":"Victory at Sea: Bismarck","description":"[countdown]2020\/08\/29 0:0:00[\/countdown]\n\u003cp\u003eTwo Bismarck-class battleships were built for the Kriegsmarine. Bismarck was the first, named for the Chancellor (Otto von Bismarck). The battleship was laid down in July 1936 and launched February 1939. She and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were two of the largest battleships built by any European power, and certainly the largest built by Germany. Whilst the physical power they held was tremendous, they also wreaked psychological havoc amongst the allies. Churchill was determined that the two battleships not be let loose upon the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBismarck's career, however, was woefully short, spanning just eight months under a single Captain, Ernst Lindeman. During this time, she only took part in a single offensive action that lasted just eight days in May 1941. This operation, codenamed Rheinübung, was to attempt what the Allies feared, a breakthrough to the Atlantic and raid allied shipping efforts between Britain and North America (along with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two vessels were detected multiple times off Scandinavia, prompting Britain to initiate naval blocking maneuvers. The resultant battle, the Battle of the Denmark Strait, saw the British vessels HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales engage the two vessels. Hood was destroyed for her efforts and Prince of Wales suffered damage, forcing a retreat. However, Bismarck had suffered damage significant enough to put an end to her raiding mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimping for occupied France for repairs, Bismarck was pursued by a Royal Navy set on retribution for the sinking of HMS Hood. She was attacked by 16 Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers deployed by HMS Ark Royal. A direct hit rendered Bismarck's steering gear inoperable. The following morning, she suffered crippling damage in a battle against two British battleships and two cruisers. 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They were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed; armed with nine 18.1” Type 94 main guns – the largest guns ever mounted on a warship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe battleship’s design was an answer to the numerically dominant US Navy – Imperial Japan’s primary threat in the Pacific. Though laid down in 1937 the battleship was not actually commissioned until late 1941, a week after fated attack on Pearl Harbour. She served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet. It was from her bridge that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto directed the fleet at Midway in June 1942, though this proved a disastrous defeat for the Japanese. She was thereafter replaced by the Musashi as flagship and spent the larger part of 1943 and 44 moving between ports in a responsive role.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 1944 was the only occasion on which Yamato fired her main guns in anger, at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Yamato had been tasked with repelling American forces invading the Phillipines. Though success lay within Japanese grasp, such was the ferocity of a counterattack of a light escort carrier group of the U.S. Navy’s Task Force 77 that the Japanese enacted a retreat, falsely believing they faced a much larger carrier force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy early in 1945, Naval superiority in the Pacific belonged firmly to the US Navy. In an effort to delay the Allies’ advance, Yamato was dispatched to Okinawa in April 1945, with no expectation to ever return. Her orders were to beach herself and fight until destroyed. This was not allowed to occur when, on 7 April 1945 when she was sunk by US carrier-based bombers and torpedo bombers, with the loss of the majority of her complement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContains one ship in Resin and Warlord Resin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003eModels supplied unassembled and unpainted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warlord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31965634199632,"sku":"742411050","price":20.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/0949\/4864\/products\/742411050-Victory-at-Sea-Yamato1.jpg?v=1654864127"},{"product_id":"victory-at-sea-hms-warspite","title":"Victory at Sea: HMS Warspite","description":"[countdown]2020\/08\/29 0:0:00[\/countdown]\n\u003cp\u003eHMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Built during the early 1910s, she served in the First World War, including at the Battle of Jutland. Modernized in the 1930s, she went on to serve in the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarspite was part of the Norwegian campaign of 1940 and subsequently was transferred to the Mediterranean, squaring off in fleet actions against the Italian Regia Marina. During the Battle of Crete in mid-1941 she suffered damage from enemy German aircraft and spent 6 months under repair in the US. These repairs were completed shortly after US entry into the war, and she set sail across the Pacific to join the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean in early 1942.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe returned home in 1943 to provide gunfire support as part of Force H in the Italian campaign. She again suffered damage, this time at the hand of radio-controlled glider bombs, during the landings at Salerno. She spent almost another year under repair as a result.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore her repairs were fully completed, she was back at sea, providing fire support the next year, supporting the Normandy landings and on Walcheren Island in 1944. These actions earned her the recognition of being the ship with the most battle honours in the history of the Royal Navy, and also accorded her the affectionate nickname, the \"Grand Old Lady\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the conclusion of war, she was decommissioned, and ran aground under tow in 1947. She was broken up shortly after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContains one ship in Resin and Warlord Resin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003eModels supplied unassembled and unpainted\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warlord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31965648355408,"sku":"742412011","price":20.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/0949\/4864\/products\/742412011-Victory-at-Sea-HMS-Warspite1.jpg?v=1654864108"},{"product_id":"victory-at-sea-uss-missouri","title":"Victory at Sea: USS Missouri","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnly the mighty \u003cem\u003eYamato \u003c\/em\u003edisplaced more than the massive, yet very fast, Iowa-class battleships. The last battleship to be commissioned by the USA, USS \u003cem\u003eMissouri\u003c\/em\u003e known as the ‘Mighty Mo’ acted as venue for the Japanese surrender in WWII. Iowa-class ships saw service far beyond the Second World War and were upgraded with modern electronics, weapons systems and cruise missiles – USS \u003cem\u003eMissouri\u003c\/em\u003e was finally decommissioned in 1992 after a distinguished career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003eModels supplied unassembled and unpainted \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warlord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32774718718032,"sku":"742412050","price":20.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/0949\/4864\/products\/742412050-Victory-at-Sea----USS-Missouri-19442.jpg?v=1654864120"},{"product_id":"victory-at-sea-uss-northampton-1942","title":"Victory at Sea USS Northampton 1942","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe lead of her class, she was initially classified as a light cruiser because for relatively thin armour but was later reclassified to a heavy cruiser owing to her 8-inch guns. 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Towards the end of this engagement, Northampton was struck by two torpedoes and was sunk, though most of her crew survived and were rescued and picked up by Task Force 67.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis cruiser can also be found in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.warlordgames.com\/products\/battle-for-the-pacific-victory-at-sea-starter-game?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=e162afd8f\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eBattle for the Pacific Victory at Sea starter set\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003eModels supplied unassembled and unpainted \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warlord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32775149781072,"sku":"745102012","price":16.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/0949\/4864\/products\/745102012-Victory-at-Sea-USS-Northampton-1942_1.jpg?v=1626049824"},{"product_id":"victory-at-sea-uss-indianapolis-1944","title":"Victory at Sea USS Indianapolis 1944","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Portland-class heavy cruiser, Indianapolis served as flagship for Admiral Raymond Spruance in 1943 and 1944 as he commanded the actions of the fifth fleet in the central pacific. She was ever-present in supporting the Island Hopping Campaigns of the Marianas and later supported the invasion of Okinawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e It was Indianapolis in July 1945 which secretly transported parts of ‘Little Boy’, the first nuclear weapon used in combat, to the USAAF base on Tinian. The same month, whilst on training exercises in the Philippines, she was struck and sunk by a torpedo from Japanese sub,\u003cem\u003e I-58\u003c\/em\u003e. 890 survivors faced four days of exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning and shark attacks before rescue, leading to only 316 survivors. This marks the single greatest loss of life from a single ship in the history of the US Navy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis cruiser can also be found in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.warlordgames.com\/products\/battle-for-the-pacific-victory-at-sea-starter-game?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=e162afd8f\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eBattle for the Pacific Victory at Sea starter set\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003eModels supplied unassembled and unpainted \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warlord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32775226261584,"sku":"745102011","price":16.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/0949\/4864\/products\/745102011-Victory-at-Sea-USS-Indianapolis-1944-3.jpg?v=1626049825"},{"product_id":"victory-at-sea-uss-chicago-1942","title":"Victory at Sea USS Chicago 1942","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Northampton-class vessel, Chicago served in the Pacific during the early years of World War Two. 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However, she came under attack by aircraft launched from the carrier USS \u003cem\u003eTiconderoga\u003c\/em\u003e, rolling over and sinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis cruiser can also be found in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.warlordgames.com\/products\/battle-for-the-pacific-victory-at-sea-starter-game?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=e162afd8f\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eBattle for the Pacific Victory at Sea starter set\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"\u003eModels supplied unassembled and unpainted \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warlord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32775283638352,"sku":"745101012","price":16.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/0949\/4864\/products\/745101012-Victory-at-Sea-Kumano-1944-1.jpg?v=1626049826"},{"product_id":"victory-at-sea-furutaka-1939","title":"Victory at Sea Furutaka 1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFurutaka\u003c\/em\u003e was the lead of her two-ship class of heavy cruiser. 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