This is a work in progress and abstract in some terms ( historically) for the sake of gameplay this might be able to be revised to do a malta type battle as well.
There is 2 player sides UK vs Germany as well as a neutral Norway that will come into play. The UK and Germany will each have 200 pts they must select those 200 pts from the Battle of narvik (1 and 2) as well as the ships involved in the operation. Some units such as air can be selected as long as the air year limit matches (1940 and older).
This is my fragmented OOB (a more complete one would be useful)
Germany
14dd’s, 6 cruisers, pocket BB, 2 BB’s
including
Karl Galster
Hans Lüdemann
Gneisenau
Scharnhorst
deutchland?
karlsruhe, blucher
U-64
u25
u46
u48
u51
UK
Warspite
Renown
sub truant
Glowworm
4x tribal (cossack)
Aircraft carrier furious CVE
swordfish
x 5 DD hotspur and hardy
Norway
Eidsvold and norge each represented by a Vainomenen proxy.
and a oscarborg fortress proxy/unit if you can put one together.
If you want to use other norwegian units (there were some DD’s used) you may do so but deploy them similarly and spread them out the same.
The norwegian BB’s deploy in the center of the map evenly spread out they don’t move and each player can fire them at the opposing fleet once per turn (like how you would normally control a ships guns).
The UK fleet starting point is on the square A1 and the Germany starting point is on the square G1 (yes the same side of the map!) the fleets don’t deploy there but use those squares as the first point of movement when moving there ships on the first turn and placing them on the map.
If you use an oscarborg deploy it on the other side of the map on D11.
The object of the game is to get your ships to the other side of the map which represents the land areas of Norway that you are trying to invade. Just like how each german warship carried troops for the invasion each ship both UK and german upon reaching the square row 11 (the last water row on the map) may instead of moving declare that they are deploying there invasion forces for a total of 20 victory points per ship doing so. The nation that has the most victory points occupies Norway and wins the match.
Because of the deployment the 2 sides will be fighting each other while racing to get to norway first to occupy it and will come across the norwegian fleet that each of them will be able to use (the weapons on them) to attack the other, it should make for some interesting dynamics and hopefully a good game.