Torpedo Rules

I had a question specifically about Long-Lance torpedoes.

In the beginning of the section for the IJN fleet, it says that “Any ship with the Slow-Loading trait for their Long-Lance torpedoes may only reload them once during the entire battle” (pg 233). How is this different from Slow-Loading for other torpedoes? Slow-Loading trait specifically says that “Ships with Slow-Loading torpedoes may only reload once, after which they may no longer be used” (pg 49).

I guess what I’m asking is why this needs to be called-out specifically for Long-Lances when it has already been defined.

@Shrokins – Correct

@Peter – because the way the rules are written you have an extreme range on all weapons, and all other bands are derived from that…. and like in real life weapons have a theoretical range than is far longer than the effective range. (Ie an infantrymans rifle… used at ranges 3-400m’s … can in theory hit a human sized target at 8-900, but anything beyond 600 requires a very good shot IIRC)

I’d say torpedoes are the deadliest weapon in the game! I think if you play a few matches you’ll see that ships can and do close to short range, especially destroyers, and that devastation results. Destroyers and cruisers can torpedo a battleship or fleet carrier off the table in a single attack. Ignore torpedoes at your fleet’s peril!

Love how someone has looked at the rules and gone useless here yet in the wardroom people are going they need nerfing as they are too deadly!

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I’d say torpedoes are the deadliest weapon in the game! I think if you play a few matches you’ll see that ships can and do close to short range, especially destroyers, and that devastation results. Destroyers and cruisers can torpedo a battleship or fleet carrier off the table in a single attack. Ignore torpedoes at your fleet’s peril!

Agreed. Torpedoes are the reason why the Mogami-class cruisers in the starter cost more than twice as much as USS Portland. No, you shouldn’t necessarily rely on a torpedo hit. But your opponent *cannot* afford to ignore the possibility that one of your destroyers will slip through his screen and get off a successful torpedo shot against one of his capitol ships. Because if that happens, it’s gonna hurt.

I do think the torpedo rules are missing a +1 bonus of British air dropped torpedoes, British torpedo bombers used a wire real that resulted in a consistent level drop, virtually every photo has had this edited out to maintain secrecy, which allowed for a 50%+ hit rate a Toronto compared to the much lower rate at pearl harbour by the Japanese. Pearl Harbour with British tech would have been much deadlier and that’s before you add British doctrine which would have forced the US back to San-Francisco for a significant period.