Some Rule Question

Hi,

i’ve put some player aids in the thread ‘news from the wardroom’ which you may find helpful…

but to answer your questions:

1)you always need a 4 or more after D6 + modifiers, so yes if you have more than 3 negative modifiers over positive its an auto miss (ie the 7+ to hit)
2) yep, 30″ max range against moving targets – 1″ is ~ 1K yards realworld distances… so the 30″ range is the warspites longest range hit on a moving ship
3) yep aircraft X – add all the X’s up then split between scouting and BHA observation (and sub-hunting if you have the rulebook),  for every one assigned to scouting you roll 1 D6
4) in the core rules (what you got with the 2 player set) yes Radar only affects scouting – in the full rule book Radar & Advance Radar have rules that interact with bad weather / night & obscured shooting

5) local AA is used when the flights move & at the start of the gunnery phase not when the ship moves.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by Nat.

A common house rule (which I may put into a Wardroom FAQ) is that base to base is always point blank range irrespective of the actual distance.

Well dont forget that you also half your avalible flank speed* when you do an evade order (so a ship with flank 5 drops to 3) & it also means you are limited to 1 45deg turn (unless agile or you start at speed 7).  It alsom means that unless the ship is a destroyer it cant gain the -1 for speed, so yes you are forcing a re-roll…. but whats better -1 to hit or re-roll hits?  plus  you have the rule Twin linked gives a re-roll & dice can only be re-rolled once (like kamikaze attaks they effectively cancell each other out…or you re-roll every dice).
You’ve halved your speed but you’ve got to get off my board edge…or stop me steaming off yours… how about sailing round the Islands?

plus that -1 to hit means you now cant hit my speed 7 destroyers at short range!

You also cant do another order which means no smoke, no launching /recovering 2 flights on a carrier,  or attempt to extra damage control…

So yes its powerful in a straight up brawl, but it has serious downsides tactically. – try putting some Islands & sand banks on the table, try the different objectives (breakout)

*so after critical effects have been applied

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Nat.

On the note about submarines… they are a class of ship + its a trait.  So the same overlap rules apply to everything with a base….

My point about the objectives is change it up and make it so that going evade all the time puts you at a tactical dis-advantage
maybe  insteand of 3 or 4  Islands put a fair sized land mass in one quarter and an archapelio /sand banks diaganoly across the table with 3-4″ between the inslands /sand banks…

get 10+ scouting points… then deploy your fleet in one corner – and after they’ve deployed move them all the big targets other side of the table so they have to steam towards you!
try some scenarios

There is a …lets say a few…. assumptions made with the writing of the book & one of those is that both players will play with the same mind set and intent.  So if (as you are) you are finding that everyone in your group is just going Evade! order all the time then change it from an automatic order to a Crew Quality check BUT apply the -1 to the ships shooting irrespective of if it passes the CQC.  So if you declear you’re doing an evade order you’ll get the -1 to shooting, but you’ll only get the re-rolls on hits if you pass.

This game was written with some serious limitation on scope of play by the author (I’ve had a couple of disagreements on FB with him over this….) it reads  as if it was written for people who just want to push ships round with a historical mind set going Y is cool i’m taking it NOT the modern type of gamer who will look at the rules and go X is better than Y 90% of the time so why take Y?
Its why there is an 11 page FAQ that doesnt cover 100% of the issues….and needs 5 or 6 of the answeres being fixed!  So because of that you have to use* the rulebook as a framework to tweek to your preferance rather than a proper full on rulebook.

*over in the wardroom we’re putting together a consistent points system so you dont have things like 2 Destroyers with the same stats in the same nation with 2 massively different costs… there is also likely to be a competative play document that will have more missions / map idea, rules & stat tweeks etc etc