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At least it’s not just me not spotting them. Nothing to stop us adding fast to appropriate vehicles, I suppose!

M18 in the RB – yes, but no…. its an downgrade (armour) to the M10 with the option to take recce

Has fast – Nope

Is the M18 Hellcat in the basic book? That’s just about the fastest WW2 tank, so if that doesn’t have FAST, then I don’t know what would.

Looks like they’ve left allocation ‘fast’ to the upcoming Armies of books.

Some play testing is being conducted on a proposed change to flights.

Then it needs to be submitted to WL for a green light, so until we hear from them it might not go ahead.

Thank you Stuart 🙂

4.5″ unless it’s recce – nothing in the pinning rules suggests any increase over the normal reverse speed.  If it’s recce, since it has to move as fast as possible it would have to reverse at full advance speed, or run speed if it has dual direction steering (or a similar rule).  You can also confirm in the recce rule, p150 – para starting “When r…[Read more]

Thanks for the update Nat.

Any news on the planned expansion mentioned above please?

Ok… rabbit hole time… Rules (even house rules) have to be playable or be the difficulty setting of a scenario.  Also VaS is at its core a historical system so any rules need a grounding in historical fact.

Now forget Hollywoods visuals of minelaying.. its a LOT more complicated than just chucking a mine off the back of a moving ship.  It b…[Read more]

I think one could go a bit further than that (since it is a house-rule atm anyway).

In terms of Combat I can imagine 3 working scenarios within this game system:

– Offensive Minelaying – Block enemy shipping routes (Use the available Vessels/Aircraft to deploy mines in enemy waters and retreat[lay 4 mine marker in the enemy half of the…[Read more]

So….
A) – VaS is a simple game not a simulation .. therefore I’d go like Depth Charges, a single profile for all mines.

Now a startings of a nice easy approach..
laying mines in combat isnt something you’d do… its too risky! you cant anchor them well enough and they become a risk to you… so to that end.

Ships that carried mines get a new…[Read more]

After sorting my ideas a bit,  I have compiled a list of all Aspects that might interact with existing rules.

A) Equipment – (Shipclasses with Mines/ Number of Mines/ Type of mines/ Points for equipping)

B) Scenario Goals and Descriptions/ Victory-conditions

C) Mechanics for Shipdeployment

D) Mechanics for Minelaying

E) Mechanics for…[Read more]

So checked and updated the SHIPS 1.5 costs, this meant double checking a lot of the Rulebook entries – so another Wardroom Errata

As before, nothing about flights or carriers,

Noting about scenario ships (Dutch ships from the battle of Java Sea) or the expanded RNN or VMF lists – they’ll be done at a later time.

Indeed, they were written to add jeopardy to the SS Ohio but not make it impossible for the Allied player to win the scenario.