BuShips wrote:A common agreed point is a good thing, such as bridge or the most forward stack.

Awkward for aircraft carriers, particularly those few without an "island" (though I believe these have yet to be statted for the game)

A dogfight is a quick and nasty affairover in under 10 minutes (I believe the current recking for the length of a turn). Most fighters only carried ammo for around 10 seconds of firing. Even if planes were not shot down they tended to end scatterd over a wide area after the event. IMO whether aircra...

Its true that the force selection process is unrealistic. This is bound to be true for any Historical game, particularly if the points system is a coarse as that provided by priority level system. However, IMO its not a valid argument for introducing different priority levels or even a finer grained...

Its not the table size as much as lifting the models! On a more serious note, we plan on basing my ships on the VaS counters. Hopefully this will enable the mix of models and cards in battles. with the minimum of fuss. It is my intention to use bathroom sealant for the sea effect and usually use PVA...

In practice Itailian air cover came from the shore. The simplest soultion would be to buy German ME109s or FW190s as separate patrol or skirmish choices. It would be good to see stats for other planes sen in the mediterainian theatre (e.g. the Gloster Gladiator, CR42, Macchi C202, Reggiane Re 2001 a...

Since all bombers have one-shot weapons, and no way of reloading even if the did return to the carrier, they basically become useless after their one attack run... Unless you use them to run interference or blocking tactics against opponents aircraft Somthing our group has outlawed for the sake of ...

There was a time, I believe, when Jane's Fighting Ships was the standard first point of reference. I've seen copies covering WWII oin my local library.

Nice report, Interesting result. Did you try using the spotter planes? For the purest these would let you "see" things at the full 45,000 yard range. This battle was supposed to be the more even of the two I suggested and you did get a lucky hit to destroy the Yamamoto prematurely. Looking at the st...

There is a level above war in ACTA, its called Armageddon. The only practical way of dealing with the intermediate levels I can see is to adopt a straight points sytem 1 point patrol ... 4 Skirmish, 8 raid. etc. Poninteing intermediate levels would be easy e.g. 6 points for a level between skirmish ...

As the rules are there is nothing to stop you from maintaing flank speed thoughout the whole game (which most of my destroyers did). Also how should it work for a Navagatori. According to its current stats (8" move) it can get the "fast" bonus without flank speed. Also your battle might suggest that...

Most of these vessels weren't meant to go crossing all over the world and fight against each other; Perhaps true in most cases but there were exceptions. This is particularly important for the Royal Navy of WWI. One of the reasons for the superiority of the German battle crusiers in battle was the ...

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Was this basd on a true historical event? Not exactly a fair scrap based on the priority levels (2 raid and a skirmish vs a skirmish and 3 patrol) but I trust a good time was had by all so not a problem.

I once used bath sealant to create the surface, including the oceans, on a "Planet" as terrain for a space game. A bit expensive perhaps, but if you have some left over why not. Iwill probably try it to base my ships.

If the Kagero fired the torpedoes while on Flank orders, then it takes a -1 to hit -regardless of how fast you're moving...a speed 4 ship moves up to 6 while on flank orders, and stil takes a -1. If the Kageros are on evasive orders when they fire (regardless of wether they are when the torpedoes h...

Couldn't the Iowa hold 35kts? In which case, the Kageros shouldn't have been able to close into torpedo range, as this is their own maximum speed. The Iowa could not flank speed because it was using its special order to create smoke. If it had not done this it would have been hit by further torpedo...

I guess that all trajectories with over a mile range are liable to have a large ballistic element (I think that's about the limit given muzzle velocity and the effect of gravity on the projectile) so this dispersion pattern is likely to be for "ballistic gunnery". One interesting consideration ifs t...

You're on providing we can overcome the pratical difficulties. If this proves impossible we can always fight the same battles and compare battle reports. I'm looking forward to see how you get on with the Iowa / Kagero engagement

Were you taking into account the -1 to hit the Iowa because all of your Kagero's were moving at Flank Speed? (knocking the to hit roll back up to a 4+... No because according to the rules the torpedo runs have a different set on modifiers. Speed is not listed as one of these. This may be an error o...

IJN Carriers
Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, Souryu, Shoho, Zuiho, Rjunyo (or something like) and I know there are others.

IJN Seaplane tender Tone