Recent content by Bullshot

Go to your local FLGS or handy, dandy card collecting store and buy a pack of top loaders. They are only about $3-4 a pack for 20. They will be hard and clear. Lay one over your turn key and trace the turn key on the top loader with a permanent marker. It may not look as great as one printed...

Just copy the template onto some acetate an it works great for either direction. That is what I did and it works just fine. BS

Since SA's happen first, you would place your smoke counter (cotton, etc) with leading edge on the center point of the ship making smoke. Then you move the ship, leaving the smoke where it is. BS

Well, keep in mind that crossing the T is more of an age of sail tactic. By turning your broadside across the bow of an enemy ship, you had a great profile on his sailing rig. Eliminating the running gear on a ship would leave it dead in the water and the the other ship can finish it off at...

*BUMP* Still no answers from Mongoose on this one?

Actually, I wasn't thinking in terms of the Civil War, but those are prime examples. The one I was thinking of pre-dates those. It was the Turtle. http://www.historycentral.com/NAVY/MISC%202/turtle.html I was wrong on the spar apparatus for it though. It had a makeshift torpedo that had to...

Actually, they did, in a sense. The first incarnations of subs weren't fully submersible. They skimmed along with the very top of the ship 'level' with the top of the water. The ship had a long spar with a powder keg on it. You rolled up to the ship, stuck the spar in it, lit the fuse and...

I bought some of the GHQ planes to try and make 'flights' with them, but they are just too small. Looking at them, I am having a hard time trying to ID the different planes. I am think ing of going with 1/600 scale planes to represent a flight. I also have some aircraft rules that I need...

Torpedos are fired during a ship's activation, but the AD and DD aren't resoved until the end of the turn. Torpedo fire isn't resolved like main gun fire. It has some 'travel time'. So, a normal torpedo would be fired on the ship's activation, but resolved in the end phase of that turn. A...

We have good luck locally using the Battle of the Denmark Strait scenario from the VaS book. For it, you will need HMS Hood, HMS Prince of Wales, the Bismark and the Prinz Eugene. Big guns and good ranges, plus the ships can take some hits. Most folks that are remotely familiar with WW2 naval...

Given the scale of the game and simplicity of the rules, I don't think it would add enough to the game to justify the added complexity. It would be yet one more thing to keep track of. BS

I took it to mean any combination of 3 flights attacking, so you can have 1 torpedo run and 2 dive bombing runs, 3 torp runs, 3 bomb runs, etc. BS

On the battleship and carrier mentality, keep in mind that, at least in the beginning, the carrier was not seen as the centerpiece of the fleet as it is now. It was dropped in the water to protect and escort the battleship. As the war progressed and the power that aircraft possessed was...

Sent you a PM with pics I found. Let me know if that is what you are looking for. I will need to have a copy of my VaS book to keep looking since I am not all that familiar with RN ship classes and I don't know what ones are in the VaS book as of yet. BS

Glad I could drag up some good ol memoreies for ya! I don't think I can really comprehend a game that takes an entire parking lot to play in. Might be interesting, though. BS