Recent content by Faron Bell

See page 13 under "attacking w/ aircraft" "All attacks by aircraft, be it by bomb, torpedo or dogfighting are made at the same time in a turn. A player may nominate all his aircraft to attack instead of a ship at any point in the attack phase." This would indicate that you do resolve all air...

I thought most US DE's had torpedoes???

We used the hitting on 7+ rule in our first game and were satisified the results (so far, anyway)...we had several DD's sunk but they also were able to do some damage as well...seemed balanced.....fb

Australian - Victoria - 1/3000 - N - Jack Tar Belgium - Antwerp - 1/2400 - N - Aldades (Tomsche) Belgium - Antwerp - 1/2400 - N - Arbuthnot Belgium - Limburg - 1/2400 - N - witteridderludo Canada - Saskatoon - 1/2400 - Joe_Dracos FR - Lille/Nord - 1/3000 - Y - Yvon242 Italy - Livorno -...

We are using the CAP AERO 1/1250 airplanes mounted on 20mm sq stands. Two fighters, Dive Bombers or Torpedo planes per stand or one spotter or land based multi-engine bomber per stand. I cut both ends off of a straight pin and drill a small hole in the plane and mount on the stand. The Austin...

We have played that if a fighter is contacted by a fighter and bomber, then the fighter must engage the enemy fighter first - if it survives, then it gets to fire at the enemy bomber. We have also played fighters as having only two bursts/shots of ammo before having to return to the carrier to...

A question for you vet VaS gamers: Have you found that allowing one side or the other to move all of its fighter aircraft at one time puts the player moving second at a huge disadvantage? In smaller games with just one carrier on a side (say maybe 10-15 flights per side), what would be the...

Hmmm...works fine from here....??? fb

Here is a brief AAR on our first try of VaS...very much enjoyed the game....we used some of the David Manley variant rules...the game was well recieved by our club....faron. http://www.lshm.net/?cat=19

I was wondering why the 11" guns on the Pocket Battleships had a shorter range (40") vs. the Scharnhorst (45")? I was thinking that they were the exact same gun? Perhaps the Scharnhorst had better rangefinding gear and was a more stable firing platform? Thanks...just curious....