Recent content by jbickley00

One thing about WWI is that ships move in formations, and a lot of ship movment is really just follow the leader. It makes things move faster, particularrly as these are WWI destroyers and tend to die much quicker than thier WWII counterparts. Still, it should be noted that Jutland was a...

It can only be Cutter's Goose, flown by Jake Cutter. I used to be a huge Tales of the Gold Monkey fan. well someone already got the Kudos. Bummer

again with the question of what scale are these ships? 1/3000 or 1/6000? Canadian ships are really American ships, btw, since the Canadian Dollar is worth more now, the Canadians get subsumed into the whole America thing. Besides we player better Hockey Here in southern california.

what scale are these? Now, resolution of the english ship issue by an American: And really if they were built in england, they might be english ships, on the other hand if they were built in scotland or Ireland they would have been Scotish or Irish Ships. On the otherhand, if they were...

I have the pearl harbor fleets for both the US and the Japs in 1:6000. Coral Sea/Midway may be my next investment. I really do love this scale.

nice work, what scale are these?

Well e-mail me a play test copy and I'll see for myself. :)

I concurr that squadron rules are essential. One key difference between the wars is command, control and communications. WWI ships moved and fought in formations. At a minimum, ships should be forced inot squadrons and all ships in a squadron deploy off the flagship. Ships not in squadron...

Well it might have been for me John! I won't be down this saturday as you know, but I am down in SD next weekend. Maybe we can have a rematch, my dice will be better this time. Put John down as a possible play tester for WWI as well, he would be an invaluable contributor. Now back to your...

I'd love to playtest a WWI version as well. These rules are pretty good, my only comment would be after about 1917, the gunnery rages went way up, especially as elevation was added to turrets. Some guns had extreme ranges of 39,000 yards. While its doubtful that range fingers of the day would...

If nobody as mentioned it, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Midway (which is most of us). It re-examines the battle and sheds a lot of illumination on the Japanese carrier force. Its about the best 26 bucks you can spend right now.

There are paint chips for the US availble, and GHQ has some paints formulated to match. Some manufacturer's even make paints for each of the Japanese shipyard's different grey's. for my own minis, I try to punch up my approximations a bit, as I use 1:6000 scale. I find I use a shade or two...

Well, the painters guide notwithstanding, officially, based on the navy schemes, in 1942, the Yorktown wore MS-12. Under MS-12, officially, Carrier flight decks and submarine decks, though made of wood, were not deck blue. http://www.shipcamouflage.com/measure_12.htm The Enterprise, in 1941...

The Ship camoflage link will answer all your questions. In general carrier flight decks were left unpainted. It seems, for a period in 1944, that the carriers used a dazzle pattern (the 30 series meansures) which may have called for painted decks. It looks like 1945 saw a return to unpainted...

Well I have got the ships in 1/6000th scale! When the WWI version of VaS comes out, maybe we should have a SOTHCON in Utah! We'll need a few admirals, hower, as Jutland would be mind numbing without them. At a minimum we would need four, but really four per side would be best! Just kick me...