Recent content by The Chauffeur

so a law student, a chemist, an engineer, and a PHD student in bioengineering got together to play VaS, and naturally some questions were raised.... 1. silhouetting: is there a hard and fast rule to determine silhouetting? some template perhaps? we were about to pull out a protractor but then...

ships can turn after moving half of their desired speed this turn, as opposed to half of their beginning max speed.

thanks all. you can GHQs website for pricing. all those models are still in production AFAIK. they run about 15 bux for the bigger battleships and around 10 or so for the cruisers. smaller ships come in bundles and are cheaper. i think the 5 u boats were like 5 bux. paints were a tamiya...

enjoy! all models GHQ Micronauts

did anyone at the time ever cook up some sort of self-correcting surface skimming torpedo? c

never heard of it. must be some new kali thing. :lol: must be in one of those eastern regions that opened up. i would have liked to have gone out there before it gets all settled... you guys in any wars right now? i think we're going to be heading north soon... :roll:

indie, someone can prolly check me on this, but i believe for the "5 point raid" setup that is sort of the standard around here you can get a KM Bismarck class and a KM Adm. Hipper class, and also have it be historically accurate. a counter would prolly be one of the not-iowa class US ships...

hey burger, i just saw your sig and put 2 and 2 together. i'm in F-OFF/EXE down in Esoteria. what corp are you in? 8)

as a general question, how much less likely were you to hit a target if you set your torpedos 3 or 4 meters lower in the water? assuming choppy conditions. was it a valid counter or a waste of a torpedo?

i guess it depends on what's in your X and Y turrets. i think as long as you're bigger than the other guy it is. still the whole maneuver seems more of a WW1 / sino-japanese thing than a valid WW2 tactic. when my nagato hit the iowa with full broadsides it wasn't as effective simply because...

well a torpedo obviously doesn't care if it;s day or night, but the fire control officer will. i would say the usual night time modifiers ought to apply. as for bad weather, i definitely think choppy weather would mess up a torpedo, but on the same token, it's going to make the target less...

i never learned to read... :(

nez, assuming you draw a line from center to center, if that line hits the target in it's port or starboard firing arc, we've (me and the dudes i'm playing here) counted it as a beam shot. in practice, last night the nagato made a 1 pt turn to port, and the iowa, which had been pointed right...

that's hazy. here's one. when a ship is crippled and you're rolling to eliminate traits, do you roll to eliminate the "weak" trait on a particular gun? obviously it doesn't make sense to make a weak gun not weak due to damage, but by the letter of the rules this is hat you have to do...

will Mongoose release a .pdf file with explanations of any misprints, typos, incorrect stats, and maybe some rules clarifications that have popped up since the rulebook's release? something like the "lessons from the front" for flames of war? it's difficult to search around the forums and try...