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I just wonder do people have any particular ships they fear/loath to be seen being put on the opposite side of the board. Obviously there is the big boys like Yamato or the Iowa's but anything else where people have had repeated bad experiences?

Personally its the Italian Ciao Duilio battleships (don't laugh) which have repeatedly cut a swathe through by cruiser and just as regularly refused to DIE LIKE THE PASTA EATING DOGS THAT THEY ARE!!!!!!!!!!

I welcome hearing from others.

Now excuse me while I go get my medication :D
 
RN JKN's are very hard to hit and if they get close, they pack one heck of a torpedo punch!

I try to play RN as often as I can!
 
I tend to hate seeing French or Italian fleets. . . I always feel bad obliterating them with hardly any effort. :)
 
I hate the French aircraft carrier!

One game I played my opponent fielded ten of them!

The sight of my battleships running away from a pack of aircraft carriers if crazy.

Why did they run away?

Because not only did I have all the aircraft to contend with but the carriers have torpedoes!

Roland
 
hyndridge said:
I hate the French aircraft carrier!

One game I played my opponent fielded ten of them!

The sight of my battleships running away from a pack of aircraft carriers if crazy.

Why did they run away?

Because not only did I have all the aircraft to contend with but the carriers have torpedoes!

Roland
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If we are talking the Bearn here, strike one for cheeesy choice fleet of the year so far, perhaps we should have a new thread entitled Fleets of pure Cheese where people can post the flleets they have come up against where reality and good sportsmanlike choice has taken a back seat to winning at all costs in a freindly game
 
juggler69uk said:
hyndridge said:
I hate the French aircraft carrier!

One game I played my opponent fielded ten of them!

The sight of my battleships running away from a pack of aircraft carriers if crazy.

Why did they run away?

Because not only did I have all the aircraft to contend with but the carriers have torpedoes!

Roland
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If we are talking the Bearn here, strike one for cheeesy choice fleet of the year so far, perhaps we should have a new thread entitled Fleets of pure Cheese where people can post the flleets they have come up against where reality and good sportsmanlike choice has taken a back seat to winning at all costs in a freindly game
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Unfortunately there are quite a few people like that around, mainly from a GW or DBM background.

We now restrict each player to the number of ships named in the book.

Roland
 
Wow, and to think I keep a spreadsheet to make sure I don't have more of any type of ship than actually existed.

10 of a single-class aircraft carrier, that's hilarious.
 
Bostich said:
Wow, and to think I keep a spreadsheet to make sure I don't have more of any type of ship than actually existed.

10 of a single-class aircraft carrier, that's hilarious.
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It was a tournament I ran and because I didn't state in the rule pack and it doesn't mention it in the rule book I couldn't stop him using ten Bearn Class A/C.

He won't be welcome at any other tournaments we run!

Roland
 
hyndridge said:
It was a tournament I ran and because I didn't state in the rule pack and it doesn't mention it in the rule book I couldn't stop him using ten Bearn Class A/C.
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Hi guys,

Just a quickie here - we don't limit it in the rulebook, because this really should be a player's own choice. Does he go with pure historical fleets, or does he play around with the what-ifs. . .

I like a few what-if games from time-to-time, or even 'general melees', but it does not always work in a tournament setting. We tend to place a few limits on what is possible for our own tournaments and, indeed, you can use such rules to shape the games towards certain types of battle or certain periods of the war - then it becomes all part of the fun.
 
I personally fear the French fleet in general... mostly cause the french are crazy in there ship design (look at the Mogador, and the Richelieu class). The just don't play by the same rules that everybody else does.
 
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