New Special Actions?

[shadowbloodmoon]

I was reading my rulebook the other day and noticed something:

On page 5, where it talks about the movement phase, it mentions Special actions, and I quote (emphasis mine):

However, there are a range of Special Actions players can attempt instead of moving normally, from forcing an enemy ship to surrender to cranking up the engines in order to increase speed.

In the Special Actions section, Stand Down and Prepare to be Boarded (as it is in ACTA) is not on the list of available SAs.

Was this an oversight when the rules were converted over or will that action be available in the future? Such a thing would be great for an Age of Sail conversion too, but I digress...

 

[DM]

Its not really relevant to the period. The number of occasions where it happened (at least involving the types of ships covered in the main in VAS) were extremely limited.

 

[resQscooter]

Sounds OK to me... lets see, if I roll a 12 I can "force" your Iowa to surrender... :lol:

 

[Burger]

Rolling 12 on a D6 may well be the easiest way to defeat an Iowa... other than setting a Yamato against it, of course!