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4.5″ unless it’s recce – nothing in the pinning rules suggests any increase over the normal reverse speed.  If it’s recce, since it has to move as fast as possible it would have to reverse at full advance speed, or run speed if it has dual direction steering (or a similar rule).  You can also confirm in the recce rule, p150 – para starting “When r…[Read more]

Thanks for the update Nat.

Any news on the planned expansion mentioned above please?

Ok… rabbit hole time… Rules (even house rules) have to be playable or be the difficulty setting of a scenario.  Also VaS is at its core a historical system so any rules need a grounding in historical fact.

Now forget Hollywoods visuals of minelaying.. its a LOT more complicated than just chucking a mine off the back of a moving ship.  It b…[Read more]

I think one could go a bit further than that (since it is a house-rule atm anyway).

In terms of Combat I can imagine 3 working scenarios within this game system:

– Offensive Minelaying – Block enemy shipping routes (Use the available Vessels/Aircraft to deploy mines in enemy waters and retreat[lay 4 mine marker in the enemy half of the…[Read more]

So….
A) – VaS is a simple game not a simulation .. therefore I’d go like Depth Charges, a single profile for all mines.

Now a startings of a nice easy approach..
laying mines in combat isnt something you’d do… its too risky! you cant anchor them well enough and they become a risk to you… so to that end.

Ships that carried mines get a new…[Read more]

After sorting my ideas a bit,  I have compiled a list of all Aspects that might interact with existing rules.

A) Equipment – (Shipclasses with Mines/ Number of Mines/ Type of mines/ Points for equipping)

B) Scenario Goals and Descriptions/ Victory-conditions

C) Mechanics for Shipdeployment

D) Mechanics for Minelaying

E) Mechanics for…[Read more]

So checked and updated the SHIPS 1.5 costs, this meant double checking a lot of the Rulebook entries – so another Wardroom Errata

As before, nothing about flights or carriers,

Noting about scenario ships (Dutch ships from the battle of Java Sea) or the expanded RNN or VMF lists – they’ll be done at a later time.

Indeed, they were written to add jeopardy to the SS Ohio but not make it impossible for the Allied player to win the scenario.

Thank you. You did some great work with that scenario! I checked the mine-rules in the szenario.

In case some people read this without knowing the szenario here is the mine-related rules:

“After deployment, the Axis player may deploy up to six mine tokens (these should be no more than 2″ in diameter). These may not be deployed within 3” of…[Read more]

So… are there rules for minefields – no

However the only down side would be that a ship is only the bridge – each 1″ of table is 1000 yards of real world, so it would be easy for ships to sail round.  For scenarios they yeah its diffidently something that can be expanded.  (Currently a couple of us are concentrating on trying to tighten up t…[Read more]

3 Boxes of Iron Brigade on pre-order.  Thank you Warlord Games.  Looks like they are resin, too. (which I prefer).

Just want to admit that rolling for cover gives a better “feeling” for the defender. You can “defend” and not just get shoot at. Other setting for the mind 😉