IJN torpedoes are made to kill big ships – anything from a CA (heavy cruiser) upwards. They are very good at that. They are not as good at killing DDs and CLs. Guess what the starting set gives the USN? That’s right – heavy cruisers, that are made to be murdered by IJN torps.

The USN (and…[Read more]

7″ Agile move with 2+ armor and light guns makes her an utter terror as a DD leader / killer. Also, she can be followed by 2-3 Long Lance destroyers for a torpedo run on enemy capitals and suffer the…[Read more]

1) If I’m trying to hit a Ship e.g. with the Prinz Eugen with Torpedos at extreme Range (10″ only) I have to roll a impossible 8+ (4 + ‘2’ (extreme Range) + ‘2’ (Torpedo Attack))

So I only get a slight chance to hit if I fire at short Range (5″) by rolling a 6+ (4 + ‘2’ (Torpedo Attack))

Correct?

Yes.

2) In the FAQ is stated that Torpedos can…

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As this reads it is independent of the enemy’s scouting effort – although both sides might claim the same benefit?

Correct

So if I have 3 destroyers off scouting, that’s 3x d6, say I roll a 3, 5, 6 – so I have two scouting points.

Correct

It makes no difference if the enemy has 0 scouts or 10 to my efforts.

Correct

How can scouts mask your own fle…

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You’ve just sprinted your airplanes into the enemy formation to snipe the BB? Say hello to its 5 DD escorts within 9 inches that contribute with an extra 10 DP dice before you can activate your plane attack (and its own Local / dedicated AA).

But now, DP is essentially…[Read more]

that still leaves the question of can you shoot between the smoke template and the bridge of the ship laying it?

Rules as written say “Yes”. Only the smoke token blocks vision, not the ship model.

Not seen the changes to DP guns

Back in the day, most people assumed that DP guns fired with the rest of the AA, after movement and before gunnery.

This is not the case, as the FAQ specified.

DP guns can only engage air targets in the gunnery phase. This means that an incoming airstrike can activate before you get the chance to fire your DP guns…[Read more]

Fan salvoes can hurt if you build your fleet…[Read more]

Which without body blocking, they would currently be 100% unable to do.

And yes, it’s bullshit on the receiving end; but it is also a significant risk on the IJN’s end as well, as it removes a significant part of their torpedo armament for relatively limited success chances, especially if your ships don’t have reloads (e.g. Fubukis)

There has been no official response from Warlord on this question, but Matt has answered it unofficially:

https://www.dakkadakka. com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/786189.page#11002068 (remove the blank space)

Aft of the base. Just pop it behind the ship, nothing complicated should be considered here or, indeed, in any part of the rules -…

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*If* you are using homerules that allow for carrier-based scouting, you typically “burn” any flights used for scouting and use the remaining flights for the game. In this instance, if you had a carrier with a total of 10 flights and sent out 3 to scout, but only got 7 points,…[Read more]

My KGV’s have gone up as well 🙁

It’s just a little 10% bump in price to justify their excellent armor, torpedo defense and AA. If you want to see massive hikes in prices (that are absolutely justified), look at USN ships, and especially their slow BBs.

Before I opened that PDF I was half expecting a shed load of stat changes in which case I p…

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I’m attaching version 1.3.0 – I have version 1.4.0 in the works but on hiatus because I was waiting for Warlord to do something before I wasted any more of my time. After the second FAQ / errata doc was…[Read more]

Let me be as clear as possible: the Warlord-published points lists are garbage.

Going by Warlord points, the supremacy of USN carriers is crushing during any and all time periods, especially if you use a dive-bomber heavy loadout. It’s so imbalanced it’s not even funny. From 1944 onwards there is nothing any of the other nations can bring…[Read more]

In a battle, models can be used to depict the ship at any point during its lifetime. If you have a battle taking…[Read more]

If you want to bring carriers, and operate them efficiently, you have two options:

• Bring several CVLs (Light- and Escort carriers), that have a small number of flights on board that you can launch over 3-4 turns with Scramble! orders active. This makes scouting less important.
• Bring large CVs, accompanied by either lots of…

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There’s reference in the ship lists to certain ships “taking damage as civilian-type” but I can’t find anything in the damage rules that talks about certain ship types taking damage any differently from others.

[Weak] weapons (e.g. typically DD armament and bigger ships’ secondaries) can crit civilian ships. “Taking damage as civilia…[Read more]

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Unryu-class CV
Speed 7″
Armour 2+

36/12 HP

Carrier, Torpedo Belt 2, 14 Flights

Weapons as Sohryu, except Local AA 3
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I really have no idea why the little dragons weren’t included in the base rulebook; we know there’s an expansion…[Read more]

This version involves a massive rebalance of carriers, with a shift towards more cost-effectiveness compared to land-based air and CVs over CVLs.

A splice of homebrew, for those of us who would like to do balanced custom scenarios and competitive play:

I have been working on a massive points rebalance project for VaS, based on mathematical expressions of the ships’ combat capabilities. I’ve used the system to generate a new ship / aircraft point scale for the game, and…[Read more]

Just the AP power, armor and Damage Dice / Critical Hit output is insane.

I don’t know the point cost for Arizona, but if she’s anything like the NewMex she can deal with two of them no problem.

I feel like the rules need more clarification, particularly plane/carrier/ship interactions. Scouting is an awesome idea but needs an update due to the 7 and 10 rungs being game breaking

I have written some homerules for my Pacific campaign which rebalance scouting something fierce, and introduce scouting arcs for planes. Might make them public…[Read more]

If Evade! does not force rerolls vs planes, then it has no downside in that context. Vs ships, you get the -1 to own attacks and inability to launch torps. Vs planes you keep your own AA effectiveness, but force rerolls

Evade is either utterly overpowered vs planes (if forcing reroll, because it’s only positive), or has no effect…[Read more]

In the QSR for aircraft attacking ships, they hit on their own score, no modifiers (only kamikazes say to use them, the others say not to) and evade will still take effect as its any successful attack.

Not exactly true. ‘Any successful attack’ was the wording in beta. ‘All enemy Attack Dice which successfully hit this ship’ is the wording in the…[Read more]

First and foremost – how do Devastating criticals work? The rules state that a critical is <i>scored</i> on a 5 or a 6…

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So my friends will not use smoke in that Situation.

I am very much aware of the ridiculousness of this situation IRL. IRL absurdity is not in question here XD. My point is that it is not clear whether it is illegal per game rules – and, if yes, which particular part of it is illegal.

And my friends want to use smoke in that situation, as cheesy…[Read more]

you’d need 6 DDs to protect all the base…

No, I don’t need any DDs to protect the base. Only one to smoke.

If the bridge of the ship is in smoke, then the ship is un-targetable by any attack. As long as the smoke from the first DD reaches and covers the bridge of the CV, the CV is invisible and invulnerable, unless the enemy has a gunship wit…[Read more]

The bridge of the CV is in the smoke laid by the middle DD and therefore the CV cannot be attacked.

The middle DD is flanked by two evading DDs

The CV cannot fire at anything, because it sees nothing, but that doesn’t matter because she can still launch planes (air ops don’t require line of sight to…[Read more]

CL-wise, Aganos are lovely little darlings (dem Type 93s) but the Leanders come a close second IMHO

CA-wise, not so sure. The USN CAs with their 9 guns and…[Read more]

Does smoke spawn behind the base of a ship or at the bridge?

Can a ship whose bridge is in smoke  (hidden in the smokewall) be attacked by aircraft? Can a ship in smoke fire AA at enemy planes? Can planes in smoke strike ships?

If fighting only enemy planes, what (if anything) is to…[Read more]

Wow, what program are you using in that screenshot? Is that through Tabletop Simulator? Also, look at all those custom planes and hexagonal coastline tiles. That’s impressive.

Everything you see is a physical token. I have made a playing surface and own several fleets (won some in a contest, bought o…[Read more]

Would you have a quote on the Devastating rule change? I would need to give supporting evidence to my players.

Sure, not all DDs had good sonar. Sure, a Clemson probably cannot detect subs that are Running Deep. Sure, Japanese DDs were notoriously bad at detecting subs before a big ship went boom. Sure, I’d be happy to see variation in Sub Hunter availability.

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*Devastating is a prime example of this…. several of us read the different wording to mean the criticals on 5 +6s where auto successful, Matthew pointed out that they still needed confirming!

Wait what.

The starter rulebook and the beta rules explicitly say that Dev weapons score crits on 5 and 6.

companies need to have people who play tabletop games but not involved with play testing the game proof read the book /manuals before they go to print

Could not agree more. There are so many double-readings possible in the current rules…

Personally, I think there should be an official FAQ here, with players submitting potential errata and…[Read more]

@Nat Rules as currently published seem to disagree; I have consulted Matt myself on interpretations in some other cases, but Warlord seems to have balanced the game against original author proposed rules / stats at some points. The ability to premeasure, for instance, which is…[Read more]

“Some scenarios allow carriers in fleets to be placed in deep deployment, keeping them off the table and far away from direct attack. In such a scenario, a player may choose to remove one or more of their carriers from the table before the game starts and place them in deep deployment. ANY NUMBER…[Read more]

Also, land-based scout floatplanes, 5 points for each. Petes are bread-and-butter.

Hi Craig, posted a thread advertising  a new campaign in the Victory at Sea subforum. Included one Youtube link. Thread held for moderation.

Pretty sure that’s rather…strict. o.O

Working with the official, published cards here:

Kongo: 375 points, 8 guns, 1 AD per gun, +1 AP, 2 DD per barrel.

New Mexico: 395 points, 12 guns, 2 AD per gun, +2 AP, 3 DD per barrel.

New Mex also has better armor, more health, more aircraft. The only place where she’s inferior to the Kongo is the speed.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not…[Read more]

If the former, I doubt you can have a historically-true hue for the colours, as all pictures we have of Zuikaku late war are black and white. The pattern itself is documented as you see in my attachment, but it is noted by the artist that at least part of the colours and…[Read more]

If we extrapolate from what we’ve seen in the Leander and the Edinburgh, British CLs are pretty good – their guns are fast-tracking (so excellent vs DDs), and the Leander, with its only 4 AD gets Twin-Link too, which turns her into a DD blender. In test games we’ve played with my posse, Leanders can…[Read more]