And while we are at it, the DD for the B17 is very much over the top. Wouldnt it be “more realistic”, or better playable that the carpet bombs hit better, because they may bombard a greater field. 16DD with heavy are for every ship a death sentence … (statistical 4 to 5 crits, that hurts lots, even on big ships)

Historically, B-17s never succe…[Read more]

The reason why the USN could stay at Pearl Harbor had nothing to do with torpedoes. It’s because the Japanese were focused on crippling the ships, and put less emphasis on the infrastructure – particularly the oil storage tanks. That would have been a dive bomber thing. And the reasons that caused the Japanese to deprioritize the tanks were…[Read more]

I’d say torpedoes are the deadliest weapon in the game! I think if you play a few matches you’ll see that ships can and do close to short range, especially destroyers, and that devastation results. Destroyers and cruisers can torpedo a battleship or fleet carrier off the table in a single attack. Ignore torpedoes at your fleet’s peril…

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In a year, it won’t matter. But it’s a bit…[Read more]

It’s been about a month and a half now since the last release announcement, including the German and British aircraft boxes. I would have expected to see the next release announcement – including aircraft boxes for the US and Japan – to show up by now. Wonder why the delay?

On the positive side, the store page can now be sorted by…[Read more]

My understanding is that ship stats – independent of the cards – can be found in the full rulebook.

I’m pretty sure it should work as it scales up for Korea and potentially could to modern area too.

Early Vietnam, maybe. But I suspect that missiles will kind of throw things off-kilter somewhat once they move beyond the very early heat-seekers. You also need to figure out a system to handle radar both for long-range detection and for r…[Read more]

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On a more serious note, I second the comment made by Hobbs. The Atlanta-class light cruiser would be a good addition (USS San Diego…[Read more]

Right now, I’m still waiting for an announcement of actual US bombers. So far, the only planes released for the USN are Corsairs and Hellcats. I’m also looking forward to the lighter ships -…[Read more]

However, for Aircraft attacking ships, I see no written rationale for using all of the page 8 modifiers EXCEPT that for torpedoes! I’d think it would be all or nothing, and then we could debate what happens with the range modifiers! FWIW, if all of the table is used, a torpedo bomber flight attacking the flank of a non-destroyer would need 5 t…

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For “Shooting Down Aircraft” on page 16 the text mentions that “If enemy flights are in range, a ship’s AA battery is fired….”. Does this mean that AA battery or light guns with the DP trait can shoot out to extreme range at enemy flights?

Yes. But keep in mind that “Extreme Range” is usually fairly short for AA guns. And DP guns that are us…[Read more]

New Mex (for her absurd damage output – THIRTY SIX DAMAGE DICE WHAT THE HELL)

Arizona gets the same (if you got her in the pre-order bonus), but she trades Armored Deck for Agile.

Historically, triple-gun turrets – like the ones on New Mexico – were tricky. The US figured them out early on, and used them in almost all of their b…[Read more]

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That particular web address does take you to a working website, though at the moment the only Victory At Sea content is advertising for the…[Read more]

Aircraft attacks work differently than ship attacks. They don’t draw a line of sight. Instead, they’re placed in base to base contact with their target. Assuming that smoke works against aircraft (and I’m not certain that it even should),…[Read more]

I’m saying play it as written. AA can’t shoot into the dogfight, bombers make their attacks, and then probably get savaged by the fighters afterwards (but might actually win if they get lucky with the die rolls – particularly if the “bombers” in question are F4U Corsairs).

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There’s nothing that says that a bomber can’t attack a ship while…[Read more]

USS Idaho in her default configuration has a set of 5″, 360 degree guns with 6 attack dice that are both DP and Restricted. She’s being approached by a flight of Kates on her starboard side, a flight of Vals on her port side, and a flight of Zeroes from her bow. Her priority is to…

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Having looked through the relevant sections again, and having looked at the ship cards, I’m initially inclined to agree.  The “Restricted” trait only applies to shots fired at targets port and starboard, but not to shots fired at targets fore and aft.  Given that all of the Restricted we…[Read more]

The primary author of the rules has been posting over at the DakkaDakka forum since early this year under the name “MongooseMatt” (he’s the one that first made me aware of this release).  Between items like the depth…[Read more]

Interesting.  It would have been nice if Warlord had published that somewhere else – say, on their Facebook page, or one of the articles on the website that the Facebook page has been link…[Read more]

However, it’s now the 21st, and there still hasn’t been an announcement of the release date.

‘A Touch of Green’ is a Mandarin-language series from The Republic of China (Taiwan) currently airing on Netflix (at least in the US), based on a short story written in 1971.  The series ads focus on the aviators, who are part of the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) following the end of World War 2.  The unit is flying P-51s (the N…[Read more]

I did message the page again, though, and they confirmed what the Spanish page had announced – i.e. that the game wouldn’t be out until mid-June at the earliest.  It was explained that due to difficulties in getting s…[Read more]

I took a quick look at the Warlord pages for Spain, Germany, and France.  All three have quick updates on the situation at Warlord that were posted over the last several days.  The Spain page is the only one that mentions VAS being delayed.  The Bolt Action Stalingrad release going out gets mentioned in Spain and Germany (I don’t re…[Read more]

Ergo, there’s still at least one decision-maker in the loop s…[Read more]

Make of that what you will.

If it’s delayed, then they should make a public announcement about the delay.  Most players will be fairly forgiving, given the current world-wide state of affairs.  Better to c…[Read more]