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Post by Mike DuBose on Jan 17, 2022 17:06:24 GMT
First of all, I love this game system. Fast, easy to teach and fun to play.
Has anyone noticed when playing with 1st to 3rd rate ships that fires are a little too common?
I have a problem matching the points given in the charts for ships when I do the calculations on a spreadsheet. What am I missing?
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Jan 17, 2022 19:43:11 GMT
Hi Mike - glad you're enjoying the rules! I guess fires are always going to be more common when you have more guns - you could change the rule to 4x 6's instead of 3x 6's if you'd like to reduce the frequency. Are you taking into account that Bow and Stern Chasers are half points value, and that the final value of the ship is adjusted by the crew quality, as shown on page 209? Its possible there are some errors in ship points values, as I added all these up by hand and there's quite a few of them... gotta be at least 1% with errors  If you let me know which ship doesn't match I can edit the points value for the next edition. Cheers! |
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grayhare
Baptized by Fire
War by Sail Owner
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Post by grayhare on Jan 18, 2022 18:49:25 GMT
Thanks for the quick reply.
We played a scenario with 15 1st to 3rd rate ships. At one point 6 were on fire and 1 had blown up. Earlier games with frigates or less did not have that issue.
I like the later periods of sailing ships so when printing the rules I left the early stuff out. This included page 207 which had the half points for chasers.
The differences are mostly small so that's what the problem is.
I am a retired programmer who has had a lot of spare time lately due to Covid. One of the things I like to do is write computer moderators for games I play. So, guess what?
I wrote a moderator for "War by Sail". It does all aspects of the game except sailing actions and grappling. I felt it was OK to allow player to roll for grappling.
If you would like to check it out, I would like to show you.
Mike DuBose
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Jan 18, 2022 19:23:52 GMT
Hey Mike - that sounds really interesting, I'd love to have a look at your moderator / program That does sound like a lot of ships on fire! although not super uncommon to have quite a few ships burning in a close range skirmish with many ships |
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grayhare
Baptized by Fire
War by Sail Owner
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Post by grayhare on Jan 18, 2022 20:22:28 GMT
The Visual Basic program is written for Windows PC's. If you can send an email address, I could send some screens shots.
Mike
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grayhare
Baptized by Fire
War by Sail Owner
Posts: 3
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Post by grayhare on Jan 18, 2022 20:25:49 GMT
The Visual Basic program is written for Windows PC's. If you can get me an email address, I could send some screens shots.
Mike
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Post by NKL AeroTom on Jan 18, 2022 20:34:16 GMT
Cheers Mike - you can send it here |
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