[1942.2 & G40] Destroyers able to get a Shore Bombardment?

  • '17 '16

    @crusaderiv:

    Interesting… For how long are you playing with these costs?

    32 games since 1995. _The accuracy is impressive. And all the 32 games were based on the previous cost?

    Don’t you find that cruiser isn’t buy much because a 2 hits Heavy cruiser at 12 is quite a bargain?
    Maybe cruiser have other capacity you didn’t mention?_

    Good bargain…yes.if you have the cash…
    When you need only 1 or 2 IPCs, you manage to cut somewhere else…

    Maybe damaged heavy cruiser cannot be repaired the same way as BB?
    No but it will be a good idea.
    Just think about the difference between 1942.2 BB and G40 BB, it can open up something…

    Also, this heavy cruiser unit is a big winner all the way in a Battlecalc vs either Cruisers or BBs on a same IPCs basis.
    In this way, it is clearly historical:
    your main ship in any fleet is certainly heavy cruiser units, isn’t?

    No, the carrier and escort carrier still the main ship.
    I thought "… amongst warships with guns, I was excluding carriers (in my mind, 'cause the topics is about warships which can bombard somehow.)
    So, besides carriers, the main gunships is surely Heavy cruiser, no?
    And, very few, if no buying of little cruiser?
    Â

    Is your customized A&A G40 is based on an historical rules system, or something else we found on the forum?

  • '17 '16

    @SS:

    We finally gettin a break? :-D

    Admit it, you like this torture.  :-D


  • _Admit it, you like this torture. _

    Of course…he’s SS after all…


  • Is your customized A&A G40 is based on an historical rules system, or something else we found on the forum?

    At start, the games was Based on Xeno game but I changed most of the rules that now it’s no more a Xeno game.
    In fact I tried my best to do something historical and accurate.
    With a game board of 82 x 43 and Europe map 32’’ x 36’’ and more than 1000 pieces, I think it worth it.
    So stop to write….and you ready to play against us? :roll:


  • @Baron:

    @SS:

    We finally gettin a break? :-D

    Admit it, you like this torture.  :-D

    :-D

    @crusaderiv:

    Is your customized A&A G40 is based on an historical rules system, or something else we found on the forum?

    At start, the games was Based on Xeno game but I changed most of the rules that now it’s no more a Xeno game.
    In fact I tried my best to do something historical and accurate.
    With a game board of 82 x 43 and Europe map 32’’ x 36’’ and more than 1000 pieces, I think it worth it.
    So stop to write….and you ready to play against us? :roll:

    That sucks. Live to far away.

    Baron you better jump on the chance to play if your close!


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  • '17 '16

    @crusaderiv:

    Is your customized A&A G40 is based on an historical rules system, or something else we found on the forum?

    At start, the games was Based on Xeno game but I changed most of the rules that now it’s no more a Xeno game.
    In fact I tried my best to do something historical and accurate.
    With a game board of 82 x 43 and Europe map 32’’ x 36’’ and more than 1000 pieces, I think it worth it.
    So stop to write….and you ready to play against us? :roll:

    I would be very happy to play a game… but it is a question of timing and opportunity.
    By the way, I would need some practice on triple A G40 before being a real challenge to anyone.

  • '17 '16

    @SS:

    :?

    Sorry, I have a lot of cats to whip out…  :-)


  • @knp7765:

    I know that you are right that destroyers often shelled Japanese positions in support of landings.

    Yes, one thing is to shell a position, another thing is exactly what did that shelling accomplish ? If it was common during WWII that small gun fire from destroyers whipped out army corps from the surface of earth, then yes let destroyers shore bombard on4 or less. But if they at best killed like 2 or 3 men, of a 50 000 men strong corps, then no. We cant loose touch with the ground. I read about a Romanian destroyer that was in a duel with a Russian tank during the first week of Barbarossa, and the destroyer won. But since this only happened one time during the war, I don’t want to make a house rule that allows destroyers to hit tanks, or tanks to hit destroyers in an adjacent seazone. I also know about a sub that shoot down an airplane, a heavy bomber, with the small gun on deck. This too only happened one time in history, so I don’t want to make a rule where subs can target aircrafts, that would be too much, even for me. end of line, let the destroyer bombardment go

  • '17 '16

    @Razor:

    @knp7765:

    I know that you are right that destroyers often shelled Japanese positions in support of landings.

    Yes, one thing is to shell a position, another thing is exactly what did that shelling accomplish ? If it was common during WWII that small gun fire from destroyers whipped out army corps from the surface of earth, then yes let destroyers shore bombard on4 or less. But if they at best killed like 2 or 3 men, of a 50 000 men strong corps, then no. We cant loose touch with the ground. I read about a Romanian destroyer that was in a duel with a Russian tank during the first week of Barbarossa, and the destroyer won. But since this only happened one time during the war, I don’t want to make a house rule that allows destroyers to hit tanks, or tanks to hit destroyers in an adjacent seazone. I also know about a sub that shoot down an airplane, a heavy bomber, with the small gun on deck. This too only happened one time in history, so I don’t want to make a rule where subs can target aircrafts, that would be too much, even for me. end of line, let the destroyer bombardment go.

    You have a point.

    Was the DD shore bombardment so ineffective?
    Were they seldom use for this kind of Infantry/Marines support on shore bombardment?
    If that so, clearly it is absurd to give 1 reg Shore B. @1.
    A kind of 75% less dangerous than BB.

    (However, don’t forget we are talking about  around 50 destroyers ships bombarding for days beaches and stronghold.)

    Actually, you give me an argument to keep a great difference of scale between CA and BB ShoreBomb vs DD SB.

    Giving DD this kind of Shore Bombardment:

    The idea is to keep it far less effective than Cruiser and Battleship Shore Bombardment without neglecting this historically accurate point.

    For now, it seems to me that it is the simplest and more balance way to do it.

    DD is acting as a 1 round +1A support for Infantry like an Artillery unit but without having the capacity to roll for itself as the Artillery unit does (or even SB of Cruiser or BB).
    This HR for DD increase the odds of having a same number of casualty without having more of them.

    Seems to have that kind of proportion vs 1@4 BB SB attack.

    On historical accuracy, I just found this:

    Meanwhile, the Navy continued looking ahead. In September 1941, it requested studies for a destroyer with greater anti-aircraft capability. In May 1942, before the first Fletcher was even commissioned, it approved a six-gun ship in which the Fletchers five 5-inch single mounts were replaced with three 5-inch twins the 2,200-ton Allen M. Sumner class, with 20 per cent more firepower on a Fletcher hull widened by 14 inches. By VJ Day, 67 Sumners 55 destroyers and 12 destroyer-minelayer conversions plus 45 ships of a lengthened production variant, initially referred to as the 2,200-ton long hull class and later as the Gearing class. Together, these classes dominated the US Navys destroyer force over the next 25 years.

    As the first big ships to appear and because there were so many of them, however, the Fletchers are remembered as the signature US Navy destroyer class of the Pacific war. There, the earliest ones saw action in the nighttime surface battles in the Solomon Islands, many fought at Leyte and all completed in time for fleet screening and shore bombardment assignments and the notorious anti-kamikaze radar picket duty at Okinawa. While 19 were lost and six damaged beyond repair, 44 earned ten or more service stars, 19 were awarded the Navy Unit Commendation and 16 received the Presidential Unit Citation.

    http://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/

  • Customizer

    Destroyer bombard has been used as a tech before, and if we’re talking HRs as well as custom pieces I see no reason to exclude them from shore bombardment. Just IMO if you have the resources at you disposal this could be perfectly and historically reasonable in conjunction with other HR and custom piece rules.

  • '17 '16

    @toblerone77:

    Destroyer bombard has been used as a tech before, and if we’re talking HRs as well as custom pieces I see no reason to exclude them from shore bombardment. Just IMO if you have the resources at you disposal this could be perfectly and historically reasonable in conjunction with other HR and custom piece rules.

    Was it simply Destroyer bombard @2?
    I don’t know this tech.

  • Customizer

    I believe so Baron


  • Destroyer Bombard was a tech from when DDs were 3/3 cost 12 and Cruisers didn’t exist (gave them bombard @3). IMO, even if destroyers did have bombardment tasks and were effective in that role, they already are the most efficient warship in the game (at least in 1940), so either this will make them needlessly more powerful or get overshadowed by the limit on how many ships can bombard.

  • Customizer

    I think there’s ways to accommodate DD bombard in conjunction with other HRs and custom units to counter-balance negative aspects of the ability.

  • Customizer

    I think destroyers should be able to bombard @ 2. In fact, I think all surface warships should have that ability.
    The only thing that worries me is if destroyers can bombard @ 2 plus their ASW abilities and cheap price, that will start a new wave of people saying “Cruisers aren’t worth buying”.

  • '17 '16

    @knp7765:

    I think destroyers should be able to bombard @ 2. In fact, I think all surface warships should have that ability.
    The only thing that worries me is if destroyers can bombard @ 2 plus their ASW abilities and cheap price, that will start a new wave of people saying “Cruisers aren’t worth buying”.

    And 2 Destroyers will be more potent than 1 BB for 4 IPCs less.
    A real game changer.
    As I’m looking just a little more historical accuracy, I think that even a Bombard @1 is too much.
    Maybe just give a +1A to any Inf or Art in the first round is the Max to keep a balance vs other warships.
    So Inf or Art can get a single roll to up to 3.
    Paired Inf A2+1 or Art A2+1= A3.


  • @Baron:

    Maybe just give a +1A to any Inf or Art in the first round is the Max to keep a balance vs other warships.

    If you look at the firepower a Destroyer can project on an enemy position at a set time, and compare it to a real Artillery unit, or a fighter, then you will see that the true Artillery unit, which is actually designed to barrage an enemy position with indirect fire, with high accuracy and quantity, is far more effective in this job, than a destroyer with small gun direct fire, designed to sink ships, or a fighter with a tiny bomb. Funny enough, in this game it is the opposite.

    Yes, I think a Destroyer should be able to boost a matching land unit +1 during the first round of Amphibious Assault, but the Destroyer should not Shore bombard.

    I think this doctrine fit all A&A editions, so no need to start another thread about 1914, since it probably fit there, and here too, man

  • '17 '16

    @Razor:

    @Baron:

    Maybe just give a +1A to any Inf or Art in the first round is the Max to keep a balance vs other warships.

    If you look at the firepower a Destroyer can project on an enemy position at a set time, and compare it to a real Artillery unit, or a fighter, then you will see that the true Artillery unit, which is actually designed to barrage an enemy position with indirect fire, with high accuracy and quantity, is far more effective in this job, than a destroyer with small gun direct fire, designed to sink ships, or a fighter with a tiny bomb. Funny enough, in this game it is the opposite.

    Yes, I think a Destroyer should be able to boost a matching land unit +1 during the first round of Amphibious Assault, but the Destroyer should not Shore bombard.

    I think this doctrine fit all A&A editions, so no need to start another thread about 1914, since it probably fit there, and here too, man

    Interesting point on DD’s guns.

  • '17 '16

    @Razor:

    @Baron:

    Maybe just give a +1A to any Inf or Art in the first round is the Max to keep a balance vs other warships.

    Yes, I think a Destroyer should be able to boost a matching land unit +1 during the first round of Amphibious Assault, but the Destroyer should not Shore bombard.

    I think this doctrine fit all A&A editions, so no need to start another thread about 1914, since it probably fit there, and here too, man

    This distinction between giving a support fire “boosting a matching land unit” and “Shore bombardment” can be useful to clearly marks the difference between what cruiser and battleship do during an amphibious assault and what I would like the DD does as support beachlanding in my HR.

    Sorry about the splitting thread on dogfight G40 vs 1914. It wasn’t meant to offend you.
    I will gladly pursue the discussion to help you develop a functionnal HR with 1914 backgrounds.

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