Tini said:
Could I suggest we dont start until the new year. I will be going on Summer vacation and will be away from regular contact until 5 Jan.
That would be fine by me! I would still like to have all the starting choices done by players earlier than that though, it wouldn't require 'regular' activity anyways.
Speaking of which, ROLL CALL!
The site, accessible by my CF custom page, has been updated with every ships starting configuration! You should now have everything you need to decide how to spend your starting budget. I would like to have everybody playing make a post akin to,
My ship choices:
Titanic (marked as flagship)
HMS James Earl Jones
2 Generic destroyers
So please try and get this to me in this thread within a week or so, no big rush though.
Some points for helping you choose! (please read)
-Starting budget is 90,000 RPs.
-While there are no axis carriers, British players can and should expect to encounter axis aircraft nonetheless, land based squadrons don't have infinite reach, but they have noteworthy range not to be overlooked.
-All ships will be shot at in every range, one way or another. Fights start at range 3, and closing the distance to the desired range is not instantaneous!
-There is a limit of 5 ships for the start, including destroyers and subs. There is a reason for this, rank will be in the game, the higher the rank the more ships you can command at once. Your 'vote' on varying issues gains weight with higher rank too!
-Destroyers and subs are not unique ships and may be bought multiple times.
-Aircraft are not yet listed, but for carrier players I can say this, they will be decently numerous in supply, and they will not be destroyed by a single hit from 0.5" AA or nothing. They also have an aim modifier in combat, ie they are harder to hit than it appears. The amount of planes a carrier with a 'deck' can carry vs a carrier with a 'small-deck' will be around 2:1, btw.
-Subs do not fire much in combat, they bug out far earlier than planes or surface ships. Surface ships stay (or can stay, assuming they don't try to withdraw on purpose) the longest of all. Planes are imbetween.
-Yes, some ships do not use all their WPs. Heavy turrets don't count towards the total WPs, they use the HT slots instead. If you add up all the other weapons on a ship you will find that their total space usually isn't equal to the total WPs listed for that ship. Most ships have some leftover space where they simply weren't optimized, this space can be used btw!
-Weapon prices are already calculated into every ships' total!
-If you want to buy new weapons, be warned, you will have to sit some time in port at the start of the game! I've changed my mind on time-free weapon changes at the start, it now takes time to change/add weapons even at the beginning.
-Ask me questions if you need to!
Good luck mateys!
