MTB house rules

I think we ought to think about sighting rules, especially at night or foul weather for spotting and shooting at Torpedo Boats/PT Boats. I was a Radar operator when I was in the Navy. Seeing a wooden boat is dam hard on radar since there is no radar return, image fiberglass boats which is harder. That being said there was no really good WWII radar on naval units and all navies used the Mark One eye-ball so spotting something really small at night is near impossible. Read the historical actions of Torpedo Boats in the Pacific.







My proposal is that each unit shooting at Torpedo Boat day or night needs to make a spotting roll. At Range 3 (20,000 yards or 10 miles) you need a 6, at Range 2 (15,000 yards or 7+ miles) you need a 5+, at Range 1 (10,000 yards or 5 miles) you need a 4+, and at Range 0 you need a 3+. Also since each Range sector is 5,000 yards, primary guns on CL, CA, BC, BB should not be able to shoot at Torpedo Boats in the same sector as the shooter have a problem of deflecting their main guns low enough to hit a small target at point blank range. That is what secondary and tertiary guns are for.







I think the above rules will make Torpedo Boats a little more playable and more of a threat. Now they are mainly a joke. Let me know what you think.