Post by stampineer on Jul 11, 2019 1:17:45 GMT
So I played a large game with three friends over the weekend to introduce them to the game. The Allies were a mix of pre 1942 vessels led by Ark Royal, Rodney and Nelson against a largely Italian force supported by the Bismark, Graf Spee who lent their assistance and a small Japanese Carrier task force of the Junyo. All told about 285 ish points per side mostly with cruisers and destroyer support with 2 subs a side and three bombers and one fighter. Came down to the Junyo and two dive bombers attacking the Ark Royal at range 1 over the final and deciding Cap.... Ark won. Armor ruled out against thin skin of Junyo. Ok.... Now to my question.....
When we had a ship plus a fighter against a few bombers and an escort fighter the air defense phase was confusing. The ship is easy. Pick your target and roll. But given an escort fighter and a defending fighter does it matter who rolls first? Based on the rules it looks like it is the one who lost initiative. Does the concurrent phase roll rule take effect here? Are both considered defenders by attacking each other (or the bomber) for the round so shooting down a fighter only impacts the air defense phase but it does not matter the order of shoot down or turn away in the phase? I think this is where we made a mistake. If the loser of initiative was aborted, they still have a final chance in the phase to abort or shoot down the attacking fighter right? It felt like the attacking forces fighter using anti air was not really defending .....
When we had a ship plus a fighter against a few bombers and an escort fighter the air defense phase was confusing. The ship is easy. Pick your target and roll. But given an escort fighter and a defending fighter does it matter who rolls first? Based on the rules it looks like it is the one who lost initiative. Does the concurrent phase roll rule take effect here? Are both considered defenders by attacking each other (or the bomber) for the round so shooting down a fighter only impacts the air defense phase but it does not matter the order of shoot down or turn away in the phase? I think this is where we made a mistake. If the loser of initiative was aborted, they still have a final chance in the phase to abort or shoot down the attacking fighter right? It felt like the attacking forces fighter using anti air was not really defending .....
