Post by kingtiger1945 on Nov 24, 2021 6:32:48 GMT
Richard Baker's torpedo rules state that any torpedo attacks made at range-1 or greater should be delayed and allow for evasion. In the following unclear cases, I was wondering how others have interpreted the rules, and what the implications on gameplay are.
1. How do you treat range-0 torpedo attacks? Are these rolled immediately with the chance to hit on a 5 or a 6, or only a 6, as in vanilla? Or, do you interpret this as a misprint, and therefore also delay them and allow for evasion? Do you treat aerial and surface/submarine attacks differently?
2. Do crippled ships have the option to evade?
Also, one tangential point I noticed was that aerial torpedoes do the same amount of damage as surface and submarine ones, whereas historically they usually had smaller warheads. (Obviously, this isn't unique to Richard Baker's rules and is present in the vanilla game.) The issue is that nerfing them to do just 1 point of hull damage might negatively impact balance. Perhaps, is this comparative weakness reflected in the amount of dice torpedo bombers role vis-a-vis squadron size?
