#38 SS Ohio - Ready

Just thinking about this further was this ever considered this time round, as a UK slot with a 1942 date? The US already has a tanker, so it wouldn't see them without a tanker but then again I suppose you could say why not just give the UK a 1939 tanker, to help with the slow BBs from the get go.

It's just a matter of clarification here for the Ohio.

We gave up a 1939 tanker because of the greater name recognition on Ohio. So yes,

So what about-

SS Ohio
Aux 1941
Speed 1
AA 4
A1 V6 H3

DETERMINATION: Whenever this unit would be destroyed, roll a die. On a 5 or higher, the destruction is prevented and this unit remains in the game with 1 hull point.

Vital Supplies - In the air return, if this unit is adjacent to an island on your opponent's side of the map, you may remove it from the game and a friendly aircraft will not get rearming marker this turn. You can only remove one unit with Vital Supplies from the game per turn. Ypur opponent recieves no Victory Points if you use this ability.

Ocean Going Tanker- On thr first turn of the game, friendly ships with the SLOW ability may add 1 to the die when making that roll.

I suspect vital cargo would make it less likely to be used. But if thats the preference

I think the previous proposal was usuable and hit the bases. These are scenario pieces for most players and no amount of lipstick swaps the core stats

Just wondering again if this is going to have some sort of clarification along the lines above?

With the SAs, still not seeing V supplies as being a great payoff with just losing a rearming counter. Could the OG tanker name be improved on, Merchant tanker, Auxiliary tanker etc.? I do think it loses some potential flexibility with not being at users choice of turn for the speed boost though, if we're looking at this more from a gaming view. Obviously we are stretching history a bit with this to fit the requirement of a speed boost to certain UK ships, which doesn't always sit right! One of those game VS history clashes.

We are obviously trying to get this in the game and then do multiple things with it. If the UK already had a tanker, then any sort of speed boost wouldn't be needed. This would then not have one at all and could concentrate on what it historically did, which I would have preferred for one. A fleet tanker could still appear down the line though. The potential of getting a speed boost for the slow BBs is obviously a draw and it's getting coupled on to this. If it does stay the same with the speculative tanker ability, Auxiliary tanker as a name at least states what it is. OG tanker doesn't do that and seems to imply other tankers might have been harbor bound! or whatever.  Clarification too to clarify it can be used in UK fleets from the date, then on the text side I would go the same route as Nabob with the flagging. Regardless of the SA suite the set up has to be right first. An unusual first for us though to this extent, I would say.

The original discussion on this having some sort of tanker ability was that it would benefit UK slow BBs in particular. Its in for the Pedestal reason and not because the US need it, as they already have a fleet tanker. In a nation pure setting and with it being a US card still, it needs text on the gaming card side to say it can be based in a UK fleet. The text and potential flag symbols (like Nabob) on the fluff side would give further evidence of this being on loan and manned by the UK.

I've already accepted this is going to have some sort of speculative tanker replenishment ability but an SA name of auxiliary tanker would differentiate and clarify it from the naval tankers. I was also just pointing out that if the UK already had a pure fleet tanker, this ability on Ohio wouldn't be needed and it could have just been a straight auxiliary.