DECK F Alvise da Mosto *DONE*

Engaging an overwhelming force should have been sufficent for a interesting unit. burdening it with a convoy escort role was unneccesary.

Looking at it she should have asw 4. She was the most modernized of her class

ASW 4 for sure IMO. Base stats AND game balance.

Italy could use a good destroyer. If we don't give it a good attack SA then there is probably no point in giving it Close Escort. CE is mainly useful if the DD has something going for it like a good AA or torpedo attack.

@ticat - Did you mean to change the ASW to 4 when you sent it to playtesting? I thought you stated that in the post just above.


Other than the ASW 4, I think the proposal is "okay", but not a barn burner by any means.

Since i wrote that;  I believe with all the chit chat here, the forum has come up with a nice unit.
 
  And as my 95 year old father-in-law always says;; He never forgets anything he "Remember"'s

Here's the feedback for this unit

So Light Ship Tactics give these guys a lot of survivability. Use thus in smoke and it gets 2 tries to evade an enemy shot. Something Italy really needs to stay in the game longer. Do not change anything...😀
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Three questions/comments:

1) Shouldn't this ship be named "Alvise Da Mosto"?
2) While not against it... how does light Ship Tactics represent her career?
3) Is 7 the right points for this unit considering the Ugolino Vivaldi is the same class with only Ram as the SA and is 8 points?
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Vivaldi is overcosted, which us typical of Set 1 and 2 ships...

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After some more playtesting, I think the unit is borderline 7/8 points. I'm leaning to the 7 points as Light Ship Tactics (LST) does not protect against air or submarines and is a OPG SA.

The extra save when combined with Eugenio's Establish Screen and a smoker can make for some attention by your opponent, but it's a 20 point combo to pull off.

I think it's good to go, I haven't been able to break the unit and won't raise a huge discussion point on whether it should be 7 or 8 (either is fine with me).

I think its fine as is as well. Light Ship Tactics is an interesting SA when paired with a smoking DD, but otherwise, I consider this ship fairly unremarkable. The survivability is nice, but this ship will be hard pressed to break into the Ascari-Espero-C Nere sectors I typically use.

The biggest thing holding back Italian and German DDs is the range 1 limited torpedoes. If we want to make one of those DDs truely useful they need an SA that gives them a range boost. Like Torpedo Run.