Fast boats in the Med

You could have a rough seas SA where the defender could make a reroll on High Speed Evasion a certain number of times.

Or have the firing ship make a roll to acquire just like a A/c makes a roll to find a ship at night. Same principle except the small fast boat is harder to see at night much less acquire.

Ship makes an acquire roll and if the fast boat is hit, it makes its high speed evasion roll... A simple thing and it makes fast boats (torpedo boats) much more of a viable option for night operations.

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 hardly any 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 is having a problem of deflecting their main guns low enough to hit a small target that is at point blank range. That is what secondary and tertiary guns are for or their AA...

At range 3 (20,000 yards or ten miles) no lookout will see a torpedo boats wake... In our games as soon as a torpedo boat gets at range 3 they are sunk by gunfire before they even get into torpedo range.

In the dark making a torpedo attack against a capital ship the small guns on a motor torpedo boat will not hurt capital ship must less a CA or CL... That is what their torpedo's are for... Just a matter of tactics... Personally I think torpedo boats are pretty useless and rarely sink their point worth in enemy ships.