HMAS Hobart Class: Perth Class Light Cruiser Commissioned: Jan 1936 transferred to RAN 1938 Decommissioned: December, 1947 Displacement: 7105 tons standard Length(OA): 562 ft 3 in Beam: 56 ft 8 in Speed: 32.5 Knots Armament: 8 x 6in/50 (4 x 2), 8 x 4in/45 DP (4 x 2), 2 x 20mm AA (2 x 1), 12 x 0.5in MG (3 x 4), 8 x 21in TT (2 x 4)
BATTERY SILENCER: This unit rolls one extra attack die when making Gunnery attacks against Shore Batteries and Installations.
SCOUTPLANE ATTACK: During the first turn of the game, you may declare you're using Scoutplane Attack. If you do, assign the scoutplane attack during the Air Mission phase. The scoutplane can be attacked during the Air Defense phase. It has; Armor 3, Vital Armor 5, a Bomb attack of 2, and it can be aborted or destroyed normally.
HMAS Hobart made good use of her replacement Walrus floatplane registration number L231. Within weeks of receiving the aircraft on 6 June 1940 the aircraft destroyed one radio hut and damaged another at the Italian wireless station on Centre Peak Island. The floatplane was launched again on 8 August 1940 for an early morning raid on refueling Italian fighters. Unable to find the fighters, she attacked the base headquarters with bombs and machine gun fire. Hobart operated in the Red Sea and Mediterranean early in the war, and then participated in the Coral Sea and Solomon's campaigns.
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What does "Shore Batteries" refer to? Are there such units that are not Installations?
That's a good question. That SA was written by Rich Baker/WotC for the USS Quincy in set 6. That is the set that introduced the "Large Shore Battery" to the game. And the Large Shore Battery was also the first and only Installation. My guess is he worded the SA to cover the possibility of creating another shore battery (small or medium?) in a future set. Since all the definitions and clarifications about Installations were not fully fleshed out by WotC we will never know for sure. I think for our purposes it is simply redundant wording that doesn't have any meaning, but doesn't hurt anything either.
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If it was considered to have non-installation shore batteries, the wording perfectly makes sense. I was not aware of this scenario. Would someone have a link to it?