USS Somers **Done**

USS SOMERS
Class: Somers
Commissioned: Dec 1937
Fate: Broken Up 1947
Displacement: 2047 tons standard
Length(OA): 381 ft
Beam: 36 ft
Speed: 37 kts
Armament: 8-5in/38 (4 x 2) 8-1.1 in (2 x 4) 2-0.5 in, 12-21 in (3 x 4) TT
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Ship: USS Somers
Speed: 2
Year: 1941
Cost: 9
MG: 6/5/5
AA: 5
ASW: 4
TT: 2/2/2
A/VA/HP: 2/8/2

SAs

Code Intercepts - At the end of the second player's Sea Movement step, you may place this unit in an adjacent sector that contains an enemy Auxiliary.
Light Ship Tactics - Once per game, at the beginning of the Surface attack phase, you can declare you're using Light Ship Tactics. If you do, whenever an enemy Ship makes an attack against this unit this turn, roll a die. On a 5 or higher, this unit takes no damage from that attack.
Defective Torpedoes 1 - Whenever this unit would make a Torpedo attack, roll a die. On a 1, the attack automatically misses instead.

Wainright is a outstanding unit. If this point for point doesnt compare, then its too expensive

I thought Wainwright was 10 pts. Hmm. It is hard to cost US DDs with Fletcher as a baseline. On the other hand, we have Phelps at 10.

So, 9 points without DT1, or 8 points with? Which do you prefer? I lean toward with DF1. DF1 doesn't scare me off that much. Especially at 8 points! But I would be fine with either.

Given Gwin got shafted. Buchanan should not have been

Re: Defective Torps... I can sum that up in one phrase: USS Gudgeon. Remember how well that went over?

Shrugs.

Id be good have a less devestating version of DT that players can use on all 3 ships

Even without it, its got not much going on beyond stats. And really nothing representative of the engagements of the french coast.

I think Code Intercepts is very appropriate and relevant to the German blockade running merchant ships she captured. And it is an SA I would like to personally see on more Allied ships to counter the very broken and multiplying number of German raiders with cloaking devices. This is one of the few SAs that are effective against those ships.

Light Ship Tactics seems close enough to me to represent her French coast engagements.

I am fine with not doing the negative SA. I think those of you that don't like it are overestimating its impact overall. Especially for a range 2 attack from a US ship. I think it is definitely 9 points without the DT SA. Personally, I would be more likely to use it at 8 point with the SA. But that is just me.

8 points without the DT SA is too low IMO. Especially compared to Phelps. Wainwright, Fletcher, and Johnston are top of the bin and can't be reasonably be outdone. So we are looking at DDs that fill specific niches IMO.

So is 9 points without the SA where we are landing?