USS Somers **Done**

Current voting stats:

9 with no DT1: 4
8 with no DT1 (or DT): 3

Close folks. Share your opinion!

It sounds like you'll be taking a different unit at either point value.  So why not give others an option and go with the 8pts and DT1? 

I think that at 8pts and DT1, the unit brings into the came a new dynamic.  One that causes your opponent to make more choices with the possibility of overlooking this unit.  It happened in my playtest.  Let me ask this if facing this unit at 8pts w/DT1 and a Monaghan... which unit are you going to shoot at first? 

Isn't giving new play/build options the purpose of making new units for the game, not just checking off units to be done?  

Part of the attractiveness that I see of DT1 and this unit is it introduces a new DT that isn't as punishing as the one we have now:  Defective Torps currently fail on 1 or 2.

Besides, as has been stated before, when playing the US you don't plan a strategy of winning a game around destroyer based torpedoes.

So in summary, I see the vote as this:
  If you want to go with something new and add options to the game: 8pts and DT1
  If you want to keep the game stale with a DD that will most likely stay in the book anyway: 9 pts with no DT1

Might seem harsh... but I already on a swiffer. 

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: 8/9
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.

What if we replaced Light Ship Tactics with Lay Smoke Screen? That is a one of the top DD SAs. Would it still be a bookmark with Defective Torpedoes 1 at 8 points? I sure don't think so.

Light Ship Tactics isn't really a proper SA for an 8 vital DD come to think of it. It was meant for "light" DDs with a vital 6. (Brestois)

I can get behind replacing LST with Smoke, keeping the unit at 8pts and DT1. I think it's an interesting solution and takes it out of the box based on year alone.