Post by sodbuster on Feb 19, 2020 14:44:39 GMT
During our first couple of games in my house, we declared all attacks (gunnery and torpedoes) before rolling any dice in the surface attack phase. We did this more based on what I understood as "game intent" rather than a clearly defined rule. I didn't see in the rules whether you had to do so or not. Based on the concept that a turn was supposed to approximate roughly 10 minutes and all of the actions were supposedly happening simultaneously, it didn't seem to make sense that you could observe results of one fragment of an attack before directing another simultaneous attack. You couldn't in an actual battle say, "Hmmm, let's see if our gunnery sinks the Yukikaze before we decide to waste a torpedo on it."
I have since read that pretty much no one else plays it this way, and so we have gone away from that, and just declare attacks as we roll them, one at a time. Is there a place in the rulebook that says you can declare attacks one at a time, or is it simply done that way because the rules don't expressly forbid it? Is it just a consensus? If so, what is the reasoning? Is it just to keep it a "beer and pretzels" game without record keeping? That wouldn't be unreasonable. In our first couple of games when we declared all of the surface attacks ahead of time, it did require writing them out in anything over about a 100 point game - not so much fun for my little ones.
None of this is a big deal, really. I just like to know from people who have been playing longer than me what the reasoning has been behind the way things are done. Usually, if everyone is doing it a certain way, there is a good reason for it.
I have since read that pretty much no one else plays it this way, and so we have gone away from that, and just declare attacks as we roll them, one at a time. Is there a place in the rulebook that says you can declare attacks one at a time, or is it simply done that way because the rules don't expressly forbid it? Is it just a consensus? If so, what is the reasoning? Is it just to keep it a "beer and pretzels" game without record keeping? That wouldn't be unreasonable. In our first couple of games when we declared all of the surface attacks ahead of time, it did require writing them out in anything over about a 100 point game - not so much fun for my little ones.
None of this is a big deal, really. I just like to know from people who have been playing longer than me what the reasoning has been behind the way things are done. Usually, if everyone is doing it a certain way, there is a good reason for it.
