Opening Salvo - Scire and Capitan O'Brien
May 21, 2020 0:53:56 GMT
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Post by weedsrock2 on May 21, 2020 0:53:56 GMT
We are very slowly making progress on the next Forumini "Deck F/6." As most of you know, part of the deck cards are being developed by the entire board membership and part are being developed by the traditional volunteer development team. You can view and participate these cards in the "Deck 5 and 6 public development" sub-forum. It has been a tradition to continue the "Opening Salvo" card reveals that Rich Baker provided back in the WotC days. These "teasers" were meant to generate interest and excitement for the coming set. Usually the Opening Salvos revealed one Allied and one Axis card. For this Opening Salvo we have chose a Neutral and an Axis unit to start us off.
PS. If you want to know when we will finish this deck all I can say is "when its done." There have been some comings and goings on the team and significant disruptions in members lives that have caused this project to take a long time to complete. On the other hand, it seems to me there isn't a strong sense of urgency for completing this deck. At this point with so many card decks available from several projects it more the journey than the destination that matters. Even so, we have recently tried to jump start progress a bit more so we will hopefully have more to show in the near future.
Opening Salvo - Italian submarine Scire
This submarine was chosen to represent the fairly successful and unique development and use of manned torpedoes by the Italian navy. Although the Japanese also worked on manned torpedoes, it was the Italians that made the most spectacular use of them early in the war. Scire was an Adua class submarine (sister to Ambra and Axum) that was specially fitted to carry three commando unit "Maiale" human torpedoes. This card had a fairly long development thread as the team worked through a lot of different ideas for representing this fairly unique form of attack. As always, the challenge is coming up with something that provides a reasonable representation of a unique unit while maintaining the simplicity and speed of play that is the hallmark of this game.
Chilean submarine Capitan O'Brien
There has been a small, but vocal group of fans that have lobbied for the other "ABC" South American navies to be added to the game. Brazil was introduced in the last deck. We now officially reveal the inclusion of the Chilean navy (the "C" in ABC). Unlike Brazil that entered the war on the Allied side earlier in the war, Chile remained neutral along with most South American countries until the very end of the war. As such, Chilean naval units did not actively engage in war operations. In these cases we try to follow Rich Baker's lead on neutral nations and use special abilities that reflect that nation's naval doctrine and situation, or just create a fairly generic card to represent the unit type. In this case we chose to create a submarine that was simple, but also a fairly good value for cost.
PS. If you want to know when we will finish this deck all I can say is "when its done." There have been some comings and goings on the team and significant disruptions in members lives that have caused this project to take a long time to complete. On the other hand, it seems to me there isn't a strong sense of urgency for completing this deck. At this point with so many card decks available from several projects it more the journey than the destination that matters. Even so, we have recently tried to jump start progress a bit more so we will hopefully have more to show in the near future.
Opening Salvo - Italian submarine Scire
This submarine was chosen to represent the fairly successful and unique development and use of manned torpedoes by the Italian navy. Although the Japanese also worked on manned torpedoes, it was the Italians that made the most spectacular use of them early in the war. Scire was an Adua class submarine (sister to Ambra and Axum) that was specially fitted to carry three commando unit "Maiale" human torpedoes. This card had a fairly long development thread as the team worked through a lot of different ideas for representing this fairly unique form of attack. As always, the challenge is coming up with something that provides a reasonable representation of a unique unit while maintaining the simplicity and speed of play that is the hallmark of this game.
Chilean submarine Capitan O'Brien
There has been a small, but vocal group of fans that have lobbied for the other "ABC" South American navies to be added to the game. Brazil was introduced in the last deck. We now officially reveal the inclusion of the Chilean navy (the "C" in ABC). Unlike Brazil that entered the war on the Allied side earlier in the war, Chile remained neutral along with most South American countries until the very end of the war. As such, Chilean naval units did not actively engage in war operations. In these cases we try to follow Rich Baker's lead on neutral nations and use special abilities that reflect that nation's naval doctrine and situation, or just create a fairly generic card to represent the unit type. In this case we chose to create a submarine that was simple, but also a fairly good value for cost.
