Deck G: Progress and Chat - Status: Cards Printing

The scratch H list from january looked like

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01 AUSTRALIA - Australia 1911 - Battleship
02 AUDTRALIA - KVIX (Wornout Boat)
03 BRAZIL - Parnaiba (Monitor/ HULL 1)
04 CANADA - HMCS Athabaskan - Tenacity/Light Ship Tactics or Determination
05 FRANCE - Battleship Normandie - hypothetical interwar class ship
06 FRANCE - JEANNE D'ARC (Last undone Light Cruiser)
07 FRANCE -
08 FRANCE - LIORE 210 - Seaplane Fighter
09 FRANCE - Cassard - Undone Class
10 GREECE - Salamis BB - undelivered battleship from ww1
11 GREECE - Commander- Epameinondas Kavvadias (1/7)
12 NETHERLANDS - Fairey Firefly - fighter bombers, later war
13 NETHERLANDS - 0-20 - Sub/Minelayer
14 NEW ZEALAND - Arabatus - Destroyer, new class
15 NORWAY - SVENNER new class
16 POLAND - PZL.37 Łoś - medium bomber
17 UK - HMS Swiftsure Cruiser - large powerful cruiser
18 UK - Bristol Beaufort or Whitley - early war medium bomber
19 UK - "USS Robin" Operational HMS Victorious - reprint, historical curiousity
20 UK - FAA Hellcat - reprint
21 UK - Commander: Lumley Lyster - taranto commander ship.
22 UK - HMS Resolution - carried troops to norway
23 UK - HMS Adventure - mines and repairs
24 UK - HMS Starling - asw leader
25 UK - HMS Vega AA Upgrade group, Night-Fighter
26 UK - HMS Lively - standard L class
27 USA - CV-10 USS Yorktown - Expert Coastal Bomber? +1 island adjacent.
28 USA - BB-66 Illinois /BB-67 Kentucky - big ship
29 USA - USS Augusta - famous
30 USA - COMMANDER Charles Momsen(US WOLFPACK) (3/7)
31 USA - USS Oklahoma - historical
32 USA - USS Argonaut- mines/marine raiders
33 USA - USS Rueben James (Clemson/Edsall) - sunk before ph.
34 USA - P-80 Shooting Star - jet
35 USA - USS Jamestown - PT Boat Tender
36 USA - USS Helm - 11battlestats, underway at beginjing of pearl harbour attack
37 USA - B-25B Mitchell - Doolittle raid version.
38 USSR - Komintern - Cruiser
39 USSR - Emplaced Obukhovskii 12-inch/52-caliber Pattern 1907 gun - installation
40 USSR SU-2 Bomber- "Emergency Fighter"
41 FINLAND - Destroyer ex-HMS Verualum 1917
42 GERMANY - UJ-201 Captured Antilope
43 GERMANY - COMMANDER Paul-Werner Hozzel (vs Illustrious) (4/7)
44 GERMANY - Carrier Jade - half sister shinyo
45 GERMANY - BV 222 Wiking Patrol Bomber
46 GERMANY - Niobe AA Ship
47 GERMANY - Seehund Minisub
48 ITALY - 5th Littorio
49 ITALY - COMMANDER (5/7)
50 ITALY - Attilio Regulo
51 ITALY - Guglielmo Marconi Sumbarine
52 ITALY - Fiat Rs-14 Patrol Bomber
53 ITALY - Olterra - frogmen
54 JAPAN - Fleet Carrier Amagi
55 JAPAN - Commander Shunji Isaki / Battle of Kolombangara
58 JAPAN - 5th planned yamato class
57 JAPAN - I-15
58 JAPAN - Shin'yo - Carrier - half sister to jade
59 JAPAN - B4Y "Jean" - swordfish analog
60 JAPAN - Amatsukaze - - survival SA
61 JAPAN - Tatsuta - Light Cruiser
62 JAPAN - Yugure - Destroyer
63 JAPAN - JM2 Raiden "Jack" - fighter
64 ROMANIA - 250t Class Torpedo boat
65 SIAM - commander Luang Phrom Viraphan :Battle of ko chang (7/7)
66 ARGENTINA - Submarine Santa Fe
67 CHILE - Destroyer Admirante Lynche
68 SPAIN - Nadir - armed merchant cruiser
69 SWEDEN - Oscar II - Coastal battleship
70 TURKEY - Hamidiye - ex ww1 german cruiser
71 TURKEY - Ms406 Fighter
72 NEUTRAL - INSTALLATION Subpen:

As always, I think the tension is between the "gamers" that want playable tournament cards which generally means sister ships and "what-ifs" at this point, and the "collectors" that just want a named card of ship classes and aircraft to add to the card collection even though they would be pretty useless for the game. As usual, it is a process of compromise to come to an agreeable list.

Lumley Lyster? Is that a real name?

Are there still ways to put enough capital ships or rare units into Axis nations like Germany and Italy? I know that has been a struggle past 3 decks.

I am more on the collector side and would desire a few more classes or ships and aircraft not included yet.

3 months ago I gave ChatGPT a try and tried to make it spit out a deck of 72 for fun. It did give some new ships and planes. But most of it was what we already had in the game.

For example:

United States
USS Essex CV 9
USS Tullibee (SS 284)
Vought Kingfisher
USS Gridley (DD 380)
USS William D Porter (DD 579)
USS Northampton (CA 26)

Could pull some units from your hypothetical decks Weedsrock2 or mine from the old Forumini. Or even Deck H rough draft that flakstruck

Agree with Vic more good sisters or undone stuff, preferably with decent WOTC proxies. Always been happy will smaller ship types and against the having big ships just for the sake of it. With some choices (Axis etc.) getting more and more obscure. Baden after Bayern for example...do we intend on re-floating and refitting more of the high seas fleet? Give me a good U boat any day.

I think in general the Axis slot allocations have started to wane anyway and I think that's right if the slots can be used better elsewhere.

For variations sake.
of the commanders we did, i wish we could have kept the Uboat guy and commander harwood but this list^ predate the trimming we did for G