What’s the coolest thing you have ever done with War at Sea? Cool scenario? Improbable vital at the perfect, desperate time? Play WaS on a nuclear sub? Paint?
It often seems like those 11-dice attacks aren’t even worth rolling against 8 armor, but then you hit that 0% odds shot and it totally changes your outlook.
Among the best moments for me has been with USS Massachusetts. Having spent the night on the actual ship a few times years ago as a Boy Scout and having brought my students there on other occasions, it holds a special place for me.
Its epic War at Sea moment came the first time I ever put it on the table - it scored a vital on Tirpitz on its very first shot. Welcome to War at Sea, "Big Mamie!"
I played the last game of the campaign I've been running Saturday (I'll have a detailed post up soon) and two spectacular things happened.
On the Allied side: 3 3-die ASW attacks made during the air phase scored 3, 3, and 5(!) successes, sinking 2 of my submarines an crippling the third. This was the same turn I made 4 ASW attacks on a single sub and failed to scratch it.
On my side, I scored 4 long lance hits with a single torpedo swarm, hitting a Washington, sinking a Milan, and crippling a Clemenceau.
University Student— Lover of Plato, Aristotle, War At Sea, Palestrina, and Mozart
Early on in my tenure with the local game club I went to 12-7-gamer ‘s house and played a distance game on his pool table. The sectors were oversized but it certainly changes the scale to be that far apart. We re-played the Battle of Midway with Expert abilities tied to the specific flight stands that flew from that carrier and there were lots of explosions. It basically played out like in real life with Yorktown getting damaged, repaired to full strength, and then sunk, and the Japanese lost their carrier fleet.
Coolest thing I can recall is going with my friends to a new game shop when I still in college many years ago. I picked up a War at Sea booster (Set V) just for kicks and pulled a USS Essex out of it. I couldn't believe my luck.
Coolest thing I can recall is going with my friends to a new game shop when I still in college many years ago. I picked up a War at Sea booster (Set V) just for kicks and pulled a USS Essex out of it. I couldn't believe my luck.
Ah the days of opening boosters...
Yeah, I do miss them. Funnily enough, I have never opened a Set 1 booster- the game shops I frequented always had starter sets, but never Set 1 boosters.
I think one of my best moments was here during an Escalation Match against Brigs, when I sent a Veltro after his Meteor. I managed 14 successes against the thing, probably one of the best AA rolls I have ever made.
The man who gets beat down isn't the loser. The guy who can't tough it out to the end, he's the one who loses.
One thing I did that was pretty neat was recreate the US order of battle at the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (more or less). It makes a solid core for a 200+ point fleet.
As follows: USS Washington 56 USS South Dakota 56 USS Wainwright (representing USS Walke) 9 USS Smith (representing USS Preston) 8 USS Sterett (representing USS Benham) 7 USS Gwin 7
Total 143
The man who gets beat down isn't the loser. The guy who can't tough it out to the end, he's the one who loses.