TORPEDO CHARGE: Once per game, at the end of the Sea Movement phase, you may move this unit one sector. A unit moving this way can only move to a sector from which it will be able to make a Torpedo attack during the Surface Attack phase. (Lupo)
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TORPEDO CHARGE: Once per game, at the end of the Sea Movement phase, you may move this unit one sector. A unit moving this way can only move to a sector from which it will be able to make a MAIN GUNNERY attack during the Surface Attack phase.
I like it, especially with her range-4 mains: she'll be a threat to fast cruisers Turn 1, and can almost always take an objective turn 2 (as long as you are ok risking her in the mêlée)
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TORPEDO CHARGE: Once per game, at the end of the Sea Movement phase, you may move this unit one sector. A unit moving this way can only move to a sector from which it will be able to make a MAIN GUNNERY attack during the Surface Attack phase.
Post by itslesserknown on Jul 19, 2023 23:03:05 GMT
Would we keep the name as “torpedo charge” or have it just be “charge?” Since there’s no torpedoes involved. Alternatively I think “run out the guns” is a fun name
Price 46 with the SA? Stronger all around than California at 45, and with a good but one time use SA that maybe doesn’t stack up to West Virginia at 47
Post by itslesserknown on Jul 21, 2023 1:44:26 GMT
On a slightly related note, I was just having a conversation with one of my dad’s old military buddies last night, and apparently he had a cousin who was one of the 14 killed by a kamikaze attack on the Colorado in Leyte Gulf. Really interesting to hear some of those stories - and it struck me as particularly interesting since I had just earlier yesterday been reading about the Colorado in this thread, and talking about the ship in an abstract way for the sake of a game!
LEAD CHARGE (or RUN OUT GUNS): Once per game, at the end of the Sea Movement phase, you may move this unit one sector. A unit moving this way can only move to a sector from which it will be able to make a MAIN GUNNERY attack during the Surface Attack phase.