Epeé - France Le Hardi class Destroyer - 1939 Cost 8 MG 5 5 4 AA 5 ASW 4 TT 2 1 1 A2 V7 H2
Torpedo Run - Once per game, at the end of Sea Movement, you may move this unit and a friendly Destroyer in its sector one sector. The unit must be able to make a Torpedo attack in the Surface attack phase.
Torpedo Salvo - This unit gets +1 on each attack die when making Torpedo attacks while in the same sector as a friendly Destroyer.
Convoy Guard - Enemy Ships roll one less attack die when making Gunnery attacks against friendly Auxiliaries in the same sector as this unit
Class limit: none (seven eventually completed)
Planned a one of a class of 12, Epee was one if only handful complete by the fall of france. She escorted Jean Bart to Casablanca. In response to British attacks onfrench ports in africa, Epee joined a flotilla of destroyers to raid near gibraltar. Only encountering a unidentified destroyer they unconclusively engaged. There after she was held for counter atracks against landings on the french med coast, until the germans attempted to seize the fleet. At which time she was scuttled. Italy raised and began refitting her but were frustrated by allied bombings.
Replace Torpedo Run with Once per game, at the end of the Sea Movement phase, you may move this unit and a friendly Destroyer in its sector 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.
Hyphenate Le Hardi-class
Suggested flavor text rewrite with some sentences combined:
Épée was one of four nearly-completed Le Hardi-class destroyers able to escape to Africa at the time of the armistice. She was the lead ship of the newly-formed 10th Division de Torpilleurs and escorted Jean Bart to Casablanca. In response to the British attack on Dakar, Épée joined a flotilla of destroyers to raid near Gibraltar where they inconclusively engaged with a British destroyer. The 10th Division returned to Toulon afterwards and Épée was renamed L'Adroit. All four ships were eventually scuttled to prevent the Germans from capturing them. Italy raised and began refitting them, but Allied bombings frustrated their efforts.
I saw that on Weaky. But Conway's, and more importantly, the recent book "French Destroyers" by Jordan and Moulin spell it Epée.
Torpedo Run is an "original" WotC special ability. I don't like to change those unless they were changed in a WotC clarification. Your version is probably better, but "c’est la vie!"
Flavor text rewrite accepted! I do appreciate the time it takes to revise these things.
Many thanks!
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The SA text I pasted is from was.tamgc.net and matches the text on the original Oi Wizards card.
I think this is one time that Conway’s got it wrong. Épée is a somewhat common French word from fencing while Épée is not a French word. But I don’t have the final say.
The SA text I pasted is from was.tamgc.net and matches the text on the original Oi Wizards card.
I think this is one time that Conway’s got it wrong. Épée is a somewhat common French word from fencing while Épée is not a French word. But I don’t have the final say.
Interesting. But I wonder why a book with a French author wouldn't have caught that? But I will go with Épée because the fencing link makes sense.
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My guess is it’s the real life version of copy-paste off the internet where one begat the other. But I don’t know personally, maybe the ship’s actual name was misspelled.
Well, I changed it and I am not changing it back! I also checked the wording on Torpedo Run and you were correct. I traced the error back to copying it from the Abilities tab in Hap's spreadsheet. I don't know how it got transcribed so poorly into the spreadsheet. Anyway - fixed.
Thank you!
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