Official Japanese ships??

I have had people inquiring to me designs for the IJN warships. Has any one
playued them resently and have any input for me on them? Vince

> Vince said:

> While we're about it...has anyone used the playtest designs for the

I haven't had a chance to use the newest OUDF designs, but the CVLs and
smaller have had extensive playtesting. They require a change from the normal
tactics, you have to get in close ASAP (easier in cinematic than vector), but
have their own flavour and when used properly, can give as good as they get.

I've had a CH take the entire firepower of a 3000 pt KV fleet at 22 MU, and it
not go "pop". OK, it was rendered combat ineffective, and FTL'd out at the
earliest opportunity, but its survival really affected the KV player's morale.

I've also had a flotilla of OUDF "Destroyers" at close range slowly
dismantle an ESU Battleship - 8 dice here, 8 dice there, each slowly
eating away armour, hull, weaponry... salvo after salvo crashing in with no
respite.

"But it was only 6 Destroyers, and 2 of those are Escorts!". Yes, but it's
also just shy of 40 dice. Even at 24 MU, it's 12.

On the other hand, it takes steady nerves to take the attrition at over 24 MU,
when you can't fire back. You watch your larger ships get ablated away,

Vince said:
> I have had people inquiring to me designs for the IJN warships. Has

While we're about it...has anyone used the playtest designs for the Islamic
Federation? The UN? New Israelis? OUDF?

Anybody?

In a message dated 7/6/2005 10:35:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> laserlight@quixnet.net writes:

Vince said:
> I have had people inquiring to me designs for the IJN warships. Has

While we're about it...has anyone used the playtest designs for the Islamic
Federation? The UN? New Israelis? OUDF?

Anybody?

I have done the UN and NI ships. Chris, as a matter of fact, I played them at
GZG 2 years ago and I do like them. Played them here a couple times as well..

> Vince said:

I've used the UN ships in 4 or 5 battles, and I've found them to be nicely
balanced. Not too strong, nor particularly weak. I used them as the basis for
my fleet in a campaign we're running right now, although to date all the
fighting has been been by the missile and carrier variants I designed.

So far, I've found that the 3 row hulls usually mean a ship is functional or
dead. Very few cripples trying to limp away to date. I've had one really
 nice grazer shot (16 points at range 30+), but that's been balanced by
several misses and low damage shots. I'm still waiting for a destroyer to get
into
 g1 range and cripple or kill a big ship, but no luck so far.  :-)