Re: Wet Thrust/Full Steam Playtest

At 10:30 AM 8/18/97 -0600, Binhan wrote:
>
>Some other considerations that may be applicable - 
>Quick firing guns did not occur as much in the larger calibres in this
>period. Perhaps A batts will get the added range band but not 2 dice at
>medium?  Or perhaps grouping more guns to form 1 A batt (3 for 2, 2 for
1
>and 1 for 1?)

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. 

>Since deck armor is not very prevalent, perhaps when crossing the T and
>firing down the deck(i.e. hitting from directly fore or aft of the
>target), hits are calculated against the deck and not the hull.

I don't think just crossing the T should make for deck hits. I think it
should be a function of range. 

>Torpedoes may also be a problem since few ships had torpedo bulges or
>large amounts of compartmentalization.  This may require increasing
damage
>done by torpedoes.

True, but torpedoes were inaccurate and smaller than their WWI
counterpart.
15" torpedoes were common, as opposed to the 18" torpedoes that came
later.
These might work to cancel out the differences between WWI and
predreadnought (smaller size and poorer accuaracy versus lack of torpedo
belt).

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