Re: Official Japanese ships??

> 
> Vince said:
> >I have had people inquiring to me designs for the IJN warships. Has
> any one played them recently and have any input for me on them?
> 
> While we're about it...has anyone used the playtest designs for the
> Islamic Federation?
> The UN? New Israelis? OUDF?
> 
> Anybody?
> 

   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.  :-)

  grant