First draft of a ship damage record chart. I fully intend tidying this up in due course but for now it will suffice.
What I have completed this week though, along with the rules, is the complete ship specification design chapter for the book as well as the ship damage record charts for all the combatants included in the WoFun Tsushima fleet pack. The picture you see above is the chart for two of the Russian Borodino class battleships that took part in the battle where the Borodino was sunk and the Orel was captured by the Japanese.
I intentionally made these quite large - two ships on a side of A4 although you can get four destroyers - so they are clear and that it is obvious what is what. They are probably not the final version but you can see where my thinking is currently at.
The top half looks at the ship itself whilst the bottom covers the weaponry. Each box in the latter portion refers to a single gun or torpedo mount. The letters refer to firing arcs whilst the numbers refer to the type of gun and the range table it uses. There are six types of gun, six range tables and six levels of protection.
The rules themselves are heavily influenced, in part, by The Portable Ironclads Wargame but this is not simply a rehash - there is a lot of new material here!
Once the test game has been fought there will be an after action report and pictures to follow. It will see the first use of the WoFun Tsushima collection - at least a part of it - so I am very much looking forward to it!
2 comments:
David -
This is all looking very promising! I have occasionally thought of assembling damage charts for my Portable games, but for narrative reasons desiring to include the 'when'. The system you have here could do that. Instead of shading in the damage, one might write the turn number.
My own method inscribes the when, but is rather sketchy on the what!
Cheers,
Ion
Hi Archduke,
Thank you kindly sir! I like the idea about recording the turn number when damage is sustained - I may even give that a try as it will help with the after action report.
Going into the detail that I have on the chart may not be to everyone’s taste but I find it keeps things simple.
I am looking forward to the inaugural game but am expecting there to be some tinkering and the ship record charts may well be on the list but we shall see!
All the best,
DC
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