Victory at Sea anyone heard of this one ?

[FlickJax]

And the first British ship is my Grandads :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Jervis_(F00)

[jameseviltwin]

And the first British ship is my Grandads :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Jervis_(F00)

Yup! You start with one J Class Destroyer and eventually start to build your fleet. Bit of a coincidence considering we have 80+ ship classes!

[steve58]

The game has an RTS element to it but it also has a time slider to slow combat right down to a crawl to allow players to command individual ships quickly.

Welcome James---while I love the PTO, I wasn't too interested in VaS (not a big RTS fan) until I saw you say the above.  But now I'll be keeping my eye on it.

[jameseviltwin]

The game has an RTS element to it but it also has a time slider to slow combat right down to a crawl to allow players to command individual ships quickly.

Welcome James---while I love the PTO, I wasn't too interested in VaS (not a big RTS fan) until I saw you say the above.  But now I'll be keeping my eye on it.

Excellent! We will definitely be keeping you all posted as we go. I'll be honest I play a lot of the game in a slower speed, though I know a guy who prefers to play it x2 speed, so it has a lot of leeway!

[Cyrano]

This is tremendously exciting for me as I've played a LOT of VaS using the A&A miniatures.

No, it assuredly isn't Seekrieg and my friends who play that, Pratt, &c., tend to turn up their noses a bit, but this is definitely a sweet-spot system for me rules-density-wise.

That said, one thing that emerged from first edition VaS frankly broken was aircraft.  The second edition of the rules (as included in the second volume) dealt with it somewhat more abstractly, but I thought all together better.

How will this be managed in the electronic version?

Very best to you.

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)

[Barthheart]

Excellent! We will definitely be keeping you all posted as we go. I'll be honest I play a lot of the game in a slower speed, though I know a guy who prefers to play it x2 speed, so it has a lot of leeway!

Will there be an extremely slow speed for us old grognards? I like being to speed things up when not much is happening but I also like to have things move at a snails pace when they get hectic....  :)

[jameseviltwin]

Excellent! We will definitely be keeping you all posted as we go. I'll be honest I play a lot of the game in a slower speed, though I know a guy who prefers to play it x2 speed, so it has a lot of leeway!

Will there be an extremely slow speed for us old grognards? I like being to speed things up when not much is happening but I also like to have things move at a snails pace when they get hectic....  :)

Yes you can comfortably sit there and watch it very slowly move! It's my favourite mode, until I need to start travelling. There are 2 views. The world view and the battle view. Crossing the Atlantic in the World View does need (In my opinion) to have the time slider cranked up a bit as it can take a while!

[Barthheart]

Excellent! We will definitely be keeping you all posted as we go. I'll be honest I play a lot of the game in a slower speed, though I know a guy who prefers to play it x2 speed, so it has a lot of leeway!

Will there be an extremely slow speed for us old grognards? I like being to speed things up when not much is happening but I also like to have things move at a snails pace when they get hectic....  :)

Yes you can comfortably sit there and watch it very slowly move! It's my favourite mode, until I need to start travelling. There are 2 views. The world view and the battle view. Crossing the Atlantic in the World View does need (In my opinion) to have the time slider cranked up a bit as it can take a while!

Cool beans! Looking forward to more info.  :)

[jameseviltwin]

This is tremendously exciting for me as I've played a LOT of VaS using the A&A miniatures.

No, it assuredly isn't Seekrieg and my friends who play that, Pratt, &c., tend to turn up their noses a bit, but this is definitely a sweet-spot system for me rules-density-wise.

That said, one thing that emerged from first edition VaS frankly broken was aircraft.  The second edition of the rules (as included in the second volume) dealt with it somewhat more abstractly, but I thought all together better.

How will this be managed in the electronic version?

Very best to you.

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)

Great!
We have used the more abstract rules as a basis. We wanted the Carriers to be able to launch dive bombers and fighters at selected vessels and then not have to micro manage them. Basically the planes can all be separately targeted to different vessels and can be recalled to the carriers. They are treated in some respects like the weapon systems. You can "fire all weapons" or you can fire individual weapons at individual craft, depending on facing, damage and weapons ready state.

[undercovergeek]

are there torpedo armed planes?

[jameseviltwin]

are there torpedo armed planes?

Yup there are!

[Cyrano]

First -- much credit for the communication.  Fine, rare thing, I think me.

Second -- MP?

Best,

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)

[jameseviltwin]

First -- much credit for the communication.  Fine, rare thing, I think me.

Second -- MP?

Best,

Jim
"Cyrano"
:/7)

Thanks! Yeah I like to chat about it! We have got the ability to play multi player locally. But for the launch we have held back on a full on multi player. But it's definitely on our list of to dos for the next phase.

[Nefaro]

As I said, the sandbox-y campaign stuff is what grabs my interest most.  The example of escorting Atlantic convoys is encouraging. Sounds like fun.

[Boggit]

Welcome aboard James. :) I'm glad you've had the opportunity to tell us more about your game. If this goes well, will you be doing one set during WW1, or as an expansion to the main game?