This is the complete Task Force Picture Gallery. It shows all cards personally scanned in by me at 600dpi per card. Please note all our stat card scans (including these) are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share alike 3.0 Unported license (as is everything on this blog). You must adhere to that license in order to use the scans.

I hope you enjoy the card gallery. Don’t forget to use the 2010 Starter Stat Cards, Flank Speed Stat Cards, Task Force Stat Cards, and Base Set Stat Cards.

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This is the first part of our Task Force picture gallery series featuring card scans War at Sea and we’re starting with two great American ships.  We begin with the USS California and USS Missouri

The “Mighty Mo” as the Missouri was called had a brilliant career during WWII and beyond (including the Gulf War).  It holds several distinctions being the final battleship produced by the United States, serving as Admiral Bill Halsey’s flagship in the final months of the war, and being the location where Japan signed its official surrender.

You can click the stat cards to open a larger version.

The Mighty Mo was awarded 11 battle stars tying it with sister ship USS Iowa.  The Missouri had a crew of 2,700 officers and men who expertly staffed her.  Her armament made her a feared opponent and consisted of:

9 x 16 in (406 mm) 50 cal. Mark 7 guns

20 × 5 in (127 mm) 38 cal. Mark 12 guns

80 x 40 mm 56 cal. anti-aircraft guns

49 x 20 mm 70 cal. anti-aircraft guns

She is now a museum ship.

The USS California was a member of the Tennessee class of battleships being the final one commissioned in 1921.  It was refitted for World War II and played major roles in the Invasion of the Phillippines, most notably at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the action at Okinawa.  She served as the flagship of the Pacific Fleet until 1941.

During the attack at Pearl Harbor she suffered major damage and settled into the mud.  Over 150 of her crew were killed or wounded in the attack including Medal of Honor recipient Petty Officer 1st Class Robert R. Scott.  Scott later, in 1943, had a class of destroyers named for him.

The California was decommissioned in 1947 and ended her life sold for scrap in 1959.

All stat cards are high resolution scans made by me.  Please click the pictures for a larger version.

I am pleased to share the results of opening 3.6 cases of Task Force with all of you.  I am only missing 4 ships.

Knowing my intention to blog about the contents I was prepared before I cracked any cases.  With pen and notebook at the ready I opened case #1 followed by case #2, then case #3 and I wrote down what I got (the list below is in order from #1-#60).  The .6 case was a handful of boosters I individually purchased.  They were part of another case the store owner opened for me.

Overall I’m happy with what I pulled but I’m sad that I didn’t get the Graf Zeppelin.  It is the ship I most wanted.  My first case had a great diversity with virtually 1 of every item.  The second case gave more multiples.  The .6 case (i.e. 8 boosters) helped give more of the Commonwealth vessels and padded Japan too.  Unfortunately I have a plethora of multiple rares from the same cases that has me quite upset.  Some of the rares weren’t seen in 1 case and then showed up 2 (or in some cases 3) times in another.  I’m very angry about that and think the distribution needed to be handled much better.

5 HMAS Arunta C

5 HMCS Haida C

6 Casabianca C

3 Dunkerque R

3 Jean Bart R

4 Hr. Ms. De Ruyter UC

5 Hr. Ms. Van Galen C

6 Hr. Ms. Zvaardvisch C

6 Barracuda Mk. II C

4 Halifax GR Mk. V UC

4 HMS Fencer UC

0 HMS Illustrious R

4 HMS Jamaica UC

3 HMS Kent R

2 HMS King George V R

0 HMS Warsprite R

4 Beaufighter TF Mk. X UC

4 B-25H Mitchell UC

5 F6F-3 Hellcat C

7 TBF Avenger C

8 USS Archerfish (SS 311) C

3 USS California (BB 44) R

4 USS Cleveland (CL 55) UC

5 USS Hoel (DD 533) C

7 USS John C. Butler (DE 339) C

5 USS Laffey (DD 724) C

4 USS Massachusetts (BB 59) R

1 USS Missouri (BB 63) R

2 USS San Francisco (CA 38) R

1 USS Yorktown (CV 5) R

2 USS Saratoga (CV 3) R

2 Admiral Hipper R

3 Admiral Scheer R

5 Bf 109 C

0 Graf Zepplin R

4 Karlsruhe UC

4 S-Boat C

1 Tirpitz R

8 U-66 C

6 Z18 Hans Ludemann C

5 C.202 Folgore C

3 Eugenio Di Savoia UC

4 Giulio Cesare R

6 Ju-87 R2 Picchiatelli C

2 Littorio R

4 SM.79 Sparviero UC

5 Ugolino Vivaldi C

3 Zara R

6 A6M2 Zero Kamikaze C

6 Akitsuki C

6 D4YI “Judy” C

4 H8KI Type 2 “Emily” UC

2 Haruna R

5 I-26 C

8 Isokaze C

3 Musashi R

1 Nachi R

4 Yahagi UC

1 Yamashiro R

0 Zuikaku R

In some cases I’m more surprised by what I pulled than what I didn’t.  I’m only missing 4 ships including the HMS Illustrious, HMS Warspite, Graf Zeppelin, and Zuikaku.  However I am quite surprised to pull 4 USS Massachusetts, 3 Jean Barts, 3 Musashis, 4 Yahagis, 3 Zaras, 4 Giulio Cesares, 3 Admiral Scheers, and 7 USS Archerfish.

Analyzing the contents by case I believe case #1 to have a better variation of contents.  I pulled almost every model in case #1 but only pulled 1 of each item.  Case #2 provided duplicates of many items but fewer pulls.  Case #3 increased my irritation with a plethora of duplicates.

Now that the initial flurry is completed questions remain.  Word from WoTC has long been that Task Force would include night fighting and kamikaze rules.  I, perhaps erroneously, expected those rules to be offered in the individual boosters on the back side of the checklist.  WoTC has done this for Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures and that led me to believe they’d follow suit.  However, they failed to include checklists in any of the 32 boosters I opened and also failed to include any of those rules.  It is uncertain if those rules will still be released and in what manner.

Nightfighting is an existing rule from the core rulebook and the text of stat cards.  I expected altered or advanced rules to cover that situation.  Additionally, kamikaze rules are brand new.  The only mention to them in the set is on the individual Zero Kamikaze plane’s stat card.

Simply listing a special ability titled Suicide Attack with the text of “This unit is destroyed at the end of the Air Attack phase if it isn’t at the land airbase” is insufficient as a means of marketing the new set to say that kamikaze rules are included.  Perhaps both sets of rules will be released in an online FAQ/Rules Clarification.  WoTC has done this before for War at Sea and I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.  No matter the reason I was greatly disappointed to not see checklists and the new rules.

Please be sure to check out the other WAS Task Force articles we have. They cover sneak peaks, pictures, and information about the new set. Remember that Task Force officially goes on sale this Friday. If you haven’t pre-ordered boosters it may not be too late to pick some up at your local gaming store.

I am pleased to share a gallery of War at Sea Task Force (Set 2) models and stat cards with all of you. It comes to me courtesy of the official War at Sea website.

Please be sure to check out the other War at Sea Task Force articles we have.  They cover sneak peaks, pictures, and information about the new set.  Remember that Task Force officially goes on sale this Friday.  If you haven’t pre-ordered boosters it may not be too late to pick some up at your local gaming store.

Without further adieu here is the gallery of pictures.  Don’t forget to click the pictures for a closer look.  You can click them a second time for the best resolution.