War at Sea: Task Force Sneak Peek Stats

War at Sea: Task Force officially releases tomorrow but we’ve already shared the complete set list with all of you.  Now we have the pleasure of sharing stats for the Hellcat (USN), Haruna (IJN), Yamashiro (IJN), Musashi (IJN), King George V (UK) and Warspite (UK).  This information comes to me courtesy of our newest member Extended_Range.

We will have pictures of minis and stat cards in an upcoming article.

Without further adieu here are the stats courtesy of Extended_Range.

USN Hellcat:

Cost: 10 pts.

Guns: 3

Anti-Air: 8

Armor: 7

Vital Armor: 10

Hull Points: 1

Special Abilities: Combat Air Patrol, Advanced fighter (2 extra dice against Fighters). Escort

IJN Haruna

Cost: 38 Pts

All stats same as Kongo

No Flagship bonus

Special Abilities: Evade Bombs: once per game, when this unit is the target of a bomb attack, you may roll a dice.  On a 4 or higher, the bomb attack misses.

Bombard:  Once per game, instead of making a mani gunnery attack, this unit can bombard your opponent’s land airbase if this unit is in your opponent’s ship deployment area.  At the end of that turn, place 2 additional rearming counters next to each aircraft at the airbase.

IJN Yamashiro:

Cost: 43 pts.

Main Guns: 13 12 11 11

Secondary Guns: 2 6 5 5 4

Tertiary Guns: 3 4 4 3

Anti-Air: 7

Armor: 8

Vital Armor: 13

Hull Points: 5

Flagship Bonus 1

Special Abilities: Slow 1, Extended Range 4, Torpedo Defense 1, Masked guns:  If you  win initiative, this unit rolls two extra attack dice when making Main Gunnery attacks within Range 2 this turn

IJN Musashi

Points: 66 pts.

Same stats as Yamato

Flagship Bonus 1

Special Abilities: Anti-Air Barrage (can make 2 AA attacks against separate targets, 2nd attack at 5 dice), Extended Range 4, Torpedo Defense 1

HMS King George V

Cost: 51 pts

Main Guns: 15 15 13 12

Secondary Guns: 2 5 5 4

Anti-Air: 7

Armor: 9

Vital Armor: 15

Hull Points: 5

Special Abilities: Jammed Mount:  (Roll a dice before main gunnery attack-on a 1, this unit rolls 3 less attack dice for main gun until end of your next turn), Bristling with guns, Extended Range 4, Torpedo Defense 1

HMS Warspite

Main Guns: 15 15 14 12

Secondary Guns: 2 6 5 4 4

Tertiary Guns: 3 4 4 3

Anti-Air: 7

Armor: 8

Vital Armor: 14

Hull Points: 5

Flagship Bonus 1

Special Abilities: Slow 1, Extended Range 4, Long Shot 6: (Once per game, make a range 6 main gun attack against an enemy BB using range 3 dice)

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War at Sea: Task Force Official Set List

I am pleased to share the War at Sea Task Force (Set 2) set list with all of you.  It comes to me courtesy of Extended_Range over at Axis & Allies foruMINI with much credit going to that forum for being a great community to discuss War at Sea.

I have also confirmed the set list with the two cases of miniatures I have purchased.  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 set list as shared by Extended_Range.

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CWF-2008-4-10 News, Server Move Complete, Getting Out of Axis & Allies Minis, and Musical Guest Black Crowes

Episode 36 with Jonathan as your host discussing News, Server Move Complete, Getting Out of Axis & Allies Minis, and musical guest Black Crowes.

Show Length: 43:26

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00:00 Theme, Zombie by Devin Anderson (Electronic)

02:16 News

02:21 Event Countdowns @ CWF

War @ Sea at Battleground Games on Wednesdays

‘Ard Boyz Tournaments for 40k

Havoc XXIV in 14 Days

Total Confusion XXII Presents All Day Boardgaming at Rising Phoenix Games in Leicester on April 19th

7:02 Battlegrounds Special Offers

D&D 4th Edition Offer – Pre-order & pre-pay all 3 core books and be entered to win a free case of D&D minis.

Battleground d20 20% Off Coupon

8:53 Music to Game By Check Out “Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution” by Black Crowes

14:06 Server Move Complete/New Changes

Server Move Complete

25:20 New England Podcasters Promo

26:09 Getting Out of Axis & Allies Minis

Getting Out of Axis & Allies Minis = Cheap Models

Axis & Allies Minis Articles

32:07 Inside No Quarter #17 March 08

Inside No Quarter #17

40:15 Please send us feedback. E-mail it to cwfgamecast [at] wargamingforums [dot] com. Use the Contact Us Page. Go to iTunes and leave a comment. Send an IM to cwforums on AIM.

41:29 Next cast will be Wednesday April 10, 2008

42:52 Exit Theme, Pop Science by Devin Anderson (Electronic)

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Spore Creature Creator Video

On Sunday I picked up a new game, the Spore Creature Creator, in anticipation of the September ’08 release of the full Spore game.  Spore is another Maxis title and Will Wright has been touting this for ages.  I figured that the $9.99 price tag, at Best Buy, was worth the expenditure.

When I came home I noticed the game is suitable for Windows XP and Mac OS X, which made me very happy.  I installed the game on my Windows partition and after 5 minutes I was ready to go.  I made a few creatures but only took video of one of them.  The game features an integrated video capture system that allows you to capture, save and publish video (to Youtube).

Testing out all the features was quite fun and I still have many more hours of playtesting to do.  So far, it is looking good.  Please check out the video below, linked from my Youtube account, to see my latest creature showing off.  He…er She…er It dances, jumps, is happy, erupts in a mating call, and has a great time with three baby creatures.

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WordPress 2.6 Update Completed

The CWF Game Cast has completed its update from its 2.5.1 version of WordPress to 2.6. Why do this, you may ask. Instead of trying to explain it all to you, the WordPress people did a great job of it already.

Please read WordPress 2.6 at the official WordPress blog. That explains all the reasons why we are updating.

The upgrade was performed using the automatic upgrade plugin.  We used this opportunity to update all our plugins once 2.6 was fully installed.  The only problem was with our Date Countdown plugin resulting from its update.  We have removed the plugin for the time being as it is more trouble than it is worth.

We also installed and activated Gears that should result in speedier blogging.  If you have a user account and use either Internet Explorer or Firefox please do the following.  Sign into your account.  Go to Site Admin.  At the top right of the screen you’ll see your username, Log Out, Help, Forums, and Turbo.  Click on Turbo and then install and activate Gears.  If you are on a dial-up connection (i.e. AOL) you’ll receive a speedier user experience on the blog.

Please view the below video for all the bells and whistles in WP 2.6.

https://videopress.com/v/mARhRBcT/fmt_dvd

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