Recently in the podcast I’ve been talking about the War at Sea Collectible Mini game. I thought I’d take this opportunity to spend a little more time on the game. I’m going to discuss a 100pt Axis fleet I made and also the scarcity of the game.
The fleet I made is a combined force of German and Italian forces. This past Wednesday I was at Battleground Games in Abington for War at Sea night. I played an intro game, to get the feel for the rules, with Rick using an Allied fleet. I won by 6 points although it was more of a draw.
For the same game I used my German/Italian fleet. The fleet is composed of:
1 Duca D’Aosta
1 Bolzano
1 Nordmark
1 Koln
3 U510
2 FW 200 Kondor
1 JU 87B Stuka
The primary strategy is to use my U-boats to control the seas and prevent my opponent from getting near objectives or any of my surface vessels. They are helped with the Wolfpack special ability (+1 Attack Dice for Torpedo attacks if other subs in the fleet have the Wolfpack ability). Additionally, the Kondors could use their Pinpointer special ability to confer another +1 Attack Dice to each U-boat attacking the designated target. This means at 2 spaces away each U-boat would get 4 torpedo dice with a maximum of 5 dice for 0 and 1 square away.
This post serves as a discussion point, and my thoughts, on the new computer. Originally I wanted a new machine to run Windows XP. Any new machine, except custom built, would come from a manufacturer with Vista pre-installed and that’s a mess. Instead I’m aiming for an Apple.
