Hope you do not mind my asking but what ship details were used for this flotilla?
'Jane's WWI' and an Austrian museum site have the weapons as 6 x 6.6cm (2.6") guns and 2 x 45cm (17.7") TT with no re-loads mentioned.
No mention also of any twin mounts, the pictures are next to useless.
This giving single mounts and the stats in the book would come to

Type:  , HUSZAR Class,  Destroyer Flotilla  (64)
Ships: 4 3 2 1
Max Speed: 7
Armor: 0
Weapons:
Battery X:   Light Guns  TL0,  2/4/6, 2/3+/1/1
Non–Piercing
[ABCD]  [ABCD]  [ABCD]  [ABCD] [C] [C] [C] [C] [C] [C] [C] [C] [D] [D] [D] [D] [D] [D] [D] [D] [CDEF] [CDEF] [CDEF] [CDEF]
Battery Y:   17.7” Torpedo  TL0,  1/2/3, 1/6+/3/1
Halves Armor
[CD]  [CD]  [CD]  [CD] [CD] [CD] [CD] [CD]
Ammo:( 8 ) 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Are the range and ROF correct?
The Light Gun arcs do not seem to be for Four ships.
Help please.
Paul

Add, Better photograph and painting indicates Single mounts. There does seem to be some confusion as ships were converted around 1914. One Hungarian site gives 1 x 70mm/45 & 6 x 70mm/30 while a book written on these destroyers has the 12pdr guns as 1 x 66mm/45 and 5 x 66mm/30. I have changed the above, shipyard was showing twice the [CDEF] gun.
I have corrected the fault in version 8. Paul 29/8/08

OH Poo!
NON PIERCING +1?

Thought I was seeing things. No, listed on page 9:-
Non-Piercing [X] (Weapon, varies) . . . C4 DRN

Except it aint! Unless there is a page missing between 12 & 13.

Paul

I do not know about Grand Fleets but it should be possible to use VBAM for a Dreadnoughts campaign. The VBAM Starmada edition is for Starmada X but AE conversion can be done.

Although Flotillas are not strictly a part of VBAM, I have just updated the stats in the shipyard to include them. So long as they are treated as One ship it should work.

First ever campaign rules I came across were for a hypothetical world war game. They are in Sea Battle Games by P Dunn, published by Model & Allied Publications Ltd in 1970 (the year I bought the book). Being for Naval action, air and land warfare are simplified. Most important thing being transporting steel and oil to factories and ports, without which You cannot build new ships or have them at sea. It makes a good read even now.

Paul

Oh good, Sorry I did not mean it like that.
Finished everything but the Drake Notation for flotillas and the How to pdf update, so with a bit of luck I will be posting Shipyard Version 6 in the morning.

Paul

Help!
Dual Mode example on page 17, giving me headache!

I cannot get to the totals you give. i.e. Mode (Fighter) I keep getting =390.4 / Mode (Striker) I get =535.3
Giving a Cap Req of 27. Tried Two calculators and the shipyard with calcs altered to those that you give.

I know you like squares Dan but it would have been simpler to take the old calculation for both modes and add half of the lesser to the larger Capacity requirement ( this gives 34).

Paul

Er, No.

THere may be some similarities to an Octopus but the Octopodians (name given them by other aliens) are alien. Just happen to have the right number of limbs (in their opinion) numbering eight. Their child eggs are called pods. I think that they got called this to make eating them more palatable! Although they do have a beak, they have never laid eye upon ink.
Spoiler: You cannot creep up on a Watchee!

Paul

Thanks.

I thought that Anteatman sounded better than 'Giant mutated ants convert mankind into concentrated food bars'.

I must admit that the ships performance may not be the best (not when compared to BIG battlewagons with range 30 guns). I started with the species and imagined what they might have or want instead of starting with the ships. Like the designs, almost all curves instead of sharp edges seems 'Right' for Ants.

Most of the counters I have made previously have been for other settings like U.F.O. or Star Trek (Seventy odd Federation ship classes and counting) re drawn pixel by pixel, the Galaxy class took me a week. The Cottonmouth and Viper took a while going from the ISS book illustrations (mostly guesswork).

Who next? Maybe The Octopodians with another bit about counters. :twisted:

Paul

True.
Double Sigh
Sorry, there I go getting confused. (not very hard to do these days).I was reading from the core rules and they do not mention this calc as being an Offensive Rating. Offensive rating not being shown until page 30.