• Registered: 2007-09-13
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Topic: Dreadnoughts @ GenCon 2009

I'm already plotting for GenCon NEXT year. . .

I'm thinking I'm going to use Starmada: Dreadnoughts to take a crack at running Jutland.

Since its such a huge battle, I thought for next year I'd start with the small version. . . 64 battlecruisers and battleships.

If that goes well, 2010 I might add in the armored cruisers, light cruisers, and some of the destroyer flotillas.

Its gonna be BIG!!

  • Registered: 2022-11-15
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Re: Dreadnoughts @ GenCon 2009

You sir...with all due respect...


ARE BLOODY NUTS!!!   lol

Have fun! :wink:

  • Registered: 2022-11-16
  • Posts: 516

Re: Dreadnoughts @ GenCon 2009

Soulmage wrote:

I'm already plotting for GenCon NEXT year. . .
I'm thinking I'm going to use Starmada: Dreadnoughts to take a crack at running Jutland.
Since its such a huge battle, I thought for next year I'd start with the small version. . . 64 battlecruisers and battleships.
If that goes well, 2010 I might add in the armored cruisers, light cruisers, and some of the destroyer flotillas.
Its gonna be BIG!!

I frankly wouldn't even attempt it. It's going to be way too slow.
Now GFII, on the other hand, with one less batch of dice to roll each attack, beautifully spiffy new ship cards, and me in attendance...
NOW WE'RE TALKING!!!
big_smile
Kevin

  • Registered: 2007-09-13
  • Posts: 99

Re: Dreadnoughts @ GenCon 2009

I would love to run Jutland using Grand Fleets, but that just aint gonna happen in a convention environment.

Dreadnoughts is a MUCH faster system than Grand Fleets.  The GF to-hit calculation process takes significantly more time (relatively speaking) than Dreadnoughts with its relatively fixed values. 

That little bit of extra time per ship adds up to a LOT of time when multiplied across 64 or more ships being handled per turn.

To run Jutland using Grand Fleets, it would have to be the kind of thing where you and a buddy could just leave it out and play it over the course of a couple weeks. . . . which I could do at the house. . . if I found somebody that committed to playing it!  LOL!!

Now. . . what I might do is run the battlecruiser action using Grand Fleets.  We'll have to see how things shape up.