• Registered: 2008-10-14
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Topic: My big fat Greek Flotilla?

Well, not Greek really.

I remember reading that some of the Flotillas in Dreadnoughts came in overweight, like say at 79 S.U. or what have you.

I'm interested in using Flotillas that notch in at larger scales, say effectively a size 1 ship that operates as a Flotilla squadron. There's just so much less book keeping this way (I'm loathe to have a table full of individual ships that are basically inconsequential).

I was planning to house rule them up a little bit to make them slightly more durable and i was also thinking that it's all kind of relative as to how many ships are actually in the Flotilla (maybe it says '4', but there's only two ships and hits just represent damage/downed weapons or what have you).

Any hiccups waiting to ambush me if I do so that I should so? Things i should be aware of that have been overlooked?

I was building them in the shipyard and it seems to be able to handle that.

Thanks! big_smile

  • Registered: 2005-03-29
  • Posts: 330

Re: My big fat Greek Flotilla?

Barmy Flutterz wrote:

Well, not Greek really.

I remember reading that some of the Flotillas in Dreadnoughts came in overweight, like say at 79 S.U. or what have you.

The reason the flotillas are overweight in SUs in Dreadnaughts is that the ships were based on the real-world destroyers and not attempting to fall into the SU rules.

Barmy Flutterz wrote:

I'm interested in using Flotillas that notch in at larger scales, say effectively a size 1 ship that operates as a Flotilla squadron. There's just so much less book keeping this way (I'm loathe to have a table full of individual ships that are basically inconsequential).

I was planning to house rule them up a little bit to make them slightly more durable and i was also thinking that it's all kind of relative as to how many ships are actually in the Flotilla (maybe it says '4', but there's only two ships and hits just represent damage/downed weapons or what have you).

Any hiccups waiting to ambush me if I do so that I should so? Things i should be aware of that have been overlooked?

I couldn't tell you how the hull 1 size ships would work as a flotilla since the construction is different.  However, if you make all the flotilla ships per the rules, but state that there are only half the number of ships that degrade per the normal rules there shouldn't be an issue I think (I don't have the books in front of me so I can't be sure).