Battleship support

provided the BB has not been used in a naval battle that turn, and provided that you are attacking w/ an amphibeous assault (read: at least 1 inf comes into the fray from a transport), then the BB can pound defending fortifications in the first round only at a roll of 4 or less. The defender chooses its loss(es) but they still may return fire (to attacking troops) before being discarded into their little styrofoam container.
Don’t worry, you’re not dumb. One of my earliest games, my friend and i thought that bb’s could just roam and pick off defending units w/out the amphibeous attack. His wife laughed at us “what? Are the solders going to run down to the beach to wave at the pretty boats?”
i thought that was pretty funny.

@Anonymous:

@cystic:

provided the BB has not been used in a naval battle that turn, and provided that you are attacking w/ an amphibeous assault (read: at least 1 inf comes into the fray from a transport), then the BB can pound defending fortifications in the first round only at a roll of 4 or less. The defender chooses its loss(es) but they still may return fire (to attacking troops) before being discarded into their little styrofoam container.

sorry thats incorrect, the battleship bombardment is removed and does NOT return fire. the bombardment takes place before the soldiers have arrived thats why you do it first even tho its a roll of 4. just like submarines.

I don’t want to get into a “you’re wrong” “no you’re wrong” thing here,
but the reason the BB bombardment is first is because it only gets one shot. Why would the troops run onto the beach if there are just battleships? To fire at the landing troops. Having said that, i don’t have the rules handy to double check - could a 3rd (maybe 4th and 5th) party confirm whether guest or i are correct?

cystic crypt is correct. the unit hit by the BB CAN return fire before it is discarded, but only at the troops (not at the BB of course)

@cystic:

One of my earliest games, my friend and i thought that bb’s could just roam and pick off defending units w/out the amphibeous attack. His wife laughed at us “What? Are the soldiers going to run down to the beach to wave at the pretty boats?”

Great short story, c_c_!
However, carried out to it’s conclusion …
“What? Are the BMRs going to fly so low to hit their targets
that the soldiers can shoot them down with rifles?”
(I think they shot a FTR down @ Dunkirk :roll: … Great odds!)

I know for a fact in the original rules they do not get to fire back.

Yes, they DON’T get to fire back.

Try using the most recent rules. There’s a reason they are updated. :D

:-? I cannot find them on line currently. Arrgh!

Garcon, some assistance, please! :)

Sorry. My bad again. :oops: :o :evil: :cry:
Directly from 2nd Edition Rules:

If a battleship accompanies a transport in an amphibious assault, the battleship has a special firing privilege called a one-shot support attack–that is, each battleship fires once at any enemy units defending the embattled coastal territory. Any defending enemy unit is hit on a die roll of 4 or less and is considered a casualty–still able to counterattack when the defender fires. The battleships and transports involved in the amphibious assault, however, are not possible targets in the defender’s counterattack–they are immune to defender’s fire.

That’s settles it. Now lock this thread. :D

Tick-a-lock!
Swallow the key.
GAG!

Vindication is occassionally sweeter than revenge :)