Ship camouflage, where to find?

Ships are less vulnerable when they are immobile in a port?  Most ships that were “protected” in that way ended up never leaving their berths again…

That doesn’t make any sense, examples include;  Taranto Pearl Harbor Tirpitz Operation Catapult, every Italian naval battle in the early war…

Our house rule: Once at War the US may purchase one transport (liberty ship) and place immediately for combat.  The ability to place immediately reflects the speed in which the were built durning that time.

Hi Marc.  I was hoping for your input on this.

What you are saying is very true.    This is why I’m proposing to simulate NB’s servicing ships/fleets with a “radius”.  The ships do not ever have to enter the actual sea-zone where the NB is located.

Therefore, if you have a chain of Naval Bases, your ships can stay at sea forever, as long as they stay within range of a base.  A range of 3 sea zones would be several thousand miles.

Ships would only need to actually go to a Naval Base to get repairs.

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The Japanese also had their ships out on very long missions.  Example being their carrier fleet around Java back in '41.  But they were able to do that with a very nice series of Bases leading all the way back to the mainland to service them.

@SS:

Has anybody discussed using Reconnaissance Planes to find ground troops? I do use them to find naval fleets.
Each country would start out with a certain amount of planes. You also can buy them at C 5.  A 0  D 1  M 4
Beginning of turn you would be able to use the plane to find troops in as many as territories the plane can fly. With an air base you would get the extra move. 1 plane could fly over 4 territories and land in its own or friendly territory.
You would roll 1 die for each territory the plane flew over to find troops positions. A roll of 4 or less tells you you have found position of troops. A roll of 5 or 6 tells you you didn’t find troops and your attacking pieces get a - 1 on attack for first round of combat only.
You didn’t find troops right away and your hits missed at first.
AA guns do get a shot at plane.

Could have it where art, tanks, and planes ( they can’t find neither right away ) get the -1 on attack first round only do to accuracy.

I know the game is long enough, but what’s another 5 mins.
This is just a thought and I know Patten didn’t attack sometimes until he knew where troops were and after plane strikes.

Could getting Radar eliminate the need for recon planes?

@CWO:

It’s an interesting idea, but I guess what I’m wondering is this.  A&A is an open game system in which the composition and location of all the forces on the board is visible to all players at all times.  If it had hidden (or decoy dummy) units, I could see the usefulness of doing recon work – but in an open system, I’m having trouble understanding just what these recon planes are meant to be discovering.

You could combine it with the HR about hidden forces using scrabble pieces.

Hainan cant be captured by the chinese, and serves the same sz.

You took my ideas.

ports protect from naval combat, but not air combat ships don’t get any movement bonus ships may only be build and repaired in port AA gun in Territory protects ships as well one change from our versions: if the Territory is captured the ships are considered “dislodged” and placed at sea ( they are not captured). IN that case if you had enemy ships in the sea zone a battle will be fought. SBR on the port can still take place as per OOB, in this case the only effect is you cant build new ships or place them in that port till repaired, but they still protect against air attack. optional rule: air raids… if the nation is being attacked for the first time roll one D6, 1-3 success/ +1 on all attacks that round, roll each round and reduce die by -1 ( 2nd round 1-2, third just 1)