We have corrected a flaw in the text (number) of Soviet Infantry units in Novgorod.
The total number of Soviet Infantry units in Novgorod is 17.
Please refer to the Global 1939 Expansion rulebook at the top of this thread.
Ramming speed.
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Can’t believe none of you listed the RMS Queen Mary’s run in (so to speak) with the light cruiser HMS Curacoa…
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@Red:
The last boats that I would think of making a ramming attack in the WWII era would be capital ships, particularly undamaged capital ships. Big ships were stand off weapons (aircraft carriers and battleships.) Unless there is a long/mid range combat phase followed by a short range naval combat phase I don’t see how the attack roll would work conceptually.
An excellent point. Using big ships as rams rather than as long-range weapon platforms would be roughly in the same league (though slightly more credible) than bringing them alongside an enemy ship so that the crew – armed with pistols and cutlasses, if their captain is a traditionalist – could board it. The British captain who came closest to carrying on this tradition during WWII was (as I recall) Captain Vian of HMS Cossack (a destroyer), who led a boarding party over to the German supply ship Altmark and freed its POWs with the dashing remark (addressed towards the ship’s holds), “Any British down there? Well, come on up – the Navy’s here!”
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