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Fire When Ready

Summary of Contents

INTRODUCTION

THE BASICS: Scales; Equipment Required; Bases; Die Roll Conventions; Arcs of Fire

WARSHIP DATA: Maximum Speed; Armour; Defence Values; Armament; Destroyers and smaller vessels; Table of Guns by Type, Calibre and Nationality; Table of Generic Guns by Calibre and Nationality; Table of Torpedo Data by Calibre and Nationality

ADMIRALS’ RANKINGS AND CREW RATINGS

WEATHER, VISIBILITY AND GAME SET-UP: Weather; Tactical Visibility; Strategic Visibility (Optional Rule); Effects of Weather on Operations; Local Weather (optional); Weather effects on Combat; Game Deployment

FORMATIONS: Formation Structure; Independent Operation; Interaction between formations; Operating in Formation

ORDER OF PLAY

MOVEMENT: Movement Forward and Astern; Turning; Formation effects on Movement; Collisions and Ramming; Leaving the table; Transferring Commanders between ships; Effects of Funnel Smoke (Optional rule); Towing (Optional rule); Grounding (Optional rule)

SUGGESTED VICTORY POINT SYSTEM

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GUNNERY: Ranges, Lines of Sight, Arcs of Fire; Duel System Gunnery Procedure; Battle System Gunnery Procedure; ‘On Target’ rolls; Causing Damage; Effects of Above and Below Water Damage; Special Hits; Gunnery Example; Use of special ammunition (Optional rule); Combat involving Destroyers and small vessels; Effects of overloaded ships (Optional rule)

TORPEDOES AND MINES: Torpedo Procedure; Anti Torpedo Nets (Optional rule); Towed Torpedoes; Mines

DAMAGE REPAIRS AND MORALE: Repairs; Fires; Morale

ADDITIONAL RULES: Torpedo Launches; Spar Torpedoes; Submarines; Night Actions; Shore Installations

SCENARIOS: The Battle of the Yalu River; The Battle of Manila Bay; The Battle of Santiago; The Battle of Lemnos; Night Attack on Port Arthur; The Battle of Chemulpo; The Battle of the Yellow Sea; The Battle of Ulsan; The Siege of Port Arthur; The Battle of Tsu-Shima

WARSHIP DATA: Filling in the Ship Record sheet; China; Greece; Japan; Russia; Spain; Turkey; United States

GAME TEMPLATES

SHIP RECORD SHEETS

 

This page last updated on 15/07/2006