Wooden Ships & Iron Men - test
CHANGELOG:
November 30th 2021
- Anchoring rules! (adds to HDT, allows a ship to pivot on stern if only stern anchor dropped. Takes 2 turns to raise em!)
--- Anchoring Note 1: Many scenarios did not allow anchoring. At this time all scenarios allow it. Will correct when scenarios are updated.
--- Anchoring Note 2: Official rules do not clarify if a ship drifts or not when anchored. We interpret it that a ship will NOT drift when anchored.
- Ability to fire Chainshot is now based on starting nationality instead of current controlling nationality. Only certain ships actually had the chain available for use on them.
- Fix: Ships involved in melee cannot make repairs.
- BlueMax minor bug fix: Correctly damages both machine guns when taking two identical blue chits from two different attacks.
- Interface updates:
-- Moved -Show Previous Ship positions- button near the Ship controls
-- Changed repair default to rigging
-- During melee, the Ship Controls are no longer a fixed float, so that it is possible to scroll it down when having lots of ships in melee.
March - May 2021
- Mobile Interface Controls
-- Moved the controls in the top right corner. I didn't want to steal precious space for the event log on the left.
-- The Ship Status should automatically move down a bit to make space for the Ship Controls.
-- You can click directly on a ship to select it or use the next/previous ship button.
- Also:
-- added Help descriptions on popup (? icon) for SkipTBP, Offer Draw and Surrender. Removed the text near them and made them a single line.
-- added the improved targeting (Full Guns solutions are preferred on equal HdT)
-- added ship autofocus when clicking on the ships or on PrevShip / NextShip buttons. The window will try to scroll so that the ship is on the center of the page.
-- fixed map rendering on some tablets
- Backing Sails
-- These allow a ship to Back Sails for a move, preventing some automatic Foulings that sometimes occur.
- REPAIRS
-- Ships which don't load or fire guns, engage in melee, become involved in a collision, up-anchor, change from full sails to battle sails or vice-versa, or expend any factors of its movement allowance to turn (only move in a straight line or not at all), may make repairs; provided there are at least two crew sections available. (The second section need not be complete). All repairs take three turns (not necessarily in sequence). In three turns, two hull, two rigging, or two gun squares can be repaired. Repairs cannot be made on surrendered ships. Only one type of repair may be made per turn.
- Bug Fixes and other small stuff
-- Fixed the bug discovered by Longneck on Rule V.D1 and I implemented Rule V.D.3 which was missing.
-- Fix on Rule V.D.1.
-- Rule V.D.3.
-- Fix grapple release when ship explodes or sinks.
-- Added Wind Scenario info when game is Advanced.
-- Fixed bug which displayed incorrect wind on Turn 0<.BR>-- Fixed wrong redirection from Beta to Main on scenario preview.
-- Fixed scenario preview: now ships are visible again.
-- Added Wind info on scenario preview, improved visuals.
February 11th 2021
- New interface for the game that is a bit more be more tablet and mobile device friendly.
November, 23rd 2020
- Adjusted Wind Speed to change less often.
August, 9th 2013
- Introduced CRITICAL HITS
- Fixed bug: special turning under drifting was no longer applied
- Fixed bug: Stern rake bonus applied in non-Advanced games
- Fixed bug which prevented submitting moves in many-ships Simplified games
- Fixed Advanced Turning uncorrectly applied to Basic games
- Fixed bug not applying damage if localized to some gun sections
July, 5th 2013
- Now damage to guns is applied sectionwise, depending on where the firing ship is
- Fixed problem with HDT range when friendly ships where between the firing ship and the target
- Fixed problem with CauseDamage function
June, 30th 2013
- FIX: Slow SOL1 with zero movement and turning ability can now turn in place
June, 2nd 2013
- Added advanced turning rules V.D.1 and V.D.2
- FIX: ships now correctly fire at the highest HDT target
April, 1st 2013
- Added stern rake bonus
- Fixed bug which didn't display carronades when the ship has no guns
March, 13th 2013
- Advanced Fire rules complete: ships now fire using separate bow/stern sections
- Users who have no yet done a move will appear in bold in the scoring table
- New abbreviation algorithm that tries to give different abbreviation for ships with similar names
March, 7th 2012
- HDT minimums now range 0-9 in Simplifed/Basic games and 0-21 in Advanced ones, so that it's possible to choose not to fire even when HDT is at maximum levels.
- The combat chart link below the score table now points to the advanced tables in Advanced games.
November, 20th 2011
- Partial implementation of Advanced Field of Fire: a full broadside is always fired but log will now show which sections (bow, stern or both) could have fired.
Details on Advanced Field of Fire can be found in this thread.
November, 19th 2011
- Added Advanced Rule for Rake when directly in front or behind target ship, even when return fire is possible
November, 6th 2011
- Added support for exploding ships
- Fixed bug in wind direction change
October, 31st 2011
- Ships on full sails have now diff1erent images [general image concept by Longneck]
     
October, 23rd 2011
- Advanced games now use their Advanced HDT table (Stern Rake not yet used)
October, 5th 2011
- Advanced games now use the Advanced Hit Table
- Added support for sinking ships
- Added partial support for exploding ships (damage is not applied)
September, 28th 2011
- Fixed bug which allowed moves beyond ship possibilities (e.g. granting an extra turn)
September, 26th 2011
- Added rule: full sails cannot be used if the wind is too strong (Gale for Class5&6, Storm for the rest)
September, 25th 2011
- Fixed bug where Frigates didn't lose C attitude speed on first rigging loss
- Improved wind message so that it says if the wind has changed or not
August, 5th 2011
- Fixed bug which prevented wind from changing
August, 4th 2011
- Fixed bug which applied wrong damage when 10R+ hits were scored against full sails
July, 29th 2011
- First Advanced Rule version brought online!
Added Rules: Wind Change, Ammo Type, Full Sails
This version probably contains many bugs - some rules might be incomplete.
You will probably need to refresh the game page before being able to see new sail/ammo controls
June, 4th 2011
- Grappling struck ships has been disabled as they are usually not the desired target
- Fixed bug which gave both surrender and capture points for the same ship
- Fixed bug which allowed a ship to drift even after a collision with fouling Partial Fix!
- Changed melee victory description from 'outnumber' to 'overpower' as 'outnumber' was misleading (3 to 1 ratio is based on Total Melee Strength, not on crew numbers)
- Added some info to the game page: scenario title, type of rules, automove time limit
May, 27th 2011
- Advanced Rules development has started
Apr, 18th 2011
- All fixes have been moved to the main site
Apr, 5th 2011
- Replaced images of sunk ships in the GameRules & Newbies' guide with struck ships - Images courtesy of Longneck
Mar, 31th 2011
- Fixed drifting bug which sometimes didn't update ship position properly, leading to 500 error when trying to see the game
Mar, 23rd 2011
- Second update of GameRules & Newbies' guide with Longneck feedback.
Mar, 14th 2011
- First update of GameRules & Newbies' guide to reflect recent changes.
If you spot any mistake/inconsistency, report it here.
Mar, 13th 2011
- Reverted drifting to the old system: now ships drift AFTER all other ships have moved
- Fixed bug: ships side by side that turned against each other "switching their hexes" where not counted as collision
These changes have not been much pre-tested, watch out for bugs!
Mar, 12th 2011
- Fixed a bug on capture events: the line which said "ship is now controlled by XXX" sometimes showed a wrong username.
The controller information was not really saved with the event, but just inferred from the current game situation.
New capture events will now always display correct information, while "now controlled by" info has been disabled for older events.
- TBP/OBP select box is now "smart" and will no longer display as OBP targets ships which you can only TBP to.
- Changed League Scoring, see here for more info.
Feb, 24th 2011
- Changed History Controls so that it's now possible to see the turn before last on ended games
Feb, 18th 2011
- Fix bug that prevented some ships in fouled/grappled groups to drift together
- Failed attempts to unfoul are now displayed in the log
- Fixed: unfouling incorrectly succeded with a chance of 4 on 6 instead of 2 on 6
- General rewrite and fix of collision code to account for "simultaneous drifting"
- Removed "tonnage house rule" in collision code to be more like the boardgame version
- Fix for the bug which permitted OBP against all adjacent enemy ship if you had grappled/fouled one of them
- Now collide events will happen in the log before fouling (they were incorrectly placed after)
Feb, 14th 2011
- Total rewrite of drifting code: now drifting happens simultaneously with all the other moves.
So it is now possible to move your ship downwind next to a drifting ship without colliding.
- Drifting event now says "XYZ is drifting", whenever the ship will drift.
- Blocked drifting event is no longer used.
- All collisions are now noted in the log.
- Collisions now stop both ships, not just the losing one.
- Score table now properly says "Surrendered" instead of "Strikes".
Feb, 13th 2011
- Fixed bug which made possible to board struck ships in the turn they strike.
- Fixed bug which removed crew from OBP if a TBP was set using a section below the OBP.
- Fixed grappling/fouling/boarding system to make it follow boardgame rules, see: http://www.youplay.it/beta/play/forum_showmessage.asp?msgid=6473
Feb, 13th 2011
- Collision code now uses tonnage as stated in the "How To Play". Winner of same tonnage collision is random.
- Fixed bug which prevented some moves - See: http://www.youplay.it/beta/play/forum_showmessage.asp?msgid=6403
This last bug has required extensive rewrite of the move and collision-checking routine, keep your eyes open for movement bugs!
Feb, 3rd 2011
- Fixed "500 server error - /beta/play/tn_clsTorneo.asp, line 1000" bug when accepting Draw.
As an added change with this fix, Draws are now properly added to the Played Games amount of each player.
Feb, 1st 2011
- Unfouling setting now defaults to "All" in new games.
Jan, 28th 2011
- Fixed refresh on "Play Wooden Ships.." and "Your Games" pages so that it doesn't redirect to main site.
Jan, 27th 2011
- Fixed typo on transfers
Jan, 26th 2011
- Fixed bug which didn't assign League game points to the correct player
Jan, 25th 2011
- Fixed bug: firing procedure didn't switch target if first candidate was a struck ship with better/equal HDT
- Fixed A-B-C melee bug: if in the same turn ship A conquers B and ship B conquers C, as a result ship C might be owned by A (instead of B).
Jan, 24th 2011
- Fixed bug which prevented ships surrendered by immobility from turning immediately when they ceased to be surrendered
- Fixed bug which prevented players out of the game to rejoin game if one of their ships was freed from capture
- Fixed bug which caused leading OBP to get transferred twice in multiple ship attacks (This might cause new bugs, beware! :)))
- Carronades are now always eliminated before guns, as it would happen in the boardgame
- [Confirmed as fixed] Rule IX.D.14 implemented: ships can now unsurrender if a friendly active ship is within 5 hexes
- Fixed a bug that didn't consider crewless ships as alternative targets when another target had already been found
- Fixed a bug that didn't assign surrender score if the broaside which caused surrender didn't cause damage as well
Jan, 20th 2011
- Introduced house rule on struck ships (can't be boarded), see here for more info
- Surrendered ships no longer lose their crew when captured
- OBPs can now be sent against enemy surrendered ships (only TBPs were shown as possible before)
Jan, 19th 2011
- Fixed code which prevented TBP against enemy crewless ships
- [Confirmed as fixed] Fixed a second bug on multiple OBPs
- [Confirmed as fixed] Fixed a typo on prisoners tooltip (it said prisioners)
- [Confirmed as fixed] Dismasted ships now follow rules properly (they have to wait some turns between each 60 degree turn while drifting)
- Changed 'Move' and 'Turn' info on the shipchart so that they now reflect the current movement and turning allowance.
So you can now use them to know if your ship can turn (when drifing and dismasted) and also to know you current movement allowance taking into consideration wind attitude
You may need to refresh your browser cache to see this last change
Jan, 16th 2011
List of fixed bugs:
- [Confirmed as fixed] A coalition whose ships were all captured was not displayed in the score table.
(It was also not considered in some scoring algorithms)
- Crew hits are not applied on BP.
- Excess guns hits are not converted into hull hits
- End of Hostility timer is not clear:- it says for 2 turns that game will end "after THIS move"
- it says even darkness counter can be reset by broadside
- reset msg is diplayed only if 3+ turns still remaining
- it says end in X turns while it's actually in X turns+current one
- [Confirmed as fixed] Crew is transferred (to and from) even if ship surrendered in the same turn
- [Confirmed as fixed] Empty Boarding Party Selection window appeared when ships grappled and ungrappled in the same turn
- [Confirmed as fixed] Ship which surrendered by firepower still attacked by OBP on the same turn
- New WS&IM League Scoring, see here for more info
- [Confirmed as fixed] Surrenderer by firepower now follows original rules
- Ships surrendered by firepower can be fired upon
- [Confirmed as fixed] Failed to ungrapple message was not shown
- [Confirmed as fixed] If a ship is unable to fire because of Min. HDT and HDT = 0, reason for not firing was not given
- [Confirmed as fixed] Failed to grapple showed misleading "ungrapple icon" (failing to grapple doesn't mean ship has ungrappled!).
- [Confirmed as fixed] Grappled/Fouled ships shouldn't be able to fire at each other's rigging
- [Confirmed as fixed] Captured ships should not get crew loss modifier, only a -2 capture modifier (both were applied before fix)
- [Confirmed as fixed] Crew hits should be shared between prize crew and prisoners (prisoners were never hit)
- Ships surrendering by immobility are counted as surrendered already during fire phase
- [Confirmed as fixed] Ships surrendered by striking should not be fired through
- Update rules pages
- 'Without rigging will surrender if raked' message was confusing, now it will just say that ship without rigging can be forced to surrender by immobility
- Surrendered ships can't be boarded
- [Confirmed as fixed] OBPs against multiple ships doesn't work
- Game is ended after 10 turns with no shots, even if melee has been done and hostility timer hasn't shown
- [Confirmed as fixed] Having too many fouls/graps per ship caused 500 internal server error [fail to serialize]
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