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Area/Game:Wooden Ships & Iron Men
1Topic:How to play
Subject:Re: [WS&IM][RULES] Getting ships to shift fire to other targets
Posted by: tyree - 17years 271days ago.
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SirLindsley wrote:
tyree wrote:
Game number 19402, move 13
The Pelayo has no rigging left, so apparently all of my hits are wasted?
There are plenty of other targets, in the same range that have rigging, how do I get my ships to shift fire to something they can hit?


You can not select your target. The program does that. If there are more than one possible target, it randomly picks one of them. Changing your position might cause the program to recalculate the targets. Moving one space closer would put you in hull firing range. If you look at the HIT DETERMINATION TABLE (HDT), you will see that you are going to get some hits other than hull. Especially the Royal George will do some damage.


Thanks for the reply, but what in the world do they mean by "random". I have eight ships firing and 5 of them are shooting at the same ship that they can't damage anymore. The computer is throwing away my hard earned advantage and now the only way to fix it is to give my opponent a rake shot? If there are two possible targets, do they mean random is 50%, or is the formula different?. I understand that the two enemy lines are at two different ranges and that it fires at the closest enemy but five firing at one doesn't seem random to me. Not surprisingly, I don't want to move until I know what is going on. I have lost too many games in my lifetime due to a single mistake. Can anyone help me understand what is happening and how to fix the situation, besides surrending?
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