Longneck wrote:
Agreed on all points. With Advanced rules this scenario breaks down into a drifting slugfest because those huge broadsides wipe out a rigging section early so no one can use full sails. After that it's boring.
Also, doesn't the wind start in a gale? That reduces the movement allowance for SOLs by 1 in attitude A, so they have to use full sails to get anywhere or sidestep (my term for right-straight-right or left-straight-left) which doubles the rigging hits. All the maneuvering that made this scenario so great with Basic rules is gone in a few turns. Maybe if the ship sizes are reduced as Derek suggests that will help, but I would reduce the initial wind speed also. I know we try to keep the scenarios as they are in the rule book, but I don't think it works for this one.
Two "fixed" versions of Arbuthnot already exist: the "Historical" is the rulebook version, which is very unbalanced, the "Balanced" one has different crew qualities to balance the fight.
They both solve the gun/hull/crew problem and also the Conquerant rigging problem.
However, they have some more ships (as it was supposed to be).
If you want to have the same old Arbuthnot but on Advanced Rules...well,there is no way to fix it on Advanced only.
Every game is automatically scaled up when played with Advanced Rules.
So to fix it for Advanced play we should scale down gun/hull/crew in Basic - but then you would no longer have the old Arbuthnot to play in Basic.
The only other option is to create yet another Arbuthnot scenario (!) so that both the "old flavor" and the "scaled down guns" version can be played (along with Historical and Balanced). |
