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Area/Game:	Wooden Ships & Iron Men
1Topic:	Bugs and Improvements
Subject:	Re: [WS&IM][BUG] Rake bonus too large?
Posted by:	akaisuisei - 20years 276days ago.

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hazard_53188 wrote:

Is it my imagination or is the rake bonus for high gun ships too large?

The +5 bonus is monstrous even at extreme range (and it's pretty easy to get a rake at extreme range).

I looked at my version of WS&IM and the rake bonus is +1 across the board regardless of the number of guns. Do I have an older/newer version of the rules than what we're playing or is this a bug?

This is an old problem... really, I don't know why... but here, ships have a devastating firepower who boosts the rake bonus to unbearable proportions... the real ships had much less guns... loook down: "1" ships come from the scenario in rulebook, "2" ships are from this on-line game -

America 1 - Guns 06 / Hull 11 / Rig. 21 / Crew 10
America 2 - Guns 12 / Hull 17 / Rig. 21 / Crew 20

Befford 1 - Guns 08 / Hull 13 / Rig. 21 / Crew 12
Befford 2 - Guns 16 / Hull 20 / Rig. 21 / Crew 24

Adamant 1 - Guns 04 / Hull 08 / Rig. 18 / Crew 07
Adamant 2 - Guns 08 / Hull 12 / Rig. 18 / Crew 14

London 1 - Guns 09 / Hull 15 / Rig. 24 / Crew 15
London 2 - Guns 18 / Hull 18 / Rig. 24 / Crew 30

Royal Oak and Befford are basically the same ship

Neptune 1 - Guns 10 / Hull 14 / Rig. 21 / Crew 14
Neptune 2 - Guns 20 / Hull 21 / Rig. 21 / Crew 28

Duc 1 - Guns 11 / Hull 15 / Rig. 21 / Crew 17
Duc 2 - Guns 22 / Hull 23 / Rig. 21 / Crew 34

Provence 1- Guns 06 / Hull 12 / Rig. 21 / Crew 11
Provence 2- Guns 12 / Hull 18 / Rig. 21 / Crew 22

Romulus 1 - Guns 03 / Hull 07 / Rig. 15 / Crew 06
Romulus 2 - Guns 06 / Hull 11 / Rig. 15 / Crew 12

Conquer. 1- Guns 10 / Hull 14 / Rig. 21 / Crew 14
Conquer. 2- Guns 20 / Hull 21 / Rig. 15 / Crew 26

How to read this ? Here ships are modified like this:

Guns + 100%
Hull + 50%
Riggings + 0
Crew + 100%

(as pointed out in bold), only the poor Conquerant was modified like this:

Guns + 100%
Hull + 50%
Riggings - 30% (and more badly arranged)
Crew + 80%

The net result of this change is a devastating firepower (+100%) not balanced by more ships "boxes" (hulls get +50%, but if a player concentrates fire to riggings the ships have no gain).

Moreover the tactical effects of loosing a gun or a crew box under fire is basically cut in half (to hit a crew or a gun is now worthless).

Finally the doubled rake bonus force the game toward parallel lines, breakthroughs are a suicide.

Just one last note about the Conquerant... Why ???

Why so much hatred ???

...of course I cannot blame this way to play

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20years 276days	hazard_53188	[WS&IM][BUG] Rake bonus too large?
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