Author Topic: (Answered) Warship Weapon ARC Conversion to Alpha Strike  (Read 1028 times)

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Sorry if I missed the Answer elsewhere on this site or in the Errata's. I promise I checked.

My Question is that in Alpha Strike Companion on page 103 under Warships it states that "these arcs are condensed into 4, with both
“Fore-Side” arcs added together and combined with the “Nose”
arc, while each “Aft-Side” arc is merged into its respective
“Broadside” arc to produce an Alpha Strike “side arc”. (The “Aft”
arc of a WarShip unit is left unmodified.)" but some of the designs in the Alpha Strike Warship Cards seem to have combined the Aft side Arcs with the Aft Arc and the Front side arcs with the Broadsides. Leaving the Front ARC with almost nothing and the Aft ARC toting around some serious firepower. I'm not putting this in Errata because I'm not sure if I'm the one making mistakes or not. This issue though is most apparent in the Congress on Pg.8 of the WS Cards giving it 110 Capital Firepower to the Aft ARC and the Bonaventure giving Capital Damage to the Front ARC and Broadside ARCs even though it only has 2 Capital Weapons one on each Front Side ARC.

This is Important for me cause Myself and many people I play with go heavy into Inner Sphere at War and we have a Clanner going all out on Naval Warfare. Not to mention our own designs as well, being accurately added in. We also zoom in and out of the battles depending on whats happening.
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Re: Warship Weapon ARC Conversion to Alpha Strike
« Reply #1 on: 20 August 2024, 09:38:27 »
Two different conversion rules were printed, one in Strategic Operations (pre-4th printing, p361), and another in the Alpha Strike Companion.
The Warship PDF is using the Strategic Operations rules.
There are no plans to redo the Warship PDF any time soon. 
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Re: Warship Weapon ARC Conversion to Alpha Strike
« Reply #2 on: 20 August 2024, 16:28:40 »

There are no plans to redo the Warship PDF any time soon. 


No worries. I figured as from what I can tell very few people play with Warships or in the Era's that they are traditionally Important and heavily used. OR take the time to build them in game.

Two different conversion rules were printed, one in Strategic Operations (pre-4th printing, p361), and another in the Alpha Strike Companion.
The Warship PDF is using the Strategic Operations rules.
 


I'm pretty sure I have this as well. The Conversion rules say they are for Battleforce so I assumed that they were similar but differing scales. Since that's what the two groups of rules appeared to be. The Warship Section states "WarShips
These Elements have eight firing arcs, and calculate damage
separately for each. Additionally, a WarShip may have up to four
attacks per arc: capital weapons, sub-capital weapons, capital
missiles and standard weapons. The damage for each of these
types of weapons is added up separately for each arc to get the
base damage for that arc."

So potentially final question then. Do I have a later printing missing the Alpha Strike conversion? Or was this changed to combine some of the ARC's and I cannot find it in any of the Errata's. (Likely because I'm reading it too fast)

And thank you for your help.
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