Game: Fleets 2025: East China Sea

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Bogatir — 2008-09-13T04:52:55+00:00

All units in stealth mode at the start of scenario 2.

Thread: Re: Additional Designer's Notes

Steve Carey — 2008-08-10T04:49:09+00:00

Solomon's Campaign.

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Gurantsu — 2008-08-05T20:50:00+00:00

Game in progress. It's easy to see who's damaged!

Thread: Re: Additional Designer's Notes

anarchy — 2008-08-01T23:15:01+00:00

Steve Carey wrote:
Thanks Chris!

Do you think this system is adaptable to WWII?

I sure do!

We've been playing a lot of Pacific theatre games in the last few months and discussing what the scope of a WWII version would be.

Thread: Re: Additional Designer's Notes

Steve Carey — 2008-07-31T04:00:36+00:00

Thanks Chris!

Do you think this system is adaptable to WWII?

Thread: Additional Designer's Notes

anarchy — 2008-07-29T17:50:46+00:00

Here are some additional notes about the design:

Okinawa
Kadena Air Base in Okinawa is, currently, a large US military presence in the area. In Fleets, Okinawa was not selected as an allied airbase since it is scheduled to be closed or reduced in size by around 2015. The local government and population are against the presence of US military bases. Some units and personnel are being moved to Guam.

UCAV
UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle) are robotic planes, equipped with weapons, that are capable of flying and fighting without human intervention. They can be be pre-programmed to fly a particular route and will automatically attack any hostile forces that it finds. They are also useful as scouts, being able to send real time video back to area commanders. UCAVs are operational today. The UCAV unit in Fleets represents the next generation of aircraft.

The PLAN player does not receive UCAV units. The PLAN will operate UCAVs by this time, but it was a design choice to limit the UCAV unit to the USN player as the effectiveness of PLAN UCAVs is unknown. The UCAV Replacement card represents the ability to quickly prepare backup UCAVs for operations.

Search
The Search mechanic was added after the first public display of Fleets. It was based on some excellent player feedback.

Searching now represents the "cat & mouse" of stealth unit operations versus detection. Even surface ships will be operating under restrictions to reduce their detectability at distance. Subs and B-2B stealth bombers have the ability to return to stealth, due to their increased stealth characteristics. F-35Cs have increased stealth properties as well, but their being able to return to stealth would have played havoc with game balance. (They are already an extremely strong unit.)

F-35C
The F-35C was a problematic unit to balance. It originally had a 2 strength with 1 air combat bonus symbol. It tore through PLAN ships like a bull in a china shop. After extensive playtesting, we tweaked it to be a 1 strength unit with 2 air combat bonus symbols. This made it a strong air combat unit but balanced it better against ships.

Here are the original counters if you'd like to try them out:
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Thread: Fleets 2025 Game Rules

Alan Emrich — 2008-07-21T02:39:28+00:00

You can actually download the game rules and examine them.

http://www.victorypointgames.com/documents/Fleets1_rules.pdf

Alan Emrich

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Alan Emrich — 2008-07-21T02:32:01+00:00

Fleets 2025: East China Sea card (reverse)

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Alan Emrich — 2008-07-21T02:31:33+00:00

Fleets 2025: East China Sea sample card 3

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Alan Emrich — 2008-07-21T02:31:08+00:00

Fleets 2025: East China Sea sample card 2

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Alan Emrich — 2008-07-21T02:30:42+00:00

Fleets 2025: East China Sea sample card 1

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Alan Emrich — 2008-07-21T02:30:10+00:00

Fleets 2025: East China Sea map

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Alan Emrich — 2008-07-21T02:29:40+00:00

Fleets 2025: East China Sea player aid

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Alan Emrich — 2008-07-21T02:28:52+00:00

Fleets 2025: East China Sea counters (reverse)

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Alan Emrich — 2008-07-21T02:28:24+00:00

Fleets 2025: East China Sea counters (front)