I will freely admit that I am just now starting to correctly understand the search rules. Pain. I've played this game 4 times so far and the naval search rules are the worst I've seen in many games. So I believe the roles at 41 mins or so were a 1 CW and 5 Ger. Weather was snow or rain(?). 1 CW nav added 1 to its search box, no cv with range 4. The search rolls are modded by a +1 for weather each side. That changes them to a 2 and a 6. Then the Ger roles is modded by a -2 for enemy CP's bringing it to a zero. PG 25 in the rules book states: "If either sides modified search roles is less than or equal to the modified search number of a section occupied by one of its committed units, then a naval combat will occur." So the CW was looking for a modified roll of 5 which would have included all their units. Same applies to the Germans except they were looking for a 4. I will be the first to admit that these particular rules are convoluted. Hopefully my understanding here is correct. The next video is done. Don't think there are any search errors in that one as it was pretty short.
Yeah FWIW I find it a pretty tough system too, I think mainly due to somewhat ambiguous wording and the complications of all the different elements plus different combat types in different positions relative to each other. I imagine when correctly done it's quite elegant, though. Also I may be misremembering (am away for the holidays so don't have the rulebook here), but isn't there a rule that rain doesn't apply in desert hexes?
LOL I have played this game 4 times. Solo play is the hardest because there is no one there to check you when rules are misinterpreted. I will be correctly using the naval rules going forward. So yeah there should have been a naval battle in the above instance. Just misinterpreted what I was reading. I believe the weather was Storm in the Med so that gives rain in desert hexes.
Sorry to be picky. You need to have another look at the search rolls. I am not sure how you are working it out but you are doing something wrong. I believe the searchers at about 41 or 42 minutes should have produced some sort of combat. The roll of one would have found each time. The fleet in the 2 box will find on a roll of one even in bad weather. Enemy convoys make it easier to find not harder.
I’m very inexperienced with wif but have been watching for some time. I think the search results at min 22 and 32 are also incorrectly applied. Don’t mean to pile on so sorry and I am in joying your content
I will freely admit that I am just now starting to correctly understand the search rules. Pain. I've played this game 4 times so far and the naval search rules are the worst I've seen in many games.
So I believe the roles at 41 mins or so were a 1 CW and 5 Ger. Weather was snow or rain(?). 1 CW nav added 1 to its search box, no cv with range 4. The search rolls are modded by a +1 for weather each side. That changes them to a 2 and a 6. Then the Ger roles is modded by a -2 for enemy CP's bringing it to a zero.
PG 25 in the rules book states: "If either sides modified search roles is less than or equal to the modified search number of a section occupied by one of its committed units, then a naval combat will occur."
So the CW was looking for a modified roll of 5 which would have included all their units. Same applies to the Germans except they were looking for a 4.
I will be the first to admit that these particular rules are convoluted. Hopefully my understanding here is correct.
The next video is done. Don't think there are any search errors in that one as it was pretty short.
Yeah FWIW I find it a pretty tough system too, I think mainly due to somewhat ambiguous wording and the complications of all the different elements plus different combat types in different positions relative to each other. I imagine when correctly done it's quite elegant, though.
Also I may be misremembering (am away for the holidays so don't have the rulebook here), but isn't there a rule that rain doesn't apply in desert hexes?
LOL I have played this game 4 times. Solo play is the hardest because there is no one there to check you when rules are misinterpreted. I will be correctly using the naval rules going forward. So yeah there should have been a naval battle in the above instance. Just misinterpreted what I was reading.
I believe the weather was Storm in the Med so that gives rain in desert hexes.
Sorry to be picky. You need to have another look at the search rolls. I am not sure how you are working it out but you are doing something wrong. I believe the searchers at about 41 or 42 minutes should have produced some sort of combat. The roll of one would have found each time. The fleet in the 2 box will find on a roll of one even in bad weather. Enemy convoys make it easier to find not harder.
You are correct here. I had to reread the rules a couple of times and read the example to finally remember how it works. Good catch!
I’m very inexperienced with wif but have been watching for some time. I think the search results at min 22 and 32 are also incorrectly applied. Don’t mean to pile on so sorry and I am in joying your content
The perfect unmodified roll is a 4 on a search. That means all the major powers naval units can be involved in combat. I will check it out.
Edit: The perfect roll would be a 1
Cheers it’s all a learning process and solo is hard, no one to question, help interpret and bring ideas