R/C Naval Combat

dont, know weather this has been thought of before, but here goes

my idea for a combat scenarios/gameplay is to have transport ships attually transport something for the battleships and have an impact on the overall battle.

the game would need two teams, lets say red and blue or autobots and decepicons, whatever you like. it also needs a home port for each side were it's a no fire zone for safety and be big enough for several people/captains to be taking their ships in and out without falling over each other. the game would start with the transports of each side on opposite sides of the pond/battlefield or umm.. battlelake and then a wisle blows or someone shouts 'game start', then the transports must get to their home port as fast as posible were on arrival the battleship captians would take out the transports load of ballbearings and load there guns and then try to sink the all the enemy's ships.

now i can tell what your thinking, the extra BB's will upset the waterline markings/measurement, so perhaps instead of a load of BB's just have the transports 'worth' a certain amount of BB's but still have the feel that they are carring something, then when they reach homeport they just have to do a normal convoy run around an island that is near enemy teritory and return back to port without sinking and each succesful run would score ammo pionts.

i dont know if this is a good idea or not but, if one side has had all their transports sunk, they could de-arm one battleship to take the spot of a convoy, now these would be worth alot more BBs pionts then the convoy ships, sort of a last horah, where its all or nothing as one side try to protect their last hope of getting back in the game and if succsesful they may be able to turn the tide of battle as they could arm all or almost all of their battleships.

i think this type of game would add more of team work aspect to the game, say if you are an armed ship you would have to decide to protect your convoys because they supply you with ammo or go after the battleships,furthermore it would add some tactics aswell for example do we attack the enemies transports and cut off their supply of ammo, or do we go after the battleships that may have run out of ammo but leave the transports. another tactic would be the decision as a group of which ship to load up first with BB's or wich ship to arm to full capacity with BB's and act as a disration wile the covoys work to arm the rest of their fleet to capacity.

lastly the game would end when either one side has run out of ammo and no way to score more BBs through convoy runs, or if all the battle ships on one side have been sunk.

again, if this sort of game has already been thought of or tried and proven not to work in practice please disregard the above

the reason why i posted this game idea is to suggest a way of giving the transports a more important role in combat and if they have a more important role, it may seem more attractive to newcomers to the hobby to get involved for a realitivly low cost but have the all the fun of an intense combat game where they have and effect on the overall battle, like i said before.

indeed, kotori i see your piont of playing the game for fun and that is the main thing here, however, perhaps a simplified version, where at the start of the game all the battleships are on the bench and are all gased up, charged up all they need is ammo, now the captians would have all their ammo inhand ready to load their ships as soon as their teams transports make it into home port, then they load, lanuch and the shooting begins, then they would be allowd to rearm, regas ect as long as their side still have transports, i.e. get rid of the BBs value system and the confusion of counting BBs in the middle of a battle but still retain the importance of the transoprts in the game.

anyway, by the looks of whats happend before it seems to prove infeasble from your experances with this type of game.

i am interested, this is good news for me being in australia and all, and makes me want to get building my first ship sooner, still waiting on a reply from Michael at drednaught hulls though...

any details on that type of game play? it sounds exatly what i was hoping for

i just want to add that i would be asking this question to my local BG club, but here in adelaide i cant seem to find what would be concidered a 'local' club, i think these just one club in the whole of south australia and its a quite a way away.

cheers for the info Kotori

ha, so the transports can patch holes in battle... does that include batteries replacing if they go flat?

i also didnt know that you can launch the transports later in the battle, so you let the warships sink each other then score pionts

ok, so the only pionts that can be scored are transport runs, not transport sinks correct? like the pionts for the runs isnt taken off the score if the tranport sinks, if you get what i mean...