Question:

I have some questions confirming amphibious and NGS calculations for WOR. The game set in question is actually Nanking’s Fate but should be applicable game wide. Game turn is now Aug II 37. Optional rule 37 is not in play so Chinese forces have moved into and holding strong coastal positions. In anticipation, invasions have been planned south of Shaghai. Weather is mud and rough seas.

  1. 1. May RFs and TF in port at G3:0506 provide NGS to 0605?
  2. 2. If so, this NGS halved due to intensive irrigation during rice growing.
  3. 3. Other NGS from sea hexes would be halved due to rough seas and halved again due to irrigatation.
  4. 4. NGS will give support.
  5. 5. Units landing will be halved (amphib) or quartered (non-amphip) and halved again if no attack supply.

Unofficial Answer:

1. Yes, it’s adjacent.

2. Yes, NGS is treated as artillery, and artillery is halved in irrigation intensive terrain during the growing season.

3. Yes, NGS is halved in rough seas unless the naval group is on a river or in port.

4. Yes, with each point of NGS treated as a 1/4 RE artillery unit. (Exception: NGS provided by Chinese RFs would not provide support.)

5. Yes, halved or quartered for making an amphibious landing and halved again if not in attack supply. And halved again for landing during rough sea conditions.

Keep in mind a few other points. First, the naval units must spend 90 movement points to prepare to fire NGS. Second, units with heavy equipment can’t make amphibious landings, so any divisions included will have to be broken down into unsupported components. This limits you as to the size of your landing force–even though the stacking limit would allow 3 divisions, 3 REs of other units, and 2 REs of artillery, an amphibous landing will be limited to 6 REs of non-divisional units. And since your stronger brigades are 2 REs each, you’re looking at your best landing force being 2 brigades of a broken-down division and the 2 SNLF regiments. And any GS will be halved. And whatever the odds, the attack will go in with a -3 DRM (-2 for mud, -1 for irrigation intensive terrain).

Yes, WoR amphibious landings not in clear terrain with clear weather and calm seas are not an easy proposition. In my current WoR game, I’ve planned and cancelled several amphibious landings when the weather stubbornly stayed bad.

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Posted by David Stokes on the Yahoo Europa Mailing list on 14.01.2013 05:15