Hi!

I thought you might be interested in posting this on your website. it is
something I have just sent to Consimworld.

It is something I have used for some time in PBEM Great War At Sea games.

The current rules require a lot of record keeping, and in particular
require keeping track of fuel usage in units of 1/12th of a fuel box.
This is absurd. the same effect can be achieved just by multiplying
everything by 12.

The rules say you normally expend one fuel box for every 12 hexes moved
through. If you do not move it counts as if you moved one hex. If you
move at speed 2 each hex counts as if it were 3.

This means you have to keep track of partial boxes which is a pain.

Solution -

Multiply each box by 12 and cross of one box every turn whether you
moved or not. When moving at speed 2 cross off six boxes instead.

For example -

Old system - Ship has eight fuel boxes. It has moved 20 hexes at speed 1
and then moves 2 hexes at speed 2 - result it has expended two boxes and
must carry forward 2/12ths of a fuel box leaving 5 and 10/12ths. How
many hexes can it now move at a) speed 1, or b) speed 2?

New System makes it much easier to manage fuel - Multiply eight fuel
boxes by 12 = 96. Create a new log pad showing each ship and its new
fuel allowance. Every hex moved cross off a fuel box for the first 20
hexes. It now moves at speed 2 for 2 hexes so cross of six more. 26 have
been expended and 70 remain. You instantly know the ship can move 70
hexes at speed 1, or 22 ((70/6)x2) at speed 2.

Every turn spent refuelling add back 12 or 36 fuel points as appropriate.

The results are all the same, but it is much easier to use. You don't
even need to keep a fuel record for every ship. Simply listing the ships
in each squadron with the full fuel allowance and then keeping an
overall record of fuel consumption for the squadron as a whole will do

-- 
Julian Barker


"Many battles have been fought and won by
soldiers nourished on beer,and the King does not
believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be
relied upon to endure hardships in case of
another war."
                       Frederick the Great, 1777