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[m1017242]

I would like to ask is there any rule representation for fuel and range of the ships in campaign?
I have flipped through chapter 4 and some chapter 5 the only thing I remember is that they have a vague fuel count for destroyers but nothing more.

[Dave Franklin]

m1017242, as you said, there are few specifics in GQ3 WRT ship's fuel and fuel consumption.  4.2.2 talks about it briefly, and 4.7.3 (in conjunction with the FUEL per 8 Hr CAMPAIGN TURN table on page Chart 10 E) goes into a little more detail.  Fuel loss is also not addressed in any of the ship damage effects.  So, for example, if you wanted to do a Sink the Bismarck campaign, special campaign rules will be needed to address it (e.g. a hull hit from PoW causing a fuel leak to Bismarck).

 

I started a Med mini-campaign several years ago (~2007) based on Avalanche Press' Bomb Alley - the "First Sortie" scenario.  I put together a couple of spreadsheets to track ship fuel capacity/consumption (in addition to task force missions, movement/location and composition) based on the number of fuel boxes per ship on the Bomb Alley Hit Records and the Bomb Alley movement/fuel consumption rules.  I'm pretty sure I also produced some rules about hull damage causing (or potentially causing) fuel loss/leaks; however, I don't recall what those actual rules were.  Like so many campaigns, it died a slow death prior to completion, but I do recall how the necessity of fuel consumption and the prospect of fuel starvation, however unlikely in a fairly constrained area like the Med, immediately reigned in the player's task force speed plots.

 

Dave