Quickfire Optional Rules

GENERAL RULES

101 - Extra Gunnery Phases

In some games - especially those with numerous slow-firing vessels - players may want to add one or more gunnery phases to each turn. This increases the overall rate of firing for the battle. This can even be done mid-game, after some of the faster firing vessels (in cases of mixed squadrons) have slowed down a bit due to battle damage.

MOVEMENT

201 - Higher Move Rates

Players may accomodate larger playing areas by increasing ship's speeds by 50-100%. The existing rules were written to accomodate small table areas and also to increase effects of gunnery per unit of movement.

GUNNERY & TORPEDOES

301 - The 6-6 Exception

Any vessel which began the game with ROF ratings of 6 - 6 will suffer a light G hit in addition to every heavy G hit. This is due to unusually homogenous medium level armament such as 6" and 8" guns.

302 - Opening Salvos

The first time a vessel fires during the game, it receives a +1 on its ROF die roll.

303 - Torpedo Reloads

A vessel may "reload" one point of torpedo rating on a die roll result of 2 using two dice (2D6). A ships may not reload to a point value higher than they began the game with. Optional reload rolls are conducted during the Attempt Repairs step.

304 - Split Light Gunnery

At point blank range, a vessel may split its light fire gunnery points amongst multiple targets (this in addition to being able to fire both heavy and light values simultaneously). This can only be done after the normal ROF fire check to see if the ship fired its light rating at all. This rule makes it possible for a vessel with a heavy secondary armament to set-up a "curtain of fire" for purposes of torpedo-boat/destroyer defense. Smallest point packets allowed per base gunnery value are as follows: 1-6 points may split down to one-point packets, 7+ point base gunnery value may split down to two-point packets.

Splitting fire must be done as evenly as possible, so for example a ship with a 12 light gunnery value could split its fire as x2 attacks at 6 each, or x4 attacks at 3 each, but not x2 attacks with one at a 2 and one at a 10.

305 - Ranging Fire

My all time favorite; here is a combat chart for conducting range guessing base gunnery. Roll for normal Quickfire gunnery only when the target has been accuracy "ranged" per the usual Battlefleet 1900 rules, using the BF1900 ranging log. The odds of scoring damage on the Quickfire hit table have been increased to allow for the greater number of misses occuring in the ranging stage. Feel free to adjust the danger zones in order to achieve the desired level of combat intensity (this is a game afterall). Players should roll dice to gain the ROF value before checking ranges (ships which did not fire do not warrant physical measurement of their ranging attempt and should not be checked to avoid giving that player unfair ranging information).

Ranged Fire - Combat Chart

DAMAGE

501 - Heavy G Hits Amidships

The general game mechanics pre-suppose that heavy fire will primarily effect related systems on board target vessels. With this rule, heavy G hits impact both heavy and light ROF ratings simultaneously. There are actually two possible levels of application for this rule, with Option A being rather modest and Option B being more extreme:

Option A) On all heavy G hit die results of 2 (snake eyes), reduce one point each from both the heavy and light ROF ratings for the target vessel.
Option B) On all heavy G hits, reduce one point each from both the heavy and light ROF ratings for the target vessel.