Flotilla ?

[afilter]

First off in CoD and RoTB do DD Flotillas operate as an independent command without a flag rating?

My thought is the flotilla itself is a formation, so it should not have to make a command roll each time due to not being grouped with other ships/flotillas. if Flotillas are assigned a command rating what should it be?

I ask because in RoTB Yellow sea sceanrio the two Russian DD Flotillas are grouped with CL Diana. Can all three operate independently or do they have to stay in formation or suffer the command roll per turn. The two IJN Flotillas seem to be operating independently.

My plan is to expand my Yellow Sea fleets beyond just the BB lines to take it to the next level for a large battle.

TIA,

[TheDreadnought]

Yes, you should be able to find in the flotilla rules a reference to flotillas being considered their own formation, and never having to make command checks. There is also a section on Light Cruisers as Destroyer Leaders.

[afilter]

Nov 4, 2010 8:31:20 GMT -5 TheDreadnought said:

Yes, you should be able to find in the flotilla rules a reference to flotillas being considered their own formation, and never having to make command checks. There is also a section on Light Cruisers as Destroyer Leaders.

Thanks, I saw that. The set up for Yellow Sea just had me second guessing.

One more question. When a scenario list +1 or -1 next to sa flotilla am I assuming correctly that it means the flotilla starts out with one less or one more DD than a flotilla would normally have?

TIA,

[Bluebear]

At the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the Russians had two 4-DD squadrons with the protected cruiser Novik on the port side of the cruiser portion of the main battle line.

The Japanese had five DD flotillas (and a number of TB flotillas), most were four vessels strong, although some were comprised of only 3 ships. If using the RotB scenario map, DD-6 was comprised of two 4-ship DDs, while DD-3 had one 4-ship two 3-ship squadrons (plus some TBs) although all except #3's 4-DD squadron were considerably farther away.

In addition, RotB Scenario force #4 had an escort of 11 TBs. Here is a good website to check out:

www.navalwargamessociety.org/scenarios/Battle%20of%20the%20Yellow%20Sea.pdf

HOWEVER, the only forces that really played a role in the historical battle were the two main forces of Capital Ships. The lighter Cruisers, DDs (actually TBDs) and TBs were there to "mop up" once major ships were severely damaged. I presume that Harry set the RotB Yellow Sea scenario as he did in order to simplify the overall situation by giving the Japanese Flotillas more strength to take into account the TBs and weakening the Russian Flotillas for the same reason.


-- Jeff

[TheDreadnought]

Yes, that is what is meant by the +1/-1.

I don't recall but I might have consolidated smaller flotillas into something larger, like two 4DD flotillas into a single 8DD flotilla. . .

[afilter]

Thanks again for the clarification. Now that I have some DDs we are just looking to add a bit more dimension to our games instead of just the battle line slugging it out.

[shigure]

With the numerous different smaller weapons on some of the Pre-Dreads it may present a challenge for the DDs & TBs to get close enough for a torpedo attack on a capital ship.