a Few Questions

[itchy]

Hi I am considering buying Naval thunder and bitter rivals butwould like to know the following:
are the Abda forces for the java sea included in the data downloads 
are the rules suitable for cruiser,destroyer actions I have heard they are more suitable for battle ship actions
are any more add ons expected ,scenario books etc.

thanks in advance

[tomster]

Hi Itchy,

To answer your questions:

1. ABDA is not in the datasheets provided but you can mock something up.  The system is pretty easy and there are lots of examples.  I've done something like that.
2. The rules are suited to larger ship and multi ship engagements.  You can play with cruiser and destroyers but the destroyers in particular are pretty brittle and rely on not getting hit.  With lots of ships - cruisers and destroyers it can be fun.
3.   Not sure - best let someone who knows answer that question. 

Cheers,
Tom

[itchy]

Thanks tom ,Thanks for the reply .I bit the bullit and bought the rules and bitter rivals a couple of days ago Ive only had achance to skim through them but like what I see ,Ill have ago at the ABDA stuff when I have studied it all abit more ,thanks again .

[djbar]

Hi Itchy,
You can find data on the ABDA ships in this forum under The Shipyard section (pages 2 and 3). Another member (Regiamarina)has posted data for the DeRuyter, Java and Dutch DDs. If you have some knowledge of Excel, you can unhide the data tables and input the data for the Dutch ships, change a few formulas and then the card printing tool will print cards for the ships you added. The US, Japanese and British and Australian ships are all already included in the game's data. I think the rules work very well for cruiser battles. I've played Java Sea, Savo Island, Komandorski Islands, River Plate and the system has worked well.

[ckosacranoid]

The system works very well for smaler ship action. Just to know the small stuff is not going to last very long though.

[itchy]

Thanks for the replys Ill have ago at the data sheets .