Ship systems & crew

Pick one Gunnery, Gunnery Radar, Magazine or Speed card; roll 2d6 plus any Captain Points spent; 10+ discards it. If the unmodified roll was odd the damage becomes permanent, if even it may be retried next turn. Hull and Bridge damage cannot be fixed.

If the unmodified roll was an odd number, the damage is permanent; if the roll was even then you may try to discard the damage on a subsequent turn.

One crew square per ten real crewmen (about 10% cadre). Each gun, boiler, steering and sail change requires one square; when crew drops below requirements, equipment is left unmanned in the order sails, guns, boiler, then steering. Federal warships carry one square of Marines who may only operate guns.

One crew square is allowed per ten actual men in the crew.

Two penetrations of armoured deck or belt per 1,000 tons sink a ship (20 for 10,000 tons). Destroyed bow waterline sections submerge the forward part one deck; if the stern is also destroyed the whole ship sinks a deck and penetrations equal to half the remaining sections capsize it. Personnel loss is five men per gun disabled; guns need ten men to maintain rate of fire.

Two penetrations of armoured deck, belt, etc., per thousand tons of displacement, shall be considered sufficient to sink a ship.

-1 square of maximum move per 2 damage points and per mast lost. Once at 4 damage points, single 6s are wasted, but two or more 6s in one turn bring down a mast (d6: 1-2 fore, 3-4 main, 5-6 mizzen). A ship unable to move is a hulk drifting one square downwind each turn.

If this means a ship cannot move it is treated as a hulk – it is dead in the water and will simply drift one square downwind, each turn.