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Ben wrote a new post 7 years, 6 months ago

El Acorazado – My Preferred Setup

Originally published to Miniature Trading on September 13th, 2016

42 Points

As the title says, this is my favorite setup for the best gunship in the game. Just hadn’t […]

Jack replied 7 years, 6 months ago

Adding Vega is dirty. That’s clever.

For using Acorazado in a 40 pt standard game I’ve been trying to equip her with

– Admiral Alarico Castro

-Duque Vacarro

-Helmsman

-Captain

And then Pescados de Plata with an explorer or the divers event. Not great, mainly because of how much it relies on Castro going off, but it does particularly well against hybrid fleets. Captain Castro might be better than Admiral here though.

I just had a bizarre game where I got all 5 masts lined up for a shot and every single one missed and that sucked.
- Ben replied 7 years, 6 months ago
  
  @Jack: I mainly focus on making the Acorazado as deadly and defensive as possible because I don’t prefer to use S speed gunships in 40 point games. Spain has a plethora of good gunships that can be competitive in 40 point games that aren’t deathmatches. This is more of a specific setup than an actual fleet; El Algeciras can be added to get it to 45 total points, but I usually have just played this in 1v1 gunship duels.
  
  Indeed, the SAT Castro would save a few points in your setup without much of a downside.
  
  I’ve certainly had more than my fair share of bad dice luck, especially during shooting. If you see some of my Battle Reports of physical games from around 2011-2014, it’s pretty crazy how poorly I rolled sometimes. It’s yet another reason I love huge games – with lots of points and die rolls in play, the luck factor of missing a crucial shot decreases and the better player or better constructed fleet should win.
  
  Thanks for the comment!
  Ben

Mechavelli replied 7 years, 6 months ago

Huh, I wasn’t aware that you could have multiple oarsmen in a single ship! That stacking strategy is going to come in handy with my sac captains on small cargo ships for sure!
- Ben replied 7 years, 6 months ago
  
  @Mechavelli: You can have multiple oarsmen on a ship, but the no-stacking rule still applies. Due to that rule, the first oarsman doesn’t take up cargo space, but any added after the first have to take up cargo space because you can’t stack any part of the keyword. In which case I don’t think the setups you mention would work, unless I’m missing something.
  
  In this case it just works amazingly well because the Roanoke has a massive cargo hold, which in this case is completely filled up.
  
  Thanks for the comment!
  Ben

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