What's your Strategy?
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ORIGINAL: Dan Nichols
Alfred beat me by 5 seconds.
ORIGINAL: Arnhem
Thank you all for taking the time to reply, I'm aware that damage can occur whilst in port, it's just that something of this magnitude you kinda like to know what happened and none of the reports show anything remotely related to what happened to PoW. C'est la vie, I'll play the hand I've been dealt with. Thanks again all.
ORIGINAL: Don Bowen
The game is rather robust in it's damage "options". In fact, the section of the manual quoted above is a little sparse.
There is a random chance of damage during ship repair. That damage can be slight (an extra point or two), or significant. In the worst cases there can be collateral damage to the repairing facility. Messages are not generated for the minor stuff, but you can see it in occassional jumps in damage. You do get a message (in the ops report) for significant events, and additional messages if repair facilities are also (significantly) damaged. The additonal damage can result in loss of the ship under repair, or just a longer repair time to fix up the extra mess. Repair facilites are seldon destroyed (or sunk) but can take enough damage to seriously affect their ability to perform their functions. The damage to facilities depends on the repair method used (shipyard repairs damages shipyards, etc). You will sometimes see enough damage to degrade a port's general capacities (i.e. load rates).
The player has no control over this. It's like collisions and running aground. When it comes to naval warfare, ship (sic) happens.