Gamer's Notes on 7:17 - 7:24 PM
Many odd things happened, including some dice rolls and decision table outcomes.
Perhaps the oddest was that of the Countess, whose avatar rolled a triple zero (00-0). When Pr Luitpold shifted targets after losing sight of Superb, the chances of hitting the mystery ship were tiny. In fact, using two 10-sided dice, she needed 00 on the tens die and 0 on the digits die ---- 000. Her BB was down to 3 shot half-salvos. She had one salvo, and a 50% chance of getting off a second salvo. She would have had no chance at a second half-salvo at all, except that Kronprinz had scored a fire-causing hit 90 seconds earlier. So, she passed the die roll for a second half-salvo, and got a 00-0 on one of the three shots!
Moltke had a decent chance to avoid torpedo hits, and von der Tann had an excellent chance. Both managed to "hide" behind the hulls of Derfflinger and Seydlitz (and Blucher, to a degree) by quick action. This was the mainstream probability. Besides, Mustang would have killed me ... ;-)
Monarch has now survived more hits and more damage than any RN capital ship, I think, in jj history. Monarch actually got off two "salvos" (only #4 turret, I think) in the general direction of the HSF LOB, though a 00-0 would have been necessary for any of the four shells to be a hit. Without the Countess to help, no go. This is much like the Derfflinger shooting at NZ in DB. Big D hit thin-skinned NZ something like 8 times before causing any visible damage. Here Monarch almost sank Blucher by tying up the Konigs from firing on the RN light when they really would have been better off doing that. In fact, it is a bit like an oddly reversed historical Jutland. There some in the RN LOB occupied themselves and their main guns with poor DIW Wiesbaden (that's GALLANT Wiesbaden!), rather than trying for the harder targets on the horizon that just happened to be the HSF main body. Here, though, instead of RN BBs not shifting from a helpless light ship to the more dangerous German BBs, it was the German BBs not shifting fire from the helpless RN BB to the more dangerous RN light ships!
Blucher was hit by, well let some FOW remain, let me just say "many" 4" shells, several 6" shells, a few 7.5" shells, and a couple 9.2" shells. She would never have won a beauty contest before this battle. Now, she might well enter her topside into a modern sculpture exhibition! Nonetheless, von Hoban can continue to participate in this battle with dry feet!
The BC torpedo hits did NOT result in either being cripples. However, the die roll result mandates another die roll in a bit to see if there has been additional flooding. More die rolls of the same sort can occur as the battle continues, depending on certain things.
The AC group that Theodor is licking his chops over is NOT the group that had been under Arbuthnot's command. Instead, it is Heath's and is comprised of Minotaur, Hampshire, Cochrane, and Shannon. This was the 2nd AC group with the GF main body. The survivors of the other are back near QE, along with Commodore Nott and his 4 CLs, as well as one or two DD groups.
The RN commander has yet to get damage reports. However, he is not unaware
that he has some cripples. He just passed Erin on his port side and KGV
just to port of Benbow's division. Thunderer is further to the East, but
ID passed her while the GF was still in LOB, several minutes ago.
by Jim
To the Related Jutland Story at 7:17