SIGNAL CLOSE ACTION - THE
FOURTH EDITION -
The Fourth Edition Package includes:
Main Rule Book - with full colour laminated cover - takes you through setting up
game and core game;
Appendices Booklet with Optional Advanced Play features and
Glossary;
Separate Playsheets including Ability Chart, Speed and Gunnery
Charts. Also, Card Compass, Attitude to Wind Indicators, Firing Arc Indicator etc .
6 x six-sided Coloured Dice.
Ref: PUB8
PRICE: £20.00 plus p/p as follows:
UK - £2.30; Europe - £4.50; Worldwide - £6.50
What's
new about Fourth Edition?
It being the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, I was inspired to
produce - not just an update of previous editions, but an enhanced game, smoother, with
more fluid movement and ability for vessels.
The Ability Chart remains fundamental to the game - particularly as it cuts down on the need for excessive dice throwing and record keeping. This time however, there are more dice and they play critical roles. In the past, if you had a 'bad throw', all your actions were affected by that same dice score. With Fourth Edition, the dice are colour coded, with one being 'common' to all. The score of the Common dice is added to the dice relating to the various actions.
Other new innovations include the division of a player's part of Turn into two segments and Reloading of the guns, so that the time scale of actions are more realistic. The actual Firing rules are not changed noticeably but there are new separate charts for firing at Unrated vessels.
Finally,
the format has changed and Carol has done a brilliant job on the layout which makes the
rules much easier to navigate. The main rule book takes you through setting up a game and
the core game. There are distinct pointers to where a section has an advanced play option
and many of the pages have a little 'Quick Ref' box which picks up the actions mentioned
on that page and gives you the cross reference page number.
