Proposal: Maritime Inaction
Times out, 5-0. Enacted by pokes.
Adminned at 03 Aug 2019 14:33:18 UTC
In “The Watch”, replace “As a Maritime action, a Captain may send the Admiral a private message listing the square their Vessel/s moves to, their Vessel/s’s facing, and the square/s their Vessel/s shoot at.” with:-
If they have not already done so during the current Watch, a Captain may send the Admiral a private message describing exactly one Order that they wish to give during this Watch. Valid Orders are to:-
* Move a Battleship they control up to 3 squares in the direction it is facing, or up to 2 squares perpendicular to the direction it is facing, or up to 1 squares in the opposite direction to the direction it is facing.
* Move a Battleship they control 1 square in the direction it is facing, then move one square perpendicular to the way it is facing.
* Move a Submarine they control up to 3 adjacent squares in any combination of directions.
* Have a Battleship they control Shoot at up to 2 squares. (A Battleship cannot Shoot at a square adjacent to the square it is located in; a Battleship can choose to shoot at the same square twice.)
* Have a Submarine they control Shoot at up to 1 square; this square must be between the Submarine and the grid edge the Submarine is Facing.
* Add a Battleship or Submarine under their control to a grid square of their choice and with a facing of their choice (unless the Captain giving this Order already controls a Vessel).
If the proposal “Enemy Ship Sighted!” enacted, add “Battleships Shoot a Manhattan distance.” just before the final bracket of the fourth action in the list, and replace “this square must be between the Submarine and the grid edge the Submarine is Facing” with “this square must be from a single row (if the Submarine is Facing East (E) or West (W)) or column (if the Submarine is Facing North (N) or South (S)) which is directly between the Submarine and the grid edge the Submarine is Facing.”
If the proposal “Gone Swimming” enacted, replace “A Captain may go Diving, as a Maritime action, by rolling” with “When a Captain goes Diving, the Admiral rolls” and add to the bulleted list in “The Watch”:-
* Go Diving
Remove every sentence containing the phrase “Maritime Action” from the ruleset.
Repeal “Naval Terms”.
The term “Maritime Action” is currently being used for two types of thing: a Captain sending secret instructions to the Admiral, and for various moves which can be performed directly by Vessels. But it’s not possible to submit an order of “I move my Battleship to G4” because that’s a Maritime action (“moving a Battleship”) being announced by another Maritime action (“sending the Admiral a message”) and we can only perform one Maritime action per Watch.
(“Order” is maybe a more understandable term to use here, to emphasise that the things which are happening are not actions being performed immediately and effectively by the Captain, but requests for something to hopefully happen at the time when the Watch is processed.)
And since we have no Vessels yet, this also adds a way to add Vessels to the map.
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