SOPAC Rule Corrections/Clarifications/Enhancements

This is my personal collection of SOPAC errata... almost all of which came from the Errata at Web Grognards (Word document: sopac.doc). I am placing them here as I prefer an HTML format over a Word format. For rule corrections, see The Rules Page.

You can always visit my main SOPAC page here.

• Battle Board
  • On both Torpedo Damage Tables, the correct Hit Type for a die roll of seven is "3 hull, 2 secondaries".
• Japanese Capital Ship Hit Record Sheet
  • The Battleship Haruna should have four shaded secondary boxes, just like her sister ships on the sheet.
  • The marker for CVS01 Kamikawa Maru shows 1 tertiary but the hit record sheet does not.
  • The marker for AM01 shows 2 AA guns but the hit record sheet only shows one.
  • BB12 seems that it should be identical to BB11 with regard to hull hit points, but it is not.
• American Auxiliaries Ship Hit Record Sheet
  • AP01's marker shows it as a single ship, and the scenario setups indicate that the two ships shown here is an error.
• American Light Ship Hit Record Sheet
  • DD409 Sims has a speed of 3+ indicated on its marker.
  • DD356 Porter is listed twice (duplicate is between DD366 and DD367)
  • DD364 Mahan has three torpedos according to its marker which coincides with the VP value.
  • DD386 is the only US destroyer with 6 instead of 7 fuel boxes... mistake or not? I don't know.
• Japanese Light Ship Hit Record Sheet
  • The Japanese Light Cruisers all have fuel boxes that would seem to indicate that they use coal for fuel. This is a misprint. All Japanese Light Cruisers use oil for fuel just like every other ship in the game.
  • The Japanese cruisers CL14a, CL16a, and CL17 show only one AA gun on the counter but two on the hit record sheet.
  • Some ships don't have the same fuel capacity as otherwise identical ships around them... like DD17 (fuel=5!), DD76, DD97.
  • DD86 shows a victory point value of 9 even though it is the same as the ships above and below it with a value of 17.
• American Capital Ship Hit Record Sheet
  • The Carrier Hornet should have five AA boxes, not four.
  • The Carrier Yorktown should have eight Hull boxes, not seven. It should have a point value of 130, not 125 (The Yorktown was the sister ship to the Enterprise and the Hornet and therefore should have the same number of hull boxes as they do.)
  • The Australian heavy cruisers "Australia" and "Canberra" should each have a torpedo factor of 2 and be worth 24 victory points (according to historical data).
• SOPAC Scenario Book
  • Page 3, First Column, Victory Points: You receive the full VP value for each enemy ship sunk regardless of whether it is lost in battle, is scuttled, or is lost through foundering.
  • Page 14, First Column, Guadalcanal Reinforcement Force: 3 x small AP should be 3 x small TR.
  • Page 14, Second Column, Allied Forces; any sea zone on South edge of board: CL47 Phoenix should be CL46 Phoenix.
• SOPAC Tables Card
  • Gunnery & Ship-Launched Torpedo Modifiers: First line should read:

    Target is BB, BC, CV, CVL, CVE, large transport +1

  • Air Search Modifiers: First three lines should read:

    On result of 3 or greater, task force is spotted. Modifiers 3-4 steps of search aircraft +1

  • Submarine Attack Modifiers: Third line should read:

    Target is BB, BC, CV, CVL, CVE +1

• Counters
  • A question on the official Avalanche FAQ: "the 2 destroyers DD349 Dewey and DD348 Farragut have a unique value on the back of the counter. On the front of the counter is a Tertiary value of 2, but on the back next to the number 2 is a number 1 in an orange box. What does this value represent?"

    The answer: "ASW Value - a tremendously bad idea deleted from the rulebook during play test, apparently not from all the counters."

  • The backs of 8 out of 9 of the land-based Japanese A6M2 counters show the plane as white instead of green as they are shown on the front.
  • The Australian heavy cruisers CAi84 (Canberra) and CAi33 (Australia) should have two torpedo factors based on historical data. This information would also need to be added to the ship data sheet.
  • Of the American P-40F markers, half of them show a range of 12/1 on the front, the other half show 5/1 on the front. All four show 5/1 on the back. Normally, I would guess that the prevalent value is correct, but a range of 5/1 seems ridiculously small, so I assume they are all 12/1.
  • The American TBF-1 planes show a name of TBF on the back.
  • The American P-38F markers show a range of 20/1 on the front and 6/1 on the back. I assume the 20/1 range is correct.
  • The American APD03, APD04, and AP01-AP07 show 1 AA factor on the piece (presumably that means 1 per ship), but the hit record sheet shows 2 per ship.

In addition, I recommend penciling in the following data on the SOPAC Tables Card for quick reference:

• CAP Interception of Search Aircraft Modifiers: Success on 5 or 6
• CAP Interception of Flight Modifiers: Intercept on 3 or more
• Air-to-Air Combat Modifiers: 6 to hit
• Target Location Modifiers: Located on 3 or more
• Bombing & Air-Launched Torpedo Modifiers: the +1 for the ships being in port does not apply to torpedo bombers (rules give them a -1, which balances out the +1)
• Air Search Modifiers: for ASW, seaplane steps count double.
• ASW Modifiers
  • 6=Abort, 7=Attack & Sink, 8=Sink & no attack
  • ASW in port is both +2 and +1
  • ASW aircraft of carrier in TF count double
• Submarine Attack Modifiers: 5 or 6 to hit
• Land Bombing Modifiers: 6 to hit
• Take-Off & Landing Modifiers: Seaplane/carrier aircraft crashes on -1, -2 at an airfield