Advice for an enthusiastic beginner please

[Adam Duckett]

My opinions are quite similar to Luke's, the Battleship is a little tricky to make work in smaller point value games, which 1250 is at the top end of. The carriers are great, the Seattle is by far and away consistently the best performing ship in my fleet. I usually take two now, with an Atlantis for a flagship if I can fit it in!

If you're comfortable doing it, I'd highly recommend magnetising all of the guns on the UCM ships - officially so you can swap them around between games but unofficially so you can swivel them round in game to point at your enemy haha

Thanks - I'll definitely do that then. What size magnets do you recommend? And how do you drill the holes? Hand drill and a vice?

Hi Adam, I used 2mm x 1mm N50 Neodymium Rare Earth Strong Disc Magnets, loads of them on eBay and cheap too. I personally use a dremmel with a 2mm drill bit but I've achieved the same results in the past with a standard hand drill too.

Thanks jjakaalbinoboy - magnets are on their way. I have a hand drill but a dremel looks like a better solution. Do you put magnets on both sides or a magnet on one side and say a thin sliver of metal on the other?