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• This is a group activity. Meet and get to know some of the other captains. If you don't enjoy their company then you are not going to be happy between battles.
• These ships are complicated. It takes time to get experienced and get your ship up to speed. Ask for help during this time. If you don't you will either miss the battle or delay it for everyone else.
• Radio's share a limited "space". Talk to the person about a freq, don't assume the posted list is up to date.
• "Used" ships are available. Do not assume you will spend less time getting a used ship up to speed. Since each of these ships are one-of-a-kind, each used ship needs to be looked at very carefully. Contact Phill if you are interested in going this route. He has both experience doing this as well as a knowledge of what ships are available.

Battling model warships is a group activity. This means that some coordination is critical to making things go smoothly. We are blessed/cursed with two sets of national level rules covering warship combat. Currently they are close enough that any ship build to one set can be converted fairly easly to be acceptable to the other set. The WCC is fairly neutral as far as the national organizations go. The primary difference is in the insurance coverage.

There are a number of things that the national organization handles that isolated clubs like the WCC should take on. The primary issue is radio Frequencies. When two ships are set up on the same freq, neither ship is controlable. The only solution is to put one ship on the beach. This has happened when the crystals for one ship were missing. The only spares turned out to be on an already used freq. The result was that that ship missed most of the day of battling. The only reason it was able to battle was that the other ship lost two guns and it was decided that the team was better served by the other ship with more working guns.