That went rather well.

[AiryW]

I just had a convoy protected by 1899 vintage ships get attacked by the enemy main force.



I didn't even get lucky with torpedoes. In fact the only battleship lost from a torpedo hit was mine (5 hours of progressive flooding during a storm and a ruptured bulkhead ).  It was a gun chase with the dreadnoughts fleeing from my old, slow battleships.  So afterwards I start picking through the logs to figure out what the heck happened.  There it is...



The part I find odd is that normally Germany doesn't have -2 quality 13 inch guns.  Only France and Britain start with those IIRC.  And I dont think it's possible to discover -2 quality guns with research.  So that means that Germany probably got these guns by spying on me.

I am just about to deploy my first pair of dreadnoughts, which I thought would be needed to counter the German ships.  12 inch guns in an AFKXY configuration.  I had been dithering over whether they would be good enough with only 8 gun broadsides or if I needed to delay to rebuild them for cross deck fire.  Right now I'm leaning towards an 8 gun broadside being sufficient.  In celebration of this triumph, I am renaming these ships the Picquart and the Dreyfus. They will be followed by the Zola and her sister the Bastian.

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I once sunk a japanese 32 000 tons BC in 1921 with a 1899 year made, 14 200 tons German B, so it is possible to sink a bigger and better ship.

[AiryW]

Dec 28, 2018 21:13:27 GMT -6 @pavelsvt said:

so it is possible to sink a bigger and better ship.

I may have sunk a bigger ship but I dont think anyone would call it a better ship when it has defective cannons.

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I remember a battle of my german B (cca 20 000 tons, 4x 13in main guns, some 10in secondary guns, some 6in tertiary guns, 20kts top speed) against 3 Italian BBs, everyone was above 22 000 tons, had 12in guns or bigger in numerous turrets. After 400 minutes of guns blazing the middle (in terms of size) enemy BB blown up and the others ran away.
I admit that I had some less substantial CAs as a screen and core and enemy had no help at all, but still, it was 35 000 tons fleet against 80 000 tons fleet. Better crew, better FC and much better shells did their work...