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Post by tordenskjold on May 18, 2019 7:42:08 GMT -6
Airships launced from the Emden base regularly patrol over the Dutch mainland. That probably took place before "airspace" became an internationally recognized legal term.
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Post by epsilon19 on May 18, 2019 14:32:06 GMT -6
This is more an "I broke things in the ship designer" story, but I found it amusing. So, I just snagged the tech for CVLs, and, instead of doing the normal thing and building decent sized CVLs, I set about making "Aviation Destroyers." The original plan was to make a sub-2000 ton, 25-35knot CVL with 2-3 planes that I could spam out and drown the AI navies with by sheer quantity. As it turns out, a CVL has to have at least 3 planes or it gets counted as a TR and takes 9.8 million years to have the design develop.
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Post by aeson on May 18, 2019 14:45:17 GMT -6
Either the Franco-Prussian War never happened in this timeline or the French got over it real fast (at least to the point of accepting German money for warships), because it sure looks like Germany likes its battleships French-built, at least at present: That's seven French-built German battleships (including one still under construction); Elsass and Worth are domestic German construction.
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Post by cv10 on May 18, 2019 14:52:13 GMT -6
I had my first battle involving my very first CV (a converted BB that was converted to carry about 45 planes and do 27 knots). An accompanying CVL launches its TBs as scouts. They sight the enemy battle line and I go to order my CV's airgroups to prepare to strike...only to find that I forgot to create air groups for it...
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sykes
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Post by sykes on May 18, 2019 15:02:01 GMT -6
Get a convoy protection mission, with intel projecting the opposition to be a single light cruiser.
My ships, 2 CA, 1 CL, and a DD division are patrolling north of the convoy, course approximately South East, when I get a contact report of 3 CA, course SE, position given being South West of the convoy. Naturally, this causes some consternation, and I rush over.
This came as an unpleasant surprise to the enemy CL over there, which turned around and and made ran away like the hounds of hell were on his tail.
Given that there was only that one enemy CL there, my best guess is a transport captain misidentified my force as an enemy CA force, sent contact report with a bad position for it, and caused my force to go looking in exactly the right place to protect the convoy...
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Post by dorn on May 18, 2019 18:10:30 GMT -6
Playing as UK Prime Minister wanted to increase presence in the Mediterranean against France. So I send my best of the fleet to the Mediterranean.
Next month Prime Minister was annoyed about small presence of Royal Navy in Northern Europe and my prestige suffered.
Hey, what the hell Prime Minister wants? To have fleet in the Mediterranean or Northern Europe?
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Post by skyblazer on May 18, 2019 20:10:36 GMT -6
I had a 1910 cruiser engagement as AH vs Italy. I had been focusing down Italy's cruiser fleet down to nothing and was expecting to simply kill another CA or CL. I had only 2 CL's and 3 DD's. They sailed out to meet the enemy to discover they were not cruisers at all but a pair of pre dreads with a small escort. My guys just noped out of there lol.
This same encounter happened again but this time it a pair of my heavy CA's with destroyers. Against 1 "cruiser" *cough*predread*cough* and 2 destroyers. I promptly killed the destroyers and torped the lone predread about 8 or 10 times into submission. Not to mention my cruisers had 11in guns that could pen the predread at medium range.
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Post by thesovietonion on May 18, 2019 20:59:45 GMT -6
One of my obsolete CA's was getting battered. Turned away from the enemy to try and run to port as darkness fell. Turned directly into and rammed a 900 ton DD. Survived and made it back to port.
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Post by williammiller on May 18, 2019 21:05:03 GMT -6
I had my first battle involving my very first CV (a converted BB that was converted to carry about 45 planes and do 27 knots). An accompanying CVL launches its TBs as scouts. They sight the enemy battle line and I go to order my CV's airgroups to prepare to strike...only to find that I forgot to create air groups for it... Lol..I'm sorry...I had to laugh at this one cv10 . Course I have done things more knucklehead than that in some games, so don't feel too bad
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Post by director on May 18, 2019 21:55:44 GMT -6
dorn - "Hey, what the hell Prime Minister wants? To have fleet in the Mediterranean or Northern Europe?" Obviously you misunderstood the requirements of your position. Knowing how to run the Navy is secondary to being able to anticipate the whims of the PM. cv10 - the irony, of course, is in your user name. LOL.
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Post by cv10 on May 18, 2019 22:47:18 GMT -6
I had my first battle involving my very first CV (a converted BB that was converted to carry about 45 planes and do 27 knots). An accompanying CVL launches its TBs as scouts. They sight the enemy battle line and I go to order my CV's airgroups to prepare to strike...only to find that I forgot to create air groups for it... Lol..I'm sorry...I had to laugh at this one cv10 . Course I have done things more knucklehead than that in some games, so don't feel too bad Never apologize for laughing at good comedy! I wish I had thought to get some screenshots for an AAR: looking at that mistake from point of view of the crew of that carrier would have been fun!
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Post by bubby on May 18, 2019 22:58:27 GMT -6
So uh.... the AI just built this... Masterpiece of engineering.
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Post by Adseria on May 18, 2019 23:16:27 GMT -6
So uh.... the AI just built this... Masterpiece of engineering. They're obviously just taking the idea of an armoured flight deck to the max!
On a more serious note, I'm impressed that it counts as a carrier. It's not even a light carrier.
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Post by Adseria on May 18, 2019 23:19:29 GMT -6
Lol..I'm sorry...I had to laugh at this one cv10 . Course I have done things more knucklehead than that in some games, so don't feel too bad Never apologize for laughing at good comedy! I wish I had thought to get some screenshots for an AAR: looking at that mistake from point of view of the crew of that carrier would have been fun! "Sir, the scouts have sighted the enemy!" "Excellent! Launch all aircraft!" "Yes, sir! I'll contact the factories immediately."
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bubby
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Post by bubby on May 19, 2019 2:48:31 GMT -6
Playing as Germany in the early 1930's and this pops up.
Sure, he seems like a nice respectable young fellow, what could go wrong?
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