CV Questions

[revillag]

In my game as the USA, I have made it into the 1930’s and I have some questions about carriers.


1) I researched deck park, but I don’t know what it does. When I designed a new carrier clicked on “Deck Park”, but none of the numbers changed.


2) How does deck armor interact with flight deck armor? Is there any advantage in using both?


3) If I chose to the magazine box armor box, does this provide armor to the aircraft bombs and torpedoes as well as the gun ammo?


4) Does the ship’s speed aid it in dodging air-launched bombs and torpedoes?


Thanks

[aeson]

Aug 16, 2019 18:13:24 GMT -6 revillag said:

1) I researched deck park, but I don’t know what it does. When I designed a new carrier clicked on “Deck Park”, but none of the numbers changed.

Deck Parks do not currently do anything.

2) How does deck armor interact with flight deck armor? Is there any advantage in using both?

Word of Frederick:

Flight deck armor will protect the hangar. If something explodes in the hangar, the regular armor deck will protect engine rooms from splinters etc. Also there is a sight chance of shells or bombs hitting the armor deck without hitting the flight deck armor first (the flight deck armor is assumed to be somewhat shorter). So having both is a good idea. 2 in of deck armor will stop splinters.

I do not know answers to the other questions.

[JagdFlanker]

my guess with question 4 is yes, speed helps evade bombs and torps, as well as giving the carrier mobility to get away from unintentional contact with the enemy

in fact i don't use any armour on my carriers to get the best possible speed out of them and to make them cheaper - except for 1" belt/deck on my first CV of course, since you can't install 8" guns on a ship with no armour

[aeson]

Aug 17, 2019 3:10:45 GMT -6 JagdFlanker said:

in fact i don't use any armour on my carriers to get the best possible speed out of them and to make them cheaper - except for 1" belt/deck on my first CV of course, since you can't install 8" guns on a ship with no armour

If you keep your first carrier at 20,000 tons or less, you can use 6" guns to satisfy the armament requirement for the first carrier.

[JagdFlanker]

Aug 17, 2019 7:24:08 GMT -6 aeson said:

Aug 17, 2019 3:10:45 GMT -6 JagdFlanker said:

in fact i don't use any armour on my carriers to get the best possible speed out of them and to make them cheaper - except for 1" belt/deck on my first CV of course, since you can't install 8" guns on a ship with no armour

If you keep your first carrier at 20,000 tons or less, you can use 6" guns to satisfy the armament requirement for the first carrier.

good to know, i build a single "unlock" CV conversion just to get the requirement out of the way ASAP

i only build CV/CVLs as purpose build AV conversions or from scratch so i can get maximum aircraft capacity for the limited early tonnage i have to work with - converting warships to CVs leaves you with a lot of weight taken up by armour, and older warships are too slow for the speed i want my carriers to go