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Post by barrybull on Aug 17, 2019 1:05:33 GMT -6
I am playing as the ROC in the year of 1950, using a custom nation mod. The world has largely shifted to carrier based navies, but some BBs and BCs remain. What I found interesting and baffling is that the fast BBs got no escorts assigned:  Is that something observed by others too? |
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Post by tbr on Aug 17, 2019 3:06:08 GMT -6
Yes, the amount of escorting DD's in scenarios seems to go down in late games. Could there be a tonnage squeeze with the matchmaker and the "small boys" the ones squeezed out by the very large late game capital ships?
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Post by barrybull on Aug 17, 2019 3:37:56 GMT -6
Yes, the amount of escorting DD's in scenarios seems to go down in late games. Could there be a tonnage squeeze with the matchmaker and the "small boys" the ones squeezed out by the very large late game capital ships? I have seen late game fleet battles that did not deploy DDs... |
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Post by barrybull on Aug 17, 2019 8:34:13 GMT -6
Yes, the amount of escorting DD's in scenarios seems to go down in late games. Could there be a tonnage squeeze with the matchmaker and the "small boys" the ones squeezed out by the very large late game capital ships? I have seen late game fleet battles that did not deploy DDs... Here is the screen capture of my latest fleet battle, taken at the start of it:  Only 1 DD Division and my CVs are escorted by capital ships. Really interesting. |
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Post by Fredrik W on Aug 17, 2019 8:58:34 GMT -6
There should be no difference. Might it be due to a lack of destroyers?
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Post by barrybull on Aug 17, 2019 9:14:26 GMT -6
There should be no difference. Might it be due to a lack of destroyers? No, I got 102 DDs and only two sea zones to cover.  |
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Post by aeson on Aug 17, 2019 9:38:59 GMT -6
No, I got 102 DDs and only two sea zones to cover. How many of your DDs are assigned to the Active Fleet (AF), and are the ships assigned to AF in the sea zone where the engagements are occurring? |
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Post by barrybull on Aug 17, 2019 10:03:58 GMT -6
No, I got 102 DDs and only two sea zones to cover. How many of your DDs are assigned to the Active Fleet (AF), and are the ships assigned to AF in the sea zone where the engagements are occurring? I am in another battleship engagement, so cannot check the precise figures. 60% of my DDs are deployed in Northern Asia and 40% are deployed in Southern Asia. Each sea zone have about 5 to 10 DDs assigned on TP and all of the rest DDs are AF.  No DD at all in this battleship engagement! |
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Post by sloanjh on Aug 17, 2019 11:40:44 GMT -6
Do they have a decent speed advantage over the heavies? I've noticed that the battle generator tends to put my old 27kt DDs escorting my 21-22kt BB divisions, while the faster ones escort the BCs. Conceivable that there's logic that doesn't assign DDs as escorts for a division unless they're a couple of knots faster....
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Post by barrybull on Aug 17, 2019 19:09:18 GMT -6
Do they have a decent speed advantage over the heavies? I've noticed that the battle generator tends to put my old 27kt DDs escorting my 21-22kt BB divisions, while the faster ones escort the BCs. Conceivable that there's logic that doesn't assign DDs as escorts for a division unless they're a couple of knots faster.... I have some old BBs and CAs that have the max speed of 25 knots and all of my DDs are at least 32 knots or above. I also have 30 knots CLs. |
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Post by barrybull on Aug 18, 2019 2:26:44 GMT -6
The DDs returned to the ROC OOB in this battleship engagement in March 1951. I am fighting both Russia and France with USA as ally:  |
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Post by Fredrik W on Aug 18, 2019 3:23:24 GMT -6
Can't really say what is wrong here. Normally, each heavy ship division should have an attendant destroyer division if destroyers are available in AF status in the area. I will keep an eye on this though.
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Post by barrybull on Aug 18, 2019 18:56:05 GMT -6
Can't really say what is wrong here. Normally, each heavy ship division should have an attendant destroyer division if destroyers are available in AF status in the area. I will keep an eye on this though. Would you like the save game files? |
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Post by Fredrik W on Aug 19, 2019 13:35:13 GMT -6
Can't really say what is wrong here. Normally, each heavy ship division should have an attendant destroyer division if destroyers are available in AF status in the area. I will keep an eye on this though. Would you like the save game files? Not needed in this case I think, but thanks anyway. |
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