Goofiest battle you've had

[gazimu]

How about this, just happened for me today:

I'm the US, and I've been in and out of war with the UK for like 15 years. We had a war that lasted most of the 1920's that ended with my losing some BB's, and it wouldnt let me scrap the few B's i had left without a prestige hit cause we'd have so few BB's, so I left them while rebuilding.

Of course, UK comes knocking again. One of their first strikes is invading in Southeast Asia, the islands below Philippines and East of Brunei, forget the name. All I had to defend it was 2 of my 3 Pre-Dreadnoughts and a Converted CVL that only had 3 of its 10 planes on board. This against 4 modern BB's, 1 BC, 1 CL and 8 DD's coming to support the ground troops. Luckily I receive air support from the Philippines, but I'm going into this expecting these two ships to get one last hurrah and a viking funeral.

What happens instead is that one B is hit by an enemy TB and sinks right outside port, the other sails on, seeing nothing, until it stumbles upon some destroyers late at night, gets shot up by them, disabling its rudder and allowing them to escape, and spins around aimlessly until the battle timer runs out, before being torpedoed by a submarine whilst retiring from battle.

On the other end, the TB's from the Philippines sink 3 BBs, the BC and 2 DD's. I win a stunning victory which nets me first blood in a war I'm woefully outgunned in, and none of the 3 ships I had in the engagement did anything.

[cuthalin]

GB v Russia.  My 3 new BC's sortie for the first time, meet 3 russian B's. First salvo from them and i get 2 flashfires and an engine room hit. 2 sunk and 1 reduced to 5 kts, it lasted another 3 salvos before sinking.  36 months and @200 M wasted in just 5 minutes     Gotta love this game

Also just had a war as US with Italy, month 1 sent 3 BC's to Med, month 2 Peace declared ! My BC's are in Carrib enroute, I get nothing except a prestige penalty for NO COMBAT !  I'm sure that dent in the wall will polish out

[rimbecano]

Oct 31, 2020 3:12:24 GMT -6 cuthalin said:

GB v Russia.  My 3 new BC's sortie for the first time, meet 3 russian B's. First salvo from them and i get 2 flashfires and an engine room hit. 2 sunk and 1 reduced to 5 kts, it lasted another 3 salvos before sinking.  36 months and @200 M wasted in just 5 minutes     Gotta love this game

Wow. How were they armored, and are you sure the shipyard didn't stiff you and substitute cardboard for steel?

[andrewm]

First time ever I destroyed an Airfield by bombardment , I don't recall ever shooting at one before. But the airport on Bermuda was in range of my battleships and blew up

[decourcy2]

I'll throw mine in.

Something like 1916, I was Britain, allied to the USA. I was in a war versus France. I ended up with a defend against a colony bombardment in West Africa. I had one colonial CL, the Americans gave me a better CL.
It is dark, too dark. The American followed my CL for 2 hours or so, nothing.

All of the sudden out of the dark I see one destroyer, 1 second later my CL breaks in half and sinks.
I get control of the American CL, I am more cautious now, turning constantly, but I see nothing. close to an hour later out of the gloom a destroyer... 1 second later the American CL breaks in half and sinks.
They did not bother bombarding cause their crews were laughing to hard to hit anything.

End of the mission I was curious what the AI had, 2 destroyers. Sigh.

[Noname117]

I've got one from a few months ago (thankfully I can review the Twitch VoD and tell it exactly).

So it's 1946. Canada (me) and Germany have been at war, with Canada fighting in Europe due to their (my) ownership of Iceland. The war went pretty badly early on, with multiple Canadian carriers lost to fires, but it's been starting to turn around.

A cruiser battle off of Iceland is accepted. It's dusk. I get 2 light cruisers, one Brooklyn-alike cruiser (Camrose) and an Atlanta-alike cruiser lacking the side turrets (Kamloops), plus a set of destroyers.

Germany gets 2 heavy cruisers.

The cruisers involved:






(I just realized this is the first time any of the cruisers see combat)


Camrose leads Kamloops, while Scharnhorst, one of Germany's newest cruisers, leads the older Hansa.

The battle initially starts with the Canadian cruisers crossing the T of the German cruisers, but the German cruisers turn broadside before that matters at all, turning this into a typical broadside engagement.

The early minutes of the battle have a few hits landed by both sides, slightly favoring the Germans. Then one minute Camrose lands 6 hits with Kamloops and 2 destroyers each landing 1 hit to no German reply. The next minute Camrose lands another 4 (and a 4" hit) with only 1 German shell as a reply. The battle is looking favorable.

And then Camrose explodes from a hit to her X turret. It was the 5th hit she had received the whole engagement.

So now it's Kamloops and 5 destroyers against 2 enemy heavy cruisers, with Scharnhorst a bit damaged (and with a jammed rudder) from all the hits from Camrose. Can this little light cruiser with 12 5" guns as main armament beat 2 heavy cruisers virtually alone?

The answer is yes.

Hansa splits off while Kamloops sails broadside to and ahead of Scharnhorst as night falls. All of the torpedoes launched from the destroyers miss. But the guns from Kamloops and the destroyers don't, hitting the ship dozens of times for no reply. Mostly because Scharnhorst's 2 forward turrets are both destroyed and both of her aft turrets are disabled. And then her X turret is knocked out as well, before Kamloops crosses Scharnhorst's bow. Still though, no torpedoes can hit the crippled cruiser which can't even turn, as 2 salvoes from the DD Rosemere and a torpedo from Kamloops catch Scharnhorst in a crossfire which she just sails through unscathed. Scharnhorst then suddenly repairs her rudder, dodging 2 more salvoes of torpedoes before coming to a stop, on fire, with a torpedo from the DD Boucherville finishing her off.

Hansa is still off in the distance, just barely within spotting distance at this point in time after having been observed on radar while Scharnhorst was receiving her 5" shell spam beatdown.

Kamloops charges in while the destroyers fall behind a bit. Kamloops is giving a lot of 5" hits, but is in turn taking multiple 8" shell hits which are doing significant damage to her machinery and ability to float. Then Kamloops fires a torpedo salvo of 3, actually landing a hit.

Both ships keep shooting each other, with neither side particularly winning the contest, even though the Canadian destroyers are starting to get involved. Then Hansa's rudder jams, and at that point every hit landed is from a Canadian shell. Kamloops is in a stable condition, albiet heavily damaged, and still has much of her armament available, while Hansa is burning and has all of her main guns disabled or destroyed. Hansa sails through a torpedo salvo from a destroyer without being hit, but it doesn't matter, as all the gunfire striking her eventually causes her to sink (or burn down, not sure), and the "Germany has no ships at sea! The scenario is over!" message pops up.

Ok then, that was good, we sank 2 heavy cruisers and lost... 2 light cruisers?

Yeah, after achieving her greatest victory by effectively solo-ing 2 heavy cruisers in a cruiser armed with only 12 5" guns, Kamloops was lost...

Due to a fire...

Which burned her down after the battle...

Which was under control when Hansa was sunk.



So yeah, that's probably the goofiest battle I've had. To recap, I was facing 2 heavy cruisers with a strong light cruiser and an AA cruiser, plus a group of destroyers. The powerful light cruiser blew up early in the fight, and then the AA cruiser and destroyers managed to win a gunfight against the heavy cruisers, with the destroyer's torpedoes having little impact on the fight, and then after winning the AA cruiser was still lost anyways due to her desire to impersonate a Canadian fleet carrier which had just been struck by a 300 lb bomb.

Don't worry, Kamloops had a new cruiser named after her once the war completed.

[warspite1995]

Aug 24, 2019 0:23:23 GMT -6 lakel said:

Playing a major battle in Admiral mode as Germany vs Japan, trying to disengage as night fell to avoid my big ships getting torpedoed. Suddenly this one DD of mine, S16, breaks off from the fleet, and dives straight into the Japanese fleet (2BBs, 2BCs, CVL, and a few DDs left at the time), and proceeds to lay into the Japanese with all 8 5" guns and 8 torpedoes. crazy captain came out of that scoring a capital kill, and no damage received. I like to think the Leeroy was strong in that one.

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