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Post by dizzy on Mar 4, 2020 15:00:03 GMT -6
Currently, the entire Division will go around in circles and chase their tails when the lead ship gets their rudder jammed or damaged and that damage is insufficient to warrant detachment. I think you need two asterisks, not just one in order to detach when it comes to damage. So please allow detach when Rudder isn't working so we don't have what happened to me which was quite distressing:
Example: My 4x BB division went in circles chasing after the lead ship with rudder jammed and didnt have enough damage to detach. The ships circled so many times a whirlpool developed in the water and all four BB's got sucked in and sank. I wasn't happy.
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Post by rimbecano on Mar 4, 2020 21:30:54 GMT -6
Neither was Admiral Vitgeft especially happy in a fairly similar situation, although most of that unhappines probably had to do with having come down with a bad case of dead, rather than the "follow the leader" snafu that resulted from the same shell that killed him. EDIT: That said, ships probably shouldn't follow a rudder-damaged leader through much more than one revolution. |
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Post by captainloggy on Mar 9, 2020 10:47:37 GMT -6
The problem there was that not only was Tsesarevich's rudder jammed, she had also lost her entire command staff, making it impossible to give orders. If this hadn't been the case, she probably would have detached.
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Post by rimbecano on Mar 9, 2020 19:43:17 GMT -6
Raising flags or getting a message to the radio room takes time in the best of conditions, and a ship can turn through a good fraction of a circle in a minute or two.
There's also Exeter at Java Sea: the turning point of the battle was when she sheared out of line after a machinery hit (to avoid being hit from behind), and the ships following her assumed she was turning on orders and turned with her, which threw the Allied line into complete disarray. She wasn't even the flagship, she was second in line. There were communicating difficulties there as well (owing to the mixed nationalities), but there was no physical impediment to communication (or even, in that case, was there actual steering damage: the turn was deliberate, but there was no intent for the rest of the squadron to follow it.
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