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Post by boomboomf22 on Oct 16, 2016 20:42:00 GMT -6
Just lost an old BC because I was pursuing some American CA's as the Russians and it turned into a night action. Now you would think the loss came because I go over aggressive and closed to knife fighting range with them, and usually you would be right, but not this time. Noooo, what happens is I am cruising along at 26kts with a 3 destroyer escort, and I have put 10 tubes on the DD's. Suddenly a american CA looms out of the murk not 1000 yards away, bow on and my DD's fire off all of their torps.... from behind my battle line. The BC (old yes but I only posses 4 due to a naval arms treaty) eats 6 of them, and blows up. To add insult to injury not a single torp strikes it's target and the CA zooms off. I hope DD's won't do this in RtW2 as it is pretty immersion breaking. I highly doubt a DD captain would fire torpedoes into a friendly BC HE IS STEAMING ALONG BESIDE NOT 100 YARDS AWAY!!!!!
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Post by boomboomf22 on Oct 16, 2016 13:31:50 GMT -6
Probably, but I would still have o find time, which sadly I don't have. I live vicariously through the AARs and LPs of others
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Post by boomboomf22 on Oct 16, 2016 13:06:57 GMT -6
I am definitely watching this on the utub as I watch all three of your channels. I have toyed around with the idea myself, but have had issues finding the time/people to do it with as no one I know as the game.
Keep up the awesome videos.
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Post by boomboomf22 on Oct 16, 2016 0:18:24 GMT -6
I've had my DDs launch trips right into allied ships in line behind them, while later in same battle they won't launch cause "Friendly is in line of fire". Said ship being 4000 yards beyond max torp range. Sigh
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Post by boomboomf22 on Oct 10, 2016 7:53:50 GMT -6
I believe the author was David Drake, I have read at least one of the books you speak of If it was by David Drake, you can re-read the stories online hereYes that was it. I kinda wish more had been written in that universe, but none was to my knowledge
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Post by boomboomf22 on Oct 9, 2016 20:16:12 GMT -6
Oh, wow - I remember that book. Can't recall the author - it was an early work, and as I remember not great writing. Sort of a naval version of the Italian condottieri. I believe the author was David Drake, I have read at least one of the books you speak of
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Post by boomboomf22 on Oct 3, 2016 9:03:12 GMT -6
Just a quick idea (don't know the feasibility of this) but maybe track the build progress of ship components (ie hull, turrets, powerplant) so if they are still under construction they might be modified in light of say combat experience. I came up with this idea in a recent Spain game where I had 6 Bs of one class 3 in service, 3 building and was at war. Combat experience showed they were woefully underarmored in the deck, and the ones under construction were maybe 2-4 months in. I think it would be nice if I could tinker little bit with the ones under construction to help alleviate the issue.
Just my 50 cents
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Post by boomboomf22 on Jul 26, 2016 21:41:28 GMT -6
No clue, and the manual proved unenlightening . They did have top armor tho,I think about 2in. I also should have been more specific. It was 1918sih, and I meant destroyed when I said knocked out
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Post by boomboomf22 on Jul 25, 2016 21:06:52 GMT -6
Hi, I was playing around and designed a CA with mostly casemated 7in main guns. Despite having 4.5in secondary armor and 5in turret armor I found they were constantly being knocked out be hits as small as 3in HE. Anyone know why?
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Post by boomboomf22 on Jul 23, 2016 17:56:47 GMT -6
Weird Destroyer type I designed recently as the CSA. Attachments:
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Post by boomboomf22 on Jun 12, 2016 19:27:35 GMT -6
My problem Is I try to be all them at once, and it leads to hideously expensive ships
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Post by boomboomf22 on Jun 11, 2016 22:44:17 GMT -6
i have a class of CA's that just chew up BC's. The Gloire, and Gloire II class CA, 26kt speed, 7" armor, and 10*10" and 12*10" guns respectively. Absolutely deadly to BC's due to high fire rate, good punch, and a small target by comparison. It is glorious when you cross the T on a enemy BC squadron with those.
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Post by boomboomf22 on Jun 11, 2016 22:23:32 GMT -6
And last is my Hero Battleship. The French Navies Battleship Courbet, Nameship, and only of it's class, as well as the first dreadnought manufactured by the French. Commissioned in 1908, sliding down the slipways at the same time as the Massena. She is armed with 14" low quality guns, as well as 8" secondaries, and has 12" belt. She also received a refit in 1919 as did many of Frances ship, as that is when the Naval treaty was in effect. The refit upgraded her fire control, added .5" of turret armor, and added increased elevation to her main guns. She weighs 26,000 tonnes,which would be more or less the standard displacement of French dreadnoughts for quite a while. The hero battle came in 1915 during a war with Austria-Hungary, when leading the French battle line off of Algeria she sank two battle-cruisers, the 25,500 ton Prag, and the 29,000 ton Triest. She then went on to engage the main Austrian battle line and receive 73 12"-14" gun hits, as well as in excess of 100 hits from lesser size guns. Every gun on the ship was put out of action, but not before she left 3 Austrian pre-dreadnoughts and the sole Austrian dreadnought burning and dead in the water, waiting to be sunk by the rest of the battle line. By the end of the battle she was moving at a bare 8kts, and listing badly from a torpedo hit from a Austrian light cruiser torpedo attack that was chewed apart by her secondaries, which had been partially put back into action by that point. She was out of action for 8 months, by which point the war had been won. Question to go with this, anything I could have done to improve these designs? Also I seem to have real trouble keeping my budget under control, and can never manage to build more then 2 battleships at a time, or 1+ some lighter ships. Tip muchly appreciated.
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Post by boomboomf22 on Jun 11, 2016 22:20:33 GMT -6
Well here is my contributions. They are from my soon to finish game as France, and are my First and last class of Battle-cruiser as well as a hero battleship of mine. As someone who knows history I am usually loathe to build them as they were historically a disaster but i figured a couple over-sized cruisers wouldn't be so bad to try. 1st is my Massena Class, commissioned in 1908, this one ship class of Battle-cruisers were an experiment into smallish heavy ships with 12" and 6" guns, and 10" belt armor. At 19,400 tonnes she was relatively cheap, as well as fast to build. 6 months after she was commissioned she took on and sank the Japanese Tsukuba and Kongo, both Tsukuba class BC's weighing in at 22,500 tonnes. During this battle she fired all of the ammunition present on board the ship She received a refit in 1919 removing some of her secondary's in exchange for 2kt more speed, improved turret armor, upgraded 12" guns, better fire control, and additional main battery ammunition. Sadly she is on her last legs in the ongoing French-Italian conflict. The second contribution is the Pas-de Calais class of battle-cruisers, with 2 commissioned: the Pas-de Calais (1915), and the Lille (1918). Two more were under construction when a Naval Treaty hit and scrapped all ships above 10,000 Tonnes under construction. Following in the path of the Massena Class the have 12" guns, 10" belt armor, and a decent number of secondaries, though less and only 5". The class weighs 21,100 tonnes and represents a continuing attempt to limit ship sizes, with the French Navy believing that limited tonnage would allow more ships to be constructed. The class is overdue for a refit, but at present the is too much a need for ships to allow this. Generally the class has been a disappointment as they do not perform very well as they have no torpedo protection and opposing battle-cruisers are almost entirely armed with 14" guns.
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Post by boomboomf22 on Jun 11, 2016 18:44:47 GMT -6
Thanks all, I found where it is installed before I read your post, but thanks anyway. Thanks for linking that page, like a total derp when I posted this I didn't have the newest version, and thus not the newest manual. How do you add pictures?
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