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Post by vonfriedman on May 31, 2016 1:05:05 GMT -6
I am eager to know if something special will be provided for by NWS for this special anniversary. May I suggest to put an AI directed Grand Fleet against an AI directed Hochseeflotte - if this is feasible - in a simulated Jutland battle?
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Post by vonfriedman on Feb 23, 2016 7:19:25 GMT -6
I too would be glad to play a WW2 version of this game. The old Thunder at Sea game was a good simulation and a good starting point.
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Post by vonfriedman on Jan 9, 2016 11:30:54 GMT -6
Although Britain can be criticized for some decisions in this field, such as destroying the precious man-of-war Implacable, there are other cases worthy of regret. The Goeben/Yavuz battlecruiser could have been saved, as well as one or two warships of the Regia Marina and of the Japanese Navy.
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Post by vonfriedman on Dec 24, 2015 7:30:21 GMT -6
May I suggest you to see the Thread "Custom Scenarios", where there is another version of the Otranto 2 scenario - which I baptized 10 June - which can be played also from the Italian side.
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Post by vonfriedman on Oct 16, 2015 10:39:49 GMT -6
Thank you for your early reply. Admiral Cunningham document is a proof that some plans were made. As a fact these battleships remained in Egypt until 1947. I presume that they would have been almost useless in the Pacific, having no radar, relatively few anti-aircraft guns, relatively limited range and scarce ammunition ready for shore bombardment purposes.
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Post by vonfriedman on Oct 16, 2015 2:14:29 GMT -6
In Wikipedia, at the page "Regia Marina", the more extended Italian version contains the following phrase, regarding the fate of the italian warships after the armistice of September 1943: "As for the battleships Littorio class, they were interned in the Great Bitter Lake, in Egypt, until 1947. Although it had been proposed to use them in the war in the Far East, the idea was rejected by the British Admiralty.
At the page "Littorio-class battleships", in a similar way we find: "The Littorios were not used in any mission on behalf of the Allies, even though W. Churchill had wanted to use them in the Far East, considering the alternative of leaving them or less under the Italian flag."
I wonder if you have read something more about this issue.
Even if I walk somewhat away from the topic of this discussion, I thank you in advance for a kind reply.
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Post by vonfriedman on Jul 8, 2015 1:20:07 GMT -6
Another Punta Stilo.rar (9.62 KB) Seventy five years ago, on July 9th 1940 a battle was fought between the Regia Marina and the British Mediterranean Fleet. The British call it the Action Off Calabria, the Italians the Battle of Punta Stilo. It was a brief and inconclusive clash. The result was disappointing especially for the Italians, who had fought at a relatively short distance from their air and naval bases. The absence of the two brand new battleships Littorio and Vittorio Veneto, which remained in Taranto harbour, sparked much discussion. It was said that their preparation was incomplete. According to various sources, however, the admiral that commanded these battleships was ready to take to the sea. In this SAI scenario, based on a hypothetical second Italo-Turkish War in 1920, that battle is simulated again. The Turkish squadron is composed of the two dreadnoughts ordered in the UK (one was completed as HMS Erin) and a third supposedly bought in Germany. The Italians have Cesare and Cavour, as at Punta Stilo, and it is also possible that one or two new battleships, Caracciolo and Colonna, sail from Taranto to intervene in the battle. These fast battleships, armed with 15 in. guns, were planned but not completed during the First World War. The air power can be overlooked, as the Italian air force bombed impartially both friends and foes, with no major results, while the torpedo planes of HMS Eagle did not intervene in the action between battleships.
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Post by vonfriedman on Jun 12, 2015 5:09:29 GMT -6
I apologize. Something DID appear but it is not of the some size of the picture window.
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Post by vonfriedman on Jun 12, 2015 0:32:08 GMT -6
I wish someone would tell me how to do for adding the picture with reference to a custom built ship created by DesignShip2. I created several .bmp files by changing the size, but my picture does not appear in the "status" of the ship. Thanks in advance.
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Post by vonfriedman on Jun 9, 2015 14:23:04 GMT -6
Given the recurrence (exactly 97 years ago), I join a scenario similar to 2nd Otranto that seems to me a little more enjoyable by both sides. 10 giugno.7z (5.45 KB)
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Post by vonfriedman on May 31, 2015 11:46:48 GMT -6
In my opinion British ship design jumped the shark after WW1, at least from an aesthetic perspective. The N3's, G3's, Nelsons, and KGV's were all hideous designs. As you can see from my avatar, I always thought French capital ships had a lot of flair. I think THAT the KGV class battleships were not so bad and Vanguard was even better (from a point of view of beauty.)
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Post by vonfriedman on May 24, 2015 1:30:05 GMT -6
Thanks. I remember that some illustrations from "The fighting at Jutland" were used in the rules booklet of Avalon Hill Jutland board game. The memoirs, Captain Alexander Grant about the battle of Jutland may be read on: www.worldwar1.co.uk/grant.htmHe was gunner on HMS Lion.
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Post by vonfriedman on May 22, 2015 10:29:11 GMT -6
Thanks for the kind invitation. For now I'd rather ask what books, that you have read, contain descriptions of battleship actions of some literary value. I intend to leave aside the historical or professional descriptions and also all those concerning the carrier air war, the submarine operations, etc. I am interested in those novelists and short story writers who were able to give a vivid representation of a naval action between battleships. As for me, I remember with pleasure Kennedy's "Pursuit: the sinking of the Bismarck", Filson Young Dogger Bank battle description on "With the battle cruiser", Dino Buzzati's "Battleship Tod". All of them had direct personal experience, even if Buzzati wrote a fantasy story about a German super-battleship at the end of WW2. I may add to them Thiess's "Tsushima", C.S.Forester Mediterranean convoy action in "The ship". I've probably read more, but the other books did not have impressed me in a special way.
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Post by vonfriedman on May 21, 2015 10:32:35 GMT -6
If there is anyone willing to build a division of super BCs of the "Incomparable" type, this would be their appearance, according to the memoirs of Admiral Fisher. HMS Dreadnought is also shown in foreground.
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Post by vonfriedman on May 5, 2015 11:44:18 GMT -6
Just another question: what do you know about the movements of HMAS Australia new BC? In Churchill's World crisis he write about an Anglo-Japanese task group, of which HMAS Australia would have to be part, sent to the American west coast, but somewhere else I read that HMAS Australia would have remained in the Pacific until December 1914.
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