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Post by bcoopactual on Dec 27, 2016 14:28:12 GMT -6
I just got the Shipyard experience shortens the build time... and the unexpected delays affect the building of... messages on the same turn for the same ship. Somewhere in the world of zeroes and ones is a shipbuilding director that doesn't know if he's about to get promoted or fired. haha.
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Post by axe99 on Dec 27, 2016 16:47:33 GMT -6
I've definitely had a few laugh-worthy moments in-game . None I an remember right now, that one's a good 'un BCoop .
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Post by Noname117 on Dec 27, 2016 17:28:14 GMT -6
I've had a couple in the French game I've been playing.
So far I've been in 5 wars. 1 against Austria Hungary, 1 against Italy, 1 against Great Britain, then another two against Austria Hungary.
The first event I remember takes place in the 61-month war against Great Britain. In previous battles Britain's first two dreadnoughts had been sunk by my fleet. I had 4 dreadnoughts at this point, and Britain had just gotten another dreadnought commissioned a couple months before. Our fleets then met in a fleet battle (which happened a lot in this war). At the end of the battle 3 of my destroyers had been sunk. Britain had lost their brand new dreadnought along with 4 pre-dreadnoughts (and 3 destroyers of their own). When checking the battle results I remembered one of my destroyers having been torpedoed, so I went to check what had torpedoed it.
It was one of my ships. A battleship. My flagship. Yes, the lead battleship of my formation, which I was controlling, had managed to accidentally sink one of my destroyers.
A second possible entry to this list occurred during the second war with Austria-Hungary. It was another fleet action; this time I had a lot more battleships and battlecruisers than I had had in the war against Great Britain. However, 9 of my pre-dreds and semi-dreads (which could all go 21 knots) were also there. Notably missing were two of my battlecruisers. Anyways, they encountered the Austrian battlecruiser fleet and badly damaged both ships, before sailing north parallel to the Austrian battle-line (as they tried to retreat to one of their ports). Their lead couple battleships escaped but their second or third division was slowed down from battle damage, and slowed down the divisions behind it, allowing my battle division to get ahead and to start trying to cut them off. It was at about this time that an Austrian destroyer thought that one of my destroyers looked like a good target to launch torpedoes at; launching 2, one at 8:48 and the other at 8:53. Both missed their target. Instead, the first one hit my battleship Saint Louis, while the second one hit my battlecruiser Tourville. Those two torpedo hits wound up making me decide to turn the fleet around and retreat; using destroyers and battlecruisers to finish off the stragglers, rather than to continue with the cutting off of much of their battleship fleet. Although the battle was still a massive victory for me (7 Austrian capital ships sunk for a couple of destroyer losses), the actions of that 1 destroyer, which would be sunk later in the battle, likely saved several other battleships from destruction.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Dec 27, 2016 20:32:14 GMT -6
I love it when things like that happen.
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Post by Airy W on Dec 28, 2016 15:36:36 GMT -6
It was one of my ships. A battleship. My flagship. Yes, the lead battleship of my formation, which I was controlling, had managed to accidentally sink one of my destroyers. Could be worse... I've had it the other way around.
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Post by bcoopactual on Dec 29, 2016 8:50:53 GMT -6
I think there might be a fundamental flaw in the new German battleship's Caesar turret. I wonder if one of the architects' last name was Erso? For the record, my purpose for this thread was to share the events in game that gave me and others who want to share a chuckle. I mean no disrespect, nor do I mean to belittle anyone with these posts, most certainly not the developers who I believe have done a smashing job with this game so please don't misunderstand me.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Dec 31, 2016 15:18:39 GMT -6
LOL ..well, let's thinks about that. Maybe the turret revolves around the stack, and the feed from the magazines comes from a cart that they push across the deck from the next nearest turret...
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Post by chaosblade on Dec 31, 2016 16:42:23 GMT -6
I think there might be a fundamental flaw in the new German battleship's Caesar turret. I wonder if one of the architects' last name was Erso? For the record, my purpose for this thread was to share the events in game that gave me and others who want to share a chuckle. I mean no disrespect, nor do I mean to belittle anyone with these posts, most certainly not the developers who I believe have done a smashing job with this game so please don't misunderstand me. Perhaps it is not incompetence but they are ahead of their time, the German Shipwrrights, see the Bradenburg it is perhaps a non-smoking ship, with the Caesar Turret the designated Smoking area. Sheer Genius!
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Post by bcoopactual on Dec 31, 2016 22:57:01 GMT -6
Haha, yes that is forward thinking. As long as they don't use the powder bags as ashtrays I see no problems then. (I think the Germans used powder bags. IIRC, they used a bag charge and then a brass case charge as a two part setup.)
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Post by bcoopactual on Dec 31, 2016 23:00:08 GMT -6
LOL ..well, let's thinks about that. Maybe the turret revolves around the stack, and the feed from the magazines comes from a cart that they push across the deck from the next nearest turret... Heh, wouldn't want that job when the ship is in the North Sea in the winter time.
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Post by Airy W on Jan 3, 2017 14:31:57 GMT -6
These civilians are having a bad day. They went out for a sail, then someone assassinated a French bigwig and now they are in the middle of this.
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Post by bcoopactual on Jan 3, 2017 18:41:34 GMT -6
Talk about between Scylla and Charybdis.
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Post by Airy W on Jan 3, 2017 22:43:03 GMT -6
Cruiser battle. Sweet, I have my awesome armored cruisers ready to go. Battle starts. It's night and it's overcast. Enemy spotted in front of me. Right in front of me... They hold fire because the ship is still unidentified. Close the range. Identify them as enemies. Enemies aren't maneuvering yet. Only one thing to do... RAMMING SPEED!10/10 would crash again.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Jan 4, 2017 3:43:53 GMT -6
The Austrian ship was no doubt hampered in its maneuverability by the extra 400 pounds of bronze it took to craft her name-plate.
*nods sagely*
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Post by bcoopactual on Jan 4, 2017 11:35:28 GMT -6
That is a mouthful of a title.
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