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Post by director on Mar 17, 2020 22:56:22 GMT -6
In the Missions part of the main file you can set a direction ships can use to head home if there are no ports near enough.
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Post by Adseria on Mar 18, 2020 2:33:35 GMT -6
Ok, this is (yet another) battle in the Baltic sea. I'm Germany, allied with Britain, fighting Russia. I'm fighting a cruiser battle, and Britain decided to send some ships to help out. In the Baltic.
So how are all of their ships (CAs and DDs alike) at 120% fuel capacity?
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Post by Adseria on Mar 18, 2020 2:48:00 GMT -6
"13 11:55 Turret A back in action! 13 11:57 Turret A jammed!"
Oh, come on!
EDIT: "13 12:10 Turret Y jammed!"
For the love of...
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Post by Adseria on Mar 18, 2020 3:16:51 GMT -6
"01 16:57 Torpedo Magazine hit! Ship blows up! Electric power disabled CA Hertha"
"Ah, good, her electrics have been knocked out! That should help!"
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Post by Adseria on Mar 18, 2020 3:30:21 GMT -6
"Destroyer action? Sure, why not? All my destroyers are on trade protection, I'll probably get protected cruisers."
Oh...
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Post by Adseria on Mar 18, 2020 3:45:11 GMT -6
Enemy coastal raid. I never found the enemy, but the game kept slowing down for combat, and I kept getting reports about ships encountering the enemy. So, I was pretty sure I was going to see a post-battle report with at least half a dozen merchants and TP destroyers sunk.
I can only assume they kept finding that battleship (who was in the support force with the CL) and that was enough to keep them away from the destroyers and merchants.
EDIT: The damage reports on those enemy cruisers certainly support that theory.
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Post by Adseria on Mar 18, 2020 4:38:10 GMT -6
I've never seen this before.
A cruiser battle. protected cruiser vs protected cruiser. Mine was far superior, and I only encountered one cruiser (though the enemy, as you can see, apparently had 3 others somewhere).
So, I'm chasing this enemy ship. I have a huge firepower advantage (12x6" vs 2x6" + 6x4"), and speed advantage (24kn vs 21kn), so eventually I manage to disable her. I pull up alongside for a torpedo to finish her off and...
Theodor Detmers would be proud.
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Post by dorn on Mar 18, 2020 7:30:58 GMT -6
Enemy coastal raid. I never found the enemy, but the game kept slowing down for combat, and I kept getting reports about ships encountering the enemy. So, I was pretty sure I was going to see a post-battle report with at least half a dozen merchants and TP destroyers sunk.
I can only assume they kept finding that battleship (who was in the support force with the CL) and that was enough to keep them away from the destroyers and merchants.
EDIT: The damage reports on those enemy cruisers certainly support that theory. Nice. I like support force, they usually help me quite a lot. But one time in destroyer action I get 6 destroyers in main force and expected what would be support force. Click, ouh, just 1 destroyer. Or another mission - convoy attack. What I will get. Hmm, 2 destroyers .... Should sink convoy defended by 9 destroyers. OK, full speed through the convoy and luck with us. No torpedo hit any ship but both destroyers were able to disengage. However after 2 hours one of them sink through progressive flooding. I want at least cruiser to attack convoy, not 2 destroyers. :-)
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Post by director on Mar 18, 2020 8:31:41 GMT -6
Adseria - They are still burning the Danish fleet from 1801. Too soon?
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Mar 18, 2020 21:24:56 GMT -6
Adseria - They are still burning the Danish fleet from 1801. Too soon? "Too soon" You made me spit my coffee.
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Post by aeson on Mar 19, 2020 16:31:43 GMT -6
Ah, yes, just what I want to see in a carrier's battle log:
It's so much easier for the pilots to find the target when they can see it from the flight deck of their host carrier; pity that the weather precluded air operations for most of the morning...
It's a good thing I had the two heavy cruisers from the carrier's screening force plus the battleship and the battlecruiser that constituted the core of my main force actively engaged with the French ships or that could've gone a lot worse. Potheau got away, Le Havre and Primauguet were sunk by surface combatants, and Isly was sunk by a combination of surface and air attack; the French also lost another battlecruiser, another light cruiser, and two destroyers, mostly to gunfire, while I lost eight of the sixteen merchantmen in the convoy that I was supposed to be protecting and nearly lost my battleship.
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Post by noshurviverse on Mar 19, 2020 18:04:09 GMT -6
Ah, yes, just what I want to see in a carrier's battle log:
Alfred...enhance that image!
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Mar 19, 2020 19:32:41 GMT -6
...Noshurviverse is Batman.
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Post by aeson on Mar 19, 2020 22:48:23 GMT -6
Well, I never saw the enemy... ... but something tells me that my carrier-borne aircraft did alright on this fine day, 15 May 1933.
Also, somewhat interestingly, my Copahee took a 300lb bomb hit at the same time that the French Dupleix took an 800lb dud bomb hit; Copahee burned out two hours later while Dupleix took a torpedo and a second 800lb bomb hit to put down.
Amusingly and yet simultaneously irritatingly, the two French CVLs which survived the engagement were arguably far harder hit than either Copahee or Dupleix, and in fact could be argued to have been some of the hardest-hit ships in the engagement, with one (Nice) taking five 800lb bomb hits while the other (Leon Gambetta - probably a CA conversion since it has armor and only 7 aircraft) took six 800lb and two 2,000lb bomb hits and in fact sustained more bomb hits than any other ship in the engagement (Nice took the fourth-most bomb hits, after the five 800lb and one 2,000lb bomb hits on the battleship Terrible and the six 800lb bomb hits on the heavy cruiser La Motte-Picquet), though if you also count torpedo hits then a couple other ships may have been hit harder.
Finally, three of the French destroyers died of fright: (Catapulte and Durandal each suffered ruptured hull plates from near-miss 800lb bombs twice; Poignard suffered ruptured hull plates from only one near-miss 800lb bomb.)
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Post by Adseria on Mar 20, 2020 8:06:52 GMT -6
Decisions, decisions...
EDIT: For those of you who are interested, here's how it turned out:
I initially headed for the contact near Emden, to the southwest. However, after about a half-hour, I had three new reports of the contact to the north-east, near Helgoland, and none from the Emden contact, so I turned around and headed for Helgoland. I arrived to find a pitched battle between the 2 coastal batteries at Helgoland, plus about half a dozen TP destroyers, against 2 enemy protected cruisers. Unfortunately, darkness fell just after I sighted them. I pursued, found and sunk one, but lost the other in the darkness.
Then, just as that battle ended, I got a new report; a new contact near Emden again, this time "1 B, 1 CL." I headed that way, but the battle ended before we made contact. The final result; one enemy protected cruiser sunk, for a merchant gunned down by the third enemy cruiser, which, presumably, was the Emden contact.
Interestingly, despite it being a night battle, we only scored one torpedo hit, and that was after she was already sunk by flooding from multiple 6" hits.
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