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Post by wulfie on May 18, 2019 13:04:19 GMT -6
heres mine on my first playthorugh of japan made my 70k ton 18in yamato and musashi monsters and 3 - 50k ton fleet CV's and totally destroyed russia in my first engagement with them after they declared war on me. i was happy with the results  |
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Post by Warspite on May 18, 2019 13:14:23 GMT -6
Nice.  |
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Post by L0ckAndL0ad on May 18, 2019 13:57:20 GMT -6
Just out of curiosity (I don't have the game), could you post the Russian CV designs that were sunk? 4 CVs in Far East, that's interesting. Though not uncommon, I've also seen tortugapower engage a crazy amount of Russian BBs and BCs in his playthrough. |
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Post by williammiller on May 18, 2019 14:00:54 GMT -6
heres mine on my first playthorugh of japan made my 70k ton 18in yamato and musashi monsters and 3 - 50k ton fleet CV's and totally distroyed russia in my first engagement with them after they declared war on me. i was happy with the results Wow...you gave a solid thrashing to the Russians in that battle... kudos. |
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Post by wulfie on May 18, 2019 14:22:29 GMT -6
heres mine on my first playthorugh of japan made my 70k ton 18in yamato and musashi monsters and 3 - 50k ton fleet CV's and totally distroyed russia in my first engagement with them after they declared war on me. i was happy with the results Wow...you gave a solid thrashing to the Russians in that battle... kudos. Sure these were the four type's of russian cv I sunk.
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Post by wulfie on May 18, 2019 14:23:08 GMT -6
and the other two Attachments:
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Post by wulfie on May 18, 2019 14:24:45 GMT -6
woopse wrong quote
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Post by L0ckAndL0ad on May 18, 2019 14:40:37 GMT -6
Thanks. Strange, number of aircraft and catapults is not showing. A bug? Or due to fog of war, because you've made a screenshot outside of battle? Mainly wanted to know their a/c capacity.
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Post by wulfie on May 18, 2019 15:13:17 GMT -6
ether that or my spying intel on russia wasent that great thats the only other thing i can think of.
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Post by yemo on May 18, 2019 15:47:04 GMT -6
Also, the first one is named Lennigrad (instead of Leningrad I assume?).
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Post by wulfie on May 19, 2019 5:09:19 GMT -6
Also, the first one is named Lennigrad (instead of Leningrad I assume?). yes then again its whatever the Ai called it  |
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Post by taeven on May 19, 2019 6:02:56 GMT -6
Surprise attacks are always fun.
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Post by tordenskjold on May 19, 2019 8:06:51 GMT -6
...and that was just a convoy defense mission. Well, it was all about Malta (which I had seized some 10 years earlier from the Brits), so this is probably not that surprising. 
Oh, and my CVLs were just conversions from CAs, two of these were even from the legacy fleet and are now about 40 years old. Italy in turn is now down to 3 BBs and 3 BCs, so they are now only on par to my Mediterranean detachment consisting of older (and smaller) BBs. Also, the AA losses ratio gives at least a slight taste of turkey shooting. |
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Post by deeznuts on May 19, 2019 8:23:50 GMT -6
I ended up just making my entire battleline 73,000 ton monsters with an all forward 12 16inch gun armament and capable of 30 knots
The USA late game just has so much budget that you can do whatever you want(especially when you get efficient shipbuilding in the 30’s)
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Post by tordenskjold on May 20, 2019 17:33:53 GMT -6
When the USN decided to veer into the German Bight in 1968, I finally had that one, epic air-sea battle... well, not quite, or not the way I thought. My BB force first came in touch with their enemy counterparts NW of Texel. While they were basically finished off quickly thanks to superior 17" guns and a lot of air support, actually sinking them took quite a long time and a huge effort to the expense of main caliber ammo and the DD torpedo stores. With most of that gone and some damage to the machinery, it was pointless to chase on US carrier to the west, so near the evening, the fleet turned around towards Emdenm, while night was falling.
In the meantime, the US carrier force had NE of Helgoland and and their planes sortie for the airbases and Tönder and Emden, but not to much avail. And then, about noontime on the next day, the inevitable happend: North of the East Frisian Islands, the remaining carriers were spotted and immediately attacked, but the whole thing became comical when my BBs had no ammunition left, and the impressive 7.5 inch B armor of the Essex-class carriers proved its worth against the 6 inch secondaries, and additionally those ships could well outrun my rather clumsy post-dreadnoughts. Airstrikes did only little damage, and the airgroups on both sides were already heavily decimated.
So, finally I set my own carriers to chase them down (it was again getting dark) - and the final spell was USS Antietam running into a small minefield south of Borkum. So, in the end it all came down to guns again, but the overall result is still impressive - especially in the numbers of planes involved or shot down.
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