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Post by goodwood on May 20, 2019 9:41:50 GMT -6
I got an offer of some private AA technology around 1905, when does aircraft technology appear?
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Post by Fredrik W on May 20, 2019 9:48:00 GMT -6
I got an offer of some private AA technology around 1905, when does aircraft technology appear? I assume that was the eccentric scientist? Well, you know, they guy may just be onto something, he is just a bit ahead of his time!
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Post by warlock on May 20, 2019 9:54:42 GMT -6
Well when you consider that the first powered airship came out in 1852 and the first Zeppelin was patented in Germany in 1895, having AA, a least in theory might actually have made a bit of sense.
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Post by goodwood on May 20, 2019 10:07:32 GMT -6
I got an offer of some private AA technology around 1905, when does aircraft technology appear? I assume that was the eccentric scientist? Well, you know, they guy may just be onto something, he is just a bit ahead of his time! It was, a shady looking dude with dark glasses and squeaky shoes.
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Post by akosjaccik on May 20, 2019 10:14:35 GMT -6
For example, the Tegetthoff-class's high-angle mounts were called Ballonabwehrgeschütze, (original source) so it is fair to assume that someone, somewhere looked at the smiling, laughing childrens' faces with their helium balloons of joy in their hands and thought to himself: "How to end this menace once and for all?" - I mean the balloons.
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Post by ninjapacman on May 20, 2019 13:38:53 GMT -6
I got an offer of some private AA technology around 1905, when does aircraft technology appear? I assume that was the eccentric scientist? Well, you know, they guy may just be onto something, he is just a bit ahead of his time! Then someone should say something to France, who is putting light and medium AA, and various small DP calibers on their ships in 1903-1904. This is in my Germany file 1900 start, historical resources, AI advantage, manual build legacy fleet. In case you wanted to know.
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Post by lukasdietrich on May 20, 2019 13:59:15 GMT -6
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Post by Blothorn on May 20, 2019 15:43:38 GMT -6
Egregiously early AA is probably the issue with autodesign (and consequently the AI) sometimes ignoring tech restrictions. (Since it seems to be only happening with new features in RtW2, I would guess some legacy code wasn't updated.)
Historically, I see AA guns coming in around 1914--I think that in reality (but unlike what I have seen from RtW2 thus far) the first AA guns were high-angle 3-4" guns, as the first naval use of aircraft, reconnaissance, would never bring them within LAA range. (Although ships had mounted machine guns for use against torpedo boats/boarding attempts since the 19th century, and these would have been at vaguely useful against at least torpedo bombers.)
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