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Raiders
May 21, 2019 10:48:26 GMT -6
Post by dorn on May 21, 2019 10:48:26 GMT -6
What is your experience with raiders and hunting them down?
I have started as UK in 1920, have 30 light cruisers, 4 heavy cruisers around globe (another 10 under construction) and I get only 1 mission to hunt cruisers through 15 months and enemy cruises sinking one merchant after other. On top of that it is very seldom (once around per 5 months) that any of my cruisers thwart enemy raider.
It is completely different story to RTW1 where you can easily hunt enemy raiders if you have enough cruisers. It is strange as hunting cruisers in RTW2 should be easier as a lot of cruisers has floatplanes and raiders cannot operate near airpower.
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Raiders
May 21, 2019 10:55:01 GMT -6
Post by janxol on May 21, 2019 10:55:01 GMT -6
Did you try putting your cruisers on trade protection?
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Raiders
May 21, 2019 12:01:50 GMT -6
Post by aardvark on May 21, 2019 12:01:50 GMT -6
Did you try putting your cruisers on trade protection? I don't think it is necessary to put cruisers on trade protection to intercept raiders, and may even be counter-productive. What I've seen is ships stationed in a sea zone will occasionally intercept raiders. (This would be ships on foreign stations in general, but I've intercepted a raiding cruiser with a BC from my main fleet.)
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Raiders
May 21, 2019 12:09:46 GMT -6
Post by Blothorn on May 21, 2019 12:09:46 GMT -6
From the manual: "Cruisers assigned to trade protection will patrol against enemy raiders and provide heavy convoy escort." This doesn't mean that raiders will never encounter fleet ships (particularly if the enemy is blockaded), but does suggest putting some fast CAs on TP if you are having trouble with raiders.
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Raiders
May 21, 2019 14:38:33 GMT -6
Post by dorn on May 21, 2019 14:38:33 GMT -6
Does have anybody experience through larger timeline?
I think that it could be that at some time convoys were formed and there are more missions of convoy attack/defence than raider interception. I will try to give some raiders to TP as I have 37 modern light cruisers and 4 heavy cruisers. I need 24 light cruisers for foreign station so I will try to give around 5-6 on trade protection duty.
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