lucur
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Post by lucur on Nov 22, 2020 4:01:41 GMT -6
I've had great success with a 2x4 gun q1 17" AB design i my recent France game. There's just something magical about crippling 30t battlecruisers with one or two hits at basically max range. And all forward allows those large guns with decent speed and armor to boot.
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Post by gazimu on Nov 22, 2020 10:20:41 GMT -6
That's close to what I do, except that I use a 2x3 AB main battery instead of 3x2 ABY, and tend to go for more speed. I stuck to the Battlecruisers for speed, as this ship and its predecessors were made in the late 1910s/early 1920s where BBs arent really fast. The Texas originally only did 22 knots, the 1928 refit brought it to 24. The AI hasn't really built any battleships significantly faster and my battlecruisers can deal with cruisers if my BBs cant catch them. One of my most battleworn BCs actually uses the 2x3 AB setup like you said you prefer, with 18 inch guns. A newer class used 4x2 17" turrets as I had gotten q1 17 inchers by then and it became somewhat of the mainline for later ships into the Carrier age to save weight and add speed. I've had great success with a 2x4 gun q1 17" AB design i my recent France game. There's just something magical about crippling 30t battlecruisers with one or two hits at basically max range. And all forward allows those large guns with decent speed and armor to boot. The q1 17" guns have actually been where my game has taken me. My latest BB design are 2x4 all foreward with heavy armour and they proved themselves to be tough and effective weapons in a battle last night. One shrugged off heavy damage, with over 40 heavy hits and 2 torpedo hits, without having max speed reduced once. Another fired all its ammunition and still managed a 5.50% hit rate, without ever closing in to point blank range on an enemy ship save for maybe destroyers attempting torpedo runs. The 20" guns are hilarious though at close range. I wiped out the entirety of France's BB and BC compliment with the Texas class and its predecessor, the California class(same layout but 18 inch guns, hadn't researched 20 yet when building) It was like 12 battleships and 8 battlecruisers, and the only loss I took was an older battleship getting torpedoed twice at night close range and slowly flooding as it limped away from battle for the next few hours. It still hadn't fully sunk by the end of the engagement.
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