Post by vonfriedman on Oct 7, 2022 13:38:55 GMT -6
Having recently played, as Germany, a SAI North Sea 1916 campaign, in which in a few weeks the HSF destroyed half of the Grand Fleet without losing even a pre-dreadnought, I wonder if the rule of hidden flaws, which afflict His Majesty's ships making them blowing up one after the other, does not require an afterthought.
The explosion of three British BCs at Jutland is now almost unanimously attributed to "suicide magazine practices". Not all ships adopted them, in fact the BC Lion survived a turret explosion. After the battle - without too much publicity - those practices were modified, so that hidden flaw tended to disappear as WW1 progressed.
In WW2 the fate of Hood once again made suspicion that there were other hidden flaws in British ships. However, it is not proven that the other British capital ships were so vulnerable (e.g. the old BB Warspite survived two guided bomb hits, of the type that had already sunk the brand new BB Roma).
Summing up. The hidden flaw rule might have been reasonable for a relatively unsophisticated game like SAI. In RTW2 or, better, in RTW3 one might expect something more dynamic, more evolutionary, with hidden flaws being cured while others appear, eg. in torpedo fuzes, not only in the Royal Navy, but in all navies of war.
The explosion of three British BCs at Jutland is now almost unanimously attributed to "suicide magazine practices". Not all ships adopted them, in fact the BC Lion survived a turret explosion. After the battle - without too much publicity - those practices were modified, so that hidden flaw tended to disappear as WW1 progressed.
In WW2 the fate of Hood once again made suspicion that there were other hidden flaws in British ships. However, it is not proven that the other British capital ships were so vulnerable (e.g. the old BB Warspite survived two guided bomb hits, of the type that had already sunk the brand new BB Roma).
Summing up. The hidden flaw rule might have been reasonable for a relatively unsophisticated game like SAI. In RTW2 or, better, in RTW3 one might expect something more dynamic, more evolutionary, with hidden flaws being cured while others appear, eg. in torpedo fuzes, not only in the Royal Navy, but in all navies of war.
