Gaius Duilius
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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso quote:
ORIGINAL: Gaius Duilius Alright, I may be biased, but I do really hate the British light aircraft carrier Hermes; too slow, too little, too unarmored... you can't even use it to block an enemy port or to provide some cover from the sea, somewhat as Courbet was used. Anyway, the first time the game asks me to withdraw a carrier (I guess it does, it isn't just for the battleships, cruisers and destroyers, right? ), I'm sending her home to be bombed to oblivion by some good ol' Junkers Ju.88 or SM.79 (long live the "Damned Hunchbacks"!! ). You are probably going to be very disappointed if you try to send Hermes back when the British have to withdraw a CV, since Hermes is a CVL... She should be used for transporting aircraft or for anti-sub escort duty, not as a frontline carrier... i use her pretty much as a CVE. Dang! Forgot about that! So I guess it's just gonna stick around. Damn. Well, I have no choice but to use it as you suggested; but I really hope other RN carriers come in, and fast. They still carry less aircraft than the US CVs but they have the armored deck, so they don't blow up at the first bomb dropped on their flight deck. quote:
ORIGINAL: gladiatt quote:
ORIGINAL: Gaius Duilius Alright, I may be biased, but I do really hate the British light aircraft carrier Hermes; too slow, too little, too unarmored... you can't even use it to block an enemy port or to provide some cover from the sea, Early in the war (before end of december 1941), my CVL Hermes managed to score 1 torpedo hit against BB Hyuga (didn't sink but had to sail back to port), and did sink BB Haruna. So if used properly and with caution, it can still be useful. Lucky shot, I guess. Besides, I noticed that Japanese BBs are pretty though. True, for now all the planes that met them and tried to get them were Martins or TVs, and they didn't survive long to their AA guns. But I bet that even with some Dauntless and Avengers (I'm anxiously waiting for them!) they would be difficult to sink. In the real war, I heard that Hiei went down after having been fired upon by cruisers and destroyer with gunfire (and perhaps some torpedoes) and after at least 70 air attacks! And to think it was conceived as a battlecruiser!!
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