Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Arnhem

Setting the priority to high or critical for shipyard repair will cut down the repair time but at the cost of using up repair yard ops points, put it another way, you repair that particular ship faster at the expense of taking attention away from other ships in the shipyard, at least that's how I read it.

For the few AE games I've started, I just triaged and popped anything which had major flotation damage or had all 3 areas in the red into the shipyard up to it's max limit, everything else was stood down for either pier side repairs or repair ship attention depending on degree of damage. Might want to fiddle with the repair options so that you get the shortest repair time as depending on degree of damage and how much of it was considered major damage, pier side repairs can be faster than repair ship time.

Everything else being equal, I try to get any AR/AS or any other specialist auxiliaries, DDs and CAs back up ASAP, BBs get enough repairs to keep them afloat for the journey back to CONUS, in general anything over 45 days takes a slow trip back to Seattle or Frisco for major downtime unless I have spare yard capacity and I reckon I'll need the ship type sooner rather than later.

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ORIGINAL: John Lansford

I would never scuttle ships, no matter how badly damaged, if they are already at a port with a repair shipyard present.  Even if they were at 95+ System and Flotation damage, if you had put just those three ships in the shipyard you could have probably saved them.

Sure they would take forever to repair, but once you've got the flotation damage down to just the major damage, you could shift them to pierside or repair ship mode and they'll still get some repairs done, while you put other ships in the repair yard.  I've got two BB's and a CL in Pearl Harbor's shipyard and routinely shift them out whenever a more critical ship (i.e. a carrier) shows up needing repairs.  The other ones damaged from the PH attack are on the WC being repaired; Oklahoma is already back at Pearl fully repaired (it's 5/42).

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ORIGINAL: xj900uk

I had to scuttle the Arizona after the initial PH attack, it was burning far too fiercly to go into the shipyard.  Had 95 flotation damage + 46 fires burning

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ORIGINAL: John Lansford

I am still not sure just how to use the AR's.  I never see any benefit to keeping them in a port with shipyard repair facilities, but the presence of more shipyards means my strategy of moving the AR's to largish ports like Sydney is no longer necessary.  In AE I have been moving the AR's to rear area bases such as Noumea and Darwin, where they can perform emergency repairs on ships too damaged to safely get to a shipyard.  They help accelerate the usual port repair process, and can reduce the minor flooding damage fairly quickly on smaller ships. 

I've also noticed that they can sometimes repair major damage if there's not too much of it if you assign a damaged ship directly to "repair ship" on the repair menu.  An AR at Darwin helps immensely in repairing minor damage to DD's and the smaller CL's in the region.

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ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

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ORIGINAL: xj900uk

I had to scuttle the Arizona after the initial PH attack, it was burning far too fiercly to go into the shipyard.  Had 95 flotation damage + 46 fires burning

Good call.

There is a trip point of floatation damage where firefighting degrades. Once water gets so high the firefighting crews drop the hoses and head for the lifeboats. Where this point is depends on where the ship is: at sea alone, in a TF, in a small or big port, etc. And remember, in AE systems damage includes damage to firefighting gear. High systems damage limits firefighting ability.

Scuttling a ship when it gets hopeless is a good idea. Saves some victory points. We actually tried to make that point a reasonable emulation of reality.