Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Orm

I have a new question for you guys to ponder on as well as the previous questions.

Which warship am I?
1) I have a counter in MWIF.
2) During WWII a well known authour dedicated a book to my officers and crew.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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Clue no.5. Last clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.

It seems it's one of the Monitors. Roberts? WiF has a Roberts II.

Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Clue no.5. Last clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.

It seems it's one of the Monitors. Roberts? WiF has a Roberts II.

Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

Warspite1

Well, I did say it was one for the grognards. The answer was HMS Vindictive. She began life during the First World War as a Hawkins-class cruiser with the name Cavendish (all ships of the class were named after Elizabethan naval heroes). However, she was completed as an aircraft carrier (albeit without a conventional flush deck), before returning to cruiser status during the twenties. Thereafter she spent time as a training ship and then a fleet repair ship.

In this latter configuration, she was deployed off Norway for that ill-fated operation and her six 4-inch HA guns were much used as the Royal Navy were constantly harried by the Luftwaffe.

USS Wyoming and USS Langley are available to the US player (assuming the US player wants to spend the build points to re-convert those ships to BB/CV - neither of which happened in real life). ADG could have done the same for HMS Vindictive.

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ORIGINAL: michaelbaldur

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Clue no.5. Last clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.

It seems it's one of the Monitors. Roberts? WiF has a Roberts II.

Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

Warspite1

Well, I did say it was one for the grognards. The answer was HMS Vindictive. She began life during the First World War as a Hawkins-class cruiser with the name Cavendish (all ships of the class were named after Elizabethan naval heroes). However, she was completed as an aircraft carrier (albeit without a conventional flush deck), before returning to cruiser status during the twenties. Thereafter she spent time as a training ship and then a fleet repair ship.

In this latter configuration, she was deployed off Norway for that ill-fated operation and her six 4-inch HA guns were much used as the Royal Navy were constantly harried by the Luftwaffe.

USS Wyoming and USS Langley are available to the US player (assuming the US player wants to spend the build points to re-convert those ships to BB/CV - neither of which happened in real life). ADG could have done the same for HMS Vindictive.

I know there are no more unit changes to the game right now .. but maybe this should be added .. as she is clearly missing

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Clue no.5. Last clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.

It seems it's one of the Monitors. Roberts? WiF has a Roberts II.

Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

Warspite1

Well, I did say it was one for the grognards. The answer was HMS Vindictive. She began life during the First World War as a Hawkins-class cruiser with the name Cavendish (all ships of the class were named after Elizabethan naval heroes). However, she was completed as an aircraft carrier (albeit without a conventional flush deck), before returning to cruiser status during the twenties. Thereafter she spent time as a training ship and then a fleet repair ship.

In this latter configuration, she was deployed off Norway for that ill-fated operation and her six 4-inch HA guns were much used as the Royal Navy were constantly harried by the Luftwaffe.

USS Wyoming and USS Langley are available to the US player (assuming the US player wants to spend the build points to re-convert those ships to BB/CV - neither of which happened in real life). ADG could have done the same for HMS Vindictive.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Clue no.5. Last clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.

It seems it's one of the Monitors. Roberts? WiF has a Roberts II.

Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

Warspite1

Well, I did say it was one for the grognards. The answer was HMS Vindictive. She began life during the First World War as a Hawkins-class cruiser with the name Cavendish (all ships of the class were named after Elizabethan naval heroes). However, she was completed as an aircraft carrier (albeit without a conventional flush deck), before returning to cruiser status during the twenties. Thereafter she spent time as a training ship and then a fleet repair ship.

In this latter configuration, she was deployed off Norway for that ill-fated operation and her six 4-inch HA guns were much used as the Royal Navy were constantly harried by the Luftwaffe.

USS Wyoming and USS Langley are available to the US player (assuming the US player wants to spend the build points to re-convert those ships to BB/CV - neither of which happened in real life). ADG could have done the same for HMS Vindictive.

In Norway Fleet Repair Ship HMS Vindictive was used as a troopship. So it is in the game in abstract.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: paulderynck

MMS = Magnetic Mine Sweeper ?

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What is a “HDML”?

What is a “MMS”?

What is a “Fast Patrol Boat”?


Extra credit: Name the British “Convoy Escort Vessel” with the Japanese name that was in Operation Torch.

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AFV's are not my speciality so I'll leave that one to someone else.....but in the meantime, I will ask another question to run alongside yours Orm.

The evacuation of the BEF was called Operation Dynamo. Where did the name Dynamo come from?

Essentially, it's something that spins an armature rapidly through a magnetic field to produce power. Maxwell is ultimately responsible.

Warspite1

Clue: The naming of the operation has something to do with the headquarters from which it was directed.

This makes me think of either Edison (Menlo Park) or Nobel (Scandinavian, wasn't he?), but I don't know how that could have anything to do with the BEF

Warspite1

The choice of Dynamo has nothing to do with any individual.

BTW: I think Nobel was Norwegian.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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What!

I get nothing for defining a dynamo as an electrical power generator? I should have at least got a "you're kind of warm".

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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What!

I get nothing for defining a dynamo as an electrical power generator? I should have at least got a "you're kind of warm".

Warspite1

I asked where the name Operation Dynamo came from and you answered what a
Dynamo was and who invented it. I responded that the name had something to do with
the HQ where the operation was planned. I apologise if you thought I should have responded differently - I see what you mean.

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ORIGINAL: Orm

I have a new question for you guys to ponder on as well as the previous questions.

Which warship am I?
1) I have a counter in MWIF.
2) During WWII a well known authour dedicated a book to my officers and crew.

Warspite1

HMS Penelope - HMS Pepperpot - one of my favourite cruisers!

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((Sorry for the delay in answering. My computer crashed and have so far resisted all attempts at revival.))

It must be catching, mine has broken twice since April - and this latest problem looks permanent . I am having to use my daughters Mac at the moment 

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In WWII, what starts with Athenia and ends with Avondale Park?

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Which operations associated with Operation Torch succeeded or failed?

Operation Pedestal Re-supplying Malta

Operation Terminal (Algiers, Algeria)
Operation Reservist (Oran, Algeria)

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How was the aircraft re-supply of Malta in August 1942 to do with Operation Torch?

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How was the aircraft re-supply of Malta in August 1942 to do with Operation Torch?

Malta played its part in operation Torch.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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Operation Roundup (1942) - The Allied plan to invade Europe in event of German or Soviet collapse.
Operation Sledgehammer (1942) – The Allied plan for a cross-Channel invasion of Europe, as the first step in helping to reduce pressure on the Soviet Red Army by establishing a Second Front.
Operation Roundhammer – Revised version of Roundup.

04/24/42 Churchill and Roosevelt meet to discuss the number of conflicting offensive plans which might be launched against Germany in 1942. The main ones were 'Rutter', a 24-hour cross Channel raid on Dieppe. 'Sledgehammer' using six divisions to establish a permanent beachhead on the French coast at Cherbourg and 'Jupiter' which called for a permanent beachhead in northern Norway. Discussion were also had on the up and coming operation 'Gymnast', which was the proposed Anglo-American landing in French North Africa later in the year.

Roosevelt agrees with Churchill that Operation 'Gymnast' should continue, while operation 'Sledgehammer' should be cancelled.

Operation Torch (Operation Gymnast) (1942) - Initially the planners wished to strike east of Gibraltar to directly threaten Tunisia, which with Tunis and Bizerte represented two of the best deep water ports in North Africa, but ultimately the Allies conservatively chose landing sites much further west due to the threat of Spain potentially allowing the Germans to cross Spanish territory to invade Gibraltar, which might cut off any Allied contingents between Gibraltar and Tunisia.

The Soviet Union had pressed the U.S. and Britain to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Soviet troops. While the American commanders favored Operation Sledgehammer, landing in Occupied Europe as soon as possible, the British commanders believed that such a course would end in disaster. An attack on French North Africa was proposed instead, which would clear the Axis Powers from North Africa, improve naval control of the Mediterranean Sea and prepare for an invasion of Southern Europe in 1943.