Slitherine

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Those destroyers the training cruisers tangled with had depleted ammo from previous engagements, so I thought the risk of using them here was small.

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As flag in a tanker convoy are you hoping they catch a torpedo meant for a tankers? I had not thought about using them that way, usually use them in Amphibious invasions but that window expires with the amphibious bonus.

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

As a flagship of a tanker TF, they can:

- allow the commander to be chosen from the better IJN warship leader pools, rather than the usual, crap merchant captains, lieutenants and other low-ranking trash that often command escorts or merchantmen. This is quite a big point, as a good leader might just make the difference between a torpedo hit or not.
- provide organic seaplane search and ASW (eventually) to keep subs detected.
- be able to take a torpedo or two for the tankers. The crusiers can surive, the tankers, not so much.
- if, in some odd event, you force a submarine to the surface, having a ship with the skill to actually hit things isn't to be underestimated. The vast majority of IJN escorts are either very under-armed (thing the SC ships) or have abysmal crew ratings (thing PB's). The last thing you want attacking your tankers is a surfaced sub, as even the deck pop-gun can set the fuel on fire, and once Japanese tankers are burning, they'll never go out.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

As a flagship of a tanker TF, they can:

- allow the commander to be chosen from the better IJN warship leader pools, rather than the usual, crap merchant captains, lieutenants and other low-ranking trash that often command escorts or merchantmen. This is quite a big point, as a good leader might just make the difference between a torpedo hit or not.
- provide organic seaplane search and ASW (eventually) to keep subs detected.
- be able to take a torpedo or two for the tankers. The crusiers can surive, the tankers, not so much.
- if, in some odd event, you force a submarine to the surface, having a ship with the skill to actually hit things isn't to be underestimated. The vast majority of IJN escorts are either very under-armed (thing the SC ships) or have abysmal crew ratings (thing PB's). The last thing you want attacking your tankers is a surfaced sub, as even the deck pop-gun can set the fuel on fire, and once Japanese tankers are burning, they'll never go out.

Very compelling. Thank you .... they will have a different job shortly...

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

I'm not sure that the TF commander's naval skill factors into whether a ship gets hit by a torpedo or not. I always assumed that was the ship commander's naval skill.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

CL guns have double the accuracy. I believe that makes the accuracy of the Dinah gun a 2, effectively.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

As a flagship of a tanker TF, they can:

- allow the commander to be chosen from the better IJN warship leader pools, rather than the usual, crap merchant captains, lieutenants and other low-ranking trash that often command escorts or merchantmen. This is quite a big point, as a good leader might just make the difference between a torpedo hit or not.
- provide organic seaplane search and ASW (eventually) to keep subs detected.
- be able to take a torpedo or two for the tankers. The crusiers can surive, the tankers, not so much.
- if, in some odd event, you force a submarine to the surface, having a ship with the skill to actually hit things isn't to be underestimated. The vast majority of IJN escorts are either very under-armed (thing the SC ships) or have abysmal crew ratings (thing PB's). The last thing you want attacking your tankers is a surfaced sub, as even the deck pop-gun can set the fuel on fire, and once Japanese tankers are burning, they'll never go out.

Very compelling. Thank you .... they will have a different job shortly...

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Should I use the Yamoto to counter battery fire with the invasion force, or shore bombard? I am thinking shore bombard and use a lesser battleship for counter battery. I plan to have a spare battleship to rotate into the Amphibious force on day two.

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing
Also, have you got the logistical side of the Yamato's deployment sorted? Those 46cm guns cause a great deal of damage, but they're not exactly easy to reload. While Tokyo is close, having something closer would mean you can start lobbing 46cm shells every four or five days instead of every week or so.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing
Also, have you got the logistical side of the Yamato's deployment sorted? Those 46cm guns cause a great deal of damage, but they're not exactly easy to reload. While Tokyo is close, having something closer would mean you can start lobbing 46cm shells every four or five days instead of every week or so.

I don't see how. According to the manual AKEs don't work, a size 3 port needs 1280 naval support and and size 6 port, which I have several closer to the action needs 1148 nav support and I am a while from getting size 7 where the required naval support really drops (down to 188).

I assume this is the reason there are so many naval HQs at Truk.

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Sapporo, Hakodate, Shikuka can all get there with just one more port level and a decent Naval HQ. Wakkani is two port levels away.

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The ships sunk in Tracker is extremely inaccurate.

I will often know that I sunk a particular ship due to the combat report as I watched it go down in a surface battle, air action, etc., but an entirely different ship shows up as sunk in Tracker. Such as when I sank Bullwinkle's CV Indomitable - my pilots watched her sink, I verified she was gone from the plane losses, and yet Tracker insisted the "Enemy Ship removed from sunk list or whatever it is: CV Indomitable previously listed as sunk, unknown device on unknown turn, blah blah"... "CV Yorktown | Enemy ship sunk". Sure Tracker, sure.