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ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer_slith

If you don’t mind I give few tips about ships.

When in ports, keep them all together for maximum AA factors. Germany can place ships east out of CW range in start and after surprise impulse sail them to Kiel. Blue ports are major ports, they can hold unlimited amount of ships.

When going for naval combat, try stack ships to one high box if possible (and 0 box if needed for CP or for example TRS that don’t reach high boxes). If Germany would now send fast ships to high box and find CW ships and CW fails finding, they would pick one box with ships they want to sink to minimize own losses or avoid planes.

And if you have fighter that reaches box 2, naval bomber that reaches box 3 and ships that reaches box 4, put them all to box 2. I have lost enough units that have been without fighter cover when enemy naval bomber finds (rolling well and I roll bad). Don’t do the same mistake (exception: subs hunting CPs usually are each as high box as possible to maximize odds to find enemy.)

EDIT: one more. For CW great ports are Plymouth and Liverpool. I don’t use ports in eastern UK because ships are trapped if Germany brings ships to North Sea. From Plymouth you reach North Sea equally easy and ships are free to sail elsewhere too.

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ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer_slith

If you closed it I suggest to load from autosave ”naval movement”. Choose Global war and Axis autosave and then naval movement. Do naval moves again.

I often reload from autosave if I forget to move some unit etc

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ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer_slith

If you don’t mind I give few tips about ships.

When in ports, keep them all together for maximum AA factors. Germany can place ships east out of CW range in start and after surprise impulse sail them to Kiel. Blue ports are major ports, they can hold unlimited amount of ships.

When going for naval combat, try stack ships to one high box if possible (and 0 box if needed for CP or for example TRS that don’t reach high boxes). If Germany would now send fast ships to high box and find CW ships and CW fails finding, they would pick one box with ships they want to sink to minimize own losses or avoid planes.

And if you have fighter that reaches box 2, naval bomber that reaches box 3 and ships that reaches box 4, put them all to box 2. I have lost enough units that have been without fighter cover when enemy naval bomber finds (rolling well and I roll bad). Don’t do the same mistake (exception: subs hunting CPs usually are each as high box as possible to maximize odds to find enemy.)

EDIT: one more. For CW great ports are Plymouth and Liverpool. I don’t use ports in eastern UK because ships are trapped if Germany brings ships to North Sea. From Plymouth you reach North Sea equally easy and ships are free to sail elsewhere too.

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ORIGINAL: btd64

Speaking of naval combat, If I understand this right the higher the box number the better your search number will be at locating enemy ships, Correct?....GP

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ORIGINAL: Courtenay

Why? What can the fleet do in London that it can't do in either Plymouth or Scapa?