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el cid again -> RE: more scenarios? (4/19/2007 6:43:23 AM)
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CHS may give you mose of what you wish for here. There are Midways and some late war battleships - not just US. RHS ends sooner - 1 Jan 1946 at the latest with no ships after the end of Sept 1945. Even so, the BBO scenario gives you extra Iowas and the British Lions - and like CHS Richelieu. You get more cruisers and "battlecruisers" - and on both sides in BBO. This variation is the war as it was planned by both sides - probably more likely than the war as it occurred. [The lessons of Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea and Midway might not have been processed in time - particularly if those battles took a different form or occurred on different dates]. EOS gives you two of the Midways - but in the form of Essex hulls so they build faster. EOS gives Japan rather more options - many ships can convert to CV or CVL form - and the US converts additional CVLs from CLs (but for USN that is locked in, as are several other things).
BBO (and its RPO and PPO variations) also lets you experiment with alternate conceptions of US construction for DEs (half as many, twice the horsepower on each, more speed) and submarines (numbers of medium sized boats that arrive sooner that fleet boats - and some of the fleet boats arrive with major gunpower - two twin 5 inch mountings). Similar things on the other side. All these options were contemplated, prototyped, etc. Adm Hart advocated the medium sized submarine concept - but was more or less overruled by the head of naval construction - who ruled it could only be done in yards that could not build bigger boats. Any yard that can build a submarine could build either size.
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