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LTCMTS -> RE: Check the Front Page! (10/18/2008 9:04:47 PM)
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I've been away awhile. See "Apollo11" is still living in his "Croatian Navy" dream world. Somethings don't change.
Question #1 - Is the limitation on numbers of devices that can be assigned to ships or aircraft eased or eliminated. This feature was obviously carried over from PacWar. The result was all IJN ships carrying 24" (61cm) torpedoes carried Type 93's when many should have been carrying Type 90 or Type 8's even as into late 1942. The result was to give the IJN an unreasonable edge in surface combat. Other probelsm were combining 20 degree elevation 15"/42 Mk.I (26,650yds w/1938lb APHE) with 30 degree 15"/42 Mk.IN (33,550yds w/1938lbs APHE), 16"/45 Mk.1 & Mk.5 combined with 16"/45 Mk.6 and so on.
Question #2 - Are the merchant ships revised to include ALL known IJN and Allied merchant ships and Naval Auxiliaries and to expand the types of merchant ships so that carry capacity, cruising speed and range and size are better match to historical ships?
Question #3 - Any adjustment of protection for angles of attack due to sloped armor or quality of armor (KNC versus VNC or JVC of USN Class "A" armor aboev and below 7.5" in thickness)?
Question #4 - Adjustment of IJNAF types, ie. while the USN used dive bombers as scout bombers (SBD, SB2U, etc), this was not the case with the D3A "Val". When there weren't enough floatplanes, the IJNAF used the B5N/B6N as scouts/recon. How about the "Swordfish" and the "Barracuda" as TSRs with dive bombing capabilities.
Question #5 - Have air groups been adjusted? HMS Hermes carried only Swordfish TSRs and USS Long Island carried F2A-3s and SOC-2/3As.
Question #6 - Has participation in major landing operations been limited only to those ships capable of carrying landing craft?
Question #7 - Has the game allowance for IJN subs carrying mines been eliminated?
Question #8 - Will the AI stop running computer managed convoys through enemy controlled (especially areas within strike range of enemy a/c) areas?
Just some questions.
For those that need to know, SMS K u.K "Viribus Unitus" was laid down (1910), launched (1911) and completed (1912) at Trieste DY, an Italian port then administered by the Kingdom of Hungary within the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The name is Latin and refers to an Empire unified from a number of ethnic, national and religious factions by loyalty to the King-Emperor. On 1 November 1918, she was handed over to officers of the Royal Yugoslav Navy at Pola, a port on the Adriatic which had been a major shipyard of the now defunct Autro-Hungarian Navy. She was sunk by charges placed on her hull by Italian operatives on 10 Nov 1918. There is some question as to whether the port was considered as part of Croatia, but Croatia did not exist as a seperate political entity until after the occupation of Yugoslavia by the Germans, Italians, Hungarians and Bulgarians in May 1941 and was subsumed back into the State of Yugoslavia in 1946, not becoming an independent entity util after the death of Tito and the dissoultion of Yugoslavia in the 1990's. Thus there was never a Croatian Navy during the time in which the SMS "Viribus Unitus" was in existence.
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