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warspite1 -> RE: Next quiz (7/15/2011 6:57:59 AM)
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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.
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.
Warspite1
You can argue that USS Langley (acting as an aircraft transport) is represented in WIF in abstract. However, the point is, she gets a counter and the US player can convert her back to an aircraft carrier. USS Wyoming was a training ship, but the US player can spend the build points to convert her back to an operational battleship.
In setting the clues for this quiz question I simply stated that Vindictive could have been given a counter and been treated like Langley and Wyoming.
One of the great things about a computer game of course is that there is no longer a counter limitation, and these sort of anomalies can be put right.
BTW, HMS Vindictive was used in Norway to carry troops, but she was also used as an AA ship - in Skjelfjorden and elsewhere, and as an escort for actual troopships.
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