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You are right for some idotic reason i put in my head that the Fletcher had 4 double turrets, might had picturing some British ship instead. No i am not talking about Babes. From the glimpses i got about Babes it seems to go in right direction. In navweps /38 has some 16km range and /50 gun 18,3km strangely in game this goes for 18km vs 20km which makes them both too good. I now think the divergence between them is not so big to warrant my critic.

I think you're thinking of the pre-war Porter and Sumers class DDs. They had four twin 5" mounts and are, frankly, some of the best DDs available to the Allies until the Fletchers come along. Great in the AAA role and tough to beat in the surface role as well. The only thing that they don't have, which I wish they did, is armor like the Fletchers.

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I think you're thinking of the pre-war Porter and Sumers class DDs. They had four twin 5" mounts and are, frankly, some of the best DDs available to the Allies until the Fletchers come along.

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Yep I agree, i understood the opposite. In french we use something like "blocking the T" so for me crossing the T is like you try to go trough but I was wrong.

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Never Never Never put fast ships with slow! if you want to win a fight! just be sitting Ducks

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ORIGINAL: Dili

You are right for some idotic reason i put in my head that the Fletcher had 4 double turrets, might had picturing some British ship instead. No i am not talking about Babes. From the glimpses i got about Babes it seems to go in right direction. In navweps /38 has some 16km range and /50 gun 18,3km strangely in game this goes for 18km vs 20km which makes them both too good. I now think the divergence between them is not so big to warrant my critic.

I think you're thinking of the pre-war Porter and Sumers class DDs. They had four twin 5" mounts and are, frankly, some of the best DDs available to the Allies until the Fletchers come along. Great in the AAA role and tough to beat in the surface role as well. The only thing that they don't have, which I wish they did, is armor like the Fletchers.

Porter and Somers 5in/38s are low angle only, so their AA should be notably worse than other pre-war classes with DP 5in/38s like the Benson.

Still excellent surface combatants though.

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Allied Ships Reported to be Approaching!
Japanese TF begins to get underway

Right there. The Japanese ships were tied up and sitting ducks when the Allies showed up.

The odd part of that is that the Japanese crossed the T. That seems to indicate some kind of advantage, not being "sitting ducks."

I have found "crossing the T" to be more of a disadvantage in this game than an advantage.

Nine times out of ten when I cross the tee only my lead ship fires while getting fired on in return by the entire enemy force.

Crossing the T seems to be bass ackwards in this game ...

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ORIGINAL: Dili

You are right for some idotic reason i put in my head that the Fletcher had 4 double turrets, might had picturing some British ship instead. No i am not talking about Babes. From the glimpses i got about Babes it seems to go in right direction. In navweps /38 has some 16km range and /50 gun 18,3km strangely in game this goes for 18km vs 20km which makes them both too good. I now think the divergence between them is not so big to warrant my critic.

I think you're thinking of the pre-war Porter and Sumers class DDs. They had four twin 5" mounts and are, frankly, some of the best DDs available to the Allies until the Fletchers come along. Great in the AAA role and tough to beat in the surface role as well. The only thing that they don't have, which I wish they did, is armor like the Fletchers.

Porter and Somers 5in/38s are low angle only, so their AA should be notably worse than other pre-war classes with DP 5in/38s like the Benson.

Still excellent surface combatants though.

Interesting, the game models these classes with high-angle twin DP 5in/38s like the later Sumner class, giving it an AA value of over 300, but it shouldn't be nearly that effective. I wonder if there's a way to change that?

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Japanese TF begins to get underway