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cardas -> RE: Dutch BC Art (1/30/2017 9:50:41 PM)
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Glad to be of assistance. Always nice to know someone has use of something you create.
Don't take my stats as any gospel by the way, I try my best to make it as accurate as possible but obviously I also make mistakes or simply guess when I lack information.
To add some curiosities about the Dutch plans which you might be interested in.
Contemporary newspaper sources I've read suggest that a naval expansion plan was started in 1937 that was to add a total of:
4 cruisers (presumably all Eendracht-class?)
3 flotilla leaders (have to be the Tromp-class then)
12 destroyers
24 submarines
8 minelayers
12 minesweepers
Of these 3 of the cruisers, all destroyers and 18 of the submarines were to be placed in the DEI. In addition 72 aircraft were to be purchased for the DEI. That's a rather ambitious increase of the naval forces - even without taking into account the later battlecruiser project. Clearly a bit too late though as most of these ships hadn't be finished - or in some cases even started - by the time the Dutch were overrun in Europe.
Also this is the Gericke gun that might have been what some of the Gouvernementsmarine ships ("Sm GM" class in the game) were outfitted with (image source: http://www.network54.com/Forum/330333/thread/1167257231/A+Companion+to+Dutch+light+calibre+guns,+1919-1942 ). I think I'd be somewhat demoralized if that's the only weapon aboard when you might encounter hostile Japanese ships or aircraft.
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