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Tristanjohn -> RE: How to kill a warship... (3/12/2005 1:32:45 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Feinder
[Ships docked at a level 3 (or is it 4), size port cannot be engaged in surface combat (by subs or TFs). The only way to do it, is thru your SBDs carrying 1000 lb pound bombs. The 500 lbers on your B-17s can't penetrate the deck armor of the larger IJN CAs. Even with the SBDs, you'll have a hard time "sinking" her. You're causing explosive damage and fires, which are likely very quickly put out because of the large port size.
If you're really obsessed with sinking her, you can send a few BBs in and shell the place. Hope that some of your large guns hit her. Don't send in escorts, because Truck has some impressive CD guns, and they'll clobber your escorts. You could probably put CAs in the mix (6" CD guns won't really hurt CAs or BBs). And shell the place constantly (while you're sending in the SBDs even).
Or you could invade the place, and she'll scuttle when you capture the base.
But either way, that's a lot of time and effort just trying to kill one CA. You'd get more points expending the ordinance on and enemy AF (by killing planes).
-F-
I was "engaged" by a Japanese bombardment TF at Rangoon (6 port) and lost 18 AKs (they were docked and unloading at the time) if I recall, one right after another, like so many ducks in a row. Go ask Chez. He'll tell you. (In fact it's in our AAR.)
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