Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

Question about offensive surface minelaying

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [World War II] >> War In The Pacific - Struggle Against Japan 1941 - 1945 >> Question about offensive surface minelaying Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/15/2008 4:45:39 PM   
Fishbed

 

Posts: 1822
Joined: 11/21/2005
From: Beijing, China - Paris, France
Status: offline 		Hey boyz

Can anyone please tell me what will happen if I try to mine an enemy base with a surface minelaying force? Will the enemy CD open fire during the minelaying, or do CD open fire only against minesweeping missions?

Thanks in advance!

Fish
Post #: 1
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/15/2008 5:19:48 PM   
Shark7


Posts: 7937
Joined: 7/24/2007
From: The Big Nowhere
Status: offline 		I have been able to successfully mine ports against the AI without taking CD fire.  However I'm unsure if this was because the CDs couldn't fire or if there simply weren't any CD there.

_____________________________

Distant Worlds Fan

'When in doubt...attack!'

(in reply to Fishbed)
Post #: 2
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/15/2008 5:36:55 PM   
Historiker


Posts: 4742
Joined: 7/4/2007
From: Deutschland
Status: offline 		I guess it depends on the CD.
Idid it without problems in a PBEM, as well as I swept mines without problems. On the other hand, I saw 10 MSW sink in one night while trying to swep mines at Bataan.


_____________________________

Without any doubt: I am the spawn of evil - and the Bavarian Beer Monster (BBM)!

There's only one bad word and that's taxes. If any other word is good enough for sailors; it's good enough for you. - Ron Swanson

(in reply to Shark7)
Post #: 3
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/15/2008 7:48:10 PM   
castor troy


Posts: 14330
Joined: 8/23/2004
From: Austria
Status: offline 		From my experience, enemy CD never shot on my mine layers so far in all my games. I usually only use DMs for this duty and never ML so I only do it as Allied. I would say CD guns don´t fire at ships on mine laying mission, just like they don´t fire at surface combat TFs. I guess it´s hardcoded on what CD guns fire.

_____________________________


(in reply to Historiker)
Post #: 4
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/15/2008 8:53:56 PM   
Rainer

 

Posts: 1210
Joined: 11/21/2000
From: Neuching, Bavaria, Germany
Status: offline 		1.806 Allied against AI, no mods

Trying to mine Rabaul and Truk with TFs consisting of MLs, DMs and MSWs at both ports the TFs came under CD fire with very unpleasant results.

(in reply to Fishbed)
Post #: 5
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/15/2008 9:06:12 PM   
castor troy


Posts: 14330
Joined: 8/23/2004
From: Austria
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Rainer

1.806 Allied against AI, no mods

Trying to mine Rabaul and Truk with TFs consisting of MLs, DMs and MSWs at both ports the TFs came under CD fire with very unpleasant results.



If there were MSWs in the TF then I´m not surprised though.

_____________________________


(in reply to Rainer)
Post #: 6
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/15/2008 9:14:32 PM   
Rainer

 

Posts: 1210
Joined: 11/21/2000
From: Neuching, Bavaria, Germany
Status: offline 		I will try to mine Rabaul again with a TF consisting only of DMs and MLs out of Guadalcanal. It's Dec 42.
If this force will not be fired upon I'll make a mental note not to use a composition like that because I think that will be gamey.
On the other hand, I could imaging a ML TF laying a mine field in the area of a port but out of reach of the coastal guns. Blocking the sea lanes leading to the port so to speak.
Anybody with some insight on that?


EDIT: I will need a couple of (game) days. The minelayers are all in port at Brisbane. Have to collect the ships and forward them to Guadalcanal ...

< Message edited by Rainer -- 6/15/2008 9:17:48 PM >

(in reply to castor troy)
Post #: 7
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/15/2008 9:20:31 PM   
Historiker


Posts: 4742
Joined: 7/4/2007
From: Deutschland
Status: offline 		A hex is 60miles big. So mining it doesn't need to get inot the range of CD-batterys.

_____________________________

Without any doubt: I am the spawn of evil - and the Bavarian Beer Monster (BBM)!

There's only one bad word and that's taxes. If any other word is good enough for sailors; it's good enough for you. - Ron Swanson

(in reply to Rainer)
Post #: 8
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 12:35:59 AM   
Rainer

 

Posts: 1210
Joined: 11/21/2000
From: Neuching, Bavaria, Germany
Status: offline 		Tests finished (1 test per turn. Starting port Shortland. Destination port Rabaul. 2 MLEs at Shortland to replenish depleted MLs).

Test 1: 3 DMs . No CD fire. Mine field layed. Heavy air attacks. 1 DM sunk.
Test 2: 2 DMs and 6 MSWs. No CD fire. Mine field layed. Heavy air attacks. 2 MSWs, 1DM sunk.
Test 3: 3 MLs. No CD fire. Mine field layed. Heavy air attacks. 2 MLs sunk.
Test 4: 3 MLs, 6 MSWs. No CD fire. A DD attacked the TF. 3 MSWs sunk. Mission aborted. (Destroyer sank by Allied air attack later).
Test 5: 2DMs, 2MLs, 6 DDs. No CD fire, Mine field layed. Heavy air attacks. 1 DM, 1 ML, 2 DDs sunk.

Conclusion: in no case the coastal guns of Rabaul fired. To make sure the CDs are OK a bombardement TF was send later to Rabaul (4 BBs, 4 CAs, 7 DDs). The bombardement TF drew heavy CD fire.

Remark: I withdraw my earlier stament about CDs firing at Mine Layer TFs. Looks like I had a mine SWEEPING TF in mind. Sorry about that.
Remark2: AI gets fairly upset about ML missions. Had I provided air cover for the ML TFs (which I did not) a fair share of bombers may have been collected.

Final words: Fishbed, go ahead and mine the enemy's ports as you desire

(in reply to Rainer)
Post #: 9
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 1:22:24 AM   
Fishbed

 

Posts: 1822
Joined: 11/21/2005
From: Beijing, China - Paris, France
Status: offline 		Thanks for the tests and the advices guys!


(in reply to Rainer)
Post #: 10
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 3:08:00 AM   
Rainer

 

Posts: 1210
Joined: 11/21/2000
From: Neuching, Bavaria, Germany
Status: offline 		Anytime

By the way, isn't Fishbed the NATO code name for the MiG 21?

(in reply to Fishbed)
Post #: 11
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 4:46:23 AM   
bradfordkay

 

Posts: 8683
Joined: 3/24/2002
From: Olympia, WA
Status: offline 		You might try the Royal Navy's fast minelaying cruisers (Abdiel, Manxman are in my CHS 2.08 game as of June '43) for an offensive minefield. These ships have an undamaged top speed of 40kts, so they can get in and out quickly unlike most other minelayers.

_____________________________

fair winds,
Brad

(in reply to Rainer)
Post #: 12
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 10:36:14 AM   
hvymtl13


Posts: 214
Joined: 8/29/2007
Status: offline 		I have also had my surface ML TF's laying mines at Truk engaged by CD. Of the three TF's running Mine Laying Operations; One with 4 DM's and 3 DMS, and two with single ML's, only the DM's were engaged. And the only report of the engaement was the audio sound of CD guns firing. No text report. heheh. And of course the splitting of the TF into ships running, and crippled ships creeping back to friendly waters. And get this, my DMS were reported clearing a path through the minefields. :)

< Message edited by hvymtl13 -- 6/16/2008 10:39:20 AM >

_____________________________


(in reply to bradfordkay)
Post #: 13
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 11:40:12 AM   
castor troy


Posts: 14330
Joined: 8/23/2004
From: Austria
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: hvymtl13

I have also had my surface ML TF's laying mines at Truk engaged by CD. Of the three TF's running Mine Laying Operations; One with 4 DM's and 3 DMS, and two with single ML's, only the DM's were engaged. And the only report of the engaement was the audio sound of CD guns firing. No text report. heheh. And of course the splitting of the TF into ships running, and crippled ships creeping back to friendly waters. And get this, my DMS were reported clearing a path through the minefields. :)



whenever you inlcude DM or MSW into TFs they try to clear mines when in a hex with enemy mines... no matter what TF type it is.

_____________________________


(in reply to hvymtl13)
Post #: 14
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 7:17:05 PM   
John Lansford

 

Posts: 2662
Joined: 4/29/2002
Status: offline 		I've mined both Rabaul and Kwajalein using DM's without getting any CD fire directed at the ships.  I did NOT have any minesweepers in the TF, only DM's and DD's.

(in reply to castor troy)
Post #: 15
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 7:26:43 PM   
Procrustes

 

Posts: 633
Joined: 3/30/2003
From: Upstate
Status: offline
quote:

rk2: AI gets fairly upset about ML missions. Had I provided air cover for the ML TFs (which I did not) a fair share of bombers



The ML's draw so much attention that I use them as singles - wait for bad weather and send one at full speed towards a harbor or passage I want to mine.

(in reply to John Lansford)
Post #: 16
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 9:50:02 PM   
engineer

 

Posts: 590
Joined: 9/8/2006
Status: offline 		My experience is that the mine layers seldom get CD fire and often get air strikes. 

If you're playing as the Allies, your bombers have enough capacity to lay down a pretty good minefield with aerial mines. 

(in reply to Procrustes)
Post #: 17
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 10:35:17 PM   
Shark7


Posts: 7937
Joined: 7/24/2007
From: The Big Nowhere
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Rainer

Anytime

By the way, isn't Fishbed the NATO code name for the MiG 21?


Correct. Also the code name for the J-7 (Chinese copy of the MiG-21).

_____________________________

Distant Worlds Fan

'When in doubt...attack!'

(in reply to Rainer)
Post #: 18
RE: Question about offensive surface minelaying - 6/16/2008 10:51:06 PM   
Chris21wen

 

Posts: 6249
Joined: 1/17/2002
From: Cottesmore, Rutland
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

You might try the Royal Navy's fast minelaying cruisers (Abdiel, Manxman are in my CHS 2.08 game as of June '43) for an offensive minefield. These ships have an undamaged top speed of 40kts, so they can get in and out quickly unlike most other minelayers.


I joined the RN in 1965 and the Manxman was still in commission. It was still the fastest ship in the fleet, and I think 39kts was her tops then. And you can sneak them in and get clear which is exactly what there were designed to do.

(in reply to bradfordkay)
Post #: 19
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [World War II] >> War In The Pacific - Struggle Against Japan 1941 - 1945 >> Question about offensive surface minelaying Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

1.313