Recent content by Baldrick

I did not say that they were rubbish, I said that they were ineffective and I am using the IJN own standards to make that claim. While it seems when you read accounts that they are sinking ships "left and right", and indeed, when a type 93 hit, it would sink its target 75% of the time. A...

I don't know about their availability in the UK, but Figurehead also makes 1/6000 scale ships.

I thought the navy was still keeping two ready until 2008? Oh well, moot point the days of the battleship are over. On another note, I really can not wait until I get my copy of VaS so I can actually play the game!n :D

The belt armor will protect against an asm, however one laser guided bomb can immobilize a battleship.

Battleships are inefficient. For the amount of crew required to field one battleship, you can field 5 Arleigh Burke Guided Missile Destroyers. Those five DDG can put out more missiles then one Iowa class BB. The Iowa class BB was retrofitted with 8 harpoons and 32 tomahawks, the Arleigh Burke...

Naval crew losses were low, for example at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the USN lost around 550 people, but that includes pilots and air crews. Of course, this would not apply to submarines, which usually sink with all hands lost.

I think we are mostly in agreement and if we were having this discussion over a pint it would be a blast. Yes, there were far better ways that Germany could have used the resources that went into the Bismarck and the Tirpitz - those were both ships that hindered the German war effort. Maybe...

I never said that the German navy was able to operate on an equal footing with the US or the Royal Navy, which had a considerable advantage in naval strength, I said that the German navy was anything but a joke. It did exactly what it was designed to do. With limited resources and a greater...

The German Navy was not a joke, it was exactly what it was designed to be - a threat to enemy shipping and a support for land operations. Also, to see how effective the German navy could be, look at the operation of the German Navy in the Baltic Sea - a theater where Germans invested their...

How effective are type 93 torpedoes in the game? During WWII, they were very ineffective, on average, hitting less then 7% of the time. The Japanese pre-war doctrine required a 15% hit rate to be considered effective. In only two surface actions did the Japanese achieve this - and in both of...

The Germans attacking the United States is from a line in Animal House. Don't stop him now, he's on a roll.

Regia Marina Italiana and Royal Navy. I plan on focusing on the Italian Lake :)

That seems to be a bit of an oversight, but this is the technical information for the Cavour Class: Class: Cavour (Battleship) Displacement: 29100 t. Length: 186.4 m. Width: 28 m. Draft: 10.4 m. Engine: 2T 8B (T=Turbine, B=Boiler) HP: 75000 Propellers: 2 Speed: 27 kts. Fuel: 2472...

Thank you everyone for the responses. Lowly Uhlan - I pm'ed you back. Pre-dreds would be a short hop from WWI and it would be very interesting to work out the firing arcs of some of those ships! Also, some of those battles have such interesting character to them. I think the Battle of Lissa...

Hello from San Diego. I am very interested in B5: ACTA ( I own the box set and the counters, but I have very little desire to buy any minis for it) and Victory at Sea. My main interest in Victory at Sea however is to modify it for the pre-dred era and VSF aeronefs. Is anyone else out there...