Recent content by phavoc

What should be the purpose of a manned craft is that you have both a computer and a pilot / crew onboard. The pilot gives you flexibility that a program cannot. It gives you the ability to react to situations that a programmed response could not/would not be able to do. Sure, if your drones...

Anyone posting on the thread is posting their opinions - with no product in hand nobody has facts. It's a Kickstarter, so you may, or may not, get what you are paying for with your pre-buy. Like life it's a crapshoot. I dunno why the sniping of people who are not in the "take my money!"...

Well... I suppose it depends on how much one stepped back on the doctrinal discussion. While technology changed, the ships changed as well. WW1 didn't have much in the way of AA armament since aircraft weren't really a threat. As we see with the Repulse and Prince of Wales, without sufficient...

Sadly there just isn't enough information on battlecruisers to really have this argument. The reason for that was because they didn't have enough time to exist as a warship from the time they were designed to the time surface ships became irrelevant. The RN was the only navy that built and...

That was meant to be a specific response, not a generalized one. Expanding it to a generalized comment, cruisers can be deployed in many ways. They are essentially the first level of a 'capital' ship - in as much as their armor and armament set them apart from their smaller brethren. In a...

If deployed properly, a battlecruiser would be considered a screening element for the larger ships. And it would engage ships of it's same size in the enemy's screen while your battleline engaged theirs. Having battlecruisers engage their much larger counterparts has proven to be rather...

I agree with you concerning the tactics issue - force plans are governed by technology and the risks one encounters on a battlefield. That's been a norm for most of the history of warfare. Some are just better at recognizing such things than others. The question of fighters has been hotly...

The problem with this theoretical discussion is that we're comparing a mish-mash of versions of a game that didn't exactly have a firm foundation upon which to build it's tech bible upon to begin with. And it's also not a wargame, it's an RPG that got this stuff tacked on to it. As to...

The Brits converted the Atlantic Conveyor into a sort of armed merchant / auxiliary carrier when they embarked Harriers and helo's aboard. While they only transported the Harriers I don't see anything that may have stopped them from using it as a true carrier - though operationally it was...

Yeah, we started seeing the displacement inflation during the war as technology, need and other things shaped the designs and sizes of ships. Look at how the typical destroyer changed from 1939 to 1945. The Sims class was a nicely designed destroyer for it's time - 5in guns in 5x1...

Size CAN BE a function of role, but there are often other considerations at play that dictate such things. Historically things like sizes of building slips available has limited the size of a ship being built. For a period the USN warship size was dictated by the size restrictions of the...

Had to look that one up. You are referring to the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) Maritime Security Program (MSP). It's mostly RO/RO and container ships that military needs to move equipment around the world to places. There are 60 ships listed, and from what I could find it would appear...

Palidan Anti-Palidan

Aye, politics has a way of sometimes intruding upon things. As the Alaska class shows, even services sometimes let their biases interfere with things. Generally speaking, frigates have been smaller than destroyers even if they had the same basic setup. The OHP class the USN got rid of was a...

But isn't that the point of using a label? To convey a concept? If I build a 500k Dton warship and I call it a destroyer, that's fine I suppose. But when the label (or naval nomenclature in this case) says 'nyet!' to that, does that still make it valid? That's kind of the point of using...