Conte di Cavour class battleship + Andrea Doria class battl

[rokassan]

I've looked up the stats for both of these ship classes and noticed both were armed with torpedo tubes. The stats in the Victory at Sea book dont show these ships as being armed with these weapons. Will Mongoose correct this....my ships need torpedo's.

 

[Leadman]

Both of these classes of battleships lost their torpedoes when they were rebuilt during the 30's. So, I guess the answer to your question is no.

Dannie

 

[DM]

And in anycase the effectiveness of battleship submerged torpedoes was effectively nil. If you ignored them completely from any ship that had them you'd be very close to the truth of the matter (Rodney's torpedo against Bismarck being probably the only example of a successful attack).

 

[Wishbone]

of all the millions of things that are missing from the italian fleet (like any of their ships or aeroplanes or submarines...), this isn't one of them.

just a small list, like any of their more standard destroyers (e.g. soldati), any of their huge list of light cruisers, torpedo bulges on the littorios, 4+ armour on the zaras, marcello class submarines, sm79s, cr42s.
i could go on.
Though i started off playing the italians when i started naval wargaming, unless they've had some serious work done in the supplement, i'm not touching them with a barge-pole in this game!

 

[DM]

Fortunately some serious work has been done on them in the supplement

 

[Wishbone]

thanks to all the gods. for a moment i was actually contemplating puchasing a french fleet... lol.

 

[DM]

Steady on!

(actually I have one - they are rather nice, apart from that crap carrier and the b****y awful cruiser submarine )

 

[Wishbone]

on paper it's a good fleet, but it's decisive action of the war was Toulon 1942... At least the Italians fought on until they ran out of fuel.