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Sniper297 · 01-31-14, 11:56 PM

Forget the cans, replace with light cruisers, destroyers are nothing more than traffic hazards. And I'm making the destroyer officers walk the plank, seems the most seamanlike manner of dealing with lubbers like them.

The balance in this is nuts trying to give the US a fighting chance, I researched the 2 Japanese and 1 US heavy cruiser classes;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao-class_cruiser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furutaka-class_cruiser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton-class_cruiser

In a single ship to ship engagement a Northhampton SHOULD be able to beat a Furutaka, and two Northhamptons should be able to take on a single Takao, but these two in game seem to be tougher than the Bismark. Originally I used 8 Somers DDs (or 5 maybe 6, however many showed up instead of deciding liberty call was a better option) with 5 Northhamptons and 5 Omaha light cruisers. First engagement is a Hiryu, Fubuki, Takao, and Furutaka. The cans can sink the Hiryu and the destroyer easily enough, but the entire combined fleet gets pounded into scrap metal by the two Japanese cruisers, leaving Takao and Furutaka dead in the water but still banging away at anything within range. Finally got a total of TEN Northhamptons ganging up on the blasted unsinkable bastards, and that time one of them actually sank after wiping out 5 US cruisers and leaving three DIW. I swear I could sink both those enemy cruisers by hitting them with a baseball bat if I swung as many times as they were hit with HE rounds.

Anyway the end result will be the enemy invasion force will be outnumbered by the US forces, but with the three BBs and the oddball unsinkability of the four enemy heavy cruisers the Yanks will be heavily outclassed. So if you're an S boat fanatic playing this career mission on 100% reality you might as well count on doing nothing more than mopping up in a junkyard full of sunken US cruisers.

01-31-14, 11:56 PM	#32
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	Forget the cans, replace with light cruisers, destroyers are nothing more than traffic hazards. And I'm making the destroyer officers walk the plank, seems the most seamanlike manner of dealing with lubbers like them. The balance in this is nuts trying to give the US a fighting chance, I researched the 2 Japanese and 1 US heavy cruiser classes; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao-class_cruiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furutaka-class_cruiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton-class_cruiser In a single ship to ship engagement a Northhampton SHOULD be able to beat a Furutaka, and two Northhamptons should be able to take on a single Takao, but these two in game seem to be tougher than the Bismark. Originally I used 8 Somers DDs (or 5 maybe 6, however many showed up instead of deciding liberty call was a better option) with 5 Northhamptons and 5 Omaha light cruisers. First engagement is a Hiryu, Fubuki, Takao, and Furutaka. The cans can sink the Hiryu and the destroyer easily enough, but the entire combined fleet gets pounded into scrap metal by the two Japanese cruisers, leaving Takao and Furutaka dead in the water but still banging away at anything within range. Finally got a total of TEN Northhamptons ganging up on the blasted unsinkable bastards, and that time one of them actually sank after wiping out 5 US cruisers and leaving three DIW. I swear I could sink both those enemy cruisers by hitting them with a baseball bat if I swung as many times as they were hit with HE rounds. Anyway the end result will be the enemy invasion force will be outnumbered by the US forces, but with the three BBs and the oddball unsinkability of the four enemy heavy cruisers the Yanks will be heavily outclassed. So if you're an S boat fanatic playing this career mission on 100% reality you might as well count on doing nothing more than mopping up in a junkyard full of sunken US cruisers.