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Originally Posted by DicheBach
Yep, probably a very fair assessment of how it would play out. Still would be fun to play with in the game, if it were represented anything like 'reality' just to see what it maybe could have done.
There was some weird ass **** they came up with in the 1920s, actually quite a bit into the 1940s too . . .
There was a web page I found years ago through one of my WWII game communities that I've lost the link to. It had a series of "fanciful" parody WWII technologies for each nation, each one meant to reflect the fanciful notions that each nation seemed to entertain in engineering and operational doctrine. So for example, the Japanese tech was a bicycle powered balloon lofted "bomber" that had a basket with either bombs or rabid dogs underneath.
The Soviet one was this enormous bomber with like 12 engines, etc., Wish I could find that stuff.
This Surcouf thing seems pretty good as an analogy of French interwar fantasies, sort of a Jules Verne thing  |
Yes, it's EXACTLY what you'd expect to encounter in a Jules Verne novel. We had some real winners too, like a plane mounted to the deck of an S-boat and the Nautilus with two 5" deck guns .
The Japanese had huge subs with aircraft hangers on deck and torpedoes with incredibly long ranges that couldn't be aimed well enough to hit anything at that range (it's always something....)
The Germans had little submarines up against 1000 ship convoys so that if they hit a different ship with each of their not enough torpedoes they still wouldn't have any influence on how many supplies got through. And they chatted on the radio like schoolgirls, then wondered why they were being sunk all the time.
Americans had this super sophisticated TDC that succeeded in making targeting more complicated but not more effective. All had deck guns and AA guns, whose main function was to make noise when submerged so enemy escorts could find them easier.