Julian
06-12-15, 05:24 PM
Looking back on some of the naval games over the years, I found that HMS REPULSE is never shown in her proper, photographic configuration like HMS HOOD.
Fighting Steel, Battlestations Midway, Battlestation Pacific, Destroyer Command mods Kriegsmarine and Sealords show her as RENOWN -CLASS design.
Especially, Battlestations Midway, Battlestation Pacific. Why EIDOS didn't go the extra mile to design her as she looked in the photos? All the other ships in the games, like Pearl Harbor's US Pacific Fleet, have the ships designed with masts, USS HOUSTON in Java Sea, has a masthead. All are historically, designed to look like the actual ships.
But HMS REPULSE is shown in the RENOWN-CLASS configuration, without the mast.
So, when playing THE SINKING OF FORCE Z in Battlestations Midway and Pacific, and see the RENOWN-CLASS ship, It's like having a bad taste in your mouth. Something is wrong here, that doesn't justify the authenticity
of the game or the portrayal of the actual ship.
She has a tripod masthead over her structure. Check the photos.
Even though she is considered a RENOWN -CLASS battleship/battlecruiser, doesn't mean to have her head cut off. She and the battlships HMS PRINCE OF WALES were symbols of British power in the Pacific. They fell victim to Airpower which would change the course of the naval war.
So, I am asking of all you modders and designers, can you do a re-mod of HMS REPULSE as she looked in the photographs with the masthead? For Battlestations Midway, Battlestation Pacific, Destroyer Command Mods.
Thanks.
Fighting Steel, Battlestations Midway, Battlestation Pacific, Destroyer Command mods Kriegsmarine and Sealords show her as RENOWN -CLASS design.
Especially, Battlestations Midway, Battlestation Pacific. Why EIDOS didn't go the extra mile to design her as she looked in the photos? All the other ships in the games, like Pearl Harbor's US Pacific Fleet, have the ships designed with masts, USS HOUSTON in Java Sea, has a masthead. All are historically, designed to look like the actual ships.
But HMS REPULSE is shown in the RENOWN-CLASS configuration, without the mast.
So, when playing THE SINKING OF FORCE Z in Battlestations Midway and Pacific, and see the RENOWN-CLASS ship, It's like having a bad taste in your mouth. Something is wrong here, that doesn't justify the authenticity
of the game or the portrayal of the actual ship.
She has a tripod masthead over her structure. Check the photos.
Even though she is considered a RENOWN -CLASS battleship/battlecruiser, doesn't mean to have her head cut off. She and the battlships HMS PRINCE OF WALES were symbols of British power in the Pacific. They fell victim to Airpower which would change the course of the naval war.
So, I am asking of all you modders and designers, can you do a re-mod of HMS REPULSE as she looked in the photographs with the masthead? For Battlestations Midway, Battlestation Pacific, Destroyer Command Mods.
Thanks.