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Originally Posted by kurtz
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Originally Posted by Raptor1
I'll make sure to include the point on Battleships use as "Fleets in Being", I don't like the idea much but that's unfortunatly thats what they were used for, the Tirpitz is a really good example as her mere presence (however useless) in the North Atlantic forced the Royal Navy to use Battleships as convoy escorts
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Did you mean the Bismarck? I don't think the Tirpitz left the Baltic.
And from another post don't forget the Glorious? in the norway campaign, carriers can come off v. badly if BBs get the drop on them |
Yeah, I meant the Tirpitz and the Arctic Convoys, She didn't do anything important during her career except force the British to tie up a huge mass of Ships and Aircraft to defend the Arctic Convoys
As for the Glorious, It is pretty obvious that 2 Battleships...Battlecruisers...W/e (What were the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau anyway?
) armed with 9x 11" Guns can easily annihilate a carrier armed with 4.7" Guns and very little armor with only 2 destroyers escorting her...