GWX 3 gold No Battleships

[Task Force]

The invasion of Narvik. Ive seen the HMS Warspite there.

May 27th 41 you'll know where to be .

Didn't a couple of Brit BB's chase the Bismark round the West side of the Atlantic and across the south side of it towards Brest before they nailed her?.
Campaign files are based on historical events, from my meagre understanding.
Try reading the historical accounts on the web and go from there.
Might work. (fingers crossed)

[Fishers of Men]

In March 1940, just south of Ireland, I found a large convoy. As I approached at dusk, I discovered the H.M.S. Rodney escorting in the middle line of ships. I put three eels into her and she went down quickly with all hands. This was the first time I sunk a capital ship. It was a great feeling!

FoM

[Letum]

Personally, I think there are too many battleships in convoys doing 6 knts on a straight course in GWX.
I don't imagine they did that IRL.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Letum

Personally, I think there are too many battleships in convoys doing 6 knts on a straight course in GWX.
I don't imagine they did that IRL.

Ummm yeah they did
Until the Bismark sunk anyway
Difference is at night when uboats were more likely to attack they left the convoy and stationed themselves away some distance
Returning in the morning
Something that cant be recreated with SH3

After the Bismark sinking there was a minimal threat from surface raiders in the North Atlantic to convoys so BBs and cruisers were no longer needed as cover

HMS Malaya was hit while in convoy station by U 106

[Letum]

Surely any BB moving with a convoy would have had it's own destroyer shield
and be continuously zig-zaging at 15knts or more, not plodding along like a
big, fat tanker...?

the lack of BBs sunk in convey pays testament to this.

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by Letum

Surely any BB moving with a convoy would have had it's own destroyer shield
and be continuously zig-zaging at 15knts or more, not plodding along like a
big, fat tanker...?

?

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Letum

Surely any BB moving with a convoy would have had it's own destroyer shield
and be continuously zig-zaging at 15knts or more, not plodding along like a
big, fat tanker...?

the lack of BBs sunk in convey pays testament to this.

Hi!

Actually, the normal practice was to give the battleship (or whatever heavy escort the convoy had) a row of its own so that it could leave the convoy by accelerating ahead of it rather than charge through the convoy and completely disorganize it. The commander of U-106, Kapitänleutnant Jürgen Oesten, thought he had torpedoed a freighter when in fact he had hit the battleship HMS Malaya in convoy SL 68.

Pablo