Gunnery and Campaign Questions

[feld]

Originally Posted by alexsmith

You mean - switching target increase accuracy? Sorry, didn't get it

Been reading about this in Jon Sumida's In Defense of Naval Supremacy (great history of Dreadnought and Royal Navy fire control in the early 1900s - among other things). One method of aiming guns was to salvo fire one gun of each turret, have a spotter in the tops look where the splashes were, and then reset the guns until the splash pattern was centered on the enemy ship. That way, they thought that they could be sure that they were getting a few hits.

Not entirely sure how the Japanese and Russians did it in the RJW...don't know if they were using salvo fire from their main turrets or not.

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feld

[rubberboot]

I'm wondering about the victory conditions.... I'm 15 days in on a 1 year campaign (as the Germans) and It's currently British++. At the beginning it was German+. I've destroyed about 70 ships of their light forces which included 11 cruisers, and lost about 25 destroyers, 1 cruiser (at night, grrr) and 20 TB's (no loss there...German TB's are JUNK). They have captured about 12 freighters. I've captured 1. Is the victory conditions have to do with freighter capture only? If that's the case, I will need to destroy the bloody AC's at Lerwick!! They're killing me. Also, when do the Americans actually join on the German side in the game, as I am playing that alt reality scenario? If they join later in the year, why have them at all....

[MoToM]

Its a bug, shows the exact opposite of the truth.

SES know of it but as nearly everyone else does too they are in no rush to fix.

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

re the Imperial Russian Navy here is the best book for that info

Russian and Soviet Battleships by Stephen McLaughlin, Naval Institute Press, 2003


http://openlibrary.org/b/OL22568554M...et-battleships

re the Imperial Japanese Fleet, they used british tactics as that was where all their officers were trained so the salvo of singles from each turrent that would bear applies to them too.

[alexsmith]

re the Imperial Japanese Fleet, they used british tactics as that was where all their officers were trained so the salvo of singles from each turrent that would bear applies to them too.

Seems to be quite correct. Also during examining several sources I found a mentions which could indicate - Russians used similar tactics. There were a very common tactic of ajustment fire - I found detailed description of it in some artillery study-book. Undortunately DG seems not to use any kind of adjustment fire - at least it looks like it doesn't. As for often mentioned circles of shells explosion instead of ellipses also...

Seems like DG is considering very many secondary factors - and freely skip some major... IMHO

[Bullethead]

Originally Posted by alexsmith

Undortunately neither DG nor Jutland uses any kind of adjustment fire - at least it looks like they don't. As for often mentioned circles of shells explosion instead of ellipses also...

Dude, haven't you played Jutland at all? Most ships with directors fire 1 gun per turret and you can see them adjust onto the target.

I would greatly appreciate it if you refrained from making so many false accusations about my product.

[alexsmith]

Sorry, Dude! Don't know about Jutland - wrong.