Encountered my first ever Task Force.....

Ula Jolly · 09-10-05, 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by iambecomelife

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Originally Posted by FAdmiral

Now that is not really the way it was done. No Task Force would
have DEs or Corvettes as escorts. They are too slow and would
not let the faster Cruisers and Desroyers reach max speed if
they had too....

JIM

PS. 25 kts would have a Hunt DE running at Flank speed to keep
up and would eventually cause an engine breakdown !!

I guess you're right. I was about to post that all the escorts listed are destroyers but you have a point about the Hunts, which were slow for DD's. The convoy and taskforce composition for the default game is strange at times - for instance, the excessively heavy escorts for early war convoys, and large fleet units sailing at 7-9 kts in convoy. We need a way to get escorting battleships and cruisers to keep station several miles away at high speed, but I guess that would be impossible with the current AI.

That's something I've been thinking about as well. When the Hood was smashed, the German ships held sufficient distance between themselves, as the doctrine told them to! If they were too close, the observers/rangers would have an easy task of plotting fire, and it also takes the gunners a tad longer to aim.