Campaign End?

jdkbph · 12-30-10, 01:34 PM

I was somewhat intrigued by this discussion so I went through the campaign CFG files to see what would be required, as a minimum, to get a success (and just a success... not a MAJOR success) in every one of the sub campaigns (Drumbeat, Mare Nostrum, Western Approaches, etc).

In other words, near as I can figure, this is what the game designers intended a super successful sub captain (and we're all super successful in our own little game worlds, right?) should look like.

Here are the totals:

Warships/Combatants
11 CVs or BBs
12 CA or CL
11 DDs, FFs, or Corvettes
2 SS
3 AMC
7 AP
3 unspecified warships

This, to my mind, would represent the greater part of of a "world naval power" class battle fleet. Using approximate average displacement for these ships, the total would be around 496,000 tons.

Merchants

1,635,000 tons

In addition...

14 Tankers
5 Cargo ships carrying war materiel
5 Liberty Ships
27 generic merchants

And 3 unspecified ships (merchant or warship presumably)

Using approximate average GRT for the merchant ships called out by type, the total would be around 2,000,000 tons.

Would this (warshis/combatants + merchants sunk) be enough to affect the outcome of the war in Europe?

JD

12-30-10, 01:34 PM	#18
jdkbph Captain Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 508 Downloads: 104 Uploads: 0	I was somewhat intrigued by this discussion so I went through the campaign CFG files to see what would be required, as a minimum, to get a success (and just a success... not a MAJOR success) in every one of the sub campaigns (Drumbeat, Mare Nostrum, Western Approaches, etc). In other words, near as I can figure, this is what the game designers intended a super successful sub captain (and we're all super successful in our own little game worlds, right?) should look like. Here are the totals: Warships/Combatants 11 CVs or BBs 12 CA or CL 11 DDs, FFs, or Corvettes 2 SS 3 AMC 7 AP 3 unspecified warships This, to my mind, would represent the greater part of of a "world naval power" class battle fleet. Using approximate average displacement for these ships, the total would be around 496,000 tons. Merchants 1,635,000 tons In addition... 14 Tankers 5 Cargo ships carrying war materiel 5 Liberty Ships 27 generic merchants And 3 unspecified ships (merchant or warship presumably) Using approximate average GRT for the merchant ships called out by type, the total would be around 2,000,000 tons. Would this (warshis/combatants + merchants sunk) be enough to affect the outcome of the war in Europe? JD