One more for the list

[KeptinCranky]

I just sunk another for my capital ship list
Went patrolling off Murmansk in July 1941 and found this

1 Kirov Cruiser for the fishies.... Uncle Joe won;t be happy



Capitals still to sink:

Iowa BB
Revenge BB
Essex CV
Nevada BB
Repulse BC
Casablanca CVE

[nirwana]

Who is uncle joe ??

[nikbear]

Uncle joe is the name commonly used by the allies for Josef Stalin when he eventually joined the fight against the axis,rather than being a part of itpoor Poland

[nirwana]

bummer.... now i feel uneducated...truly never head that before

[KeptinCranky]

Heh, every day you learn something new is a good day...

for example: today I learned that in SH3 Russian planes are even more annoying than British planes

[Murr44]

Originally Posted by nikbear

Uncle joe is the name commonly used by the allies for Josef Stalin when he eventually joined the fight against the axis,rather than being a part of itpoor Poland

When he was told about his nickname (at the Yalta Conference I think) he was really put out (insulted). He felt that it was very demeaning.

Nice shot. Just curious; what happens when you sail into "unlabelled" territory (an area that's not part of SH III's grid system) & sink an enemy ship? I would assume that you still get credit for it but how is it listed? I'm asking because I've never done this. I'm into the 5th patrol of a Mediterranean career & I want to see what's happening around Alexandria & Port Said. Thanks.

[BasilY]

Originally Posted by Murr44

When he was told about his nickname (at the Yalta Conference I think) he was really put out (insulted). He felt that it was very demeaning.

Nice shot. Just curious; what happens when you sail into "unlabelled" territory (an area that's not part of SH III's grid system) & sink an enemy ship? I would assume that you still get credit for it but how is it listed? I'm asking because I've never done this. I'm into the 5th patrol of a Mediterranean career & I want to see what's happening around Alexandria & Port Said. Thanks.

By Latitude and Longitude. Such as:

CAPTAIN'S LOG

Date and Time
Grid
Occurrences
20 Apr 1942 1426 Patrol 26
U-582, 23rd/29th Flotilla
Left at: April 20, 1942, 14:26
From: Salamis
Mission Orders: Patrol grid CO69

21 Apr 1942

1215 CO 38 Ship sunk! M/V Cromarty (Medium Cargo), 5150 tons

25 Apr 1942

1218 Long 29° 49' E, Lat 31° 09' N Ship sunk! T class, 1222 tons
1335 Long 29° 45' E, Lat 31° 15' N Ship sunk! HMS King George V (HMS King George V), 35900 tons

28 Apr 1942 0028 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 3
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 42272 tons

[Jimbuna]

@KC

Come to think of it, the only time I've come across an Iowa or Nevada has been in a single or multi mission

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by KeptinCranky

I just sunk another for my capital ship list
Went patrolling off Murmansk in July 1941 and found this

1 Kirov Cruiser for the fishies.... Uncle Joe won;t be happy

As long as Uncle Joe got his shipments of spam and trucks I don't think he much cared about the war at sea. Since the Soviet Union was bearing the brunt of nearly all the land fighting in 1941 and 1942, Stalin really wasn't much interested in exerting himself to sweep the Arctic Sea of German bombers and U-Boats for the benefit of allies he deemed to be much more well provided with warships and naval aircraft than himself. He pretty much left the convoying duties to the US and Britain.

Now, if you could sink a Brazilian battleship, that would be cool.

[Letum]

Whoo!
Sunk the Hood for the first time.
Caught it with 4(!) other battleships and several destroyers doing 25knots
straight at me in rough weather.

Submerged, released a salvo of 4 keel, magnetic, typeIIs with a 10degree
spread to ensure I got at least one hit. Got two hits!
She sank by the aft and the tip of the bow never sank. Destroyers never got
close to me. Good patrol.

[KeptinCranky]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

As long as Uncle Joe got his shipments of spam and trucks I don't think he much cared about the war at sea. Since the Soviet Union was bearing the brunt of nearly all the land fighting in 1941 and 1942, Stalin really wasn't much interested in exerting himself to sweep the Arctic Sea of German bombers and U-Boats for the benefit of allies he deemed to be much more well provided with warships and naval aircraft than himself. He pretty much left the convoying duties to the US and Britain.

Now, if you could sink a Brazilian battleship, that would be cool.

The Minais Gerais? or that other one? I would sink that any time Shame it isn't in the GWX campaign, but to compensate I've bombed the ever-loving crap out of it repeatedly in Hearts of Iron

[BasilY]

Once sighted a American Battleship off Norway in 1944 (GWX2.1) with British counterparts. Fail to sink the ship though.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by KeptinCranky

The Minais Gerais? or that other one? I would sink that any time Shame it isn't in the GWX campaign, but to compensate I've bombed the ever-loving crap out of it repeatedly in Hearts of Iron

Yeah....it's the Minas Geraes. Scrapped in 1954. There were some other South American battleships too, all of British origin I believe.

Speaking of obscure capital ships it always broke my heart that the Turkish battleship Yavuz was scrapped in 1972. She was the ex-German battlecruiser Goeben of World War One fame and was the last remaining fragment of the Imperial German Navy. She served as a museum ship in Istanbul for many years with just a petty officer and his cat as crew. Shame they let her go.

[KeptinCranky]

Yes, it is a shame how few of those old ships were saved from the scrapyard, Especially the ones with long histories like the Yavuz Sultan Selim, or one or two of the WWI vintage British BBs, HMS Warspite would've been a worthy museum ship, so would most of them really.

The US has understood this somewhat more, they seem to have a lot of vintage Capital ships lying around, although even they couldn't save all the notable ships and made some sad oversights in not saving at least one of every class, that's what I would've decided on

Meh, If I someday win a lottery or two I might have someone build me a replica of some famous ship as a yacht any suggestions on which

As for south american BBs... I think the Argentinians had 2 built in the US
And post WWII we (the dutch) sold two of our old-ish cruisers, one to both Peru and Chile, that way the arms race was kept equal