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hey
i have a question about the commander of one HK. (hilfskreuzer)
his name was von ruckkensheld or something like that,

i heard that he was a rutheless and brutal commander and killed many crews from sunk ships.

Is that true?

adios
miro

hey
i am pretty sure that the Rodney shot a torpedo at Bismarck.
I read that in the book by Muellenheim - rechenberg.
Pretty sure.
can someone confirm?

adios
miro

hey hmmm what u both forgot is how big the guns are themselves. there are different guns. 36 pounders, 24 punders, 12 pounders, etc. so it depends on how many of each they had for me i think a well manned english ship with 100 guns could outgun any french or spanish 120+ gun ship in this kind of bat...

hey thanx. wow i always thought that the Bismarck had torpedoes. hmm well i was wrong. btw wasn't the HMS Rodney, the first battleship to use torpedoes in combat (in the final battle agaisnt the Bismarck)? well, i generally agree that battleships should not have torpedo tubes if they are not clearly...

hey if we are already talking about the Italian Navy... can someone give me a brief intro of what they did in WWII? i only heard about the Roma being sunk by a german aircraft, Taranto raid and the that battle where the Warspite sank 3 heavy cruisers or so... but nothing exact.. so if u please? than...

hey hmmm, i got a question concerning the torpedoes on the Bismarck. were there any? i thought until this point that there were two sets of 4 torpedo sets on the Bismarck, until yesterday i read in a book (the destruction of the Bismarck, by two canadian authors) that becuase of that the Bismarkc wa...

hey antonio i am back hehe well for your szenario, i think it's rather unrealistic for that the germans never actually wanted to or did not see the importance of aircrafts at sea, so they enver actually put the focus on rebuilding the Sydlitz, whihc is a pity. therfore i think this thing could not h...

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hey i am back after a break.... hmm the nicest name for a warship? i would agree with that the british had real nice names, like repulse, thunderer, etc and that japanese sound cool for a westerner, but in fact those are just ordinary names like Bismarck or Tirptiz. My favourite is a spanish one and...

hey guys my opinion is that the Tirpitz would have defiantly escaped the weather and the radar problems are factors whihc really affected the Scharnhorst (she was a very wet ship) but not so much the Tirptiz first of all the Tirptiz HAD a better crew than the Scharnhorst! the Scharnhorst had just al...

hey

hmm that's a very interesting szenario

i think the Japanese would win, and that's becuase they just have the superior weapons.
it's even possible under good and lucky circumstances that one of the japanese could take on BOTH americans....


kk

mirko

hey wat do u think of this szenario??? it's the most unlikely szenario, but let's imagine it happened! the battle takes place just after Pearl harbor, and involves the whole IJN and the whole US Pacific fleet (in the style of the battle of Jutland) Carriers can be involved (makes it more interesting...

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miro

wow
thanx again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahah serriously this is good stuff
very realistic and even exciting

thanx

miro

hey antonio

haha again GREAT
thanx u r really helping me
u got an answer on all of my question eh?

well i agree that the Scharnhorst did fight with dignity....
and for me it is my favorite ship

also one of most beautiful ones....(wit Hood)

thanx

miro