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- Wed Dec 10, 2014 1:05 am
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: The most successful and most unsuccessful Warships
- Replies: 150
- Views: 116918
Re: The most successful and most unsuccessful Warships
Unsucessful AND unlucky - The Taiho. Japan's brand spanking new carrier, a Shokaku in essence with an armored flight deck. Sunk by a couple of torpedoes that really should not have sunk her, but ruptured AVGAS lines causes the ship to blow up a bit later. Bad damage control, not to mention an open h...
- Wed Dec 10, 2014 12:50 am
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: The Greatest Naval Battle in History
- Replies: 257
- Views: 287732
Re: The Greatest Naval Battle in History
I don't see the interest in Leyte, other than it was a really really big battle, but the Japanese were pretty well doomed from the start. You have a surface fleet with no airpower going against perhaps the largest carrier fleet to hit the waves and it's pretty easy to figure out the winner, even bef...
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:43 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Kirov vs The Royal Navy (in 1941 !!!)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12662
Re: Kirov vs The Royal Navy (in 1941 !!!)
If anyone has the game system for Command at Sea, this might be a pretty good way to play it out. Command at Sea has a few deficiencies IMO for resolving combat, it's just a tad abstract in armor penetration and damage, but is probably more detailed than any game out there other than Seakrieg. And w...
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:46 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Nuclear powered Battleship?
- Replies: 187
- Views: 112955
Re: Nuclear powered Battleship?
An Interesting trhead. What would be interesting is to take a New-Jersey class vessel, and arm it in a way similar to the Kirov, but of course more/heavier weapons. I'm not as up on modern naval weapons as I am on WW2 era weapons, but the Kashtan CIWS sounds like an amazing weapon. If you throw in n...