Cruiser Flotillas...

[Shuckins]

I know many of you are constantly casting about for ways to add a little new spice to the game.  Personally, I think quite a bit could be done to enliven the naval battles in AH.

How about having cruiser flotillas that could operate independently, or in support of the carrier task forces.  Allow guys who like to man ships to earn perk points for buildings, aircraft, and other ships destroyed.  Once enough perks are earned, they could order a fleet of three or four cruisers.  Perhaps, each ship could have it's own captain.

These cruiser fleets could dash to hot-spots to support an attack on an enemy airfield, carry out counter-attacks against enemy carrier groups, or bombard enemy towns preparatory to capture.

Think how interesting combat between two such groups would be...especially night actions...if we still had night actions that is.

What are your thoughts?

Regards, Shuckins/Leggern

[artik]

We had tham in AHI,

If HTC will allow manualy build fields/fleets like it was in TE of AHI we will have.......
Otherwise who knows....

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Shuckins


Think how interesting combat between two such groups would be...especially night actions...if we still had night actions that is.

What are your thoughts?

Regards, Shuckins/Leggern

We've had some action along those lines in Special events, and it's a hell of a lot of fun. Imagine the added feature of Torpedo mounts on the DDs, and manable 5" guns on the DDs and things start to get REALLY interesting

But as it stands right now, the biggest obstacle in Naval Combat is the lack of distinction between AP and HE rounds. I could be wrong here, I believe ships are treated more like hangars than vehicles, so you simply need to put X LBs of bombs= sunk. So the shells that the Cruiser guns fire are all HE, and can be used without distinction against Ships and Shore targets.

I think it would be very cool (although probably a huge PITA to add) if Ships had a damage model more along the lines of Planes and GVs.

Until the day that Nirvana arrives though, I'll be happy with spawnable CA and DD fleets lol.

-Sik