New ship, and something for Pilot wound,

[Ack-Ack]

Military channel says these were the greatest fighting ships of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pDXk7oblfk

Should we factor in the fact that there were no big ship fights in ww2 aside from maybe Midway?

There quite a few big ship fights in WW2 in all theaters of war, especially in the Pacific. 

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[thedoom26]

battleships are cool

[Hap]

Yamato's 46cm guns had a max range of 26 miles, the Bismark's 38cm guns ~22 miles.

If it were not for . . . and I don't know how to phrase this properly . . . the thrill players get from putting a ship in a difficult spot, so that what ensues is a barrage of ack, explosions, planes, gv's, and who knows what else firing from both sides -- attackers and attacked -- I'd be very much for adding battle wagons.

It's when things get out of historical context so much that I get crazy. 

A battle ship nailing a CV and cruiser from 17+ miles would be fun.  Can see some difficulty achieving that since a fleet is mighty small at 20K out.  At least it is for my old eyes.   

[Karnak]

Tiger IIs vs Yamato class BB would be "fun".  You know it would happen.

[Guppy35]

There quite a few big ship fights in WW2 in all theaters of war, especially in the Pacific. 

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Probably misleading though as there were just two battleship engagements, one with Washington and South Dakota Vs a Japanese Bb at Guadacanal and the old Pearl BBs at Surigo Straights.

Atlantic had Bismarck Vs Prince of Wales and Hood and Hood wasn't a BB.

Lots of cruiser engagements.

The BBs doing shore bombardment weren't 20 mile out either.  It was mainly the old BBs doing it and they often dueled shore batteries and on more then one occasion took hits.

The other piece of that discussion would be having two different types of task groups.  One would be the slowest BB, destroyers, destroyer escorts, jeep carriers troop transports and cargo ships for the offshore stuff.

The other would be big carriers, fast BB, cruisers and destroyers for open ocean surface engagements.

[Karnak]

There were a lot more BB engagements if you don't require both sides to be BBs.  Duke of York fought a pocket BB, King George V and Rodney sank Bismark, the bombardments of the French and Italian fleets.

[Bludwulf]

I would love to see us be able to individually spawn ships like destroyers and cruisers, and maybe one day battleships.