Iowa Class/Bismark Class/Yamoto Class

[5PointOh]

I agree 100 Scotty, listing ships, reduced speeds and and reduced steering. Anything to bring the sea experience to next level.

[Rhah]

if we're going to have Bismarck, we should have Hood and Price of Wales too

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The Hood was a heavy Cruiser...

[fullmetalbullet]

i agree. but first they need to make the ships bigger. they seem a bit smaller then the RL ones.

[B-17]

alright, so your idea has been implemented. youve been hit towrds the engines on the port side: youre listing and dead in the water. because ships have a regenerate thing, it (the battleship) would right itself and regain steam after a bit? does that make sense at all?

[BigKev03]

alright, so your idea has been implemented. youve been hit towrds the engines on the port side: youre listing and dead in the water. because ships have a regenerate thing, it (the battleship) would right itself and regain steam after a bit? does that make sense at all?

Yes it makes sense.  US Navy damage control parties did excellent jobs of repairing ships and getting them righted and back under power (though at a reduced speed at times).  Take the Yorktown for example in WWII at the Coral Sea, it was damaged repaired underway and thus saved from sinking.  I can see that the reapirs be limited to less than top speed, not 100% firepower, and such things to make it real.  But yes it does make sense to have ships repair/regenerate.

BigKev

[RTHolmes]

The Hood was a heavy Cruiser...

battlecruiser, but I reckon anything with 8 15" guns is worth having

[Masherbrum]

battlecruiser, but I reckon anything with 8 15" guns is worth having

Correct.   

[Scotty55OEFVet]

Yes it makes sense.  US Navy damage control parties did excellent jobs of repairing ships and getting them righted and back under power (though at a reduced speed at times).  Take the Yorktown for example in WWII at the Coral Sea, it was damaged repaired underway and thus saved from sinking.  I can see that the reapirs be limited to less than top speed, not 100% firepower, and such things to make it real.  But yes it does make sense to have ships repair/regenerate.

BigKev

[B-17]

but if they put legitimate sea battles into aces high, between ships and such, there would be diffrent sides having different classes of ships, correct?
so if it was, say the Yamamoto class against a South Dakota class battlship, the south dakota class would have better fire control, but the japanese ship doesn't? or is that just to complicated? 

[EagleDNY]

The problem with big guns would be the total lack of any type of realistic range finding.  You could use them for shore bombardment, but unless someone runs a CV group or another BB group right up close to you the chance of getting hits on ships at long range would be pretty poor.  An Iowa BB might be interesting - certainly the massive amount of AAA on it would make dive bombing a challenge. 

[Dadsguns]

Its a good idea and I like it, but why go through all the time and effort and hope to play with something like that when all that the land grabber types wants to be done with them is steal them and hide them thus taking them out of the game as it is.  Its not about the fight, its about what they can take out of the fight. 

Some of the 91st and maybe even 1fer1 might be able to elaborate on how they feel about combat and avoiding it at all cost.... 

[shermanjr]

that would be great being able to damage parts of a ship but would that create a holw new dymanic of ship sinking

[fullmetalbullet]

Also Subs would be nice to see aswell, maybe torpedoes launched from the ship decks. idk what ships had torpedo launchers on them, but i do know some US warships had them in WW2.

[RTHolmes]

the RN used torps from destroyers.

[Guppy35]

Japanese destroyers were torpedo first, guns second.  Just finished reading "Neptune's Inferno" by James Hornfischer, who also wrote "Ghost Ship" and "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors".  A common theme throughout was the use of torpedos by the Japanese and their effectiveness.  Obviously US Destroyers used them as well along with some cruisers.  The between the wars BBs had torpedos initially but they were removed long before WW2