Naval combat

[Puzz3D]

Oh, so there will be no Jutland?

No Jutland. And, as far as I can tell Fighting Steel only has WWII ships. So, eventhough Thunder at Sea can handle battles from 1890 to 1946, I don't see how Fighting Steel can handle it. The plan was to put ships going all the way back to ironclads into Fighting Steel, but I think it turned into too much work to accomplish. I'll try to find out more about this.

[Kraxis]

Thanks... A Jutland would be some experience. Though I expect I would sail the High Sea Fleet to its glorious doom.

[Kraxis]

I can just imagine it... Me sitting furiously trying to get some semblance of order out of my jumbled mess of a fleet while reports keep flying in about ships in dire straits, overwhelming me, while a continuing roar of guns makes the background a prelude to hell.

ARRRRGHHH!!!! Scheer give me back my dreadnoughts!!!!

[Kraxis]

Just imagine when the battle goes on into the night, as it did historically.

No way!!! I would simply have managed to destroy my fleet by nightfall.

But yes, a linebattle at night would be most impressive. I can only imagine how true Scheer's words "the entire horizon seemed aflame" would be.

[CBR]

Yuuki and I tried Fighting Steel MP last night and apart from me having problems joining his games while he could join my games it worked fine...well Yuuki did have a crash at the end of the battle. But it was fun and interesting enough for us to try it again.


CBR

[Puzz3D]

CBR and I played another Fighting Steel historical scenario Saturday. It was a night battle where several US cruisers and destroyers intercepted a bunch of IJN destroyers delivering supplies. We ended up with nearly the historical result except I lost two more cruisers than were lost historically because I thought the IJN destroyers had used all of their torpedoes late in the battle. The battle took about 1 1/2 hours. We did have a problem near the end of the battle where three of CBR's destroyers teleported to another part of the map. This is a bug that can occur once in a while despite efforts to find and fix it.