vM v. Drakken - WitP PBEM

[PDH]

It would have been glorious.  The smaller guns, the thin armor, the slow engines...really the Wyoming was Wyoming represented in steel.

[Neil]

[Drakken]

Turn 2 for December 8th sent.

Hopefully MB will quickly see that I am not a proponent of the Sir Robin strategy, either. That can impact him psychologically and make him do mistakes. 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Drakken, you a member of the Matrix forums?   I'm thinking of duplicating my AAR over there (the first installment of which should be posted tonight).

[Drakken]

Drakken, you a member of the Matrix forums?   I'm thinking of duplicating my AAR over there (the first installment of which should be posted tonight).

Yes, I am a member of the Matrix forums, however I lurk there when I need help. I haven't posted something there in years.

So if you make a AAR I will not read it, so it won't give me any undue info.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Today was not a good day to be stationed on a British MTB.

[Drakken]

Today was not a good day to be stationed on a British MTB.

Their dutiful sacrifice for King and Country will be well remembered, even though their vessels weren't dreadnoughts.

[Neil]

The RN dreadnoughts will avenge their little friends.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

The only thing the RN dreadnoughts will avenge is coral reef depletion.

[Drakken]

The only thing the RN dreadnoughts will avenge is coral reef depletion.

Which will be duly fortified with the hulls of your pitiful, outdated 1920s battlecruisers which pass for battleships.

[Neil]

The only thing the RN dreadnoughts will avenge is coral reef depletion.

Will the Japanese dare bring enough dreadnoughts against them, since there are American dreadnoughts to worry about?  And air attack isn't a worry.  After all, when have aircraft destroyed a dreadnought that was underway and properly manned?

[Viking]

The only thing the RN dreadnoughts will avenge is coral reef depletion.

Will the Japanese dare bring enough dreadnoughts against them, since there are American dreadnoughts to worry about?  And air attack isn't a worry.  After all, when have aircraft destroyed a dreadnought that was underway and properly manned?

Any naval power which could properly man a dreadnought could afford to provide it with air cover. Except of course Force Z. Before force Z Italian ships cowered in ports afraid of british dreadnoughts, after force Z they cowered in ports afraid of british aircraft.

[Neil]

The only thing the RN dreadnoughts will avenge is coral reef depletion.

Will the Japanese dare bring enough dreadnoughts against them, since there are American dreadnoughts to worry about?  And air attack isn't a worry.  After all, when have aircraft destroyed a dreadnought that was underway and properly manned?

Any naval power which could properly man a dreadnought could afford to provide it with air cover. Except of course Force Z. Before force Z Italian ships cowered in ports afraid of british dreadnoughts, after force Z they cowered in ports afraid of british aircraft.

But clearly that's not the case, as the convoys to Russia operated without air cover, and the CAGs in the Med convoys were outmatched to the degree that you certainly couldn't consider it adequate air cover.  As for the Italians, it was when they were cowering in their ports that they were vulnerable to aircraft.

[Ideologue]

Something I always wondered about was the possibility of a Med mod for WitP.  I wonder if anybody ever did that.  Probably would have run into a stumbling block with the land model.

I doubt anyone ever even floated the idea of a battle of the Atlantic mod, though that would also be pretty cool.

[Drakken]

December 9th's turn sent.