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It's 2:44 AM here in California, and my brother Kotori and I just finished up a battle with ramjbjb from Spain and Zontara from Australia. We had a second battle earlier with Paladin and Zontara that finished around midnight. You guys might enjoy a few details on the battle we just fought.
The first battle was a custom scenario from Zontara called Dogger Bank (with another BC substituted for Blucher). Kotori and I took the British side, while Zontara and Paladin took the Germans. After some initial confusing actions with light craft, I brought my BCs into the fight. Unfortunately when turning to present the broadsides, I turned without thinking, and began moving downwind towards the small craft melee. This resulted in two things: to fire on the German BCs I had the sun in my face and the wind at my back, and I closed to close range with German and British DDs and CLs swarming around. I was unable to maintain my battle line and a number of BCs took torpedo hits. In the end all my BCs were sunk for one or two of their opposite numbers.
The second battle was another custom scenario from Zontara called Break Out. It involved mostly capital ships. The German OOB included five CLs, five PDNs, five BCs, three DNs, and Bayern going head to head with two British CLs, four ACs, seven BCs (including Renown and Repulse), and three R-class BBs. Zontara and Kotori took the Germans while ramjbjb and I took the British. when the game initially started, there was some confusion over assigning ships to players. By the time this was sorted out, I was given command of the Rs and the ACs, the latter of which had strayed too close to the enemy. One of the ACs succumbed before they could back off, but the others weren't hurt too bad. The BCs and BBs all turned to form a battle line, but in order to gain the wind advantage would put the BCs in the lead. The exchange of fire at less than 10km caused chaos on both sides, and a number of Brit BCs were heavily damaged and forced to break off quickly. The heavily armored Rs stayed firm, slugging the Germans at close range while shrugging off damage that would have devastated our BCs. The fire showed on both sides, with two Germans taking heavy damage, and several others taking moderate damage before they got lucky. Repulse exploded. Royal Oak and Revenge fought on while the battle line reformed. Several of Royal oak's turrets were knocked out, then she, too, exploded. At this point we broke off and ran straight north into the wind. Renown, Repulse, and Australia were moderately damaged, but the fires and flooding grew. Both of Britain's newest BCs succumbed soon after the turn north, while Australia fought hard to survive. The Germans sent in their CLs under Zontara to finish the lamed BC, but we opened up on them with New Zealand, Lion, and Revenge (our only other capital ships), and sent the three surviving ACs to protect her. We took out several CLs before the others were beat back. Revenge could only make 16-17 knots to escape with, but it seemed to be enough. Kotori and Zontara formed up Kronprinz and Bayern with their five PDNs, with a top speed of 16 knots to finish off Australia. To give the Australians another chance at life, we turned the three capitals ships to bombard the Germans and distract and slow them down. The PDNs continued after the Australia while Kronprinz and Bayern turned to engage our line at 18km and closing. The helpless Australia was ruthlessly murdered by the PDNs, but luck was with the British. Bayern, which had not been touched in the earlier engagements, was blown up by a well placed shell. At that time (2:41 for me) we decided to call off the battle.
Result: a draw. Of our original force of 16 ships, 6 were damaged and 8 were lost. Of the original enemy force of 18 ships, 7 were damaged and 10 were lost. The raw/adjusted scores were 148130/119869 (ours) vs 127610/127610 (theirs).
I took a lot of screenshots, which I will look through and post some, as well as more details of the first battle (which I'm forgetting because it's so late). It was a lot of fun playing with people across the world. Good games, Paladin, Zontara, ramjbjb. I'm looking forward to the next time.
The first battle was a custom scenario from Zontara called Dogger Bank (with another BC substituted for Blucher). Kotori and I took the British side, while Zontara and Paladin took the Germans. After some initial confusing actions with light craft, I brought my BCs into the fight. Unfortunately when turning to present the broadsides, I turned without thinking, and began moving downwind towards the small craft melee. This resulted in two things: to fire on the German BCs I had the sun in my face and the wind at my back, and I closed to close range with German and British DDs and CLs swarming around. I was unable to maintain my battle line and a number of BCs took torpedo hits. In the end all my BCs were sunk for one or two of their opposite numbers.
The second battle was another custom scenario from Zontara called Break Out. It involved mostly capital ships. The German OOB included five CLs, five PDNs, five BCs, three DNs, and Bayern going head to head with two British CLs, four ACs, seven BCs (including Renown and Repulse), and three R-class BBs. Zontara and Kotori took the Germans while ramjbjb and I took the British. when the game initially started, there was some confusion over assigning ships to players. By the time this was sorted out, I was given command of the Rs and the ACs, the latter of which had strayed too close to the enemy. One of the ACs succumbed before they could back off, but the others weren't hurt too bad. The BCs and BBs all turned to form a battle line, but in order to gain the wind advantage would put the BCs in the lead. The exchange of fire at less than 10km caused chaos on both sides, and a number of Brit BCs were heavily damaged and forced to break off quickly. The heavily armored Rs stayed firm, slugging the Germans at close range while shrugging off damage that would have devastated our BCs. The fire showed on both sides, with two Germans taking heavy damage, and several others taking moderate damage before they got lucky. Repulse exploded. Royal Oak and Revenge fought on while the battle line reformed. Several of Royal oak's turrets were knocked out, then she, too, exploded. At this point we broke off and ran straight north into the wind. Renown, Repulse, and Australia were moderately damaged, but the fires and flooding grew. Both of Britain's newest BCs succumbed soon after the turn north, while Australia fought hard to survive. The Germans sent in their CLs under Zontara to finish the lamed BC, but we opened up on them with New Zealand, Lion, and Revenge (our only other capital ships), and sent the three surviving ACs to protect her. We took out several CLs before the others were beat back. Revenge could only make 16-17 knots to escape with, but it seemed to be enough. Kotori and Zontara formed up Kronprinz and Bayern with their five PDNs, with a top speed of 16 knots to finish off Australia. To give the Australians another chance at life, we turned the three capitals ships to bombard the Germans and distract and slow them down. The PDNs continued after the Australia while Kronprinz and Bayern turned to engage our line at 18km and closing. The helpless Australia was ruthlessly murdered by the PDNs, but luck was with the British. Bayern, which had not been touched in the earlier engagements, was blown up by a well placed shell. At that time (2:41 for me) we decided to call off the battle.
Result: a draw. Of our original force of 16 ships, 6 were damaged and 8 were lost. Of the original enemy force of 18 ships, 7 were damaged and 10 were lost. The raw/adjusted scores were 148130/119869 (ours) vs 127610/127610 (theirs).
I took a lot of screenshots, which I will look through and post some, as well as more details of the first battle (which I'm forgetting because it's so late). It was a lot of fun playing with people across the world. Good games, Paladin, Zontara, ramjbjb. I'm looking forward to the next time.
). between that, the fact that as the ships formed on course 90 we were roughly at 5000m from the german ships, and the fact that I got a mouse breakdown and had to play the rest of the game with touchpad, the first moments of the battle are a blur of confuison for me...