If they are adding a whole new rank it is effectively guaranteed
Probably.
Though the US focused more heavily on capital ships needed for fighting the Japanese whilst Britain focused more heavily on convoy escort ships (Cruisers, Destroyers and Corvettes) for fighting the U-Boat threat and Britain lost a number of Capital ships throughout the war, she also cancelled a lot of capital ships at the end of the war
You need to read way more books, the US had a wide variety of ships, and were the premier submarine force even with defective torpedoes.
and?
Britain had just as good if not better battleships
They had better carriers (armoured flight decks , etc)
they had a very good anti-submarine fleet developed from fighting the U-boats.
etc etc
US was larger in sheer number of ships by the end of the war, but I would still say overall their ships werent quite 1 for 1 on par with Britain’s and Britain wasnt hugely far behind in raw numbers.
It probably wasnt until more like the 1950s that Britain was out of that fight and mostly due to post war rebuilding that the US never had to do
You need to read more as well, because the US were playing catch-up for the vast majority of the early 20th century when it came to fleet power
The US did catch up by 1942/1943, and that’s exactly what kind of ships we’re getting.
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No, was more like 1945/1946?
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British doctrine was like that … but it has long seemed to me that it was quite archaic in many areas…
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strange deployment of British aircraft carriers in WWII = unnecessary losses
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poor training of battleship crews, unprofessional work and underestimation of radar, this was fully reflected on HMS Prince Of Wales
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and especially a dismissive attitude towards the air force, that morning Admiral Philips ( HMS P of W ) refused support from aircraft from Kota Bharu, although only Buffalo, but it could be enough for the torpedo Nell’s…
And so we could continue …
This beauty ( Vanguard ) is a heavy beast from the look of it…
About the time the North Carolina and South Dakota classes were being released, the carrier, escort carrier and all of the US shipyards were in max production, the crews were trained to a decent standard and they had the VT shells getting distributed.
Yamato whenm
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We’re still wating on the other ships
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Maybe KGV on the tree, PoW as Premium.
I’d rather have that over a Nelson, I think. Or maybe not…? I don’t know lol. I would probably get either.
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I already raised this question, but here again:
Why the Vanguard as very last british BB … now? Why is Gajin jumping over a whole class of fast BBs, the KGV class? Wouldn’t it be more logical to introduce the King George V or Prince of Wales?
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And those classes of ships barely matched the performance of Britains interwar vessels and ships like warspite were already equipped with HEVT and had been for a year or 2
Yeah, same, it’s tricky. I fear the most though, both being event ships
This ship is better than bismarck, when bismarck
What were you expecting?
I think that was more a matter of necessity rather than bad decision making.
Ships like HMS Glorious were maybe lost due to poor planning, but equally im not sure what else they could have done.
personally i’d rather the lesser known Anson or Howe as premiums (which i’d hope we’d never get, but it’s inevitable anyway so why bother fighting?),
they get overshadowed by the first 3 of the class with KGV (first of Class, at final battle of Bismarck), PoW (Battle of Denmark Strait, and it’s absolute blunder of a loss in the pacific), and DoY (Battle of the North Cape),
i mean that, or like Movran said, Nelson really, unless we get an R class Premium
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boat.
i approve
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