Once in the Atlantic it would have been destroyed and crippled it would have had to limp back to port and like it’s sister ship spent the war cowering in Norway from any overflying aircraft.
Sinking of the Bismark reinforced what the RN and others already knew and that was air power wins Naval battles. Bismark could have been the Yamato/Iowa and the end result would have been the same.
Gaijin, having turned naval into some inclusive mobile game with their aiming system no one asked for, I heavily doubt the Yamato and the rest will save naval that was critically sick from br compression even before the aiming system placed it into a shallow grave.
Its a shame. But refusing to acknowledge the issues leads to this debacle. Monetized into failure.
If the RN had been calm, it wouldn’t have sent its fleet to chase a ship. The Ark Royal would have been enough.
You’re talking with the Monday paper in your hand. Put it in context: after the Washington Treaty, most of the ships of the time were old ships from the Great War. Carriers will start to become a big thing, but at the time it was just a “maybe it can work better” thing.
Either way, Ship to Ship, the discussion can never be reduced to “it was overrated.”
Falklands is an air RB and perhaps SB gamemode map, so not naval, and it covers the distance between st carlos and stanley port, so basically where the war took place.
Though, I argue it would be cool to have an alt histroy layout where the map is depicted as north of the islands, and as a battle between the invincible and veinticinco de mayo strike group, where ships replaces bombing bases. It would be exclusive to carrier aircrafts, and to balance the things out, I dont mind fictionally making the invincible a forrestal-class. Sure, F/A-18 and Yak-141 fighting AV-8B+ over the falklands is still silly, I just want some more carrier actions for ARB.