[Question] how would USS Chiwawa look as a fleet girl? she was built in 1942 as a oiler and arm with a 5-inch h=gun and various anti-aircraft guns. Additionally how would she look after her 1960 conversion to Lee A. Tregurtha, a Great Lakes bulk carrier?
reddit.com/gallery/r545au
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βThe Fleet Is Not Idle . . .β, 2/14/1942. With the Pacific Fleet β Made from the deck of a U.S. warship, this photo shows other units of the Pacific Fleet, including an aircraft carrier in the background, speeding to the smashing attack on Japanβs Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the Western Pacific.
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Made a WW2-era Task Force of warships over the last few weeks, including a large Fleet carrier, a Light Carrier, a battlecruiser, 4 Heavy Cruisers, 3 Light cruisers and 14 destroyers (2 different designs). Made in survival
reddit.com/gallery/lusat8
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Made a WW2-era Task Force of warships over the last few weeks, including a large Fleet carrier, a Light Carrier, a battlecruiser, 4 Heavy Cruisers, 3 Light cruisers and 14 destroyers (2 different designs). Made in survival
reddit.com/gallery/lusdux
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A small contemplative slice of Task Force Admiral, as Task Force 16 is rushing into the wind to launch the squadmates of these SBDs circling above the fleet. TFA aims at recreating PTO carrier combat in 1942 with extra effort on the presentation (that is, from an indie PoV ^^) - hope it shows! :)
v.redd.it/0ucpdh73zaw61
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[4000x3000] From left to right, the seaplane carrier Commandant Teste, the battleship Courbet and the old predreadnought battleship Condorcet (used as an accomodation hulk) after the scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon (27 November 1942)
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Battleship HMS WARSPITE, and armoured carriers HMS ILLUSTRIOUS and HMS FORMIDABLE, with the Eastern Fleet, July 1942 [1864 x 1282]
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HMS Centaur (R06), the first of the four Centaur-class light fleet carriers of the Royal Navy. She was only ship of her class to be completed with the original design configuration of a straight axial flight deck. 1965. [3711 Γ 2922]
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A tour Of The Fleet Carrier Interiors, Night Vision used To Illuminate Hidden Rooms That Do Not Have Lights Yet
youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3Mlβ¦
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Carrier Battles WW2: Admiral of the Fleet - A real-time WW2 naval warfare simulation game on tactical level, Admiral of Fleet features 20 scenarios covering the naval battles between carriers in the early stage of the war, from December 1941 to the end of 1942.
store.steampowered.com/apβ¦
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What if at Midway, 1942, the US fliers didn't find the Japanese fleet, and instead the Japanese located the American carriers and destroyed them in exchange for minor damage to it's own carriers. How does the war change?
The USA's ability to produce incredible numbers of warships, carriers, airplanes and pilots would surely have eventually won the war, but does a defeat, instead of a victory, at Midway seriously affect the length and course of the war in the Pacific?
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The Japanese fleet carrier Hiryu on fire hours before sinking at the Battle of Midway (June 4th, 1942) [991x652]
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HMS Centaur (R06), the first of the four Centaur-class light fleet carriers of the Royal Navy. She was only ship of her class to be completed with the original design configuration of a straight axial flight deck. 1965. [3711 Γ 2922]
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[611x405] The light cruiser Marseillaise after she was scuttled and set on fire by her crew during the scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon, on 27 November 1942
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Aircraft Carrier, Converted from BB 61-66 Class. Preliminary design plan prepared for the General Board dated June 1942. NHHC. [3000x1395]
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︎ Apr 21 2021
"Hey guys, when I said "Buckle up", I didn't mean the whole ship...!": inside view of the buckled bridge of Japanese light carrier Ryujo, returning to port after suffering superstructure & hull storm damage due to the typhoon of the so-called "4th Fleet incident", Sept 1935 - via JR1SSP [1000x717]
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Gun on the deck of the recently located USS Wasp aircraft carrier, sunk in the South Pacific in 1942, sitting at 14,000" depth (4,270m), photo from the Research Vessel Petrel via the US Pacific Fleet
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French Aircraft Carrier Proposal: Duquesne 1935 (CA converted in a CVL), Joffre 1942 (unfinished carrier), Clemenceau design 1947 (Project PA28).
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RN Light Fleet Carriers
WG should consider adding the 1942 Design Light Fleet Carriers.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_Design_Light_Fleet_Carrier
Link: https://youtu.be/4DHDhBfd6Hg
These would differ from the main RN CV tech tree, as non armoured deck RN CV variants with larger flight groups.
What is interesting here is that many of these ended up in different navies after the war. Two classes were built, Colossus & Majestic, so these could be spread over tiers (Would match up to 8 & 9, as HMS implacable is at tier 8 and was commissioned before, and most were commissioned before HMS Audacious which is at tier 9). Some ships may end up in tech trees for other nations (thinking of France here), but for those that wouldnβt these could provide a chance to have a CV or two for other nations/pan-nations. Some notably of the Magnificent class would need to be in original designs as some were modified with angled flight decks.
Colossus Class
- HMS Colossus was loaned to France
- HMS Venerable was sold to The Netherlands
- HMS Vengeance was transferred to Australia
- HMS Warrior was loaned to Canada, once returned it was sold to Argentina
- One of HMS Glory/Ocean/Thesus/Triumph /Perseus/Pioneer could be kept as RN as a different play type.
Majestic Class
- HMS Majestic was sold to Australia
- HMS Hercules was sold to India
- HMS Magnificent was loaned to Canada
- HMS Powerful was sold to Canada
- HMS Terrible was transferred to Australia
Yes, these would most likely all be premiums, which I normally wouldnβt encourage, but it would vary up a tad the CV scape currently dominated by a small handful of CVs.
Ideally each nation/pan-nation would have a slightly different gimmick. WG would almost literally be able to build two models (Colossus & Majestic) and reuse them with minor aesthetic differences for each of other nation.
We know that we should soon have RN CVs, and if WoWS PC is anything to go by weβll also get KM, USSR & MN CVs. So why not also have:
Tier 8:
- HMS Colossus
- MN Arromanches
- KM (Dutch) Karel Doorman
- HMAS Vengeance
- HMCS Warrior
Tier 9:
- HMS Majestic
- MB (Brazil) Minas Gerais
- ARA (Argentina) Independencia
- HMAS Sydney
- INS (India) Vikrant
- HMCS Bonaventure
Thoughts?
What gimmicks could be set for each nation?
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HMS Colossus as seen off Malta. The successful Colossus, classified as light fleet carriers, they have almost double the avgas capacity compares to that of that of the pre-war Illustrious and a 17ft 6in, comparable to the Audacious, allowing them to operate many post war aircraft. [1300x1000]
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TDIH: April 9, 1942, The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and the Australian destroyer HMAS Vampire.
uso.org/stories/122-surreβ¦
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The captured A6M Zero fighter, known as the Akutan Zero, is seen landing at San Diego, California, in September 1942. It carries the standard medium blue over light blue scheme typical of carrier-borne aircraft of the early war.
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My newest light carrier design
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I designed what I'm calling a "Carrion Carrier" for my undead-themed A Billion Suns fleet!
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German kamikaze crashes on the deck of fleet carrier USS California during Pearl Harbor (1942).
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HMS Colossus as seen off Malta. The successful Colossus, classified as light fleet carriers, they have almost double the avgas capacity compares to that of that of the pre-war Illustrious and a 17ft 6in, comparable to the Audacious, allowing them to operate many post war aircraft. [1300x1000]
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Japanese auxiliary fleet oiler KyokutoΜ Maru refueling the aircraft carrier HiryuΜ in the Central Pacific while sailing to the Battle of Midway, May 28-June 3, 1942 [650 Γ 507]
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Japanese heavy cruiser Chikuma, aircraft carrier Soryu, a fleet oiler, aircraft carrier Hiryu and heavy cruiser Takao in Staring Bay, Celebes, February 22, 1942
redd.it/7zhp6b
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Fleet carrier Ark Royal and light fleet carriers Albion and Ocean at speed. [985x1300]
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A conceptual model of a Russian light aircraft carrier with a unique semi-catamaran design. The unique hull shape allows the flight deck to be the size as that of a supercarrier, at half the displacement [album]
reddit.com/gallery/q54m1j
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Japanese heavy cruiser Chikuma, aircraft carrier Soryu, a fleet oiler, aircraft carrier Hiryu and heavy cruiser Takao in Staring Bay, Celebes, February 22, 1942 [4400 x 2287]
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Japanese heavy cruiser Chikuma, aircraft carrier Soryu, a fleet oiler, aircraft carrier Hiryu and heavy cruiser Takao in Staring Bay, Celebes, February 22, 1942 [4400 x 2287]
redd.it/7zhp6b
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Royal Navy sketch scheme for a 'through-deck escort cruiser', 1961. Such a design would have complemented the larger CVA-01 fleet carriers. [2048 x 950]
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What priority does the US Navy give to damage control in their crews and ship design (particularly fleet carriers)? How has the nature of their changing mission or circumstances affected the priority that use to be put on this, if at all?
Right now in San Diego a US Navy ship has been on fire for a few days. It got me thinking back to the book "shattered sword" about Midway and the disparity between the IJN and USN in terms of priority given to damage control in ship design,crew training and jobs as well as a myriad of other ways. It got me wondering if the US Navy still puts such a high priority on these activities given how much naval warfare has changed and how the USN has no other peer in the world?
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The Fairey Albacore was a biplane torpedo bomber, designed to replace the earlier Fairey Swordfish. While the Albacore successfully supplanted the Swordfish on the large fleet aircraft carriers, it was withdrawn from front line service in 1944, one year before the Swordfish.
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[3584 x 2806]French fleet scuttling at Toulon, Nov 28, 1942. Left to right: Battleship Strasbourg; heavy cruiser Colbert aflame; heavy cruiser Algerie; and light cruiser Marseillaise capsized.
imgur.com/U1aHgkL
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