Pretty much as per the title, I've got 3 Panzerchiffes I'm using for mid Atlantic commerce raiding and I was considering a minor refit.
I noticed that while they've got floatplane catapults, they lack radar. I was going to give them radar and upgrade their engines, then it occurred to me that it might be worth swapping its 8" main battery for a secondary if light attack was better than heavy for commerce raiding?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, I've had the game a week and I'm struggling to get the answers I need out of the Paradox help thing.
I'm thinking about how naval ships could conduct raiding of enemy supply lines and trade in space, similar to what submarines or the frigates of old did in real life conflicts.
It's accepted that stealth in space in a hard sci fi setting is impossible unless there's some incredibly advanced technology involved. I was thinking that it would still be possible to raid in an enemy's space if you used ships that could easily dispatch a civilian/supply ship while being able to outrun other naval ships.
A space cruiser for example would enter an enemy's star system and attack supply ships in the system, making sure to be far enough range from planetary defenses so that they would not be a threat. Once enemy warships arrive, the cruiser would start its FTL drive and fly to another system before the enemy ships could engage it. Space nations can defend against this by having their navies patrol important supply lines, but being forced to stretch out their forces would still be an advantage to the other side.
One day has passed since the game started. Several K-class destroyers roam randomly in the TEL and FRF sectors, and my poor transport ship passing by bravely but foolishly plunges straight into the fire.
How can I prevent this? My transport ships are made up of relatively fast Demeter and Hermes, but they don't seem to be fast and sturdy enough to escape the destroyer's fire.
I'm austerity to get my shipyard and I'm not thinking of defeating K head-on. Boa looks like a transport ship that meets my needs, but it's expensive to replace the entire transport fleet. After all, what is the cost-effective measure against trade raiding by destroyers?
This is a sequel of my stories posted here but you can also read this as a standalone.
Also, I am a non-native English speaker with dyslexia so please tell me if I have made any mistakes. Thank you.
“Is this your first time on a spaceship?” The human asked.
“Ye…Yes my lord,” said Ukkox anxiously.
“It’s OK. You don’t have to call anyone a ‘lord’. I am Captain Scott Lawson, welcome on board Macau,” the human captain greeted.
“What exactly is this…ship? Why is there a black flag on its side?”
The human captain laughed. He ignored Ukkox’s question and lead him into an open hatch instead.
“What do you know about the Commonwealth?”
“I know they capture slaves from our planet. And from countless others too,” said Ukkox as he squeezed through the small hatch. “And if anyone dared to resist their will, they would destroy their hometown and kill every man, women and children there…”
“I guess you have never heard of the battle of Earth then,” the human captain laughed. He led Ukkox through the narrow corridors and tight corners. Metal pipes hung low from the ceiling, forcing Ukkox to crouch down in some areas. Valve handles and light panels around every turn makes the space even more cramped. Ukkox couldn’t imagine how a human, let alone a group of them, can live in such abysmal conditions without turning insane.
“Here is your room. You can put all your things in the footlocker in front of your bed,” said the human captain. “Now follow me to the bridge.”
Ukkox obeyed. He dropped his bags in the footlocker and tried to turn around. His 6 limbs flogged around uselessly as he struggled to turn his body in the small room. The human captain grabbed one of his arms and pulled him out into the hallway.
“How can you live in such a cramped metal box?” ask Ukkox as he catched his breath. “There’s not even a single window!”
“We get used to it,” said the human. “Now let’s get to the bridge.”
Ukkox did not know what a bridge was. He could tell that the room was slightly bigger than the one he was in. However, all the extra space was taken by bulky computers and blue display screens. The human crew members only sit on small chairs and stools in front of their own workstations. As the human captain entered the bridge, the crew immediately stood up.
“Captain on the bridge!” Announced one officer. Everyone saluted to the captain before he gestured them to sit down.
“As you are,” the captain
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Good old fashioned piracy is what i'm looking for. Transports full of booty, waiting to be plundered. Yarr!!!
I've been doing a bit of reading about the German navy during WW1 and WW2, and the story for commerce raiding seems to have been about the same in both wars - isolated incidents of success in the opening stages of a war, but the ships generally getting hunted down and not doing enough damage to justify their cost. I know that Confederate commerce raiders during the Civil War were relatively effective, operating in that grey area between sail and steam
Were surface commerce raiders ever effective once the age of sail passed?
Hello captains! I wanted to run a question by y'all! The xenon made their first big push into Hatikvah's Choice last night and thanks to the efforts of local security and my own crafty blindspot flying, their destroyer and accompanying sub capitals were dealt with. This gave me an opportunity to dive on through into the Xenon sectors and do some exploring while their fleet was recovering.
I dunno what it is about Xenon space, but it always fills me with this foreboding sense of dread to explore. It's the one place in an X game where I genuinely don't feel safe, even knowing I can take on most of their ships in my Minotaur. Anyways, on to my question!
Since all ship construction is actually simulated in the economy now, if me and my Minotaur were to poke our heads into their core sector from time to time and hunt down their transporters, would this decrease the frequency of future incursions? Or do the Xenon not behave the same way that the main Races do with regards to ship production?
I know the AI cheats heavily in all strategy games, but I've never quite confirmed that it's even possible to hurt the computer players economically. Try blockading and pillaging your enemies in Shogun 2. Even though the game explicitly tells you the wealth level of other domains in the diplomacy screen, poverty never seems to prevent the AI from hiring generals or raising doomstacks. The most that happens is that they leave damaged buildings for you to repair when you capture their settlements.
My son (7) is mildly obsessed with WW2 naval combat and has asked me repeatedly why the Kriegsmarine engaged in its capital ship based commerce raids.
I understand that Operation Berlin with Scharnhorst and Gneisnau was seen as a success but it seems to me to have been a huge risk, jeopardizing massively expensive capital ships for not all that much return (as was seen in Operation Rheinübung). What was the rationale behind risking large, vulnerable and expensive targets like these?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I recently started playing Stellaris and started out playing Determined Exterminators. I was baffled when I ran into "War Exhaustion" after not losing any battles. I thought I must be doing something wrong, or there must be a bug, so I came to this subreddit looking for answers.
The primary justification I have seen thrown around is that "War Exhaustion" doesn't just reflect the mood of a populace (something that wouldn't matter to a genocidal machine intelligence), it apparently also reflects the supposed degradation of logistics and supply chains due to drawn out war.
This is, quite frankly, stupid. And laughably false.
War doesn't make supply chains magically deteriorate any more than any other economic activity does. Supply chains and logistics only suffer if they are attacked. I keep on seeing references to Germany in WW2 and Napolean, but those are incorrect examples. The correct examples would be the USA and the Red Army in WW2. Both emerged as economic powerhouses after the war - no "supply chain / logistics degradation" in sight. Especially with the US, not only did the war not damage the economy, it actually bolstered it.
If you're going to run around claiming that constant winning in a war should result in "supply chain degradation" because "exhaustion", then the exact same thing should apply to regular commerce and trade, and you should get "Trade Exhaustion" from being too successful.
tl;dr: Logistics are NOT a good justification for "War Exhaustion". Stop using it as one.
EDIT: Alright, you are all terrible at reading. For Christ sake, I'm talking about LOGISTICS.
EDIT 2: To address a few common points being brought up
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Trucks break down all the time, war or no war. You don't need a war for trucks to break down. That isn't a good reason.
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Over-mobilization of a workforce to help a war effort has nothing to do with logistics, which was the point of my post. Furthermore, it's completely irrelevant for a genocidal machine intelligence.
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Raids on supply lines in enemy territory - ala French Resistance - is a reasonable answer; though I question whether that's really applicable when what you're resisting are basically Terminators.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Note: This is not perfect. The categorizations were difficult and arguable. This took a lot of time and research. If anything is wrong in these descriptions, I'm happy to hear about it.
Germany: Odin, Roon, Mainz, Parseval, Agir, FDG, Zeppelin, Strasser, Prinz Heinrich, Z46, Weser, Ulrich von Hutten, Prinz Adalbert, Magdeburg, Elbe – 15
Japan: Kii, Suruga, Kaga BB, Amagi, Ibuki, Izumo, Kitakaze, Hakuryuu, Azuma, Tosa – 10
France: Saint Louis, Gascogne, Champagne, L'Opiniâtre, Le Téméraire – 5
Britain: Neptune, Monarch, Cheshire, Drake, Centaur – 5
US: Seattle, Georgia, Anchorage – 3
Russia: Sovetskaya Rossiya, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, Chapayev – 3
Italy: Marco Polo, Aquila - 2
Germany:
Agir: Inspired by the O-class battlecruiser designed in 1939 under the Plan Z expansion of the Kriegsmarine. Agir however features 305mm guns instead of the O-class 380mm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-class_battlecruiser
August Von Parseval: Speculative plan by Wargaming of a further development of the unfinished German Graf Zeppelin class carriers. They propose that these speculative Flugzeugtrager C and D models would have a reduced secondary battery and more anti-aircraft guns.https://thedailybounce.net/world-of-warships/world-of-warships-the-german-carriers-are-unleashed-and-2-other-ships-with-them/
Elbe: Originally the ocean liner Potsdam, built 1934-35. Taken in for conversion to a CVL in 1942 but work halted by 1943 with limited modifications and used as a barracks ship until seized by the British at the end of the war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade-class_aircraft_carrier
Friedrich der Große: Battleship from the German H-plan. This design, H-39, was a further development on the Bismarck class that was laid down in 1939 but never completed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-class_battleship_proposals#H-39_specifications
Graf Zeppelin: The lead ship of the German Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carriers, Flugzeugtrager A. The ship was laid down in 1936 and launched in 1938. Construction halted with the ship 85% complete 1939, due to shifting priorities.[https://en.wikipe
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I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
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That would be really fun. Proper convoy escorting. Larger map. Taking ages to cross it. Destroyers vs submarines.
Do you think WG will do that or just go for more cv overpowering everything?
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
They’re on standbi
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
