General Social/Chatter Thread

[The Rock Doctor]

Sounds like good times, Jef.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Enjoy your holidays Jefgte :)

[The Rock Doctor]

*Looks around for reminder of what historical carrier development in this time period was like:

RN:  Half-dozen conversions of various utility, plus Hermes.  Oh.

USN:  Big-arsed conversions and Ranger.  Oh.

IJN:  Big-arsed conversions and Ryujo.  Oh.

MN:  Bearn.  Oh.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Hermes and my Bazdari are similar in many ways :)
Don't forget the IJN"s Honsho :)

But yes carriers of the 20s-30s were more limited, for good reason.

The 1920s saw a great deal of aircraft carrier development that
made them much more effective later, and the late 1930s-1940s saw
leaps in aircraft performance.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Looking at Wiki, in 1929 the Royal Navy had :
Argus, Hermes, Eagle, Furious, Couragous/ Glorious   : 6 carriers , 200 aircraft.
While I was thinking the Washington Treaty effected this, perhaps not.
The treaty limited carriers, but basically excluded the first 4 from the tonnage as 'experimental'
and allowed Couragous/Glorious over the size limit as conversions.
So the Brits could have built new carriers up to 27,000 tons , or those under <10,000 didn't count.
However they also had superiority and budget problems. So why build more?

[The Rock Doctor]

I believe Wesworld had a rule that allowed a player to receive scrap value for a ship that was preserved as a museum piece.  While the museum ship still physically existed - like a contemporary Mikasa or Averoff - it no longer had military value and could never regain military value.

I am curious if there's interest in adding a similar rule to this sim.

[Kaiser Kirk]

I do not happen to recall that. My Dutch never did anything meriting a museum ship, always a Tier 2 or 3 power. Not like the mighty Mughal Empire !

Personally, so long as the ship is permanently removed from service, never ever available to be refurbished and returned, and no functional parts surviving intact to be grafted onto other vessels... I don't care if there is 'scrap' claimed.  Call it a tourism boost...

[The Rock Doctor]

Really?  Am I thinking of N3 then?

Well, anyway, it doesn't matter if you and the gang are good with it.

[TacCovert4]

I don't really care.  I put one of the Scimitar class out for museum ship as a Caicos war Veteran.   Ultimately I'll probably put HMS Osprey or something up as a museum ship when I retire them, as a key player in the Mayan situation.

[Jefgte]

A museum ship is no longer a warship.

[TacCovert4]

Concur.  When I did it, I simply listed it for scrapping, but didn't take the 15% from that particular ship.  Of course 15% of 500t isn't anything anyone cares about.

[The Rock Doctor]

Kirk, Tac - you guys in the path of the April eclipse?

Pretty sure it isn't going to hit France so Jef is out of luck.

[Jefgte]

I remember well the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999.
During the total eclipse, the countryside turned purple.
The temperature dropped by 10°C.
But the most surprising thing was the total silence,
no more birds singing, no more barking dogs...

[Kaiser Kirk]

Kirk, Tac - you guys in the path of the April eclipse?

Pretty sure it isn't going to hit France so Jef is out of luck.

I appear to be well out of the Path.
Tac should partially get it.
Looks like it just about passes over my buddy's place in Maine.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Well this time the power outage was less than 24 hours.
Which is nice :)

...folks outside town limits who are still out may not agree...