General Social/Chatter Thread

[The Rock Doctor]

Tac, you're not down around the hurricane-stricken areas, are you?

[Kaiser Kirk]

I believe he is in the Eastern part of the State.
Hopefully all is good for him and his, but I expect he'll be in emergency response mode.

I'm currently closer to Rocky, as I'm in Northern Maine visiting friend.

[TacCovert4]

Tac, you're not down around the hurricane-stricken areas, are you?

No.  I live down east.

Right now I'm cursing British airways to a special place in hell because they delayed so long that I missed my connection and am now on leg 3 of 5 to get home.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Tac, you're not down around the hurricane-stricken areas, are you?

No.  I live down east.

Right now I'm cursing British airways to a special place in hell because they delayed so long that I missed my connection and am now on leg 3 of 5 to get home.

ooh, that sucks.
I made my connecting flight by 6minutes and was unhappy with that margin, but missing it....screws everything up.

Hope it's smoother sailing from here for you.

[The Rock Doctor]

I've survived three days of prep work and then the full day horror-themed photoshoot that Mrs. Rock arranged for yesterday.  Four guys playing killers, five gals playing campers/victims, four photographers.  The weather held off just long enough for us to finish. 

Now I can think about ships rather than practical effects for fake medical malpractice.

[Kaiser Kirk]

'horror themed photoshoot'....is Mrs. Rock a Halloween buff, or a film buff?

As for me, the ~14hours of traveling yesterday seems to have left me tired today.
Luckily I had the day off.

[The Rock Doctor]

She's a film buff who loves the spooky season.

[The Rock Doctor]

Got my ship sims caught up, now I have to catch up on where I've built IC so I know where to do new ones.  My maps are now three years behind.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Got my ship sims caught up, now I have to catch up on where I've built IC so I know where to do new ones.  My maps are now three years behind.

I have a bad feeling I have ships that have not migrated from the Design thread to the Encyclopedia, but I'm also fairly sure they are not yet completed and in service...

I was going to work on maps on my new-to-me laptop, but paint.net demands an update that is not working out.

Meanwhile I'm trying to decide as to what exactly I want/need for the next Armored cruiser type.
I know what the Byzantines have built to reply to the Dahae class, but I also need to counter what I presume are IJN BCs- which I may use Roman ships as proxies for.

From what Tac posted about Foxy's cruiser intent, the IJN may have also echoed the Romans in fewer, but large cruisers - in which case my Manzikert and Xiyon classes might be appropriate.

Foxy was rather clear he saw Parthia as the power to oppose in the Pacific theater. The Japanese sacrifice of armor for speed - and hideous deck armor(1) has long meant my older refitted ships couldn't catch them, but could probably beat them consistently. Even my 18000 ton Zemaka ACs had only a narrow band where they could not critical the IJN BCs, at most ranges we could hurt each other, but I had a higher ROF and he had bigger shells.

So I need to do some research as to what I think the likely Threat vessel may be,
and then which gun I want to oppose it with. I have new 215, 255, 265, 300 and 333mm guns to choose from and a range of designs featuring them.

[Jefgte]

...I know what the Byzantines have built to reply to the Dahae class...

Dahae class 1928 - 29kts - 24500t - 2T4x333

=> Byzantine had 4 x 29kts BBs
Eupatoria class - 1910 - 28590t - 3T3x343
Konia class - 1928 - 37000t - 3T3x381

[The Rock Doctor]

I have a bad feeling I have ships that have not migrated from the Design thread to the Encyclopedia, but I'm also fairly sure they are not yet completed and in service...

I've got a lot of refits that have been posted to the design thread but not to the encyclopedia.  That's a problem for later.

Yesterday's problem was working out the new refits for 1934, so I could lock down that portion of my 2/34 report.

[Kaiser Kirk]

I am happy to say I am ...temporarily ...not refitting/rebuilding
Actually I'm scrapping some old ships as their replacements come into service.
I will get back to the rebuild grind soon :)

...I know what the Byzantines have built to reply to the Dahae class...

Dahae class 1928 - 29kts - 24500t - 2T4x333

=> Byzantine had 4 x 29kts BBs
Eupatoria class - 1910 - 28590t - 3T3x343
Konia class - 1928 - 37000t - 3T3x381

The Dahaes were meant to counter the Eupatoria class, and so were similar. Something to support the scout line. Also a good size to counter the Japanese vessels(1)

The Konia class Parthia is aware of, but is not sure how the Byzantine plan to use them, or how many they will make. At that tonnage, that's just as valuable as the battleline units, so it makes an unlikely scout. So right now we're not really building a direct counter, though I did post some 30knt BBs when deciding on the Arwand BBs.

Edit : Anyway, the OTL  B-65 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_B-65_cruiser
fits  my expectation for what Foxy might make in N7.  Hard to compete in BP and massive battlewagons, so I'd expect him to be asymmetric and try to field ships that can catch and kill my ACs and Cruisers, but dance away from my battlewagons. True battlecruisers
I've long expected my older DNs would then fill the role of the Revenge class as heavy escorts capable of killing such intermediate IJN ships.
The 10" guns on the Zemakas and Asabara can penetrate a B-65's belt at most combat ranges, as can the Dahaes. So a B-65 with thinner decks and a bit more belt seems likely.


(1) many of the IJN ships have a problem with Deck Armor though, as Foxy extended the forecastle and shrunk the citadel. So the citadel deck armor does not cover the vitals. Which was likely not the goal.

It seems unreasonable to think they would actually have been built that way. So what is posted is not even going to be accurate. Probably the 'fairest' way to fix it is to redo the ships with proper forecastle/fore/aft/stern breaks, and the same tonnage of deck armor, just thinner. Which may make the IJN ships rather vulnerable.

[Kaiser Kirk]

It is not fun to go to save a springsharp design, and instead of 'save data file' you click on the next one down....
'clear all'.

[The Rock Doctor]

That would not be fun.  No sir.

[The Rock Doctor]

Any particular reason one couldn't make an armored box flight deck cruiser?

It would be weird, no question.  But you've got stuff on the outside of the box in full-length box carriers.