Wow four pages in 36 hours, it will take a while to read
first:
Yeah, it did seem likely that besides reasons of national prestige (which was often tied to the production of uselessly big battleships in the pre-war period), there wouldn't be much real point for ever-increasingly large ships - especially if you're saying that they can't really be built!
(Out of interest and showing my complete lack of knowledge of all things naval - would these H-Class Battleships be bigger than carriers, and if not, how did Germany plan to build carriers in real life?)
However, I suppose you could attempt to have some rationale for developing huge gunned battleships to act as super-diplomatic gunboats -> So, more designed to threaten coastal cities with bombardment, than to actually be used in naval warfare...
I'm not really saying they can't be build, I'm saying that no player would try building them. Just like in vanilla, most people say it's better to build Carriers, and AC. than to build superBB's.
They where several designs, H-39 to H-44 every design was bigger, better armed longer, etc, most were never really planned to build, H44 was going to be bigger than any port facility that germany had, I think H44 was going to be as big as the Nimitz-class carrier.
All I'm saying is BB's should be bigger and would be VERY bad to lose one. worse than vanila, that they cost more, and that could give you a couple of events for GER to modernize your fleet, and build the next 4 BB's (the ones that would correspond to this decade), that would decrease your investment in other areas. Also, every admiralty would want one, military establishment is very traditional, adopting new ideas is easy to officers but very hard to change the way old almirals think, and those are the ones that really control the navy's.
Regarding even bigger battleships I have a rabidly drooling small Wilhelm II on my left shoulder and a little Tirpitz who is rubbing his hands in glee on my right shoulder, so...
Wotan-class! Wotan-class! Wotan-class!
^^that's exactly what I'm thinking.
#1227 :
Here's some ideas generaly speaking on the german and french doctrines and the background on what lead to their development...
WOW
cool, needed a while to read that, it sounds great.
The germans later on get techs that I practicaly stole from the vanilla US doctrines, so they will get more combined arms later on. In the start the have some units which could be considered mechanized - 3 Cav/AC, 1 Inf/AC and 1 tank division.
French doctrine goes from wide front attacks to the fine-tuning of the armored breakthrough and the 'fanning-out' that follows it, evolving into a practice where the mechanized divisions are made out of brigades capable of independent operations.
^^Excelent
T-hiddemen's Wotan 14x18" guns
can you imagine the bang!!
Eddit: comas and removed a little line that I was not to sure about.