Ingame Battleship IV was in the localisations as well in the unit files are Battleship.3
any chance for a RN update? if necessary up to 1939 or so.
Sorry for the lack of updates. This post and my AAR have suffered from work-related stuff and some improvements to the HPP starting techs. I should be able to update both this post and my AAR within the next day or so.
in 1936 and 1938 two small cruiser designs were emerged but none finalized. They were designed by the Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen.
PG 225 (1936): 84.5m, 5x1 120mm Guns, 2x2 450mm Torpedoes 1 aircraft no armour
PG 237 (1938): 96m, 2x2 150mm Guns, 1x2 450mm Torpedoes 25mm Deck armour. Both carried 40mm AA guns as well
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Thanks for the awesome work. Many people outside the UK refer to it as 'England' and express bemusement at people refering to it using the full name, but I'm glad to see you are not one of those!
Back on topic: Common Weapons of WW2 features torpedo boats as a unit, but I've never seen a game which featured them properly. My guess is that they are so numerous that even dealing with them in flotillas (4 to a flotilla? 8? 12?) would be too much - is that right? Will HPP include them?
Back on topic: Common Weapons of WW2 features torpedo boats as a unit, but I've never seen a game which featured them properly. My guess is that they are so numerous that even dealing with them in flotillas (4 to a flotilla? 8? 12?) would be too much - is that right? Will HPP include them?
Some addition:
Norway:
2 Björgvin class coastal battleships, at completion (1914) the RN purchased them and classified them as Monitors and renamed them as HMS Glatton and Gorgon. Glatton blown up in 1918, Gorgon was sold in 1928.
Denmark:
in 1936 and 1938 two small cruiser designs were emerged but none finalized. They were designed by the Naval Dockyard in Copenhagen.
PG 225 (1936): 84.5m, 5x1 120mm Guns, 2x2 450mm Torpedoes 1 aircraft no armour
PG 237 (1938): 96m, 2x2 150mm Guns, 1x2 450mm Torpedoes 25mm Deck armour. Both carried 40mm AA guns as well
Before the war the Swedish Navy considered to modernize her fleet with newer built warships and thus designs were born but before anyone could be ordered the war make these ships never realized.
1934/36: Coastal battleship design probably would be called Viking, 4 ships planned and construction would be started in 1939 but suspended as the war broke out.
Data: 7-8000tons displacement 2x2 254mm Guns 2x3 120mm Guns 4x2 40mm AA and armour of 50mm Deck 254mm Belt.
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm117/pfmatthews/Might%20Have%20Beens/SwedishCoastDefenceShipProject01.jpg
Cruiser Design from 1936: 8000tons, 3x2 210mm Guns, 4x2 120mm Guns, 4x2 40mm AA, 2x2 533mm Torpedoes, 1 aircraft, armour unknown
http://i1131.photobucket.com/albums/m543/SouterJohnny/Cruiser1.png
Based on this design a Heavy cruiser for Chile with 9000tons, 3x2 200mm Guns 4x 40mm AA and 2x3 533mm Torpedoes with 127mm Belt armour was proposed too.
There was a proposal from the famous Ansaldo, again a coastal battleship in 1941: 17000tons, 3x2 280mm Guns, 4x2 120mm Guns, 5x2 57mm AA, 2x2 40mm AA, 6x1 20mm AA, 120mm Deck, 200mm Belt Armour. The navy deemed it too big and heavy and started to center around a lighter Navy, of light cruisers from which the Tre Kronor were born.
Armoured Destroyer / Torpedo Light Crusier design from 1944: 4800tons 3x2 152mm Guns, 6x2 40mm AA, 5x2 25mm AA, 2x3 533mm Torpedoes
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5638/cl45.jpg
Coastal warship design from 1945: 13900tons, 2x3 210mm Guns, 2x2 120mm Guns, 12x1 57mm AA, 10x2 25mm AA, 120mm Deck 300mm Belt Armour
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/323/bb45n.jpg
In parallel with the above Coastal battleship design a Monitor were born too: 10200tons 1x3 210mm Guns, 8x2 57mm AA, they would be to replace the mobile coastal artilleries of the army.
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1104/bm45.jpg
Republic of China
Until the 1st Sino-Japanese war, China had the largest navy in Asia. The war was disastrous for China, which saw all of its battleships and the majority of its fleet destroyed by Japanese cruisers. In the early 30's, China began rearm its navy and overhaul the ships that survived the 1st Sino-Japanese War and the Warlord Era of the Chinese Civil War. The first step was ordering the Ning Hai cruiser from Japan, which was finished on September 1, 1932. The Ning Hai's sister ship, the Ping Hai, was built in Shanghai under Japanese supervision, and was launched on Sept. 28, 1935 and commissioned on June 18, 1936. Aside from those two vessels, the newest Chinese ships were the two American-built Chao Ho-class cruisers, commissioned in 1911. The rest of the navy was built in the late 1890's.
Due to the tensions between China and Japan, the RoC began a naval rearmament plan that was vastly different from other nations. Aside from the two Ning Hai cruisers, the focus of the rearmament was to modernize the existing fleet, especially the ships' AA guns. The reason for focusing on the existing ships was that Japan was unwilling to build or sell more to China, and the Europeans refused to build or sell ships to the RoC for two reasons. The first was that France, the UK, the US, and the Netherlands didn't want to antagonize Japan and prompt an attack on their colonies. The second reason was that all of the European naval powers, majors and minors, were busy rearming themselves due to tensions in Europe and couldn't spare ships for China.
The Chinese fleet when the 2nd Sino-Japanese war broke out, excluding small craft, was:
*2 Ning Hai-class cruisers
*2 Chao Ho-class cruisers (3 were ordered, but the revolution in 1912 forced the Fei Hung to be canceled; it was sold to Greece instead and renamed the Elli)
*3 Hai Yung-class cruisers
*1 Hai Tien-class protected cruiser (the Hai Chi was the only surviving ship of the class)
*1 Tung Chi-class cruiser
*3 Chang Feng-class Destroyers
All ships were either sunk in port by Japanese bombers or sunk in the Yangtze river to act as a blockade. Both Ning Hai-class cruisers were raised and served in the IJN. Note that vanilla's fleet is inaccurate. It has 1 too many destroyers units, is missing the Ping Hai in the starting build queue, and is missing the Hai Yung, Hai Chou, Hai Chi, and Tung Chi cruisers.
The reason I included China in this thread despite having a fleet that was almost entirely purchased or built abroad is because it built the Ping Hai domestically, which IMO qualifies it as a nation with a naval industry, although a very small one.
For sources, I used this site and this one.