Defeat the Royal Navy in a single month

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Antalex77

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Well, I know that the navy and naval warfare is relatively easy to win with a great naval power, but I wasn't expecting such a result in a single month, 2 battles and no US ship sunk (Vanilla and no ironman)



The first battle, I was trying a new template and I guess, at least without aircraft carriers it's impresive.
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The second battle, less than 3 weeks later and that's confirms my thought. I sunk both carriers and last battleship in the following day.
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My loses are almost only convoys and 20 submarines, maybe 3 or 4 destroyers, nothing more in almost 2 years of war (against Germany and the British).
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Regarding the results (I almost did the same thing in another try against Japan, it was more difficult (15 destroyers loses) but the IJN wasn't a threat in the Pacific anymore after 2 months and a threat even for a small destroyers task forces after 6 months), I am wondering, is there a mod that could improve naval AI. Even if I'm at war with both japan and the United Kingdom the AI do not succeed to win against me and sunk a single carrier.

Just boost other country will not make the naval AI better so it might help to make it more difficult but probably not enough if the enemy task forces are still bad (especially the templates which are pretty bad in those battles)

(I don't know if this will work in MP, probably not if the others spam naval bombers which are really efficient, probably too much.)
 
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I really wish we could see an hourly breakdown of naval battles after they are over. It's really hard to understand what happened with just seeing the end result.
 
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In both battles he had a serious air superiority as a starter.

In the first one yes, with the help of the spanish aviation even if it wasn't that useful, in the second one it's just my aircraft who totally defeat the British aviation even it was the lights cruisers who did the best jobs.
 

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Honestly I don't like naval bombers either because they're just too strong with how cheap they can be produced. As a minor you can destroy the royal fleet by just spamming cheap subs/destroyers with naval bombers, you don't even need to play the US or Japan.