I captured a british fleet?

[Steed]

Playing as Germany i had invaded England and only had Belfast left to take. I sat my glorious German fleet off the coast comprising of 2 battleships, 2 cruisers and a destroyer. to catch any English ships comming from the port when i landed the borrowed Italians in Belfast.. I sat my 4 naval bombers ready to pound them, but to my shock, my glorious German fleet grew by 23 ships curtousy of the British.. I never realised you could capture ships, especially 23 of them.. I had great fun renaming all the HMS ships as they were drafted into my fleet. The great Von Dutton sailed out into the Atlantic followed by the Van Helsing. I never knew renaming 23 ships would be so time consuming as i ground to a halt after 10 and had to dig deep for insperation..
I was so dead chuffed that i though id share my good fortune and see if its a common thing or i may have been just lucky!!!!!

Cheers

 

[unmerged(26983)]

It happens, sometimes. I don't really bother with navy so if it happens to me it generally go unnoticed, but yeah a couple of times.

 

[Zuckergußgebäck]

The closest I´ve ever come was (as the USA) capturing a Great War Light Cruiser in the Marianas, and it was badly crippled too. (thatkfully, after a long time in port, the USS Marianas was ready for action...)

 

[lordsid]

Capturing ships or small fleets used to sometimes happen as you describe
in earlier versions of HOI.
Iirc this was changed to make it harder somewhere about 106?
I haven't captured a ship in so long I can't remember.
Capturing 23 ships is quite rare, even in the old versions of the game.
Out of curiousity,are you using 106c?
Are the captured ships warships or transports?

 

[Steed]

I just use the basic hoI as i havent loaded any patches. The 23 ships were made up of warships. Carriers, battleships and cruisers. Thats why i couldnt understand how id captured them especially 23. I just thought when you took the province that the ships put to sea. I was ready for a sea battle.
Guess i was just Very Lucky by the sounds of it. I put them in for upgrades but the newly named 'Heir Flick' has a slight limp in the water.

 

[lordsid]

I just use the basic hoI as i havent loaded any patches. The 23 ships were made up of warships. Carriers, battleships and cruisers. Thats why i couldnt understand how id captured them especially 23. I just thought when you took the province that the ships put to sea. I was ready for a sea battle.
Guess i was just Very Lucky by the sounds of it. I put them in for upgrades but the newly named 'Heir Flick' has a slight limp in the water.

I would advise you to load the patches with whatever mods (if any) you
want to try.Otherwise you'll run into the glitches & bugs that the patches
etc. corrected.
The game also plays quite a bit differently,especially when compared to the
old basic HOI.
I'm currently using 106c with the "fix" pack.I'm also using the hardest
settings. I find that overall this plays well. You might be better off using the
default difficulty settings until you get used to the game.
There are quite a few people who like the core mods.
There are several people that use version 105 to avoid the changes to the
air stacking penalties.