royal navy question

[mitch12]

how come royal navy in the 1936 campaign is smaller than the usa the royal navy was still the largest in 1939

http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignRoyalNavy.htm

 

[mitch12]

seems like no one knows why the fault is in the game

 

[Panzergruppe]

Depends which royal navy you mean...

 

[mitch12]

Depends which royal navy you mean...

British

 

[Vryllyn]

British

Royal Navy always seems to be huge by the time war breaks out. Generally larger then my navy when I play as the US.

 

[mitch12]

Royal Navy always seems to be huge by the time war breaks out. Generally larger then my navy when I play as the US.

but in 1936 campaign there second that is false

 

[Fancykiller65]

but in 1936 campaign there second that is false

It may be that the Royal Navy totals include the Commonwealth nations:

Commonwealth Navies

Included in the Royal Navy totals were:

Royal Australian Navy - six cruisers, five destroyers and two sloops;

Royal Canadian Navy - six destroyers;

Royal Indian Navy - six escort and patrol vessels;

Royal New Zealand Navy, until October 1941 the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy - two cruisers and two sloops.

 

[mitch12]

It may be that the Royal Navy totals include the Commonwealth nations:

even without them they still should number one between 1936 and 1939

http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignRoyalNavy.htm

 

[Fancykiller65]

http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org9-4.htm
Go down to U.S. Navy Active Ship Force Levels, 1938-1944

 

[Fancykiller65]

RN Strength:
http://ww2total.com/WW2/History/Orders-of-Battle/Fleets-September-1939.htm

 

[mitch12]

RN Strength:
http://ww2total.com/WW2/History/Orders-of-Battle/Fleets-September-1939.htm

another point is why do they only have 12 battleships on the game when they clearly had 15 back then

 

[mitch12]

well from them two lists you showed me america in 1939 had 178 surface warships in 1939 and britian had 333

 

[Nadion]

HMS Hood, Renown, and Repulse were clearly battlecruisers not battleships and are represented as such.

Destroyer / Sub numbers get a bit confused due to being grouped in flotillas, though the Commonwealth probaby does deserve a few more of these

Scenario is set starts in 1936, not 1939

 

[unmerged(40918)]

When I looked at the RN figures for 1914 and 1936 I couldn't believe they'd scrapped so many ships in the meantime. I guess the British really were in fast decline in that period.

 

[mitch12]

When I looked at the RN figures for 1914 and 1936 I couldn't believe they'd scrapped so many ships in the meantime. I guess the British really were in fast decline in that period.

actually i think it was something to do with the treaty of versai

 

[Nadion]

actually i think it was something to do with the treaty of versai

perhaps you actaully mean the Washington Naval Accords?

 

[mitch12]

yep shame really that they cut back so much would come in handy for ww2

 

[Bureaucromancer]

More than anything the decline had to do with the RN being massively out of date by the end of WWI. It's not so much that there was an intentional drawdown in total size, as that there was no point in maintaining the older units and between finances and the Washington treaty the rebuilding was no where near as large as what happened pre war.