BritishImperial said:*words*
Methinks we both need to brush up on our ship recognition. All I know about that pic is that I think it is some sort of CL.
BritishImperial said:*words*
BritishImperial said:*words* haha
yeah i know nothing really, though its an area i'm fairly interested in as i like big beefy battleships shooting at each other. and obviously britain's power was built on her navy. its a pity there wasnt all that much naval action in ww2. obviously not from the sailors view but you know what i mean
i kinda guessed it was a CL from the guns and ww1 from the big funnels as you did, but didnt know apart from that. i used my special talents and sources to find out which ship it is though... you want to know?
BritishImperial said:wow you're right, that is the rodney. i didnt know it was that amazingly amazing. to be honest i know embarrasingly little about the navy in ww2 or any other era for that matter. i also cant deal in inches, so i dont really know how big those guns are still, but they look very small and theres hardly any of them so its a light cruiser from the great war i would guess. in fact i know exactly what ship it is, can i say?. but i dont have the faintest idea what it's doing in the scenario. i'm guessing instead of scrapping it they were sold on.
i'm sorta confused: is this new scenario also playing as the US? cos it would help with me trying to work out what the rodney or it's clone is up to. i didnt think you'd actually said who you're playing unless i missed something.
BritishImperial said:i feel very ashamed of myself. It was really bugging me as to what these various ships would do in the new aar other than just sail around, and i thought knowing what ship that one was might help. so... i cheated. fair play, it was genius though i say it myself, but i feel bad because i was supposed to guess the bad news is that i still don't have any idea what the purpose of that ship is.
its the USS Montana, a Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser from WW1, later renamed the USS Missoula. She was taken out of the navy in 1930 and sold to some bloke. but i'm going to guess (as i cant cheat here) that instead of being sold to some bloke she was sold to whoever also holds the plans for this Nelson class ship also. Whoever it is is acquiring an interesting range of shipping.