What do you define as the minimum?

The number of hulls given in game?

The game does reward you for running above that value.

1. Game reasons - the game doesn't handle large sea zones well. Back when The Baltic was a part of The Atlantic, it was very common for battles to be spawned in the approaches to Russia, even for nations like France and the UK.

2. Real Life Reason - most ships need to travel excruciatingly slowly ...

It appears the lopsided losses are a feature not a bug, but I find it annoying.


That's very good, you've got a 5:3 loss ratio in AUX ships.

Subs isn't so good at 6:4, but if you built a lot of subs and the AI built a lot of ASW platforms, that will happen.

Remember, when you and your allies ...

Nuclear propulsion is out - we don't have real world data for battle damage.

ARM, VSTOL and VLS are probably not going to fall in the time frame of the game - AFAIK, it's still ends at the same point.

AEW is covered by the Special Squadron.

ECM is in the game.

Heavy Bombers are a tricky one ...

That's mostly a training/quality issue.

Things that may help:

Turn on Elite Pilot Training in preferences

Don't put CVs, CVLs or Airbases into Reserve even in peace time (or else reactivate them as soon as you hit Yellow tension levels)

As for age of aircraft, that slows down as the game ...

AFAICT, a Fleet Exercise is treated like a real battle for the purpose of experience, so may just boost your ships that 1 quality grade.

That looks about right, especially if you manage to blockade your enemies.

I've just checked a game where I was Britain, ran High intelligence almost continuously and was able to blockade in every war that I can remember.

I was on the receiving end of a 5:1 loss ratio of Aux ships. One of the ...

AFAIK, this is intended to trigger for any level above None.

My guess is its an RNG event weighted to the spend, so if you get unlucky even low spending can generate 2-3 increases in a row.

Yep, and it also adds the sub- and land-based batteries into my 'basket'

Ah, there's 25 Missile techs

After looking again, I'm wondering if it's possibly tech #15, "Effective Cruise Missiles: Anti-ship missiles can attack targets not spotted by the firing ship"

Couldn't find a tech that expressly states it allows land based SSM batteries to be built.

I don't think the message got updated when missiles were added.

The answer to your question is, missile mounts do, AFAICT, count the same as gun and torpedo mounts.

Ducked into a friendly port, resupplied - and received contaminated fuel forcing them to seek refuge in a neutral port.

Or perhaps they didn't resupply but miscalculated their range on the assumption they had.

Even bad weather.

It's just that this particular ship was the one that ran afoul of the ...

I have missile batteries available.

They appear on the fortification list at the very bottom, under airbases.

I think that's correct.

This information is available in the old RtW 2 manual, but for some reason didn't get added to the RtW 3 manual.

One is abvaialble here:

https://nws-online.proboards.com/thread ... anual-rtw2

1. You're on low intelligence spending for all opponents - and it's still in the process of working up against Italy. This will cripple you, as you are less likely to intercept the enemy whilst they are more likely to intercept you.

Personally, I switch to Low when tensions are Olive, Medium when ...

Another useful trick is to start mobilising ships once tensions are high yellow/orange. Don't need to mobilise all of them in one go, just what you can afford.

That helps cushion the impact of mass mobilisation later on.

Heck, I've taken to not putting Carriers and Airbases into reserve/mothballs ...

To take your example, by the 1950s Britain had realised that it's Empire was a drain on the economy - it cost far more to build and man the military to support that Empire than received in taxes.

Britain willingly dismantled the Empire - had to due to a lack of specie after WW2 and the easiest way ...

You actually prove my point with those incidents.

Submarines don't really participate in battles in RtW so can be excluded from your list.

HMS Glowworm got lucky twice, firstly that they were close enough to even consider ramming and secondly that KMS Hipper was too slow to recognise the attack ...

No and no.

Ramming was a dead practice by the 1890s.