Unlikely, they only appeared on the British Dido -class and the US Atlanta -class, and my understanding is that they weren't very successful, adding a little too much top-weight and affecting stability.

As a counterpoint, a bunch of mechanics already exist that allow us to do even dumber things ...

All the ship classification rules are hardcoded, so the only way to change them is by hex-editing RTW3.exe.

It's because you're using quad turrets. Early quads have a big penalty to both ROF and reliability.

184 is its estimated combat radius. Your bombers actually have enough fuel to hit targets quite a bit further away, but your pilots will usually spend up to an hour searching for targets. Sometimes they even do it over water!

Put it on manual control, then have it stay as close as possible to its original division. If the damage isn't too severe, it'll reattach within 10-20 turns.

Ships sometimes gain a point or two of "progressive" flooding when hit. Progressive flooding can't be reduced until all the normal flooding has stopped, and then has a very low chance of being reduced (somewhere in the ballpark of a 1/1000 chance per turn). Damage control training and a captain with ...

I'm running into a completely different problem: the check for detaching a ship only checks for flooding, superstructure damage and disabled turrets. Jammed rudders, dead captains and engine/uptake damage are completely ignored.

The special requirements for 11" cruisers are: displacement no greater than 12000 tons, no more than six main guns (in any arrangement), and no more than 7.5" of belt armor.

There's an official guide on the RTW1 forum that covers a lot of these.
The BKT fields are the list of blitzkrieg targets.
PAL is used for the "blow up an enemy ship in harbor" event chain, I think. It's purely cosmetic.
IFM controls the size of the starting fleet. The default is 10.

This is working as designed. The torpedo targeting logic uses slightly randomized estimates of the target's range, speed and course, and you're at the very edge of your engagement envelope. The solution in the second image is most likely the result of underestimating the target's speed and range, so ...

Exactly how much weight did you leave when you designed it? I'm looking at the savefile right now, and the event definitely did add 500 tons of dead weight.

I don't know what event you are referring to, but I leave 50 to several hundreds of tons in excess displacement depending on future plans ...

Exactly how much weight did you leave when you designed it? I'm looking at the savefile right now, and the event definitely did add 500 tons of dead weight.

Long-ranged ships mostly eliminate the crew quality penalty for operating in regions that you don't have possessions in, as long as you have available bases in at least one adjacent region. Extreme range supposedly lets you operate two regions away from your colonies, but I've only ever used it for ...

WilliamMiller wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:26 pm Was this when using the Steam or the Matrix release of the game (or both)?

I have the Steam version.

When I try to load the attached autosave, I get the following error:
"Can not find ship class file for ship: Euridice Class: Tersicore Side: 1
Filename: [install dir]\\Data\IDes\Tersicore.sdf"