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Passenger Ships
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:58 pm
by JWE
Ok, so Joe Wilkerson gnawed on my behind about the passenger liners, and since we do have the Aquitania (withdraws on 3/3/42), why not the Queens (they withdray by 4/12/42). Well, why not.
Effectively, they are only in-game for a month or two, but they might be fun and interesting to have around for the opening couple of months. Since they are xAPs, and quite large, they can only go between SFO, Seattle, LA, Sydney, Durban, places like that.
Anybody stupid enough to attempt to use them for ops will get what they deserve.
[edit] yeah, ok, I kept her funnels in the Cunnard house colors. I happen to like it and I happen to do the art. You don't like it - sue me - and make them gray.
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:37 pm
by bradfordkay
Oh no! The Aquitania has to be withdrawn??? Dang... I've gotten used to using her as the mainstay in my TFs transferring whole divisions....
BTW: I like the red stacks. Now why not a black hull and white superstructure? [:'(]
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:47 pm
by Shark7
So basically you're saying I only have a window of 5 months to line them up in a periscopes sights?
I'm guessing given the load time and distance you can use them, maybe 1 or 2 trips to Australia before they withdraw?
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:08 pm
by Yamato hugger
ORIGINAL: Shark7
So basically you're saying I only have a window of 5 months to line them up in a periscopes sights?
I'm guessing given the load time and distance you can use them, maybe 1 or 2 trips to Australia before they withdraw?
Well maybe 1/3 of 1 trip [:D]
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:24 pm
by JWE
Pretty much as Yammy says. One was in town for 10 weeks, another for 7 weeks, another for 3 weeks.
happy hunting.
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:09 pm
by String
ORIGINAL: JWE
Pretty much as Yammy says. One was in town for 10 weeks, another for 7 weeks, another for 3 weeks.
happy hunting.
What happens if they are not in
port when the withdrawal date hits?
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:37 pm
by witpqs
Have you ever seen the movie The Final Countdown?
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:55 pm
by Yamato hugger
ORIGINAL: witpqs
Have you ever seen the movie The Final Countdown?
[:D]
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:20 pm
by 33Vyper
oh god.....
im an old liner lover...some of the finest vessels to sail the 7 seas....
JWE would love to see you do a Brittanic in her hospital colors from WW1 or the Olympic in her dazzle paint...yes I know it ain't AE.....but still there were some beauties
Cheers
John
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:20 am
by Yamato hugger
Ok, so thats 1 request that you should stop working on AE and paint stuff. Anyone else?
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:23 am
by bobogoboom
ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger
Ok, so thats 1 request that you should stop working on AE and paint stuff. Anyone else?
well since AE is a figment of T.s imagination i'll second that.[:'(]
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:06 am
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: Yamato hugger
Ok, so thats 1 request that you should stop working on AE and paint stuff. Anyone else?
Well I could've used that kind of help last summer painting the deck.
Now you ask?
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:00 am
by Flying Tiger
ORIGINAL: witpqs
Have you ever seen the movie The Final Countdown?
So will we be seeing a scenario including USS Enterprise with a couple squadrons of F-14, A-6, etc?? Would be a nasty little surprise for all the JFBs!!!
I remember SSG doing something like that years ago with the old Carriers at War. Was fun the first time through...
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:20 am
by Dili
The Queen should have a bigger chance to cut a CL in half...
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:17 am
by 51st Highland Div
The problem with the Queens is the massive amount of fuel they use and soak up once back in harbour again...[&:] (RHS scenarios)..
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:30 am
by m10bob
Did the Wakefield make the cut? It always bothered me its' sister(West Point) made vanilla, and not this one.
http://www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/ships_uss_wakefield.htm
At one time, the Wakefield (AKA SS Manhattan) had the ocean speed record for a passenger liner.
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:41 am
by JWE
Ok, from the top;
Bradfordkay, yeah, why not, so here she is. Ya’ll can choose. My personal pile has ‘everybody’ in house colors. After the game releases I’ll schlep them out.
33Vyper, yes, can do that, but after the game releases, ok? Still have a few things left to work on. No dazzle though, but you can probably get TomLabel to do an overlay.
51st HD, ships in AE use the actual bunkerage and the actual fuel/mile specs, or if unavailable, the specific consumption
rates vs HP of the engine plants used in the ships which define the class.
M10bob, so far as the big ones go, we gots West Point, Wakefield, Mount Vernon, President Coolidge, Hermitage, Monticello, Matsonia, Lurline, Monterey, Mariposa. The Brits contribute Aquitania, Arundel Castle, Empress of Scotland, Empress of Australia, Empress of Asia, Duchess of Bedford, Moreton Bay, Esperance Bay, Largs Bay (and of course, the Queens, now). Some have to withdraw fairly soon, but many hang around. Then there’s tons of medium and small passenger ships from British India, Grace Lines, Union Steamship, Straits Steamship, KPM, and on, and on.
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:52 pm
by Yamato hugger
ORIGINAL: Flying Tiger
ORIGINAL: witpqs
Have you ever seen the movie The Final Countdown?
So will we be seeing a scenario including USS Enterprise with a couple squadrons of F-14, A-6, etc?? Would be a nasty little surprise for all the JFBs!!!
I remember SSG doing something like that years ago with the old Carriers at War. Was fun the first time through...
It wasnt the Enterprise. It was the Nimitz.
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:02 pm
by bradfordkay
Thanks, John... that is gorgeous!
RE: Passenger Ships
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:54 pm
by m10bob
ORIGINAL: JWE
Ok, from the top;
Bradfordkay, yeah, why not, so here she is. Ya’ll can choose. My personal pile has ‘everybody’ in house colors. After the game releases I’ll schlep them out.
33Vyper, yes, can do that, but after the game releases, ok? Still have a few things left to work on. No dazzle though, but you can probably get TomLabel to do an overlay.
51st HD, ships in AE use the actual bunkerage and the actual fuel/mile specs, or if unavailable, the specific consumption
rates vs HP of the engine plants used in the ships which define the class.
M10bob, so far as the big ones go, we gots West Point, Wakefield, Mount Vernon, President Coolidge, Hermitage, Monticello, Matsonia, Lurline, Monterey, Mariposa. The Brits contribute Aquitania, Arundel Castle, Empress of Scotland, Empress of Australia, Empress of Asia, Duchess of Bedford, Moreton Bay, Esperance Bay, Largs Bay (and of course, the Queens, now). Some have to withdraw fairly soon, but many hang around. Then there’s tons of medium and small passenger ships from British India, Grace Lines, Union Steamship, Straits Steamship, KPM, and on, and on.
Excellent sir!..
Any moron risking them to beach heads will surely get what he deserves.