How to deal with British fleet?

[crispy131313]

Another alternative solution would be the detection of a high concentration of the French Fleet in the Med. and perhaps giving the Italians the option to delay war entry due to the suspected ambush of their navy.

[BillRunacre]

Hi

With the engine as it currently is, the only way we could make France lose more National Morale when its ships are sunk would be to increase the MPP cost of these units, and I don't think that's a satisfactory solution.

I have been thinking of what can be done to reduce the potential for the French fleet being used in a sacrificial mode, and it seems to me that changing their starting strengths, dispositions and arrival times could have some impact.

For instance, at the moment all French ships start on the map at full strength, meaning they are ready to go into combat right from day one.

But if some of them arrived slightly later, and/or at slightly lower strength, then organising a mission would take longer and the French might then want to consider investing some MPPs into it to make it more effective.

Bill

[OxfordGuy3]

ORIGINAL: Bill Runacre

Hi

With the engine as it currently is, the only way we could make France lose more National Morale when its ships are sunk would be to increase the MPP cost of these units, and I don't think that's a satisfactory solution.

I have been thinking of what can be done to reduce the potential for the French fleet being used in a sacrificial mode, and it seems to me that changing their starting strengths, dispositions and arrival times could have some impact.

For instance, at the moment all French ships start on the map at full strength, meaning they are ready to go into combat right from day one.

But if some of them arrived slightly later, and/or at slightly lower strength, then organising a mission would take longer and the French might then want to consider investing some MPPs into it to make it more effective.

I think if the French naval units were not full strength on arrival, then the only ones any Allied player are likley to spend MPPs on are the DDs (maybe CLs), for anti-sub operations. Not saying that's necessarily a bad thing, though!

[BillRunacre]

The key being that any French capital ships sent into combat at less than full strength will be easier to defeat.

I'm not thinking of all of their navy, but I did some reading and found that of the named vessels that are on the map at the beginning, quite a number of them underwent some sort of repairs or refitting, even in a limited way, in the first months of the war.

Anyway, that's where my thoughts are at the moment on something I could implement. It's only a moderate change but then the idea is only to moderate the use of the French navy. [;)]

[Capitaine]

Would it be difficult to code a "range-from-port" limit for French naval units? Something to give them freedom to act within their area but not range far abroad to suicide themselves on cowering enemy units.