All these APs...

[fbastos]

... several of them were large liners and passenger ships, in the 30,000 ton range (or more)...

... costing hundreds of millions of dollars, with a crew of a few couple hundred (or more)...

... all treated very carefully by their countries during the war; not many were lost (except for Japan)...

Yet we just bunch them together with third-rate AKs and give them grunt work.

I just took one of them Large AP at random... Moreton Bay, in the picture below. You can see that this is a big ship.

Something's wrong here; at least, their victory values should be much much greater.

F.

PS: Yeah, I know, tonnage of these civillian ships is completely different than of military ships (the Queen Mary once got a couple thousand tons more just by putting a roof on some area), but hey, these are still big ships.

[Tankerace]

Umm a passenger liner, at least at that time didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Do you know how much the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) Cost without guns? 26 million bucks. That's right, a lot less than a modern F-16. $26,000,000. Of course, that was in 1920's money, but still.

[pasternakski]

Ain't no ship military or civilian in WWII that cost anything near "hundreds of millions of dollars." VPs are relative to worth in the war effort and difficulty to replace, not raw translation into cost to build.

[fbastos]

I'm talking today's money... hard to keep perspective if you take WW2 money, with a Sherman costing like $50,000 or so (or perhaps less, I wouldn't be surprised).

I think a medium-sized liner goes for say $100 million today, and a large one for $300 million or so.

F.

[Oznoyng]

I am turning into a dirty old man. I find myself wanting Platoonist to animate fbastos' avatar to have the blonde disrobe...

[fbastos]

Make it two.. [:D]

F.

[Tankerace]

Ugg.... 3 [:D]

[Ron Saueracker]

Would be cool to have some of the larger liners unique from the masses. Sounds like an editor project. Ships can carry too much to me now though, so not having them could be seen as a compromise. Like what small AK can carry 48 B-17s or 72 P-40s?

[Tankerace]

Course you cry if the same AK eats a Long Lance.... sudden;y the Japanese CO gets to paint lots of airplanes on his boat's conning tower.

[Bosun]

You could use them as fast transports with their amazing speed. Oh yeah, we were talking about the Queen Mary not Fabasto's avatar

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: fbastos

Make it two.. [:D]

F.

Speaking of avatars. You can get rid of the "Patch Now" smilie, FB. Or are you keeping it around until 1.4? [:)]

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

Course you cry if the same AK eats a Long Lance.... sudden;y the Japanese CO gets to paint lots of airplanes on his boat's conning tower.

[:D]I never do put all my eggs in one basket but hey!

[LargeSlowTarget]

How about a large liner full of disrobed blondes?[:D]

[fbastos]

How about a large liner full of disrobed blondes?

All of them are brunettes, LST!! [;)]

F.

[steveh11Matrix]

If we're not careful we might have to make this forum 18+ rated... [;)]

What we need are HOSPITAL SHIPS!
[:D]
Steve.

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: fbastos

All of them are brunettes, LST!! [;)]

F.

Even so - away boarding party! [:D]

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: fbastos

How about a large liner full of disrobed blondes?

All of them are brunettes, LST!! [;)]

F.

Yep. Gotta admit, I'm a brunette man. Chestnut, flash of red,mmmmmm

[Nikademus]

Victory value is determined by the ship's Durability rating

[Buck Beach]

I know they make different flavors of ice cream for people with different tastes. For my part, I like the canoe full of those lovlies that you have on your posts. That's what I call eye candy.

[strawbuk]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

Victory value is determined by the ship's Durability rating

Give up Nik this thread has goooooonne...