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ORIGINAL: pad152

OOB - Errors

Campaign 15

Aircraft upgrades

Unit
1169 - 246 Squadron FG (Buffalo I) wants to upgrade to Datokas?

1166 – 273 Squadron TB (Viderbeest IV) wants to upgrade to Hurricane II?

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

We know...should have been fixed before release. Same with SWPAC HQ with Mac as head honcho (should arrive in April I think). Could use some sub HQs as well like COMSUBPAC etc...Lockwood, Christie, Fife etc need jobs so they don't get used as combat Admirals...beauracrats should not get sea commands.

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

The work in the allied Naval OOB is flat-out excellent. Especially impressive is the detail in the merchant shipping. I've gone through much of it and found only minor items. Have not started the major warships yet - the volume is daunting and what I've glanced at seemed good.

The ability to specify ship upgrade paths is fantastic and there are lots of empty slots to do it in. Duplicating some classes for differing upgrade paths seems very attractive - like multiple Flush Deck copies for the upgraded DD, DE Conversion and APD Conversion.

Here is an accumulation of what I've found so far. Much of this has already been posted but I gathered it all together.


Flush Deck DDs Waters, Schley and Ward defined as DD (3682, 3684, 3685) and duplicated as APD (4093, 4095, 4100). An excellent place for the DD -> APD upgrade class.

Old British Submarines Porpoise (4691), Clyde (4692), Rorqual (4693) were fairly large. If their own class is not worth while they should be "T" class instead of "S".

Misspellings:
(3661) DD Aylwin is misspelled Alwin (this same error was in UV and must be in an on-line source)
(4268) AV Norton Sound is misspelled Norten Sound

The River class is defined and split into British built (1366) and Australian built (1367) - very nice. However, I can not find any ships assigned to either class. There were 8 or 10 Australian, with 6 completed in 1943-1945 and the rest post-war. Don't know about the British


Missing Ships:

Indian Sloops:
Indus (Grimsby Class - in WITP as Swan class)
Hindustan, Jumna, Sutlej, Narbada, Godavari (Bittern class and variants, class not defined WIPT)

Indian Minesweepers:
Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Punjab (Bangor)

Old US AKs: Regulus (AK-14), Sirius (AK-15), Spica (AK-16), Vega (AK-17)

AK Gold Star (actually an General Auxiliary - AG - but that has a different meaning in WITP) - attached to Asiatic Fleet and used as cargo ship.

Large Dutch Gunboat Soemba

Dutch Naval Minelayer William van der Zaan.

APDs Tattnall (APD-19) and Roper (APD-20)

Lapwing Class AVPs Avocet, Teal, Swan (Heron is there but as an AVD)

Large Coast Guard Cutter Taney (at Pearl with Reliance and Tiger)

Ex-Cutter AGCs Bibb, Ingham, Spencer

ex-Barnegat AGC Biscayne (AVP-11 -> AGC 18)

Large Transport Orizaba (AP-24)

US Army Transport Etolin. And, if you really wanted to get picky - USAT President Harrison

Large British Transport Sarpedon

Large Dutch Cargo Ship Abbekerk

Norwegian Tanker Norden

Australian Naval Oiler Karumba

The very large US APs Wakefield (AP-21) and Mount Vernon (AP-22). West Point (AP-23) is there but as a L-AP (US). I would vote for a new class.

Aircraft transports - Kittyhawk, Hammondsport, Lakehurst and the British Athene. Not sure if WITP could handle them but their net effect might be simulated by a CVE with no aviation ordance or by a very large AK. Just wouldn't want them cluttering up the CVE lists.

Philippine Army Offshore Patrol PT boats Q-111, Q-112, Q-113, Q-114, Q-115 (Thornycroft Type) at Manila

British MTB Squadron 2 at Hong Kong: MTB 7,8,9,10,11,12 (British Power Boat) and 26, 27 (Thornycroft)

All the British Tenders.


First impressions (not yet researched)

A lot of small dutch ships, especially the KPM ships, are missing (some are there). Ships did valuable work in NEI and Australia/New Guinea.

All of the old British "C" class are shown in their CLAA conversions. A couple were still in their original CL configuration when the war began.

Can't seem to find the late war Japanese landing ships of the "ES" and "Type 1" types. The "Type 101/103" series might be worthwhile as well.

Also the Japanese Army Landing ships, Shinshu Maru, Akitsu Maru class, etc.


The search in the new editor is always from the beginning (UV one was from current point onward). Makes it hard to find duplicates.

Don

P.S. Got to stop for a while - too much WITP causes eyestrain, stiff neck, and a sitter's problem known as f'tass.

ORIGINAL: Richrd

In database Yamato has 3 main gun turrets fwd, 3 main gun turrets aft. Likewise the 6 in guns have too many turrets. The King George V has ten 14 inch rifles in ten turrets, all forward.

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ORIGINAL: Kid

Word from Developers is that this would be a major piece of work affecting play balance and a host of other things. I've been told to keep it on the list but as a low priority. Please feel free to keep the discussion going so if we decide to take the plunge everything is worked out.

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

Thanks for the RN corrections Timjot. The squadron mixes for these CVs were very unique and in constant flux. I can't see Albacores on Illustrious ever. I do agree that the Sea Gladiators should go as Hermes was down to 12 Swordfish at this time. I think replacing Sea Gladiators with Sea Hurricanes in dbase might be the way to go.