RE: Very improbable FoW sunk CV
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 11:25 am
Ships that are damaged often sink days later from progressive flooding or fires.
Intelligence gets hints of these ship losses from radio intercepts and makes an estimate whether they mean the ship sank or not. Thanks to FOW the ship name and even the fact of sinking or not can be misinterpreted. Such intelligence estimates are put on the sunk ships list without any mention in Combat or Sigint reports. I consider them very unreliable and ignore them until I get something at the bottom of the Ops report saying "The sinking of (ship *****) is confirmed.
Intelligence gets hints of these ship losses from radio intercepts and makes an estimate whether they mean the ship sank or not. Thanks to FOW the ship name and even the fact of sinking or not can be misinterpreted. Such intelligence estimates are put on the sunk ships list without any mention in Combat or Sigint reports. I consider them very unreliable and ignore them until I get something at the bottom of the Ops report saying "The sinking of (ship *****) is confirmed.