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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Okay, next clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....

ORIGINAL: ItBurns

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Okay, next clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....

I'm at work so can't check my counters but I remember that the Japanese have a cruiser in the contruction pool by the name of Izuma(?). This cruiser was a WWI ship that I believe was being used as a training ship but concievably could have been reffited for active duty.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Clue no.5. Last clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Clue no.5. Last clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Clue no.5. Last clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.

It seems it's one of the Monitors. Roberts? WiF has a Roberts II.

ORIGINAL: Orm

I have a new question for you guys to ponder on as well as the previous questions.

Which warship am I?
1) I have a counter in MWIF.
2) During WWII a well known authour dedicated a book to my officers and crew.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Clue no.5. Last clue.

Which warship am I?

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.

It seems it's one of the Monitors. Roberts? WiF has a Roberts II.

Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: paulderynck



It seems it's one of the Monitors. Roberts? WiF has a Roberts II.

Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

Warspite1

Well, I did say it was one for the grognards. The answer was HMS Vindictive. She began life during the First World War as a Hawkins-class cruiser with the name Cavendish (all ships of the class were named after Elizabethan naval heroes). However, she was completed as an aircraft carrier (albeit without a conventional flush deck), before returning to cruiser status during the twenties. Thereafter she spent time as a training ship and then a fleet repair ship.

In this latter configuration, she was deployed off Norway for that ill-fated operation and her six 4-inch HA guns were much used as the Royal Navy were constantly harried by the Luftwaffe.

USS Wyoming and USS Langley are available to the US player (assuming the US player wants to spend the build points to re-convert those ships to BB/CV - neither of which happened in real life). ADG could have done the same for HMS Vindictive.

ORIGINAL: michaelbaldur

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1


Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

Warspite1

Well, I did say it was one for the grognards. The answer was HMS Vindictive. She began life during the First World War as a Hawkins-class cruiser with the name Cavendish (all ships of the class were named after Elizabethan naval heroes). However, she was completed as an aircraft carrier (albeit without a conventional flush deck), before returning to cruiser status during the twenties. Thereafter she spent time as a training ship and then a fleet repair ship.

In this latter configuration, she was deployed off Norway for that ill-fated operation and her six 4-inch HA guns were much used as the Royal Navy were constantly harried by the Luftwaffe.

USS Wyoming and USS Langley are available to the US player (assuming the US player wants to spend the build points to re-convert those ships to BB/CV - neither of which happened in real life). ADG could have done the same for HMS Vindictive.

I know there are no more unit changes to the game right now .. but maybe this should be added .. as she is clearly missing

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: paulderynck



It seems it's one of the Monitors. Roberts? WiF has a Roberts II.

Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

Warspite1

Well, I did say it was one for the grognards. The answer was HMS Vindictive. She began life during the First World War as a Hawkins-class cruiser with the name Cavendish (all ships of the class were named after Elizabethan naval heroes). However, she was completed as an aircraft carrier (albeit without a conventional flush deck), before returning to cruiser status during the twenties. Thereafter she spent time as a training ship and then a fleet repair ship.

In this latter configuration, she was deployed off Norway for that ill-fated operation and her six 4-inch HA guns were much used as the Royal Navy were constantly harried by the Luftwaffe.

USS Wyoming and USS Langley are available to the US player (assuming the US player wants to spend the build points to re-convert those ships to BB/CV - neither of which happened in real life). ADG could have done the same for HMS Vindictive.

ORIGINAL: Extraneous

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: warspite1


Warspite1

I'm not a monitor. I'm feeling generous so here is one final absolute giveaway clue.

1. I do not have a counter in WIF or any of its add ons, however, you could easily make the case for including one (I am bigger than a destroyer).
2. If ADG did give me a counter, I would be likely to start 1939 scenarios in the construction pool; for the same reason as USS Wyoming. Alternatively I could start on map - but would have suitably reduced factors.....
3. During my life I changed not only my name (once) but also my ship type (a number of times).
4. I am a Royal Navy vessel.
5. I was used extensively off Narvik, Norway April - June 1940, after which I was largely used in backwater theatres. I survived the war, unlike one of my three original sisters (all of whom have a WIF Counter) - a fourth ship of my original class was lost during the inter-war years.
6. I was designed as a cruiser, but unlike my four sisters, was not completed as originally designed. The reason that "treaty" or "heavy" cruiser specification was set at the level it was at the Washington Treaty 1922, was due to the size of my sisters.

Warspite1

Well, I did say it was one for the grognards. The answer was HMS Vindictive. She began life during the First World War as a Hawkins-class cruiser with the name Cavendish (all ships of the class were named after Elizabethan naval heroes). However, she was completed as an aircraft carrier (albeit without a conventional flush deck), before returning to cruiser status during the twenties. Thereafter she spent time as a training ship and then a fleet repair ship.

In this latter configuration, she was deployed off Norway for that ill-fated operation and her six 4-inch HA guns were much used as the Royal Navy were constantly harried by the Luftwaffe.

USS Wyoming and USS Langley are available to the US player (assuming the US player wants to spend the build points to re-convert those ships to BB/CV - neither of which happened in real life). ADG could have done the same for HMS Vindictive.

In Norway Fleet Repair Ship HMS Vindictive was used as a troopship. So it is in the game in abstract.

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

MMS = Magnetic Mine Sweeper ?

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What is a “MMS”?

What is a “Fast Patrol Boat”?


Extra credit: Name the British “Convoy Escort Vessel” with the Japanese name that was in Operation Torch.