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ORIGINAL: Skyland

What about Hospital ships reducing, for example, malaria effect in base when docked/disbanded and that cost some PPs to both sides if sunk ?[/align]

How do you calibrate this?

I don't know
Just an idea...

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

ORIGINAL: Skyland

Nice idea, but is there any historical basis for this? Did any hospital ships spend time on the front lines?

Wasn't there an Allied Hospital Ship searchlighted by Japanese cruisers in Milne Bay sometime in 1942. Fortunately they held their fire.

ORIGINAL: Reg

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

ORIGINAL: Skyland

Nice idea, but is there any historical basis for this? Did any hospital ships spend time on the front lines?

Wasn't there an Allied Hospital Ship searchlighted by Japanese cruisers in Milne Bay sometime in 1942. Fortunately they held their fire.

I don't know. I never looked up Hospital Ship war records. Did they stay in front line areas or were they making pickups and returning to a rear area?

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

ORIGINAL: Reg

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

Nice idea, but is there any historical basis for this? Did any hospital ships spend time on the front lines?

Wasn't there an Allied Hospital Ship searchlighted by Japanese cruisers in Milne Bay sometime in 1942. Fortunately they held their fire.

I don't know. I never looked up Hospital Ship war records. Did they stay in front line areas or were they making pickups and returning to a rear area?

IIRC, it was a pickup and they got out of there fast after their unexpected encounter....

Here we go, found the reference. The Australian Hospital Ship Manunda entered Milne Bay on the night of 6-7 September (1942) to embark casualties. The ship was illuminated by Japanese warships but was not fired upon.

Australia's Merchant Navy: Manunda in New Guinea

Looks like this was a regular run. Have a look at the link. It's well written and a good read.....

ORIGINAL: Reg

ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

ORIGINAL: Reg



Wasn't there an Allied Hospital Ship searchlighted by Japanese cruisers in Milne Bay sometime in 1942. Fortunately they held their fire.

I don't know. I never looked up Hospital Ship war records. Did they stay in front line areas or were they making pickups and returning to a rear area?

IIRC, it was a pickup and they got out of there fast after their unexpected encounter....

Here we go, found the reference. The Australian Hospital Ship Manunda entered Milne Bay on the night of 6-7 September (1942) to embark casualties. The ship was illuminated by Japanese warships but was not fired upon.

Australia's Merchant Navy: Manunda in New Guinea

Looks like this was a regular run. Have a look at the link. It's well written and a good read.....

Thanks for the link Reg. Interesting reading.

Will the ability to operate PT boat TFs in "deep ocean" be changed in AE?

Will the ability to group up to 25 PTs in the same TF be changed in AE?

Is there really a Synch problem associated with strafing of PT TFs in the current version of WitP, and if there is, will it be addressed in AE?

Thanks -

I did ask this before but I think it got missed, or i missed the reply.

Has the resizing of the RN carrier airgroups been altered, could the airgoups just be set as default to the increased fighter compliment when they arrive, as they tend to resize within a month anyway. This allow would modding of the airgroups by people wanting to represent the increase in size on RN carrier compliments during the war.

Or will the airgroups re-size like the USN groups?

Regards

Neil.

Will you have a way to stand down multiple number of ships to expedite repairs in stead of standing down each ship individually?

ORIGINAL: jamesm

Will you have a way to stand down multiple number of ships to expedite repairs in stead of standing down each ship individually?

No

Is there any place where we can view allies' naval OOB?

It's not done yet, and why would they post the OOB in advance?

Why wouldn't they? My interest is in determining whether or not the AGCs that got left out of WitP will make it into the AE.

Well, maybe they've got better things to do, such as... oh, I don't know... ACTUALLY FINISHING THE OOB!!!

Catch 22 I suppose. If it's not finished it's not ready for general comment. If it's finished there's no room for general comment. Bueno.

Hey I read and digested as much of this as I could, so sorry if a few or all of these questions were answered.

1) Will a ship have a kill list? I'd love to see who sunk what/when (assuming intelligence knows).
2) Any changes to TF management?

Is there a change list hanging around anyplace without having to pour through the small book of posts you guys have made?

ORIGINAL: The Gnome
Hey I read and digested as much of this as I could, so sorry if a few or all of these questions were answered.
1) Will a ship have a kill list? I'd love to see who sunk what/when (assuming intelligence knows).
2) Any changes to TF management?
3) Is there a change list hanging around anyplace without having to pour through the small book of posts you guys have made?

1) No. Come'on, who ya kiddin, and does it matter ??
2) Yes, major improvements, and major changes. I think you are gonna have to wait for the manual, because the changes are substantial.
3) No change list hanging around, you just gotta read, review the posts, and think about what was said [;)]

Very sorry, but we can't give looks under the hood. All we can do is tell ya is to 'buckle up,' cause the horsepower increase is major.

Are the ship to ship and reaction to other ships being looked at, when I asked this before I did not underrstand the responces?

Will damage control capability be more service specific? Ie..right now Allied damage control applies to every ship type in every service, including civilian merchants. Should really just apply to warships I'd say. Same goes for Japan, perhaps a different capability for warships and merchants.

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

Will damage control capability be more service specific? Ie..right now Allied damage control applies to every ship type in every service, including civilian merchants. Should really just apply to warships I'd say. Same goes for Japan, perhaps a different capability for warships and merchants.

You can probably handle this adequately by taking into account crew and captain ratings.