Santiago de Cuba 1898

[martinworsey]

Most significant naval battle of the Spanish American war.

[BurningApple3]

That was a good scenario.The armament of the "Cristobal Colon" was very well reproduced. However, the year listed in the scenario selection description is 1998, not the original 1898.

[martinworsey]

Thank you for the feedback.

Try the attached.

The year appears correct in the Scenario data but was wrong in the description.

I am looking at a few options for scenarios that should hopefully try out different ship technologies in the early period.

For the ships, I baselined them as constructed in 1898 and this gives them Krupp armour; I then converted non-Krupp (Harvey Nickel-Steel e.t.c.) to the equivalent thickness of Krupp. In this period, there are examples of ships using a mix of Harvey and Steel, so I have tried to model the actual armour of each individual ship.

[boogabooga]

Very well done scenario and ship design.

I can't get the historical result as the Americans. The Spanish fleet makes a break to the west at the start of the scenario and my battleships can't catch up. I can send one cruiser to slow them down, and sometimes I can damage one of their cruisers enough to slow it down enough to be finished off by the battle fleet. But most of their fleet always gets away. Any ideas?