Agree with the comments of cripples somehow firing torpedoes despite being blazing wrecks. I know the TT are often underwater so they maybe surviving but with zero visibility and almost certainly not viable FC comms left it is ridiculous!

There are, in RTW2, several collections of historical ships you can start with and indeed add into the game's Ides file for the AI (and player) to build from as the game progresses. (Though the AI will often do it's thing and tweak them a bit). I quite enjoy the ship designing bit myself though so I...

I have often felt that RTW legacy fleets are rather too advanced to be realistic, but I guess that's just a limitation of the system. Obviously not sure if this carries over yet but both RTW 1+2 lift the designs used by the game for player auto design and AI fleets from the "IDes" file. T...

Alan - Some very good questions, can tell that you are an aficionado of the period! You raise many good points! Most of the factors you mention are included in the game, but not always to the same extent that they affected ship design in real history, as that would seem 'upsetting' in game - the di...

Regarding armour, don’t take my word for it but watching some of the AARs, it looks to me that in RTW3 armour quality in 1890 is just a bit inferior to that in 1900. Looking at the guns penetration figures in RTW3, it seems in 1890 battleships only need 8in belts or so to stop anything at any range...

This early era offers lots of points of interest and features as much technological change as the early 1900s. Has the game's Research System be expanded to address these? Is the emergence of true Quick Firing 4 - 6 inch guns in 1892-96 covered? (This is a critical factor in why the Pre-dreadnought ...

A 13” gun strapped to a light cruiser hull. Lord, Thou may take thy servant, for I have seen everything. Fun fact… the Japanese IRL had a class of three protected cruisers mounting a single 13” gun each - on just over half the displacement of Garrison’s version here They’re amazingly derpy and I lo...

I have often felt that RTW legacy fleets are rather too advanced to be realistic, but I guess that's just a limitation of the system. That's a symptom of how the "Design Eras" work I think. When I was trying to get more historically appropriate fleets for my 1900 RTW2 games I found that t...

I had roughly the same thought... basically, a lot of these feel like garbage versions of 1900-built ships, not the ships a Navy would have in 1890. I was expecting weird turret configurations (Remember the Maine!!!), center-battery ironclads, lots of stuff with masts, and at best a lot of 19-knot ...

prophetinreverse wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 1:45 am Well I followed you over here, and so far I am not disappointed (at least in the quality of the writing, but a battleship armed with 11” -2 guns is extremely disappointing!)

The 1890 start is going to require (or at least should require) some adjustment to expectations?

This one was auto-build... I think the only time the game allows a custom fleet is with a 1900 start. That said, the 1900 start in RTW2 (and RTW1, I think) showed your entire fleet with a commissioning date of 1899. I also alway use a game-generated fleet for anything smaller than Very Large fleet ...

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Can't wait to get my teeth into this, the latest iteration, of this wonderful game!

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