Letterstime-Ein Geleitzug: Homeward Bound? Part LIII

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borys68		#61	[-]
Posts: 2425 (24-Feb-2008 06:05:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ahoj! "Meanwhile the 15" shells will at that angle explode immediately on impact do to a problem with the shell. Makes for a spectacular fireball if it does but wont really damage anything." Fires. Spalling could cause fires below the armoured deck too. Borys
Big Dave		#62	[-]
Posts: 1109 (24-Feb-2008 06:17:15) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My read is that at 16,000 yards the 280s are iffy but the 305s go through the 1.75" armor. Necki does not have the power to slug it out with DeR. He has to slash and pull back, looking for a weakling to drop back. As someone else pointed out earlier, DeR can logically win by simply staying compact, getting back to port and waiting for construction. Indeed that is the logical approach, but that fails to take into account the British press and popular opinion. If BCs are shelling towns and the Dread Pirate Borys (where is Borys anyway?) is eating his way through the coast, DeR will not have the luxury of staying in port or even staying compact and concentrated.
borys68		#63	[-]
Posts: 2426 (24-Feb-2008 11:24:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ahoj! Unless I missed something, I presume that the S31 has rejoined the main body, I presume. Or, even more likely - due to lack of w/t - and loaded down by POWs and its own wounded, the defensless ship is making its way singly across the Nordsee towards Emden or W'haven. And towards a hot meal. Any meal ... Borys
Dave Bender	Better off to keep his distance and keep them moving.	#64	[-]
Posts: 6211 (24-Feb-2008 13:45:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That is what I think also. However if Necki intended to do that he would remain at least 25,000 yards away unless an easy target presented itself. Necki is attempting to close the distance with the RN BBs. He is not even trying to cover his approach with smoke. Which means that he intends to slug it out. Not my strategy but it is his.
Dave Bender	Where are the German Airships?	#65	[-]
Posts: 6212 (24-Feb-2008 14:07:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Visability is currently perfect. Why isn't the HSF using Zeppelins for scouting, in accordance with Admiral Pohl's 4 June 1915 policy letter? http://www.gwpda.org/naval/igncompf.htm Admiral Pohl articulated his new policies regarding the Zeppelins in a 4 June 1915 letter, which elevated the Airship Division to a permanent arm of the Fleet. Furthermore, this six-point letter outlined new uses for the Zeppelins: for work against mine fields, hunting enemy submarines, and as replacements for light and fast scouting cruisers. It also raised the potential for cooperation between airships and submarines, and called for more airship sheds and radio direction-finding equipment. The letter additionally outlined the need for 18 operational Naval airships, in order to have 12 available for Fleet use at any given time.
W D Martin		#66	[-]
Posts: 572 (24-Feb-2008 14:41:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	"Why isn't the HSF using Zeppelins for scouting," Maybe Jim doesnt' want to use them since they only make a soft, squishy "twfftp" when you shoot one instead of a loud metallic"whang". Then again, maybe he forgot about them....hehehehehe later, Bill Your Text Signature ...
Siegmund aus dem Engelnwald		#67	[-]
Posts: 379 (24-Feb-2008 20:35:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The may not whang, but they ARE filled with hydrogen, and under the right circumstances can put on quite an impressive show when shot.
CJvR		#68	[-]
Posts: 2096 (24-Feb-2008 21:56:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Dave Bender wrote: Visability is currently perfect. Why isn't the HSF using Zeppelins for scouting, in accordance with Admiral Pohl's 4 June 1915 policy letter? In this scenario because the weather last night was horrible and even if the winds have died down enough to get the Zeps airborn they are not jet fast, about 80-100 kph, so it will take some time for them to get to any useful scouting position.
jim 1		#69	[-]
Posts: 8896 (25-Feb-2008 04:47:02) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hrolf Hakonson - Of course you're still afloat! OTOH, you'd be afloat no matter what, unless you'd been taken aboard a u-ie of one navy or another! After all I had to write around to keep you alive in that battle, do you think I'd let you drown! Heck, if your ride sank under you, you'd likely SWIM back safely. ;-)
jim 1		#70	[-]
Posts: 8897 (25-Feb-2008 04:51:48) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Codymig29 - The "what if" of how RN SDNs would fare under KM 15" shell hits is a huge one. The jj contains guesses, but I have no empirical data beyond serious extrapolation. I would love to have relevant data, so much so that I'd make Johnny5 look indifferent.
jim 1		#71	[-]
Posts: 8898 (25-Feb-2008 04:53:40) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	CJvR - Part of the reason the last Ks did not appear is that they're having the post-J ranging mods done while they're already there in the yards.
jim 1		#72	[-]
Posts: 8899 (25-Feb-2008 04:56:52) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Big Dave - Keep in mind that DeR would maneuver as needed to interpose between KM and cripples, and that should N split his forces, one or both will have too small a screen should RN elan be put in 30-knot play. Smoke can always be used by the RN to delay hits on cripples, making certain actions quite risky.
jim 1		#73	[-]
Posts: 8900 (25-Feb-2008 05:03:23) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Sieg - Yes, sending vdT along may have been a strategic error by Letters. He made the decision that adding all the force he could to the N Force would give N a better chance to achieve significant results. N needed enough ships to have options and a chance to fight off RN light forces. Also, he sent N off before he met with Ballin and even before he was able to fully debrief Hanzik. Still, as it is, Moltke has not yet been seen, except by Fox ....
jim 1		#74	[-]
Posts: 8901 (25-Feb-2008 05:07:32) Generally Obscure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	borys - You're still hungry for sight of a friendly ship, which you would define as any that would give you food or had a well-filled larder you could take in a boarding action. ;-)
borys68		#75	[-]
Posts: 2428 (25-Feb-2008 08:06:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ahoj! So please, don't make me MAD by sending any sausage shaped flying objects my way! Borys
CJvR		#76	[-]
Posts: 2097 (25-Feb-2008 08:32:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	jim 1 wrote: CJvR - Part of the reason the last Ks did not appear is that they're having the post-J ranging mods done while they're already there in the yards. Hmmm.... The board seems to have a dissagreement with my browser. Nice mod to have but rather pointless during the night fight and two ships with short range guns would be marginally better then two ships in the yards. Last Edited By: CJvR 25-Feb-2008 10:30:27. Edited 2 times.
Siegmund aus dem Engelnwald		#77	[-]
Posts: 380 (25-Feb-2008 09:57:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Why are you afraid of zeppelins, borys?
borys68		#78	[-]
Posts: 2429 (25-Feb-2008 12:43:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ahoj! Their sight makes me dreamy ... blutwurst, with cracklings' garnishing on the sides ... hungry ... MAD! Borys
Hrolf Hakonson		#79	[-]
Posts: 377 (25-Feb-2008 13:19:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Eh, the arrival of the liners and the BCs will be reported soon by British agents anyway, so I don't think the Baron made much of an error. Even if the British agents are COMPLETELY asleep, it won't be that long until the first story appears in the American press.
Dave Bender	Do you think I'd let you drown!	#80	[-]
Posts: 6214 (25-Feb-2008 15:53:43) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Can the undead drown? I've never heard of a vampire being killed that way.

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