What the RN needs is .....

[Guest Mike]

The RN had 60 submarines + 9 building at he start of WW2 - more than the Germans and more modern at that time.

I think 2 sub units would go a long way to correcting the perceived weakness of the RN.

I've not played the allied long enough yet - but does the RN get all 5 of the KG-IV battleships that were building?

There is also the matter of the other 15 BB's and BC's that the RN had at the start of the war, and the 7 carriers, with 5 new fleet carriers building - are any of these in the queue?

They had 66 cruisers in 1939 too.

Now many of these forces were dispersed overseas, but not THAT many. A script removing a carrier & a couple of other capital ships from teh game when Japan attacks the US would probably be quite a good historical move too......

Perhaps the RN should simply be bought up to strength??

[John DiFool the 2nd]

I'm not sure what the scale Hubert is operating at

here. Yes a number of ships are "missing" from the

RN order of battle, which makes one think that many

of them are subsumed into the other fleet counters

(i.e. 2 BBs for one BB counter), but then the Germans

have both the Tirpitz AND Bismarck (but no

pocket battleships). Without knowing what kind of

scale exactly we have here (is a BB counter one BB,

2 CA, 3 CL, and 6 DD?), it's kind of hard to balance

things in a historical way...

[Guest Mike]

I just had the RN come out to fightthe KM off Belgium - the RN has ceased to exist, the KM took some damage but didn't lose a single ship or u-boat. The LW made 3 attacks in hte battle.

Seems a little unlikely really.

Given the ease with which naval combat occurs in SC the RN REALLY needs to be at full strength so it can be a proper deterent!

[Fartknock3r]

I'd love to see that, but it wont stop sealion from happening. I like the challenge, you accually have to strategize with your navy, and cooperate with your partners navies, Early war-France and Late War-US. I usually Keep my RN safe until the US comes into the war and with the naval tech, blow the german navy to bits and pieces.

[Guest Mike]

Add in a couple of RN subs to the mix too...- 1 in the Med, 1 in the Nth sea - can allied subs interdict the Norwegian convoys??

[TaoJah]

It's not that the Royal Navy is weak, you can destroy the German navy with it.

The problem is that the Roayl Navy is totally useless : it doesn't stop Sealion from happening and it can only hit enemy units occasionally, so what's the use of it anyway ?

[Guest Mike]

Yes you can destroy the German navy with it, but the German navy can destroy it too, which is nonsense.