Arctic Subs

[Thalassicus]

1) The AI doesn't send Battleships around in stacks. Any analysis based on stacks will have to be limited to (theoretically) some MP games, and assumes the defending human is sufficiently wary and has bothered to build "a stack" of battleships.

That's a very good point, I hadn't thought of that. Still, it seems there isn't much reason to build large stacks of destroyers, if subs can be used for counterattack, and battleships are ideal for carrier escort (with one destroyer included to spot subs). Not much reason to bring destroyers along for escort when carriers are the limiting factor on speed.

 

[lawren65]

Subs vs Battlesips; Battleships vs Subs.....exclusive use of one of the other wont be better than combined arms


Use a sub to soften up the Battleship and then send your Battleship in to finish it off. Your Battleship should emerge lightly damaged and ready for the next round.

Personnaly I'd rather use bombers to soften up the target first, but I can see the advantage of sub when far away from home

 

[Wodan]

Subs vs Battlesips; Battleships vs Subs.....exclusive use of one of the other wont be better than combined arms

Use a sub to soften up the Battleship and then send your Battleship in to finish it off. Your Battleship should emerge lightly damaged and ready for the next round.

Personnaly I'd rather use bombers to soften up the target first, but I can see the advantage of sub when far away from home

All that using a Battleship instead of the 2nd and 3rd sub would get you is speed.... it won't take 20+ turns to whittle down an opposing fleet, it'll take only 10+. Which is an advantage, surely. While all your subs are healing, the opponent is burning your fish nets and stuff.

However, you have to pay a cost for that, in hammers. Plus, during peacetime, you have less of a distributed sea presence (you can't spread your wolfpack out as a "detection net").

So, both good and bad. As most things I imagine.

As for air power, right now I'm thinking Air Techs period are a total waste of time. If given them for free, I'm still not sure I'd use Bombers on sea targets... aren't bombers -50% at sea?

Wodan