WW2 Unit Graphics

[Tanelorn]

Fiji class (also called the Crown Colony or just Colony class) a more compact version of the preceding Town-class (Southampton) cruisers. 11 built from 1938 to 1943. The Ceylon served with the Peruvian navy as the Bolognese until 1985!

Of these 11, Ceylon Uganda and Newfoundland were built with one rear turret 6 inch gun. Those of Bermuda, Jamaica, Mauritius and Kenya were also removed to make way for additional light AA weapons.
The Minotaur class (also known as the Swiftsure class after the lead ship was sold to Canada in 1945 and renamed the Ontario) were a group of light cruisers built during WW2 (1944-45). They were designed as a modified version of the Fiji class incorporating these same modifications. Only theree were completed during WW2, three more were built post war as the modified Tiger/ Blake class.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Avro Manchester was the unfortunate direct predecessor to the famous Lancaster. Cursed by its horrendous Vulture engine, 200 operated with RAF bomber command from mid 1941 for about a year. Its Mk III version swapped the two Vultures for four Rolls Royce Merlins and became the Lancaster. Nearly identical to the Lancaster, it served as a trainer for that type for another year before being retired. To my knowledge, there is no Liverpool bomber. Or Leeds.

 

[Patine]

Uganda

Naming a cruiser after a landlocked protectorate seems a bit - odd...

 

[Broken_Erika]

Naming a cruiser after a landlocked protectorate seems a bit - odd...

Japan Named ships after mountains.

 

[Patine]

Japan Named ships after mountains.

True. A few modern South Korean ones are also named such, apparently.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

Naming a cruiser after a landlocked protectorate seems a bit - odd...

 

[Patine]

And then you get a coup made on you by a so-called, "military ally," and replaced with a psychopathic young militia leader...

 

[Patine]

Japan Named ships after mountains.

True. A few modern South Korean ones are also named such, apparently.

In fact, the North Korean Navy would almost certainly name a ship after Mount Paektu if they had a ship worthy of the name...

 

[CurtSibling]

I remember when this thread was for WW2 graphics.

 

[Patine]

I remember when this thread was for WW2 graphics.

Just the segue of ship names after inland entitiess. It likely won't diverge further along this vector. All actual North and South Korean unit graphics are on Modern Units and Tanelonrn's ancilliary threads.

 

[techumseh]

I remember when this thread was for WW2 graphics.

Indeed.

 

[CurtSibling]

Let's get things back on track. Not sure if I posted the final roster of units for "Overlords Max", but here we are!

 

[techumseh]

How are you going to handle the flying boats?

 

[Patine]

How are you going to handle the flying boats?

Is this directed myself, as I have several in EoTRS?

 

[Patine]

How are you going to handle the flying boats?

Is this directed myself, as I have several in EoTRS?

My own plan is to given them helicopter qualities as air units, but to try (I have NOT tested this, extensively, yet - it's theory) givem the Naval Superiority role in hopes the AI focuses their activities heavily at sea.

 

[CurtSibling]

How are you going to handle the flying boats?

They are long range aircraft with the sub flag -

 

[Patine]

They are long range aircraft with the sub flag -

A different way of working than I had in mind for EotRS, as I said above, but also a very interesting one, as well.

 

[techumseh]

I used the same idea for torpedo bombers in Sea Lion. you should be aware that the AI will use them, but they end up stuck outside enemy ports containing ships, since they can't attack. They just park there until you get around to shooting them down. Work great for the human player though.

 

[CurtSibling]

I used the same idea for torpedo bombers in Sea Lion. you should be aware that the AI will use them, but they end up stuck outside enemy ports containing ships, since they can't attack. They just park there until you get around to shooting them down. Work great for the human player though.

I'm hoping that Lua can provide some kind of work around. Playtests will reveal all.

 

[Tanelorn]

The Polikarpov I-180 was a 1938 Soviet fighter prototype derived from the I-16 that outperformed Yakovlev's Yak-1 prototype and was faster than the Bf 109. However, it was plagued with problems, resulting in the death of the star Soviet test pilot Valery Chkalov. Also, Nikolai Polikarpov -not a party member and a very religious type mind you- talked back to Stalin (!) here on occasion.
In 1939, he was ordered to make a trip to Nazi Germany. In his absence, his plant director and chief engineer, along with design engineer Mikhail Gurevich put forth a proposal for a new fighter, the Polikarpov I-200, renamed the Mig 1, and received approval to create a new Design Bureau under the leadership of Artem Mikoyan, whose brother Anastas Mikoyan was a senior politician. On his return, Polikarpov found that his Bureau no longer existed, with his engineers at the new MiG bureau.
The even better Polikarpov I-185 was subsequently developed in 1940. It was flown with three engines but all of them were either insufficiently developed for service use or their full production was reserved for other fighters already in production. The drawings for this engine installation was passed to Lavochkin where they proved very useful in designing the La-5 using the M-82 engine. The I-185 program (which had since been relocated to Siberia) was cancelled on 27 January 1943. Nine years after his death, in 1953, his plant was given over to the Sukhoi bureau.