Enemy bringing 2 whole battle-lines of battleships into cruiser battles?

[ThatZenoGuy]

They aren't even battle CRUISERs, they're just entire fleets of battleships which apparently the battle-maker is fair to send against 2 light cruisers...

[Silamon]

Battleships over 27 knots can enter cruiser battles.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Originally posted by Silamon:

Battleships over 27 knots can enter cruiser battles.

Mate these 1910's battleships aren't breaking 25 knots let alone 27.

[Alpha2518]

There's a possibility these are "Support forces." If you look at the OOB in battles you will notice some of these have "Support Forces" controlled by an AI. Sometimes in cruiser battles these will be battleships which is nice if they are your battleships in a cruiser battle. Unfortunately you seem to have run into the enemies support forces which they can also have in their OOB and which can include battleships.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Originally posted by Alpha2518:

There's a possibility these are "Support forces." If you look at the OOB in battles you will notice some of these have "Support Forces" controlled by an AI. Sometimes in cruiser battles these will be battleships which is nice if they are your battleships in a cruiser battle. Unfortunately you seem to have run into the enemies support forces which they can also have in their OOB and which can include battleships.

Its a little annoying that I have more BB's but they never show up...

[GerthQuake]

Originally posted by ThatZenoGuy:

Its a little annoying that I have more BB's but they never show up...

I had this same experience when playing RTW1 and 2.

The key for me was understanding that you don't have to accept every battle - and reading the battle description ahead of time is very useful. If you don't accept the first battle in a turn - there's a chance that more will fire in the same turn - giving you a chance to take your pick between a random combination of 'cruiser engagement', 'small battle' or 'Fleet engagement's.

[ThatZenoGuy]

>Medium convoy raid
>Dozen cruisers, destroyers, battlecruisers, etc nearby
>I get 1 (one) DD
>Enemy gets 2 CL

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Silamon:

Battleships over 27 knots can enter cruiser battles.

I'm not sure why, but it looks like I can assign my 20-knot dreadnoughts to battlecruiser divisions in 1923. So the bar might be lower than expected!

[Mr Tarno]

Originally posted by ThatZenoGuy:

>Medium convoy raid
>Dozen cruisers, destroyers, battlecruisers, etc nearby
>I get 1 (one) DD
>Enemy gets 2 CL

I don't own RTW3 yet, but the battle in RTW series has always been like this, the amount of ship you and the enemy have in an area doesn't correspond to the number of ships you control in battle, this is to simulate the situation where admiral doesn't have the pleasure to choose which ship he can bring to the battle. a tips from me if you think get in a situation like that just press start and just run away, its better to lose a minor battle than having to lose a ship for me personally

[ulzgoroth]

Maybe it's just my luck so far, but I do feel like RTW3 doesn't like having me play with capital ships. I think my game, now in 1925, hasn't let me use dreadnoughts or battlecruisers even once. (There were a couple of battles where I got pre-dreadnoughts).

Though there probably have been some battles where I would have gotten to if the AI hadn't been unwilling to play.

Originally posted by gatau lagi dah:

Originally posted by ThatZenoGuy:

>Medium convoy raid
>Dozen cruisers, destroyers, battlecruisers, etc nearby
>I get 1 (one) DD
>Enemy gets 2 CL

I don't own RTW3 yet, but the battle in RTW series has always been like this, the amount of ship you and the enemy have in an area doesn't correspond to the number of ships you control in battle, this is to simulate the situation where admiral doesn't have the pleasure to choose which ship he can bring to the battle. a tips from me if you think get in a situation like that just press start and just run away, its better to lose a minor battle than having to lose a ship for me personally

There are definitely battles were a 0-0 draw is a good outcome.

[iklo]

This needs some changes imo too. In a war against japan as the us in the 1890s I had 4 15k battleships parked in northeast asia but my cruiser force was rather lacking and because I had already sunk their battleships, the game kept generating cruiser battles where I had 1-2 ships and often the best thing for me to do was to disengage right away to end the scenario. This kept happening for like 10 months before I got an event to finish the war.