Kriegsmarine stumped

[deathmonk]

2nd mission you have 12 turns to take a base alond way away! Could not get there in time, really

[loerinc]

You can place the ships very close to Narvik. Just start over and look app. 10-15 hexes to the west of Narvik. One cruiser and one destroyer should be enough. A troop transport is already there.

[mikeydredd]

Used the same a cruiser and a destroyer, watch out for enemy ships ;)

[deathmonk]

Thanks my dumb a$$ did not see those close starting points lol. I finished it.

[loerinc]

No worries, mate :) These things happen to me all the time :)

[Simulacra_53]

Narvik is a nice scenario, had a lot of fun and some scary moments.
Lets see what the next scenario brings.

Uboots are proving to be a challenge, with two boats only 5 attacks and 2 hits.

Side note, subs fire torpedoes as a broadside, which looks a bit silly...but no sure if that's an old or a new *bug/feature*.

[mikeydredd]

U-boats one, anyone done the task of damaging escorts? Tried loads of times and not managed it, not without losing 2 plus subs

[deathmonk]

Is that the one you need to sink 19 ships? If so I did no problem with it.
Torpedoes broadside sure look funny.

[mikeydredd]

yes death, that one can sink the merchants but not damage the escorts

[Ya Estherrko]

It's not too difficult to damage the escorts since they often ignore direct torpedo hit and press on instead of pinging you. Also, you can use that "bonus" condor to soften up one or two escorts on the southern convoy flank.

Finally, since you actually win as soon as you sink 19 transports (well, at the end of turn), it is fairly safe to launch mass-assault on escorts at that moment. Kind of dirty trick, but oh well :)

[Simulacra_53]

Narvik is fun, Wolfpack is easy*, but Surface Raiders I am not enjoying very much.
The scale is claustrophobic - don't know what the designers were thinking when they shrunk that large area to such a post stamp of a map. Naval guns in Scotland almost reach Norway and Iceland.

*at least the sub is a viable attack platform killing cargo ships with one torpedo attack.
Normally with a Cargo 10, it takes multiple attacks even from BB mainguns to sink.

[Simulacra_53]

On second thought - I started my first play in Norway and got inundated with torpedo bombers.

Looks like I missed the start points Route A, B and C. The choke points are not so bad if you start in the right place...so my bad.

So second play went much better, managed to sink 2 battleships and have my AA deal 10 damage minimal, but then all went sour. The RN had two more BB squadrons heading my way - 4 more BBs added to the two surviving BBs. Also there were many cruisers and DDs.

So in short, my 2x BB, 3x CA and 1x CL got swamped and were destroyed piece by piece, my veteran CA going last. Do recon a/c trigger AI movements?

Ok, that's the realistic challenge of fighting the *whole* RN with an inferior force.
Will have to figure out a key to win this one.

One thing I'd like to know.

The goals are confusing because the line says:

Sink 2 British Battleships 0/3

The objective is only met with 3 ships sunk, but which part is wrong - the text or the parameter?

[mikeydredd]

As all of the above show, this DLC has added some great stuff, and feels like a "new" game completely, keep forgetting main guns, that my subs have come to the surface, and the range of destroyers when attacking subs LOL

[mghiro]

Surface raiders feels difficult to achieve all secondary objective.
And above all, I can not find an aircraft carrier anywhere.
Does anyone know whereabouts are?

[Ya Estherrko]

CV (Ark Royal) crawling along very southern border of the map and it seems it spawns in the middle of it at some point.

I personally used wolfpack of subs (2x IX plus 1x new VII (not sure about the difference really)) to soften up BBs and then suddenly ran into CV, much to my surprise :)

[mikeydredd]

I just took it slow, allowing all my ships to engage, surface ships I am fine but not very good with my subs