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I am a Royal Navy destroyer owner so I am much more on the A/S side although I do
not want submarines to be reduced so that my prey becomes no challenge. I own 4
Royal Navy destroyers and do not use anything else much, my battle cruiser, light
cruiser, or carrier.
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Now I actually think in order to balance the A/S the game just needs something to
cause more non-new players to play destroyers. Not needing to pay to repair your
ship is not enough to tempt most players into using destroyers but experience does
seem to be so maybe just a change in the experience gaining in destroyers.
In the current player base the new ones that are still stuck using destroyers are too
inexperienced to know how to combat the submarines, I mean for goodness sake
they fire they're main guns at submerged ones like stupid capital ships. But non-new
players just screw the destroyers once they get to the cruisers and never look back.
Which leaves us with just the determined destroyer captains like me to gaurd the
fleets. Now these 1 or 2 per game determined destroyers are not enough to protect
your own capital ships effectively from the five submarines that can oppose you so
we need more. Due to this lack the submarines seem to be conducting the majority
in A/S which should not be, this is a destroyers job!
Destroyers are meant to be expendable and submarines are meant to be fragile. So
I think the current damage that a submarines and destroyers can do to each other
is suitable. One rules the close up the other rules the distance.
Just as with Jellicoe as First Sea Lord in the Great War the problem as he saw and I
see now is that there are just too few destroyers to go around!
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Although were I to choose something other than just the need to get more
destroyers I would like these;
1 - Depth Charges and Submarine Torpedoes to have they're radius of effect
shrunken so that a submarines and destroyers can still obliterate each other but
require direct or very close hits to do so. Also remove the dud effect that occurs
upon torpedoes past theyre safety range.
2 - DO NOT GIVE ASDIC/SONAR TO OTHER SHIP TYPES THAN CAN BE GIVEN NOW!
Doing so will remove the new role that destroyers have to play and will remove
them into almost complete uselessness again.
3 - An non-premium hedgehog that destroyers can actually use upon they're
secondary mounts. Maybe just one with two warheads, as long as they can be
placed onto secondary mounts with enough ammunition. Current non-premium
hedgehogs can barely fit onto Royal Navy destroyers with two binds.
I must say regarding your suggestion to make asdic/sonar be scrambled whilst
taking fire, should you do this to surface ships the same should apply to submarines.
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