brucesim2003

No, you don't want to go by his designs. Generally they are terrible. Tries to do too much on a given displacement.

Well, I didn't imply (or mean to) in the OP that the AI is cheating. But the high speed is far too effective at knocking down accuracy.

Found the problem. Instead of display name, I was putting in email. As a point of security, having the display name as half the login is dangerous. That's 1/2 the login detail right there, on public display. This really should be changed.

Tried a different browser (chrome) just now. Same result.

Just had to reset yet again. Copy/paste isn't working.

Did as you suggested. Then logged out. restarted browser. Tried to log in by pasting the PW from the file on my desktop to the box. Wrong PW. Reset for the 3rd time today

Will do. I had to reset the PW again to reply to this thread.

The forum keeps telling me I have the wrong password. Now I know 100% (literally 100%, not 99.9%) that I have the right password. It isn't an issue with case sensitivity. Can't use the saved password. Can't manually enter the password. EVERY time I need to re-log in, I have to reset the password. Any help here?

Yes, it dropped to 9" guns. All 16 of them. And has almost 17" of (I assume) belt armour. And maximum bulkheads. And he has 15% chance to hit vs my 2%. Speed is not THAT good at protecting a ship. The Lion class (27-29kts, depending on sources) got absolutely hammered at Jutland. The large light cruisers (32kts) got riddled at 2nd Helgoland. The gunnery modifier is ridiculous.

If the CL is getting quite close, you bet I'll fire my main guns on it. "Damn the torpedoes' is what get said after they've done their work on your hull.

The AI is STILL building ships that have far too much emphasis on speed. Tied in with the target speed gunnery modifier, it results in an almost unhitable ship. This is destroying my interest in playing the game. The 2 hits I did get were early in the game before the AI was up to speed. Now my hit chance is less than 2%, with 8x 13" mk 3. The AI is hitting me with virtually every broadside. As the battle of Jutland proved, speed is NOT armour. This is a 1912 battle. How does a 23k ton ship get 32 knots in 1912? If you can stop the AI from doing this, put a hard cap (increasing with year) on the speed of ships. better yet, rethink the engine algorithms, because that sort of speed was simply not possible for a battleship in 1912. The biggest problem though is the gunnery modifier. It needs adjusting, with some alacrity.

Stop picking on the brain-damaged lemmings. It's not nice.

This is what I meant by buildable. Yes, it is physically possible to build. But just because it can, doesn't mean you should. The fact that it seems to outfight the type of ship that WAS built means something isn't right about how the game treats it. It seems that number of guns is given a bit too much emphasis.

Oh I realise that ship is buildable in game. But irl? Not so much. What sort of armour did you give it? Is the hit percentage per gun or per broadside?

So I re-did the battle. Of course the AI ship is different. Somewhat more plausible, but not really viable imo. Funny enough I couldn't quite make my ship the exact same - it came out 430 tons overweight. Had to thin the turret tops and reduce the range - I tend to build my ships 'campaign ready', so I don't give the ships shortest range. Stopping the bad habits from forming. Anyway, here is mine And the AI Note with less hit chance, he is hitting me 2-1.

Sorry, no SS. That ship just ate my semi-Bayern for lunch.

So, a custom battle, 1917 Germany vs Russia. I build a ship 35k tons. 8x 14" guns, 14x 6" casemates, 21 knots. It is built to take a hammering, though it only has standard bulkheads. Best towers available. The AI design is 27900 tons. 14x 13", sundry 5" and 4", 32 knots. Armour is slightly thicker than mine, though of lower quality. Many bulkheads. What I want to know, is how the heck does the AI build such a design on such a limited displacement? 7k tons lighter, and a full 11 knots faster? It took him time, but he did get up to that speed. My armour seems to be completely ineffective. I can't even hit him. Literally. My main guns didn't hit him once. Secondaries him him twice, one being a ricochet.

This bug has been there a while. It really needs to be prioritised to get a fix.

AI station keeping is vastly improved. Keep up the good work.

Can't say I blame you. 😀

Now if you could post this on the RTW2 forums, that would be great. The dev has a great show of listening to players, unless their ideas are directly opposed to their pre-conceived ideas. Then you are ignored. I tried (and failed miserably) to convince them that RTW2 (and 1) crossing the t accuracy modifier was misplaced.

I've had a battleship with the heaviest barbette armour, 15" belt, and 18" turret face lose a barbette to a 5" shell.

Is there any fix for the ladder firing bug? There is only one target, so switching targets isn't an option. Cheers Bruce

A lot of the issues with the RtW campaign I raised before RtW1 was release. I argued for some sort of squadron control, based on the 'mixed ships' problem. The designer gave repeated assurances even back then that it would never happen. Yet, years later, here we are. 25 knot light cruisers screening/scouting for 28 knot battlecruisers. "It'll never happen" he said.

The AI sure likes to build glass cannon battlecruisers. Just defended a convoy against a 36k ton ship with 21 11" guns (ALL on the centreline) and 37 knots. The problem was, she had armour under 5" maximum, and you could see by the way she was behaving that the ship was EXTREMELY bow heavy. My cruisers with 9x 9" auto loading guns just shredded it. I opened fire at 12k range, and by the time she opened fire at about 7.5k range, the hits were coming in at least 3-4 hits per broadside from both my cruisers. As the range closed, it just got worse from the battlecruisers perspective. It also seemed the ship must have had insufficient funnels, because she never got remotely close to 37 knots.