O.K....what is a CAPITOL war ship? | Forums

[Dingzoom]

I have just been playing the Single mission "Scapa Flow" scenario.
after what seemed like hours and hours I finely spot a large destroyer.

The last two times on this scenario I haven't seen anything so I figured that this was what I was suppose to shoot.
Well, I got him but it wasn't pretty...

My first two torps went right under him just like I intended...however, they didn't explode....so much for magnetic.

I finely got him with my last torp at 350 m by shooting through the periscope. that was kinda wild and frantic....point da boat & shoot...
I think I set it to 21/2 meters & that got him...
I am all shot to pieces, but alive!

so I point the boat for Da fatherland & hit escape...then it tells me my mission was incomplete...
So, Just what constitutes a "Capitol Ship"?

That bugger looked "HUGE" to me through the periscope...

[Kaiser_W]

In SH3, anything bigger than a destroyer.

[JU88]

A C2 is bigger than a destroyer

Any warship bigger than a destroyer.

[Maj_Solo]

Maybe HMS London is a capitol ship I don't know ... (I am in that mode now )

[Paul_K]

By convention, a capital ship is a battleship, fleet aircraft carrier, or battlecruiser.

[Dingzoom]

Oh well, guess I gotta do it again then...that water around Scapa Flow is very shallow..no where to go to get away from destroyers... If you have to sink a capitol ship then I'm sure destroyers will be near by..lol..

I'm sure that that area was mined also & without any maps to give a guy a hint as to where they could be then I guess it is just hit & miss.

[Messervy]

Originally posted by Maj_Solo:
Maybe HMS London is a capitol ship I don't know ... (I am in that mode now )

It was a heavy cruiser - so nope!
USS Washington BB56 perhaps.

[Kaleun1961]

Capital ships [spelled with an "a" not an "o"] are large and prestigious targets, almost exclusively battleships and aircraft carriers. They represent an enormous investment in money, resources and manpower to build and operate. Sinking one is a real kick in the crotch to the losing country.

[Maj_Solo]

Originally posted by Messervy:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Maj_Solo:
Maybe HMS London is a capitol ship I don't know ... (I am in that mode now )

It was a heavy cruiser - so nope!
USS Washington BB56 perhaps. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

You are much more alert than I am .....

[doug.d]

Originally posted by Kaleun1961:
Capital ships [spelled with an "a" not an "o"] are large and prestigious targets, almost exclusively battleships and aircraft carriers. They represent an enormous investment in money, resources and manpower to build and operate. Sinking one is a real kick in the crotch to the losing country.

Agreed, except carriers weren't included, they were exclusively battleships and battlecruisers. Carriers were 'associated' with the term to get them included in the Washington Treaty limitations and it stuck thereafter.

The term originated from the ongoing squabble between the Royal Navy who wanted lots more battleships around the 1900's to stay ahead of Germany/Japan/France etc.'s build ups (while the Wright brothers were still fixing bicycles), and the British Treasury who didn't want to pay for so many. First Sea Lord Fisher's answer was to "invent" the battlecruiser class (this dumb idea based on his brainfart "speed is armour", was forevermore known as Fisher's folly), to get more "Dreadnought" ships with the same amount of money. The heavy influence of "capital" investment and compromise squabbles surrounding the RN's battleship fleet resulted in their being referred to as "capital ships".

HMS Dreadnought herself was heavily influenced by this squabble e.g. the switch to turbines to get the same speed without increasing the size, and therefore cost, of making her bigger to make space for more powerful reciprocating steam engines.