So, I hate to be the guy that corrects historical content (I promise I do enjoy your videos), but catapults were actually widely used in this time period. Seaplane catapults were mounted on battleships and cruisers, and almost all aircraft carriers had catapults in the deck as well. That said, they were not used very often on carriers. The reason for that was that it was a quicker process to simply have the planes take off one after the other, as it is very time consuming to attach one then the other to the catapult, then launch them, then repeat. In other words, the planes of this time were capable of taking off without them, so they didn’t use them since not using them was faster. Anyway, there’s my brief lecture. I hope this was educational!

As I played ships today in tier 8 with 2 CVs and subs per team. I'm really loving this new more engaging direction from War Gaming. The community seems to be embracing the changes well. A new hybrid BB you say?? More planes? Yes please spot me from spawn! I'm having so much fun

In 1941 a partial conversion of the Lion class hulls to hybrid battle-carriers was proposed by rear admiral Bruce Fraser. After going over the preliminary designs the Director of Naval Gunnery gave his assessment; famously noting "The functions and requirements of of carriers and of surface gun platforms are entirely incompatible [...] the conceptions of these designs [...] is evidently the result of an unresolved contest between a conscious acceptance of aircraft and a subconscious desire for a 1914 Fleet [...] these abortions are the results of a psychological maladjustment." Drachinifel would expand on this in one of his Drydock videos saying the big problem for battle-carriers is that with a gun boat you want to put as many of the "explodey bits" (ammo, fuel, etc.) as deep behind protection as you can, but with a carrier you're kinda forced to put them high up in the superstructure/deck. You're left with a white elephant posing as a best of both worlds; a carrier that lacks the proper numbers of aircraft for it's size and a battleship that will catch fire as soon as you sneeze on it.

That's one hell of a place to mount your primary air search radar...right in the path of the stack gases, which are pretty corrosive IIRC. Not to mention the extra heat. And every time something on it breaks, you'd have to shut down the engineering plant to fix it, unless you want some smoked ET's for dinner.

Great vid SeaRaptor. Nebraska looks quite interesting.

Littorio class was 30kn and 35000t+ and so was Bismarck ... Richelieu class was 32kn even ..so...duh?

To be completely honest, this line split is almost a worse insult over even the introduction of the fattleships. USN doctrine never even considered fielding units like these. Bryan Szymanski talked about this with a USNI archivist when they dug up blueprints of ships similar to that and the design that became Kearsarge in-game. Had they been built, these ships would have been a colossal waste of money, manpower, and construction material without providing any real benefit. They really lack the capability to be proper battleships, and they are horrifically outclassed against a proper fleet carrier.

It's getting tough to log into the game these days. 2cv and 1 sub game so far today I played 3 games to this point). Sub had stealth and I couldn't locate him because of this, so I died. War Gaming needs to add to nations such as Canada to the game. This is (in my opinion)his point). War Gaming needs to add to nations such as Canada to the game. This is ( my opinion) their way of making more money at the expense of the game and player base..

I’m looking forward to these ships..

Hideous is the word for this thing. I got it from the battle pass. How on earth do you build a captain for this thing? Update: I figured out the captain build. I dismissed the captain, paid a little over 1300db to recover the xp from the 10pt captain that came with the ship, and used the recovered xp on the captain of another ship I consider worth playing. Now I'm just waiting for the ship event to end so I can sell this junk.

This looks like something would have existed, unlike the T9 and T10. The runway is at least decent length

Delaware n Louisiana were paper ship eaual to Montana class. Maine n Kentucky were others

21 min video and no gameplay?

Secondary Kearsarge is best Sarge

Me waiting to see if there'll be something for my state Michigan :(.

This probably pedantic but looks like a SoDak's stubby hull form

These ships are abominations. I need to bleach my eyes now. With all the ships they could have made and were real, they chose this line? Yuck.

Imagine; instead of this nonsense the lower tiers could be fixed so that people actually wanted to play them, and WG could fill them with real ships which actually existed. What next, a hybrid battle-sub?