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Were the Strasbourg shell enough powerfull to bore the Hood shielding???

I don't know what Churchill could have say. May be "it is the war, no victory without sacrifice" (and it is true)

Regarding Reinhunbung, it is very simple, instead of Hood, another BB...

Dunkerque's main battery was not as efficient as the designers intended, and the dispersion was excessive. If the Germans can outshoot the French, they have a reasonable hope for victory. Yes of curse, but it was when Dunkerque was firing at a target 40 Km away. At Mers el kébir, the Strasbourg fir...

Antonio Bonomi wrote:
1) French fleet goes intact on the hands of the Germans.

Hi Antonio

- French fleet had already radar.

- What are the unit captured?


Next. It is a very difficult scenario for RN.
Despite the fighting spirit, she has not enough unit to fight two front with so much ennemies.

Regarding the funnel, i think (but not 100% sure), that it was "destroyed in small parts" when the ship went down (but after she was under the surface). Like Danelov said, this part of the ships was usually in light metal. We saw many case where AP en HE shell cross this part without explo...

Yesterday when i was looking at my models of the KM Tirpitz and RM Pola, and thinking about the scenario " Spain allies with Axis, takes Gibraltar, seals off Mediter ", i wondered what would have been the result of the cooperation between the Regia marina surface unit and the kriegsmarine ...

Hi Gary. It seems to be "four hits" exactly. On 25 December 1940, Berwick formed apart of the escort to convoy WS.5a, a troop convoy to the Middle East, but became under attack from the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper off the Canaries. Berwick engaged the attacker but got the worse of ...

Hi all! In 1776, after the proclamation of US independence, the war against England restart. Chief of division, De Grasse took part, under the order of d'Orvilliers at the battle d'Ouessant (23-27 july 1778). In 1779, he join the comte d'Estaing's fleet in the Antilla, contribute to take Grenada, th...

Hi Miro, nice to hear from you again. You´ve been lost for months now. The British won Trafalgar because the Franco-Spanish fleet was demoralized, many spanish captains had not received their salaries for months, the French Admiral an C in C of the fleet, Villeneuve, was a real stupid fellow, the c...

Trafalgar or Jutland or Midway? I vote Trafalgar for her importance in the fate of the world. If the Franco Spanich fleet had defeat her opponent, England fall and her empire with her. You have to erase with a rubb the world map and to rebuilt it. No doubt that Napoleon will fall one day, but the de...

And lasagna... :!: :ok: :lol: this quote from Napoleon: "It´s better to have Italy as an enemy than as an ally: as an enemy you can conquer her with a legion; as an ally you need five legions to defend her..." No i didn't know it. To be honnest, the Emperor say a lot and a lot of things, ...

My point is that Italy (or should I say Mussolini) entered the war and did what? Nothing! If Italy had properly prepared for war then on June 11 1940 they would have seized Malta, Aden and invaded Egypt and Kenya. But nothing of the sort happened, instead the Germans had to bale the Italians out. T...

About the French Sub Fleet: are you sure those are SSBN or SSN? Currently: Five Nuclear Balistic missile submarine 3 from "Le Triomphant" class, one more is currently under contrustion 2 from "Redoutable" class, going to be decomissioned soon 6 Nuclear Attack Submarine class &qu...

Hi ostriker! :cool: No, I didn´t mean that the ships would be used volutarily by the French to help the Germans but, more or less, captured by the Germans in order to use them against the British. Ok mistake for me :silenced: , point for you :wink: But i meant that it was difficult to the german to...

Hi Karl I hope to make a mistake but when i read your text i understand that if the RN didn't shelled the "Force de Raid", these ship fell in German Hands. Two years later these ships were scuttled by their own crew. Not a great action, its sure, but it showed that never these ships could ...

Spain has a 3 1/2 million man veteran army. You said "veteran army". Im not sure of that :think: . Civil war against people with a rifle, and hunt some emirs in marocco is a bit different of making a new total war. Spain hasn't modern weapons. She has soldier, but nothing to provide to th...