WesWorld

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So? We have camels!

Are you suggesting that if you load camels on the ship, it will make the ship lighter and thus sit higher in the water.

Unless somebody else makes an offer better than cost+5%, both ships are going to our wily vulpine friend.

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Originally posted by Rooijen10

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So? We have camels!

Are you suggesting that if you load camels on the ship, it will make the ship lighter and thus sit higher in the water.

Nooo, the camels are to take it over the MOUNTAINS, silly!

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Originally posted by Fyrwulf
Unless somebody else makes an offer better than cost+5%, both ships are going to our wily vulpine friend.

How much damage do they have?

Rio is rated at 35% and Recife at 56% (IIRC.)

IIRC Rio is not floating right now. So cost would be 35%+6% for Rio and 56%+6% for Recife with a buyer footing the bill to raise her?

Well, 6% if you want to buy her, yes. And what's the cost of raising her? I can't seem to find that in the rules.

All five entries over the last year have been updated to account for the rules. Further, I've gone to the trouble of pre-making Brazil's building cycle up to the end of the year. I think I'll also do '37.

Me wonders that Brazils does not spend any tonnage on repairs. Don´t they repair their ships?

Well, of course there aren´t that many damaged as the entries in the encyclopedia secion has been limited thus not allowing much story writing.

I also wonder how the Brazilian navy will be capable to do their job without all the small units necessary for fleet service. THose small units that also take the biggest punches in a war: escorts, minesweeper, launches, armed trawlers, sloops....

As you´ve expressed the Brazilians hope to win naval battles with their large DDs and fast CLs. Me wonders how they hope to do so once their harbours are mined with the ships trapped inside.

Just a thought of course, hardly more than a "what if"...

Actually the MIB never had that many ships in commission before this building program and it was well under way before the war started. They've simply elected to not suspend construction for old units damaged or newer units with minor damage. While that still leaves the Rios, those have been for all intents and purposes written off.

The minor units are going to be replaced when excess tonnage is available, but (for example) the lone collier wasn't worth squat before it was lost and building a replacement for a regional war isn't a high priority. There are still gunboats and such for local patrol duties, which is what I'm more concerned about than anything.