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For my part, I find it surprising that so much Great War-era stuff remains in active service - and is even still, in some cases, being upgraded.
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Rarely can a twenty-year-old warship, however refitted, function as well as modern construction.
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It is the same with the cult of giganticism for capital ships and large cruisers - it ties up too much tonnage in a few hulls.
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This argument is turning ridiculous.
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I am saying the US is weaker relatively speaking than the UK, France, Russia, Germany, Atlantis, Japan and the other Great Powers where you see a parity that I do not.
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The US is quite powerful in its own backyard, beyond that its ability to project power outside of the Atlantic, Carribbean and Pacific seaboards is quite limited and it can only be at parity with the available naval forces in one of those theatres.
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That is the official war plan for the USN. Follows War Plan Orange from OTL which was an attack through the Mandates to relieve the Philippines.
Of course it is Bruce.
TheCanadian, I think your assumptions are incorrect. In Wesworld, while the United States isn't the superpower it was IOTL, it remains a Great Power. Much of its fleet is old, but so are many others. I consider it not the preminent economic power, but likely first among equals. It has a reasonable chance of victory in a foreign war, and at worst would fight to a draw.
Yes, I was trolling. The other stuff that is. :P
I haven't taken leave of my senses.
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Perhaps to make things clearer, the US was considered a sleeping giant for much of the early 20th century. It was considered a Great Power by the 1900s, and it had the potential to become what it eventually did, a superpower. Here, that potential is not there....for whatever reason even though all the pieces are. Which is something I have been trying to grapple with and failing.
Some of that potential stayed in Europe, and other parts went off to Canada, Australia, South Africa, South America, etc.
Remember there was no real coherent version of WW1 for a long time, beyond, "Germany lost and Versaiilles". It was just "Let's build ships" and "Let's have a treaty so we have some constraints/context and nobody goes completely whackadoodle right from the start".
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Here, the USN is essentially at parity with the IJN once the ALTFLT arrives.
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Also, unlike OTL I cannot build a second fleet once the peacetime fleet is destroyed.
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The navy vs navy thing, war plan all that was nonsense.
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The real question I don't have an answer to is where did the US's lost potential go?
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In the real world, the US invested money in its navy from the mid 1930s on, and lots of money from 1939 forward. The mechanics of our game don't permit throwing money at our navies - it requires several steps of investment, and would have required putting the resources into factory construction from the get-go. Your predecessors chose not to go that route - but it would be the only one which would yield the ability to build anything close to a Second World War scale US Navy.
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