Playing as Germany, it is November 1939 and I have followed a historical path.
As usual my imports of tungsten, which were from Sweden, but I substituted Russia, hoping the tungsten would arrive by rail rather than sea. Of course it is coming by sea and being intercepted by two squadrons of French submarines. I have naval and tactical bombers hunting these with some success. I am reluctant to send out light cruisers and destroyers to protect my convoys as I suspect there is also a French fleet lurking out there.
How realistic is this ?
Access to the Baltic is via Danish, Norwegian and Swedish territorial waters and they are neutrals at this stage.
Ships and submarines need re-supply and submarines carry a limited amount of torpedoes. They can't just sit out in the Baltic for weeks, they need to go to a port, not a neutral port, to re-supply.
So DEVs if you're doing a naval re-work please consider that ships need to be 'cycled' whether that's German u-boats going hunting in the Atlantic from La-Rochelle, or US submarines attacking Japanese supply / trade networks in the Asia-Pacific coastal region.
As usual my imports of tungsten, which were from Sweden, but I substituted Russia, hoping the tungsten would arrive by rail rather than sea. Of course it is coming by sea and being intercepted by two squadrons of French submarines. I have naval and tactical bombers hunting these with some success. I am reluctant to send out light cruisers and destroyers to protect my convoys as I suspect there is also a French fleet lurking out there.
How realistic is this ?
Access to the Baltic is via Danish, Norwegian and Swedish territorial waters and they are neutrals at this stage.
Ships and submarines need re-supply and submarines carry a limited amount of torpedoes. They can't just sit out in the Baltic for weeks, they need to go to a port, not a neutral port, to re-supply.
So DEVs if you're doing a naval re-work please consider that ships need to be 'cycled' whether that's German u-boats going hunting in the Atlantic from La-Rochelle, or US submarines attacking Japanese supply / trade networks in the Asia-Pacific coastal region.
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