Australian Premium Aircraft Carrier

[DeathReaper13]

I think that in tradition to of tanks such as the type 59 in WOT that the Australian aircraft carrier the HMAS Sydney be added in the game after release. It was a british ship that was purchased by the RAN in 1947 and commisioned in 1948. So it fits perfectly with the timeline.

 

P.S its a WW2 light carrier so it could only carry limited amounts of planes compared to normal carriers.

http://en.wikipedia....MAS_Sydney_(R17)

[Crag_r]

Great idea, although might be part of the British tree...

[Ariecho]

DeathReaper13, on 25 August 2012 - 11:40 PM, said:

I think that in tradition to of tanks such as the type 59 in WOT that the Australian aircraft carrier the HMAS Sydney be added in the game after release. It was a british ship that was purchased by the RAN in 1947 and commisioned in 1948. So it fits perfectly with the timeline.

P.S its a WW2 light carrier so it could only carry limited amounts of planes compared to normal carriers.
http://en.wikipedia....MAS_Sydney_(R17)
300px-HMAS_Sydney_(R17)_(AWM_301423).jpg

Good idea, but unlike WoT, I believe they said that ships had to be "home-made".

[Skygunner]

Come now, this is just a majestic class carrier.  British all the way, have some pride in what Aussie intuition made.

 

 

 

HMAS Albatross was a seaplane tender home built.  Pretty slow, only 9 aircraft but that's ok from what we learned in the QnA, 10 is about the size of 1 flight.   So it'd be a low tier (maybe premium?) tender.   The reason I say tender is because also in the QnA we discovered that ships will be able to use aircraft even if they can't land them, also because tenders (among other things) are possible to enter the game, just not on release.  

 

Now mind you, the Albatross was requisitioned by England for WWII, but...thats a future us problem.  Here's the wiki page on it for now,  I'll get you more information on it later if you so desire.

 

http://en.wikipedia....lbatross_(1928)

[wardog224]

yeah sure

but i think its a little too early to think of premiums

[Crag_r]

I'm looking forward to the Kent Class heavy Cruiser;

[xTheCanadianx]

correction australia is part of the commonwealth,  just ,like Canada,  our her majesty/his majesty'sdesignations are different

 

here in canada   our designation is HMCS

 

australia HMAS

 

 

plus canada had a very large navy in WWII...thats a good question to ask the dev about actually...... I want canada to be represented!

[Ariecho]

xThecanadianx, on 26 August 2012 - 02:31 PM, said:

correction australia is part of the commonwealth,  just ,like Canada,  our her majesty/his majesty'sdesignations are different

here in canada   our designation is HMCS

australia HMAS


plus canada had a very large navy in WWII...thats a good question to ask the dev about actually...... I want canada to be represented!

As much respect as I have for Canadian, Australian, New Zealanders, and other countries part of the commonwealth, I seriously doubt that there are enough ships to have one separate line for every country.

[JeeWeeJ]

Just a question out of pure interest: did Canada, Australia etc have their own classes of ships or did they use designs from the UK? Because as far as i know the Kent is just a subclass of the County class CA. (no offense ofcourse :))

[Goldeneye54]

Hopefully for some countries that don't have many ships we can see some premium ships from them at least.

[Crag_r]

JeeWeeJ, on 26 August 2012 - 02:45 PM, said:

Just a question out of pure interest: did Canada, Australia etc have their own classes of ships or did they use designs from the UK? Because as far as i know the Kent is just a subclass of the County class CA. (no offense ofcourse :))

During the second world war most of our ships were a subclass of British ship classes, some locally made, but most were heavily modified from their British counter parts.

[Ariecho]

Maybe can they give you the option to change the nation's flag on the ship?

[Crag_r]

Ariecho, on 26 August 2012 - 10:43 PM, said:

Maybe can they give you the option to change the nation's flag on the ship?

The Devs have said that it will be happening in one of the Q&A forums

[Skygunner]

xThecanadianx, on 26 August 2012 - 02:31 PM, said:

plus canada had a very large navy in WWII...thats a good question to ask the dev about actually...... I want canada to be represented!

With what exactly?   Nearly all significant Canadian warships were just British oned with little or no differences,  which will most likely appear in the british tree.   If we can indeed change the flags of ships, and choose their names, then simply find the appropriate Class (listed below)  change the Flag to Canadian, and give it a Canadian (or whatever you'd like) name.  

Cruisers:
Fiji Class,  Swiftsure Class

Destroyers:
Tribal,  A, C, D, E, F, G, H, S,V  

That's it for major surface warships, there were some Auxiliary cruisers based off the Prince Class passenger liners, those may show up and actually be a "canadian" in terms of origin/design warship.

http://www.the-bluep...iser-canada.gif

It's guns were old, limited range, but still they are solid.  Not much in terms of secondary weapons, but such is to be expected of an auxiliary cruiser. 22 knots, and like most passenger ships, can probably take a hit very well.  Could easily see this as a low tier British premium.

[kongman]

DeathReaper13, on 25 August 2012 - 11:40 PM, said:

I think that in tradition to of tanks such as the type 59 in WOT that the Australian aircraft carrier the HMAS Sydney be added in the game after release. It was a british ship that was purchased by the RAN in 1947 and commisioned in 1948. So it fits perfectly with the timeline.

P.S its a WW2 light carrier so it could only carry limited amounts of planes compared to normal carriers.
http://en.wikipedia....MAS_Sydney_(R17)
300px-HMAS_Sydney_(R17)_(AWM_301423).jpg

not a good aircaft carrier

[Crag_r]

kongman, on 28 August 2012 - 11:57 PM, said:

not a good aircaft carrier

Really? how so?

The Sydney saw combat actually, "Sydney became the first aircraft carrier owned by a Commonwealth dominion to see wartime service." and was the first commonwealth Aircraft carrier to serve in Korean War. So it seems it was actually a good CV

#Forum tip; if you are going to make an accusation like that better bring in some evidence

[NagatoroHayase]

"She was built for the Royal Navy and launched as HMS Terrible (R93) in 1944, but was not completed before the end of World War II. The carrier was sold to Australia in 1947, completed, and commissioned into the RAN as Sydney in 1948."

 

Q.E.D.

 

 

I'm joking of course.

[Keleth]

Skygunner, on 26 August 2012 - 01:55 AM, said:

Come now, this is just a majestic class carrier.  British all the way, have some pride in what Aussie intuition made.




HMAS Albatross was a seaplane tender home built.  Pretty slow, only 9 aircraft but that's ok from what we learned in the QnA, 10 is about the size of 1 flight.   So it'd be a low tier (maybe premium?) tender.   The reason I say tender is because also in the QnA we discovered that ships will be able to use aircraft even if they can't land them, also because tenders (among other things) are possible to enter the game, just not on release.  

Now mind you, the Albatross was requisitioned by England for WWII, but...thats a future us problem.  Here's the wiki page on it for now,  I'll get you more information on it later if you so desire.

http://en.wikipedia....lbatross_(1928)

I want this thing. It's adorable.

[Crag_r]

I would have thought HMAS Melbourne would have been a better choice, commissioned around the same time, but you have allot more to work with as it stayed on until the 80s

[Super_Dreadnought]

Aye. When I read the topic title I was expecting HMAS Melbourne too.