A Sea War (With Surprising Results)

[RedDwarfIV]

I watched EnterElysium's World War K Series 3 Episode 4 video today, and I decided "I wanna do that". So I downloaded BDArmoury and set about making some vessels. It was going to be just a destroyer and some corvettes like in EE's video, but then I made a river monitor, and it moved rapidly away from EE's video from there on out.

So, here's the contestants:

SIDE A

Europa Destroyer

1x Goalkeeper 30mm CIWS weapon

1x Abrams Tank Turret

2x Howitzer

2x Laser Weapons System

2x 30mm Chain Gun

2x 50Cal turret

3x Boosted Cruise Missile

6x Maverick missile

Top speed: 30m/s

SIDE B

Scratch Corvette

1x Howitzer

2x Hydra Rockets

2x 30mm Chain Gun

2x 30mm GAU-8

4x Hellfire missile

Top speed: 17m/s

Viking River Monitor

1x Abrams Tank Turret

1x Laser Weapons System

2x 20mm Vulcan

2x Hellfire missile

2x AIM-9 missile

2x AIM-120 missile

4x S8KOM rockets

Top speed: 20m/s

Okay, so since I didn't have HyperEdit, it was a bit boring getting them all into position, but hey, I remember doing it this way back when KSP RP was a thing. I also learned that the Scratch needs some more bouyancy up front. As it is, I can't use the third engine without tipping it forwards dangerously, and the nose is in the water even without that engine running. Slows it down.

But, finally, I started the match. I was curious about the cruise missiles, and launched one. It fell into the sea a few hundred metres away from the Europa, as I hadn't selected a valid target for it. I launched a second one with the Viking selected, and switched to watch it fly in.

It cut the monitor in half. It couldn't be controlled any more, so even if the weapons survived, the Viking was out of it.

I switched to the Scratch, and fired off a Hellfire. It... disappeared. I fired off two more and switched to them. One hit the sea just short, the other also hit the sea but blew a hole in the Europa's armour. I then had the Europa fire off a couple of Mavericks in response, and neither hit. In fact, they fell very short, worse than the Hellfires. After switching back to the Scratch and firing off its last Hellfire, I decided to move the Europa closer. As it was, the corvette had no more missiles, and the destroyer couldn't score a hit. As the Europa closed at 30m/s, I fired off a Maverick then cut thrust so I could switch to it. Like the others, it missed...

... and then I switched back to Europa. It was underwater. Deep underwater. When it emerged, I tried using SAS to put it back upright, but it hit the sea too hard when it splashed back down, and wrecked itself.

And thus...

... a corvette was victorious over a destroyer.

[smjjames]

Was that with or without Better Buoyancy?

[RedDwarfIV]

Was that with or without Better Buoyancy?

Without.

[Kruleworld]

naval warfare in a space rocketry simulator.....

[Vanamonde]

This after-action report has been moved to the AAR section.