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Re: The planned air attack on the High Seas Fleet - 1919
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:31 pm
by Buff Orpington
It doesn't quite have the same effect as the Zeppelin Menace does it?
Re: The planned air attack on the High Seas Fleet - 1919
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:34 am
by grizzlymc
But, when Outragious and Dubious get flat tops and Beatty gets his six merchie conversions, we will be able to attack the HSF at anchor with over 100 planes at will. The army are suffering from Spanish flu, the Americans even more so, so the summer offensive may be delayed.
Re: The planned air attack on the High Seas Fleet - 1919
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:25 am
by Buff Orpington
I can almost picture the panic as the lookout yells "Achtung Kuckuck".
Re: The planned air attack on the High Seas Fleet - 1919
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:34 am
by BaronVonWreckedoften
"Kvick Hans, write to zer Times - zat ist zer furst vun ov zer springen!"
Re: The planned air attack on the High Seas Fleet - 1919
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:50 am
by grizzlymc
The Cuckoo may have been a bit slow, but the warhead in the torpedo was just as good as any other torpedo, delivered when the ship wasn't closed up; for action. The Hun would have responded by putting fighters on airstrips nearby, and the RN would have responded with camels on some of the carriers.
Taranto wasn't carried out by Blackburn Firebrands.