HundertzehnGustav Wrote:If you compare the dry materiqal transporter to the CVEs, and i told you that many early CVEs were actually converted Cargoes, would you agree that the Cargoes in the Game are in fact wayyyy too small, and can only be compared to coastal merchant ships?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escort_carrier
do we need Cargoes to be as big as the CVEs, or almost as big?
also compare to the Planes...
I am just throwing this out there...
Wiki (using your link) gives following dimensions for 'typical' CVE: L=150m, B=20m, 7500 t (? GRT or Gross Reg. Tonnage, I guess...)
and on the same page we see list of many CVEs converted from freighters, etc - all of different tonnage, some are really large (for that time), almost 20,000, others just 8-9,000 GRT.
as we have only 2 types of merchant vessels (jap schooner exclud.), they should be most "typical" or average for 1940's... let's see...
Dimensions of some USSR cargo ships, dry and tankers, operated in WWII:
Name..............................Length/Beam, metres
dry(general) cargo:
Komsomol, ser.1&2...........111/15
Komsomol, ser.3&4...........121/16
Kalinin.............................114/15
Kuban..............................103/15
Kreml...............................140/17
Sergo...............................141/17
Michurin............................116/16
tankers:
Sovetskaya Neft................144/17
Vayan Kouturie..................140/17
Kreml...............................140/17
Moskva.............................125/17
I have included vessels built from 1925 to 1939. Older ships usually were smaller, with max L
