There
was a lot of carnage this year at NATS. There were 92 sinks (Warships &
convoys) with 29 on Monday alone. Of those 92 sinks 26 were in campaign, 29
were in the first sortie and 37 in the second sortie. All of the sinks were not
caused by a large rise in the bb hit percentage. This year the bb hit
percentage was 18.8% compared to 18.6% last year and 14.9% in 2002. I find the
hit percentage by taking the units for the ships and subtracting 1 or 1/2 units
for each ship’s pump. I adjust for people who sank in the first sortie. Then I
take that number as the Gun Units and multiplied it by 100 to get the total bbs that could be shot. Then I add up the number of holes
and divided. I do not have the number of bbs left in
captain’s guns at the end of each sortie. So, I guessed that for every 100 bbs that could get shot only 75 did get shot.
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2002
TOTALS WITH 75 BBs PER |
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GUNS UNITS |
HOLES |
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BBs |
HITS |
% |
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975.5 |
8071 |
926 |
1885 |
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73162.5 |
10882 |
14.9% |
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2003
TOTALS WITH 75 BBs PER |
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GUNS UNITS |
HOLES |
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BBs |
HITS |
% |
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799.75 |
7957 |
1054 |
2165 |
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59981.25 |
11176 |
18.6% |
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2004
TOTALS WITH 75 BBs PER |
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GUNS UNITS |
HOLES |
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BBs |
HITS |
% |
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872.5 |
8562 |
1091 |
2635 |
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65437.5 |
12288 |
18.8% |
The
Allies shot 19.5% and the Axis shot 18.1%. The number of holes was almost even
at 6,138 (3,967-575-1,596) in the Allies and 6,150 (4,595-516-1,039) holes in
the Axis. The big difference in holes is the Axis with 628 more aboves and the Allies with 557 more bellows. This goes with
the gun arrangement on many Allied ships being triple sterns. The best % shot
for a fleet was 26.4% by the Axis A fleet vs Allied B
fleet Tuesday morning. The Axis won that battle by 9,525. The worst % was the
Axis B fleet Monday morning 9.6%. The Allies won that battle by 2,935. This was
the only battle not at night were the % was below 10. The Allies shot 14.8%
during night battle this year.
While
there was only one more captain and a few more ship units at NATS this year
there were 1,112 more holes. Half of these holes were belows, our rookie class of
2002 must be getting good using the sidemount.
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MAIN WARSHIPS |
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2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
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CLASS |
NUMBER OF SHIPS |
CLASS |
NUMBER OF SHIPS |
CLASS |
NUMBER OF SHIPS |
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ALLIED |
AXIS |
TOTAL |
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ALLIED |
AXIS |
TOTAL |
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ALLIED |
AXIS |
TOTAL |
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2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
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3 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
5 |
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4 |
2 |
9 |
11 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
10 |
4 |
4 |
6 |
10 |
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5 |
1 |
6 |
7 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
13 |
5 |
6 |
2 |
8 |
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6 |
13 |
3 |
16 |
6 |
8 |
8 |
16 |
6 |
6 |
11 |
17 |
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7 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
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48 |
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42 |
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43 |
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WARSHIPS SINKS BY CLASS |
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2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
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CLASS |
NUMBER OF SHIPS |
CLASS |
NUMBER OF SHIPS |
CLASS |
NUMBER OF SHIPS |
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ALLIED |
AXIS |
TOTAL |
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ALLIED |
AXIS |
TOTAL |
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ALLIED |
AXIS |
TOTAL |
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2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
7 |
7 |
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3 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
8 |
0 |
8 |
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4 |
0 |
11 |
11 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
10 |
4 |
9 |
6 |
15 |
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5 |
1 |
5 |
6 |
5 |
6 |
12 |
18 |
5 |
19 |
2 |
21 |
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6 |
11 |
4 |
15 |
6 |
4 |
15 |
19 |
6 |
12 |
13 |
25 |
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7 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
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39 |
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55 |
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79 |
The
biggest difference in sinks this year was in class 5 where the Allies lost 19
ships (6 were at NATS) and the Axis lost 2 (Only 2 were at NATS). These means
on average each allied class 5 ship sank 3+ times. It was a bad week to be
class 5. Some other interesting numbers from the score sheets: The 29 sinks on
Monday were almost as many as all week in 2002. The Axis won only one more
battle (8-7) then the Allies. But the average win for the Axis was 6,390 and
the Allies just sneaked by with a margin of victory of 1,769 on average. The
Axis won three battles by 9,500 to 11,100 points making the difference in the
week. The Allies were actually ahead in battles until Friday when the Axis
swept both fleets.
Chris
Kessler’s score for the whole week was 11-0-0, I think
I got 11 aboves in the first two minuets of battle.
When Chris buys a sheet of silk span it’s a lifetime supply. Tom Brown’s week
score was
There
were a lot of sinks this year and I was the center of several of them. I sank
nine times during the week. Four times in fleet battles, three times in 1on1s,
once with my campaign cruiser and once with a Titanic. Even
worse than that my ships sank twelve times. Swampy Steve lost the
Jake
Bruder beat his dad (By 1,180) and his brother (By
385) in 1on1s this year. Now we know who the best Bruder
battler is.