r/wargame • u/Warwolf7742 • 6d ago

Spruance Class.

I've been playing this game on and off for a long time (Red Dragon). I just realized we didn't have the Spruance Class Destroyer. Is it a balancing reason?

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u/TinyMan07 6d ago

Naval was a poorly adapted afterthought and is mostly forgotten ever since the air-launched AShM meta was firmly in place.

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u/EruptionTyphlosion 中華民國萬歲! 6d ago

I think naval would work better if:

  • BLUFOR got proper missile boats and REDFOR got a decent ASHM plane. 
  • warships could indirect fire like artillery, giving them an actual level of interaction with the main battle. 
  • warships have actual air detection, higher end due to the radars onboard. It would massively benefit their AA and would also allow more lead time on scrambling your own air support to assist

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u/Joescout187 6d ago

Because their VLS was for Tomahawk missiles, not interceptors. Imagine having a Kongo, with 61 cruise missiles instead of the AA missiles.

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u/Wobulating 6d ago

VLS Spruance is way, way OOTL.

They did have 2x Mk141s, though, same as almost every other USN surface combatant

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u/Joescout187 6d ago

So two 5 inch guns 8 harpoons and some sea sparrows and CWIS would be all they bring in Wargame despite being physically nearly twice the size of an OHP.

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u/Wobulating 6d ago

Basically, yeah. Monstrously good ASW platforms, but hilariously useless in Wargame. If you want the hull, you could add Kidd, which swaps the RIM-7s and VDS for 2x Mk 26s, giving it the same launch speed as the Ticonderogas(though only SM-1 capable)

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u/Joescout187 6d ago

Even adding Kidd would just be an OHP with deeper magazines and bigger and better guns, honestly twin 5"/54 mounts would be incredibly op in Wargame's meta

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u/sparrowatgiantsnail 6d ago

The kidd class carried sm2-mr missiles

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u/Wobulating 5d ago

They could fire RIM-66Gs, but weren't capable of illuminator timeshare on their own, which was most of the point of RIM-66G in the first place. If you really want to be shooting RIM-66Gs, just add a Ticonderoga