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The Fleet Tender...one stop shopping for weapons.
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Add-on Trick for this ship:
Make infocards with same text for each but have an alternate version of this ship to act as a "Q-ship" or surprise commerce raider.
I think it would be a good addition to mod. What say you all?

EPIC WIN!!!

Before those of you who shall remain nameless but lack imaginations and/or have never actually SERVED in a real life military (or have relatives that were/are in the wet navy) jump on me...

A Fleet Tender makes a perfect addition to forces that are serving in forward areas, as an RP device and an actual ship.

If this were 'real life' - the LN might need a fleet tender available for use near Hamburg in their war, because if there was a ship damaged - unless it was massively critical damage, they're going to fix it on the spot. Kusari would have a fleet tender parked in Leeds for certain, along with at least 3 repair ships. BHG - sure, we've got Dabadoru out in Delta, but unless the Zoners are going to let us use their shipyard in 74 (fat chance) - having replacement guns out there makes perfect sense.

And of course, the Junkers would have one available, because it's a long way back to Puerto Rico from where-ever.

The idea of a Q-ship is pure win as well. I've mentioned that briefly in a chat with Athenian about 8 months ago, but we didn't know how or what to do with it. Having a 'trader' suddenly show up with more guns than the gunboat attacking him fits commerce raiding perfectly.

Back in WWII, unless a ship had to come back to the shipyard due to massive damage that required it to be drydocked - they'd just use floating cranes and/or floating drydocks to fix them in place. Big holes in the flight deck on a carrier that couldn't be fixed - sure, send it back. But just a simple loss of a gun turret or two - dig out replacements from the ship and/or the fleet tender.

Again - GREAT idea, Tink.

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