Tempest414 wrote:I do feel we have to remember a large part of the training effort has been put into the crewing of the 2 carriers and that as that burden is lifted we should see more crew coming down the escort funnel as for a type 45 upgrade I am not that hopeful I only see core stuff being done
I agree, on the list of priorities any T45 upgrades should be pretty low down.
Lord Jim wrote: It would be interesting to see other peoples ideas, hint Poiuytrewq get drawing
If you want something mocked up let me know.
donald_of_tokyo wrote:If manning be more critical in future, and I think this is the case, getting 2 more T26 (with a crew of 300 in total) will be better than 5 T31 (500 in total)? .....In other words, we lost 2.5 T31 already.
Exactly, no point building more and more vessels if the crew shortage isn't fixed. On that list of priorities mentioned above, the manning issues must be just about No1.