Russian Power Supreme. This is a Tsarist ship, by the way, their first class of Dreadnaught, the Gangut class. Up in service until the '50.
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In Progress Let's Play: Rule The Waves
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Dayyālu
Arcane
Thanks for the bump!
Update tomorrow. To kill a bit of time, I can propose to you a small reading that has been useful to me to understand a tiny bit what's going on.
It's from a US 1945 publication, "Ship Shapes - Anatomy and Types of Naval vessels". As with most publications for the common soldier of past ages, it's a quick and fun read to introduce basic concepts to the uninitiated. Of course, there are several differences with the RTW era fleets, but the basics are the same.
Plus, jokes about Italians.
Full link, if someone cares, is here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/ONI/ONI-223/ONI-223.pdf
It's a very quick read (34 pages) and an interesting source.
Update tomorrow. To kill a bit of time, I can propose to you a small reading that has been useful to me to understand a tiny bit what's going on.
It's from a US 1945 publication, "Ship Shapes - Anatomy and Types of Naval vessels". As with most publications for the common soldier of past ages, it's a quick and fun read to introduce basic concepts to the uninitiated. Of course, there are several differences with the RTW era fleets, but the basics are the same.
Plus, jokes about Italians.
Full link, if someone cares, is here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/ONI/ONI-223/ONI-223.pdf
It's a very quick read (34 pages) and an interesting source.
Dayyālu
Arcane
Let's play Rule The Waves: Dreadnaught Has Arrived Edition
Three months until our first Dreadnaught is ready. Tension with France rising. That means we should wake up and place some of our ships in active duty, to get good training. War with France will be mostly aggressive, if the alliance with Britain holds. I foresee a military parade and a quick victory!
We unlock the most efficient armour configuration for Light Cruisers. Just as we are building a huge batch of Light Cruisers. The pain
Intelligence reports point out that our guns are superior to French ones, but the frogs have a secret 10% extra fund for unknown reasons. Crafty.
The Reviztan is the firtst of our new Dreads to be commissioned. Some months of winding up, and she will be ready to fight.
It's a beauty. Fast enough, well armoured, well armed. Should serve us well. Sadly, some of our older ships are in dire need of a refit, and we lack the money to do so. In a year we'll start to refit extensively our older ships, build a new set of Coastal Subs and plan for Destroyer replacements. And maybe dream the next generation of Dreadnaughts.
It's a three years wait to build one, ya know!
One of the mostly useless yet rewarding features of Rule The Waves is the ship image generator. It has no use and no gameplay result: it's the small option to get a automatic generated image of your ship and build structures and masts as you like.
I don't know why I find it fun. IT HAS NO TRUE USE
No, Japan. Our advanced tech will not be tainted by the yellow peril.
At last we get Oil Firing! As we are a fairly good land power, we do have access to Oil. Oil engines are faster and more powerful if compared to the Coal Engines we have been using until now. Sure, Coal Bunkers gave us more protection and are cheaper.... we can now rebuild our older class of vessel with Oil engines and improving their speed drastically, but it will be a long and expensive slog for vessels that are aging. Maybe some of our CA can be salvaged, I'm not so sure for CL and I doubt we can get mileage out of 1899 era Destroyers, bar for cheap patrol ships.
Wait, what Oil Firing does in RL? It's a steam engines that employs oil instead of coal. As far as I understand, of course.
Our new flagship ends her winding up period. Ready to fight.
Sure, dear allies.
Little happens in the following months, bar a very fruitful series of exchanges between the US, Russia and the Brits. Very good, and even good for our budget. The Frenchmen stay put.
The friendship proves short lived, however. Cuba cries for help, and following the +Tension policy we decide to intervene. The Cuban Crisis of 1909 will be a widely studied subject in the history books, I bet.
No shit. And we lose one Prestige. I fucked up here. And the US now hates our guts. Wohooo!
At least another of our Dreads is now ready. And our intelligence reports that the Germans are STILL BUILDING MECKLEMBURG CLASS BATTLESHIPS.
You remember, the 13500 tons ones we sank? The AI sometimes....
We will not lose time. Our old battleships of the Apostolov class get a small refit: new rangefinders and centralized firing control, plus more ammo. There is no time or money to improve the engines.
The first ship odf our new design is ready. And of course it has trouble reaching its design speed. It's one knot slower than projected. Dammit. Tensions with the French hit a new high. I order the ships to get in active service, our sailors need more training.
As usual, the Balkans are the forge of war. We will light the fires, and prepare to embrace the light and the warmth.
On January 1910, Russia, Great Britain and France are at war. Our ships do not waste time to start hunting enemy shipping.
WAIT THE FROGS HAVE TWO DREADNAUGHTS WHAT THE HECK NO ONE TOLD ME THIS
Little problem, our own second Dread will be ready soon.
The first strike is with a good selection of old cruisers. Our sailor quality is not the greatest, so I'll try to hit some merchantmen and bail out before the enemy cruisers find us. I don't want early losses and we have the advantage here, let's be patient and proper. Today of lead captain is Cap't Endlösung , that seems weirdly happy to be hunting Frenchmen.
We bump in the night in a French formation. We can't identify them, but we can at least....
"AN ALLE KAPITANE: FEUER FREI!"
Well, that works too, but I swear that's not Russian.
One of our cruisers report that we hit a Dreadnaught Battleship with a torpedo. It's night and the weather is bad, so I don't know how reliable the report is. But if we are against a Dread, a cautious retreat would be wise.
Very, very wise. But our captain is no man to retreat without his prize. And it would make no sense to find a dread here!
The Madagaskar leads a charge into the middle of the enemy formation, separating a damaged French Light cruiser from the other ships. At least I think it's a enemy CL, reports are all over the place. Freakin night. One of our CL, the Vesta, gets a direct hit on the bridge, killing the captain. A fallen hero, surely the Tsar will cry a single tear for him.
Our ships are launching Torpedoes like mad, and we get garbled reports of hits and kills. I can confirm nothing, bar that we lose contact with the bulk of the enemy force. Let's hunt stragglers.
The supposed CL starts burning brightly, and we can confirm its indentity. A good prize. Two unidentified vessels also sink, probably Destroyers or Merchantmen. Picking up survivors will be difficult. We abandon the burning hulk after pumping several torpedoes in hit and we resume the hunt. The night will give us a fitting prize.
We hunt aggressively, and more merchantmen are sank.
Yet, when we retreat, a tragedy:
The CA survives, even if heavily damaged. Our loot is good, almost 10k of French merchant ships, a CL, two DD and several transports. Such a early victory even gives us a Prestige Point. Great!
I should let Ca'pt Endlosung command more raids. He's weird, but efficient.
We'll continue our inevitable victory march against the frogs on the next update.
Hopefully, soon.
Austrian Battleship near the Dalmatian coast
Three months until our first Dreadnaught is ready. Tension with France rising. That means we should wake up and place some of our ships in active duty, to get good training. War with France will be mostly aggressive, if the alliance with Britain holds. I foresee a military parade and a quick victory!
We unlock the most efficient armour configuration for Light Cruisers. Just as we are building a huge batch of Light Cruisers. The pain
Intelligence reports point out that our guns are superior to French ones, but the frogs have a secret 10% extra fund for unknown reasons. Crafty.
The Reviztan is the firtst of our new Dreads to be commissioned. Some months of winding up, and she will be ready to fight.
It's a beauty. Fast enough, well armoured, well armed. Should serve us well. Sadly, some of our older ships are in dire need of a refit, and we lack the money to do so. In a year we'll start to refit extensively our older ships, build a new set of Coastal Subs and plan for Destroyer replacements. And maybe dream the next generation of Dreadnaughts.
It's a three years wait to build one, ya know!
One of the mostly useless yet rewarding features of Rule The Waves is the ship image generator. It has no use and no gameplay result: it's the small option to get a automatic generated image of your ship and build structures and masts as you like.
I don't know why I find it fun. IT HAS NO TRUE USE
No, Japan. Our advanced tech will not be tainted by the yellow peril.
At last we get Oil Firing! As we are a fairly good land power, we do have access to Oil. Oil engines are faster and more powerful if compared to the Coal Engines we have been using until now. Sure, Coal Bunkers gave us more protection and are cheaper.... we can now rebuild our older class of vessel with Oil engines and improving their speed drastically, but it will be a long and expensive slog for vessels that are aging. Maybe some of our CA can be salvaged, I'm not so sure for CL and I doubt we can get mileage out of 1899 era Destroyers, bar for cheap patrol ships.
Wait, what Oil Firing does in RL? It's a steam engines that employs oil instead of coal. As far as I understand, of course.
Our new flagship ends her winding up period. Ready to fight.
Sure, dear allies.
Little happens in the following months, bar a very fruitful series of exchanges between the US, Russia and the Brits. Very good, and even good for our budget. The Frenchmen stay put.
The friendship proves short lived, however. Cuba cries for help, and following the +Tension policy we decide to intervene. The Cuban Crisis of 1909 will be a widely studied subject in the history books, I bet.
No shit. And we lose one Prestige. I fucked up here. And the US now hates our guts. Wohooo!
At least another of our Dreads is now ready. And our intelligence reports that the Germans are STILL BUILDING MECKLEMBURG CLASS BATTLESHIPS.
You remember, the 13500 tons ones we sank? The AI sometimes....
We will not lose time. Our old battleships of the Apostolov class get a small refit: new rangefinders and centralized firing control, plus more ammo. There is no time or money to improve the engines.
The first ship odf our new design is ready. And of course it has trouble reaching its design speed. It's one knot slower than projected. Dammit. Tensions with the French hit a new high. I order the ships to get in active service, our sailors need more training.
As usual, the Balkans are the forge of war. We will light the fires, and prepare to embrace the light and the warmth.
On January 1910, Russia, Great Britain and France are at war. Our ships do not waste time to start hunting enemy shipping.
WAIT THE FROGS HAVE TWO DREADNAUGHTS WHAT THE HECK NO ONE TOLD ME THIS
Little problem, our own second Dread will be ready soon.
The first strike is with a good selection of old cruisers. Our sailor quality is not the greatest, so I'll try to hit some merchantmen and bail out before the enemy cruisers find us. I don't want early losses and we have the advantage here, let's be patient and proper. Today of lead captain is Cap't Endlösung , that seems weirdly happy to be hunting Frenchmen.
We bump in the night in a French formation. We can't identify them, but we can at least....
Well, that works too, but I swear that's not Russian.
One of our cruisers report that we hit a Dreadnaught Battleship with a torpedo. It's night and the weather is bad, so I don't know how reliable the report is. But if we are against a Dread, a cautious retreat would be wise.
Very, very wise. But our captain is no man to retreat without his prize. And it would make no sense to find a dread here!
The Madagaskar leads a charge into the middle of the enemy formation, separating a damaged French Light cruiser from the other ships. At least I think it's a enemy CL, reports are all over the place. Freakin night. One of our CL, the Vesta, gets a direct hit on the bridge, killing the captain. A fallen hero, surely the Tsar will cry a single tear for him.
Our ships are launching Torpedoes like mad, and we get garbled reports of hits and kills. I can confirm nothing, bar that we lose contact with the bulk of the enemy force. Let's hunt stragglers.
The supposed CL starts burning brightly, and we can confirm its indentity. A good prize. Two unidentified vessels also sink, probably Destroyers or Merchantmen. Picking up survivors will be difficult. We abandon the burning hulk after pumping several torpedoes in hit and we resume the hunt. The night will give us a fitting prize.
We hunt aggressively, and more merchantmen are sank.
Yet, when we retreat, a tragedy:
The CA survives, even if heavily damaged. Our loot is good, almost 10k of French merchant ships, a CL, two DD and several transports. Such a early victory even gives us a Prestige Point. Great!
I should let Ca'pt Endlosung command more raids. He's weird, but efficient.
We'll continue our inevitable victory march against the frogs on the next update.
Hopefully, soon.
Austrian Battleship near the Dalmatian coast
Yess... Frogs will be learning how to swim now. 
Yess... Frogs will be learning how to swim now.
YES YES.. BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM SWIM LIKE.. NOW
Dayyālu
Arcane
Due to unforeseen matters (A pal of mine got at last his degree and I had to attend, eating much of my free time) the update will be postponed, tomorrow at best.
Enjoy catchy fascist songs about submarines, instead!
Italian submarine, of the Sirena class. Starting WW2 with one of the biggest submarine fleets into the world (more than 100 hulls) the Regia Marina was quickly mauled by subpar engineering (Italian submarines had outdated torpedoes still employing WW1 tech and terrible immersion capabilities), poor planning, outdated tactics and shit luck. Suffering more than 10% losses in the first weeks of hostilities, the Italian submarine force suffered greatly, despite desperate attempts to copy German designs. More than 75% of the Italian submarines where destroyed by the end of the war. Offensive results were poor if compared with the Germans, even despite terrible checks on supposed kills. Captain Enzo Grossi, for example, claimed two American battleships when in reality he merely damaged a cruiser.
"Rapidi e invisibili"!
Enjoy catchy fascist songs about submarines, instead!
Italian submarine, of the Sirena class. Starting WW2 with one of the biggest submarine fleets into the world (more than 100 hulls) the Regia Marina was quickly mauled by subpar engineering (Italian submarines had outdated torpedoes still employing WW1 tech and terrible immersion capabilities), poor planning, outdated tactics and shit luck. Suffering more than 10% losses in the first weeks of hostilities, the Italian submarine force suffered greatly, despite desperate attempts to copy German designs. More than 75% of the Italian submarines where destroyed by the end of the war. Offensive results were poor if compared with the Germans, even despite terrible checks on supposed kills. Captain Enzo Grossi, for example, claimed two American battleships when in reality he merely damaged a cruiser.
"Rapidi e invisibili"!
Yep, sounds like Italians all right.
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No worries, as long as you serve us some delicious frogs. Afterall good food takes time.
Dayyālu
Arcane
Let's Play Rule The Waves: Screaming Frogs Edition
If you ask yourselves what the little O means, it means Obsolete, a model that has been active for more than 10 years without a refit.
Our ships get mobilized. We will finish the reneval of our two battleships in a few months and we will get extra CL soon after. I decide to get aggressive, for Anti-Submarine warfare and coastal duty I send our old Destroyers. We have the advantage and it's time to push it.
Ignore the Blockade! signal, the game has still to count the Briton support. Next turn the situation will be reversed.
French infantrymen are tough
You fucks. You can't do THAT. This is a game about ship battles! Ship battles! You can't rush in with troops! Land battles are mostly up to RNG and to the amount of ships we have in the area. We lacked any kind of cover in the Pacific, being an area we just stole from the Germans, and so we got shredded. I should check our ships and send a cruiser or two to bomb the advancing frogs. Dammit.
At least we get another BB. Time to shine, my daughter. Time to shine. Our subs start an aggressive campaign and sink French merchantmen. I swear, Russian subs are good.
Cruiser battle. It's just the Kalinin rushing forward to hunt Frenchmen, so it's a chance for Cap't Kalin to prove himself. Get 'em, mate!
The Kalinin soon spots a prey, a French cruiser of the Sfax class. An easy prey, the only problem is that its max speed is 21 knots to the Kalinin's 20. We'll manage through superior Congoid discipline. Meaning, we'll run until the engines explode.
Fastah!
Whuzza dat?
Apparently, a bunch of French CA and God knows what else. Fuck this, we're outta here now. Two CAs are more than what we can chew. Out of here. Now.
Shit, they are faster. Dammit, dammit, dammit. Run, Kalin, run! We are followed by at least three cruisers and a squadron of Destroyers. If the AI wakes up and goes into a Torpedo run we are dead as a black teenager in a gang war.
Shit. In our escape, we end up finding the Madagaskar under Captain Endlosung. Problem is, they are under AI control now, following the Scenario rules. We are now 2 CA + Squadron of Destroyers VS 2 CA 1 CL and Destroyers, but we merely command a ship.
Dammit. This one will be tough.
Captain Endlosung decides that it's time to take the fight to the enemy, and charges. We get lucky and one of the Montcalm cruisers start circling after a rain of hits. Maybe we can get a victory out of this. Luck favours the bold, after all.
The Montcalm find itself in the middle of the two interlocking fields of fire. As you can see from the log, it's not pretty, even if the Kalinin has to suffer a hit on a Torpedo launcher.
Kalin goes for the drive-by shooting. Congoid tactics, what's not to love?
You would not believe how difficult is to find a stock photo of a black man with a gun.
The Montcalm , after a hit too many, slows down. Bad call, the Destroyer squadron and the Madagaskar are in torpedo range. The AI is better than me.
However, the Madgaskar is relentless. After sinking ont of the Montcalms, it engages the other. I don't know guys, this is weird. The AI is never so suicidally aggressive. I mean, now we have the tactical advantage, but it pretty much charged in guns blazing.
Whatevs. As I said, luck to the bold.
The Kalinin is out of primary ammo, though. We will fire our secondaries until the end.
The other Montcalm slows down, and the Destroyer squadron unleashes another torpedo wave, with obvious results.
What the fuck, I'm not even leading them.
I can't believe this crap. The Madagaskar sank two French CA pretty much single handedly and under AI command.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Good genetics, Admiral. Good genetics matter.
Well, I'm not complaining. The loss of two CA is kind of devastating for the already outnumbered French forces and we can now spare more ships to send in the Pacific. We send a CL and a Destroyer to support our troops in Southeast Asia, and a CA is sent to the Pacific to even the odds.
We are now blockading France, and already lead the war by more than 2000 VP. Easy as pie. I told you.
Good.
Bad. I was dumb. One of the convoys trasferring troops from the North Asian coast to the Marianas is jumped by a French CA, and we have merely a CL to stop it. Another difficult one. The Aurora is an experienced ship, but 6 inches guns aren't going to cut it against a even 1899 class CA.
Ok, those troops won't reach the frontline anytime soon. Can't win 'em all.
Thanks. Worth less than a single month of action by our Subs. Our economy is thankfully recovering and our CL of the Mercury class are entering service. This war is a godsend, the money I get will be enough for both subs and Destroyers. New ships, here I come.
I hope France does not surrender too soon. Wait a sec....
Here, now I have a problem. The French AI and the Scenario simulator gave me a small ... gift.
Oh gosh, Decisive Fleet battle. The French will throw everything at us and we get to use BOTH of our new BBs. Of course, this should be a massacre for the Frogs, but who knows.... I need time to write this down properly, though. Who will win the Battle of the Fates? Stay tuned.
Update tomorrow. This one is gonna be big.
If you ask yourselves what the little O means, it means Obsolete, a model that has been active for more than 10 years without a refit.
Our ships get mobilized. We will finish the reneval of our two battleships in a few months and we will get extra CL soon after. I decide to get aggressive, for Anti-Submarine warfare and coastal duty I send our old Destroyers. We have the advantage and it's time to push it.
Ignore the Blockade! signal, the game has still to count the Briton support. Next turn the situation will be reversed.
French infantrymen are tough
You fucks. You can't do THAT. This is a game about ship battles! Ship battles! You can't rush in with troops! Land battles are mostly up to RNG and to the amount of ships we have in the area. We lacked any kind of cover in the Pacific, being an area we just stole from the Germans, and so we got shredded. I should check our ships and send a cruiser or two to bomb the advancing frogs. Dammit.
At least we get another BB. Time to shine, my daughter. Time to shine. Our subs start an aggressive campaign and sink French merchantmen. I swear, Russian subs are good.
Cruiser battle. It's just the Kalinin rushing forward to hunt Frenchmen, so it's a chance for Cap't Kalin to prove himself. Get 'em, mate!
The Kalinin soon spots a prey, a French cruiser of the Sfax class. An easy prey, the only problem is that its max speed is 21 knots to the Kalinin's 20. We'll manage through superior Congoid discipline. Meaning, we'll run until the engines explode.
Apparently, a bunch of French CA and God knows what else. Fuck this, we're outta here now. Two CAs are more than what we can chew. Out of here. Now.
Shit, they are faster. Dammit, dammit, dammit. Run, Kalin, run! We are followed by at least three cruisers and a squadron of Destroyers. If the AI wakes up and goes into a Torpedo run we are dead as a black teenager in a gang war.
Shit. In our escape, we end up finding the Madagaskar under Captain Endlosung. Problem is, they are under AI control now, following the Scenario rules. We are now 2 CA + Squadron of Destroyers VS 2 CA 1 CL and Destroyers, but we merely command a ship.
Dammit. This one will be tough.
Captain Endlosung decides that it's time to take the fight to the enemy, and charges. We get lucky and one of the Montcalm cruisers start circling after a rain of hits. Maybe we can get a victory out of this. Luck favours the bold, after all.
The Montcalm find itself in the middle of the two interlocking fields of fire. As you can see from the log, it's not pretty, even if the Kalinin has to suffer a hit on a Torpedo launcher.
Kalin goes for the drive-by shooting. Congoid tactics, what's not to love?
You would not believe how difficult is to find a stock photo of a black man with a gun.
The Montcalm , after a hit too many, slows down. Bad call, the Destroyer squadron and the Madagaskar are in torpedo range. The AI is better than me.
However, the Madgaskar is relentless. After sinking ont of the Montcalms, it engages the other. I don't know guys, this is weird. The AI is never so suicidally aggressive. I mean, now we have the tactical advantage, but it pretty much charged in guns blazing.
Whatevs. As I said, luck to the bold.
The Kalinin is out of primary ammo, though. We will fire our secondaries until the end.
The other Montcalm slows down, and the Destroyer squadron unleashes another torpedo wave, with obvious results.
What the fuck, I'm not even leading them.
I can't believe this crap. The Madagaskar sank two French CA pretty much single handedly and under AI command.
WHAT THE FUCK.
Well, I'm not complaining. The loss of two CA is kind of devastating for the already outnumbered French forces and we can now spare more ships to send in the Pacific. We send a CL and a Destroyer to support our troops in Southeast Asia, and a CA is sent to the Pacific to even the odds.
We are now blockading France, and already lead the war by more than 2000 VP. Easy as pie. I told you.
Good.
Bad. I was dumb. One of the convoys trasferring troops from the North Asian coast to the Marianas is jumped by a French CA, and we have merely a CL to stop it. Another difficult one. The Aurora is an experienced ship, but 6 inches guns aren't going to cut it against a even 1899 class CA.
Ok, those troops won't reach the frontline anytime soon. Can't win 'em all.
Thanks. Worth less than a single month of action by our Subs. Our economy is thankfully recovering and our CL of the Mercury class are entering service. This war is a godsend, the money I get will be enough for both subs and Destroyers. New ships, here I come.
I hope France does not surrender too soon. Wait a sec....
Here, now I have a problem. The French AI and the Scenario simulator gave me a small ... gift.
Oh gosh, Decisive Fleet battle. The French will throw everything at us and we get to use BOTH of our new BBs. Of course, this should be a massacre for the Frogs, but who knows.... I need time to write this down properly, though. Who will win the Battle of the Fates? Stay tuned.
Update tomorrow. This one is gonna be big.
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Dayyālu
Arcane
There is pretty much the entire fleet out there, I just got a screenshot of the Battleship and of the Dreads.
About the performance, I have no idea. The French fire was subpar compared to ours, and checking the post battle statistics they failed to empty the ammo bins (while the Kalinin was at 0% main ammo and the Madagaskar at 16%). Our AI did very well, a bit surprising as in this campaign the enemy tactical AI has proven often indecisive. Maybe it's due to the German traits (national traits influence the AI, and the Germans are conservative in their battle approach, and this has not served them well).
Kalin
Unwanted
Ah. The Hyperweapon is deployed...
Dayyālu
Arcane
Let's Play Rule the Waves: Kantai Kessen Edition
Oh God. Well, we have a full complement of more than ten B or BB class battleships, a "scout force" with several CAs inside and a swarm of Destroyers covering both forces. The Revitzan , the first of our new Nikolai I Dreads, is leading the fleet.
The plan is, well, simple. We employ the scouting forces to identify the enemy battleline and then smash it into pieces. Our cruisers will engage their counterparts while the enemy B are finished off.
The French have half of our Bs and they are mostly older models. They have a single BB and a BC (A Battlecruiser). One of thse days I should explain what a battlecruiser is, but today I'm lazy. In simple terms, it's a Armoured Cruiser on steroids, with the weapons but not the armour of a Dread.
I set up most of my core ships as AI controlled (can't micro all of them in battle) and start the hunt. It's 10 o'clock in the morning and the weather is just a bit cloudy.
At 10:30 the Diana signals a enemy CL and a swarm of unidentified vessels. We order the scout division to pursue, and set the main batteline on 20 knots speed and in full pursuit.
Five minutes later, the Diana is narrowly missed by a rain of 13 inches shot. Holy fug, that must be the French Battlecruiser. Did I tell you the only advantage they have is that they mount 13 inch guns and we mount mostly 12 inch?
Real Life 13 inches guns.
The Fench BC has six 13 inch, but an armour of merely 6 inches. If it gets into a match with out battleline it's dead. If it hits one of our cruisers before we can retreat them, well....
I don't think I need to plan this much. The Scout force will be bait, and we will force the French B and BC to endure the wall of fire from our 12 inches. I mean, we have around 30 12 inch guns firing at once. What can go wrong?
Nothing. The enemy BC flees, and the weak French battleline starts exchanging fire with ours. They are half of our number. Shells explode, superstructures are hit, guns jam. But our fire is stronger.
The interlocking fields of fire are deadly. Some of our ships are mauled, as they take return hits or are flooded. I'm not going to retreat. This is the end for the French fleet. No one escapes.
Well, someone escapes. The enemy BB starts an headlong rush towards friendly docks, and the slower and older French B are left to their fate. Torpedo runs are made by destroyers and start taking their toll.
The slow enemy B are picked one by one. I leave our B divisions to finish the job, under the wise command of Captain Dreaad. Despite the fear of soap and falling, he manages to do a good job.
Mine is more difficult. I want to sink the Charles Martel. It will not be the name of subhuman Frankish chief to stop us. Plus, everyone knows, it was Orthodoxy who saved Christianity from the Muslim Hordes. We ignore the worrying reports from the Nikolai I that talk about heavy flooding from several 13 inch hits, and we push at 21 knots. Frankish guns can be deadly, but we have more.
DAMMIT. I get cocky, and the enemy Destroyers manage to get a torpedo in on the Revitzan. No biggie. This thing is built to withstand everything. It's unsinkable! I SWEAR!
Dammit. The Revitzan suffers heavy flooding. I don't care. Push the Nikolai I engines to the max, we are pursuing. We manage to separate the French BB from the Destroyer escort, and our fleet starts to converge on the French position. Like wolves. Russian wolves.
See thre ship highlighted in blue? That is the Martel.
Not for long.
The Martel is savaged by dozens of 12 inch hits and torpedoes. Our feast ended, we start hunting anew for other foes. The BC probably escaped, but maybe we can bang a shellshocked cruiser or two.
wat
A single torpedo hit
and our joy and pride, a brand new BB, is now sinking
a single torpedo hit
why
We manage nonetheless to take all survivors. The Revitzan needs more than 40 minutes to sink. I swear, the flooding was not even that bad.
The battle ends soon after.
Check by yourselves . The amount of damage the Revitzan suffered is not enough to justify its sinking. I swear someone is going to pay. The fact that we managed to sink FOUR enemy battleships and a Dread is soured by our loss. A BB is a costly project.
We gain two prestige, 10k victory points (the Frogs gain 5k for bagging our Flagship) and victory in the war. The French navy is reduced to nothing, but we lost a valuable vessel.
At this point, I ask to my Cabinet:
A) We start immediately a Dread building project. With the money from the war and the end of the CL building, we can get even two new ships. Fuck the subs and fuck the Destroyers.
B) We will update our Destroyer Fleet and our subs. Then we'll renew our aging Bs and start building a new class of Dreads.
Well, in the postmortem of the Revitzan I must say that, well, I played aggressively, sank a ton of valuable French ships, and went full retard into risking an already damaged BB against a Destroyer screen. Here we can see how RTW is a good simulation: three years of work and millions of rubles sank by a single torpedo.
A single torpedo.
The only thing I regret is that I kept the Reviztan going after the torpedo hit at around 6-10 knots. I should have stopped the engine, and maybe I could have saved her.
An overall view of the battle. I lost contact with the enemy BC soon, and it returned safely to port. The blue line is the fate of the enemy Battleline until the end of the Martel, its last member. You can see how it tried to escape desperately and almost managed to run until our CA force cut the retreat.
Oh God. Well, we have a full complement of more than ten B or BB class battleships, a "scout force" with several CAs inside and a swarm of Destroyers covering both forces. The Revitzan , the first of our new Nikolai I Dreads, is leading the fleet.
The plan is, well, simple. We employ the scouting forces to identify the enemy battleline and then smash it into pieces. Our cruisers will engage their counterparts while the enemy B are finished off.
The French have half of our Bs and they are mostly older models. They have a single BB and a BC (A Battlecruiser). One of thse days I should explain what a battlecruiser is, but today I'm lazy. In simple terms, it's a Armoured Cruiser on steroids, with the weapons but not the armour of a Dread.
I set up most of my core ships as AI controlled (can't micro all of them in battle) and start the hunt. It's 10 o'clock in the morning and the weather is just a bit cloudy.
At 10:30 the Diana signals a enemy CL and a swarm of unidentified vessels. We order the scout division to pursue, and set the main batteline on 20 knots speed and in full pursuit.
Five minutes later, the Diana is narrowly missed by a rain of 13 inches shot. Holy fug, that must be the French Battlecruiser. Did I tell you the only advantage they have is that they mount 13 inch guns and we mount mostly 12 inch?
Real Life 13 inches guns.
The Fench BC has six 13 inch, but an armour of merely 6 inches. If it gets into a match with out battleline it's dead. If it hits one of our cruisers before we can retreat them, well....
I don't think I need to plan this much. The Scout force will be bait, and we will force the French B and BC to endure the wall of fire from our 12 inches. I mean, we have around 30 12 inch guns firing at once. What can go wrong?
Nothing. The enemy BC flees, and the weak French battleline starts exchanging fire with ours. They are half of our number. Shells explode, superstructures are hit, guns jam. But our fire is stronger.
The interlocking fields of fire are deadly. Some of our ships are mauled, as they take return hits or are flooded. I'm not going to retreat. This is the end for the French fleet. No one escapes.
Well, someone escapes. The enemy BB starts an headlong rush towards friendly docks, and the slower and older French B are left to their fate. Torpedo runs are made by destroyers and start taking their toll.
The slow enemy B are picked one by one. I leave our B divisions to finish the job, under the wise command of Captain Dreaad. Despite the fear of soap and falling, he manages to do a good job.
Mine is more difficult. I want to sink the Charles Martel. It will not be the name of subhuman Frankish chief to stop us. Plus, everyone knows, it was Orthodoxy who saved Christianity from the Muslim Hordes. We ignore the worrying reports from the Nikolai I that talk about heavy flooding from several 13 inch hits, and we push at 21 knots. Frankish guns can be deadly, but we have more.
DAMMIT. I get cocky, and the enemy Destroyers manage to get a torpedo in on the Revitzan. No biggie. This thing is built to withstand everything. It's unsinkable! I SWEAR!
Dammit. The Revitzan suffers heavy flooding. I don't care. Push the Nikolai I engines to the max, we are pursuing. We manage to separate the French BB from the Destroyer escort, and our fleet starts to converge on the French position. Like wolves. Russian wolves.
See thre ship highlighted in blue? That is the Martel.
Not for long.
The Martel is savaged by dozens of 12 inch hits and torpedoes. Our feast ended, we start hunting anew for other foes. The BC probably escaped, but maybe we can bang a shellshocked cruiser or two.
wat
A single torpedo hit
and our joy and pride, a brand new BB, is now sinking
a single torpedo hit
why
We manage nonetheless to take all survivors. The Revitzan needs more than 40 minutes to sink. I swear, the flooding was not even that bad.
The battle ends soon after.
Check by yourselves . The amount of damage the Revitzan suffered is not enough to justify its sinking. I swear someone is going to pay. The fact that we managed to sink FOUR enemy battleships and a Dread is soured by our loss. A BB is a costly project.
We gain two prestige, 10k victory points (the Frogs gain 5k for bagging our Flagship) and victory in the war. The French navy is reduced to nothing, but we lost a valuable vessel.
At this point, I ask to my Cabinet:
A) We start immediately a Dread building project. With the money from the war and the end of the CL building, we can get even two new ships. Fuck the subs and fuck the Destroyers.
B) We will update our Destroyer Fleet and our subs. Then we'll renew our aging Bs and start building a new class of Dreads.
Well, in the postmortem of the Revitzan I must say that, well, I played aggressively, sank a ton of valuable French ships, and went full retard into risking an already damaged BB against a Destroyer screen. Here we can see how RTW is a good simulation: three years of work and millions of rubles sank by a single torpedo.
A single torpedo.
The only thing I regret is that I kept the Reviztan going after the torpedo hit at around 6-10 knots. I should have stopped the engine, and maybe I could have saved her.
An overall view of the battle. I lost contact with the enemy BC soon, and it returned safely to port. The blue line is the fate of the enemy Battleline until the end of the Martel, its last member. You can see how it tried to escape desperately and almost managed to run until our CA force cut the retreat.
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Ah, so what, think about all the money you just saved on maintenance. Design a fatty dread and call it Baardhaas. (option A obviously)
Our submarines have been showing some quality perfomance this whole time. What we really need is one MASSIVE dick-shaped sub sent DEEP into Japan's rear.
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A
Dayyālu
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I'd like to point out that the tech advances we had already made the Nikolai Class obsolete. We can domestically build a 25k tons ship with twelve good quality 13 inch guns.
Twelve. That means a single ship will have the firepower of more than half of our legacy fleet. Combined.
If we want to go full metal, we can build the monster in the docks of our British allies. That would mean a 30.000 tons ship with 14 inch triple turrets. Best tech in the planet. Expensive as heck.
There is the risk that the Britons will say fuck you when the alliance ends (in roughly two-three years).
So, if you vote A, specify:
A1) Russian Tech: Native and Reliable.
A2) British Tech: To Rule the Waves.
Twelve. That means a single ship will have the firepower of more than half of our legacy fleet. Combined.
If we want to go full metal, we can build the monster in the docks of our British allies. That would mean a 30.000 tons ship with 14 inch triple turrets. Best tech in the planet. Expensive as heck.
There is the risk that the Britons will say fuck you when the alliance ends (in roughly two-three years).
So, if you vote A, specify:
A1) Russian Tech: Native and Reliable.
A2) British Tech: To Rule the Waves.
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