The US Battlecruiser fleet is very bust in today’s episode as they take the fight to the German High Seas Fleet. The heavy units meanwhile invade the Marshall Islands and Morocco as we look to dismantle the German Empire completely.
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32:36 those German designers truly love their guns ending on ".3"….
SECOND!
so what is it with the ai designer refusing any and all armor?
I was paying attention and that cruiser Lutzow apparently had the magic pumping machines. All engines out and they started pumping from 6% to 9% before she was sunk. Just thought it was interesting.
If you ever end up with the option to capture a Austrian BB, BC, or AC i would appreciate her being upgraded to a proper USS Vendar or in the case of an AC USS Las Vegas
You said the Cheyenne looked like a very American cruiser, the superstructure looks a lot like an Omaha Class CL
Day 4 of posting a obligatory comment to boost engagement
So the Flush Decker is my favorite ship in real life and I did some extra digging for this, they don’t have that rounded weird box things, they do have a solid box a little bit back with funnels out the top, but not like the in game version.
The German BC Arminius is in flash fire during the battle against the American BC Franklin ( 8:16 )
10:04
I wonder when the AI will stop investing armor on the turrets at the cost of the hull?
So on the topic of the AI’s … questionable design choices, I have an early French BC design that has 8 16 in guns and makes 40 knots with all of . 8 in of armor it is actually pretty terrifying to fight in 1910
It looks like the Germans accidentally built the Courageous-class. With all the structural properties of a wet noodle.
I was laughing as after 3 months of invading .. you had a 55% chance due to piss poor design on how ships influence invasions and ports, while the Germans had only advanced 6% into western Sahara.
Please keep the Florida class I know it sounds really stupid but it’s a really unique battleship design
Outstanding BC & Screen cooperation tactics in this one BrotherMunro!!!
That's one of the best ways to deal with a minimal secondary, true BC Design limitations… (I totally wish YouTube would allow for In-Game Screenshot's to be shared from Subscribers; so as to share & inspire design features & ideas)
While on the topic of screen ships, I wonder if the Sante Fe's in their 1st Refit would have enough weight savings to get the 3rd Super-Firing rear (Quarter Deck) turret??? (Although if you have to tighten the citadel to do it (restricting forward arcs) I guess that greatly diminishes the added firepower bonus).
[INSERT Much Wished for Screenshot of my own USS San Jose Scout Cruiser II Design]
Damn shame about the German BC lacking the Armor…😕 If you noticed all the other Modules in the Design, it looked like a pretty decent ship. Even taking off the 5th Rear Turret & giving it True BC-Grade Armor would have made it a ship to be reckoned w/.
It's too damn bad your tweaks & the developers patches can't quite seem to coalesce regarding AI Behavior… If it ever happened, this truly would be a game defining the Genre.🧐
Quincy had a good torp run even if the one hit was a dud. She's fast enough to create a cross-torp pattern all by her lonesome.
I appreciate that at the beginning of the episode you showed us the array of German naval forces, then you mowed them down and then at the end of the episode you showed us the new and reduced array of German naval forces.
Plot structure.
0:37: The Prinz Eugen class are leftovers from the last war with Germany. Perhaps your "don't scrap your ship" rule is too tight?
0:52: The Bay of Biscay probably has a storm multiplier built in, or should.
1:45: Yes, four underwater, I"m not sure if they are fore, aft, and one per side or two per side. Okay fore, aft, and one per side. Much less dangerous.
12:35: Actually you did hit a new section on Arminius and one of your flooded sections was pumped.
Sorry, don't want to ruin your game… 😉
15:19: Do you think your can dropped a couple of calibers and make the turrets triples, and save enough to armor the battlecruisers?
Love this game but the AI just constantly makes such trash ships its just not a challenge at all.
Battle of Valencia
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXX: 6 July 1920
the USS Shenandoah BC-1, lead of her class of Battlecruisers, from the Charleston Naval Base in South Carolina, joined by the Santa Fe class Light Cruiser Phoenix, were patrolling the east coast of America’s new protectorate, Spain, when they found four German Leichter Kreuzer, small ships armed with three single 6.1” guns, two mounted side by side forward and one aft. Phoenix was armed with eight 6” guns and was a match for any two of the Augsburg, Gefion, Niobe, and Elbing. Shenandoah was simply overkill.
Shenandoah got the first hits with her 14” guns but Phoenix soon hit with her 6” guns. The damage they did drove Niobe back, and Gefion took the lead in closing behind Phoenix. Phoenix caught Gefion on her torpedo launcher, setting off a detonation and doing serious damage to the ship as Shenandoah turned back to cross ahead of the Germans again. Gefion fell back as well. Once turned around Shenandoah slowed, and with her improved accuracy hit Augsburg hard, punching through her main belt. Augsburg tried to turn away but caught more shells form Shenandoah and Phoenix. Augsburg wasn’t going to get her turn to fall back, sinking with 483 of her 568 man crew.
Elbing took fire next, and didn’t last long, exploding and losing 550 of her crew. The remaining Leichter Kreuzer were already damaged. Niobe burned smoke and tried to lead Gefion forward. Once Shenandoah closed enough to see into the smoke screen she hit and sank Niobe with 517 of her 568 man crew. Gefion took two flooding hits, one forward and one aft, that sank her with 528 of her crew.
Phoenix had taken a slight hit from Augsburg and had one casualty. USS Shenandoah BC-1 didn’t take a hit, but had a combat accident that killed four them.
Battle of the Cantabrian Sea
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXX: 10 March 1920
The Ranger class Battlecruiser USS Panda BC-3, from the Miami Naval Base in Florida, was based forward in Bilbao to counter the threat of German commerce raiders. She was on convoy duty off the northern coast of Spain in the Cantabrian Sea with seven Vicksburg class 13.6 thousand ton transports when her charges were approached by two Kaiserliche Marine Prinz Eugen class Gepanzerkreuzter, the Freya and Lützow. This class, around during the last war with Germany seven years ago, apparently have been relegated to the role of commerce raiders.
They chose their moment well, as the stormy Bay of Biscay weather swept over the convoy before they swept in.
Panda spotted smoke coming in from the East, and moved out to investigate it. Sighting the known silhouette of a German ship, Panda opened fire. With their two single 7.2” guns to Panda’s eight 14” guns, they were severely outranged, and the Germans’ only hope was to close.
Panda had her broadside towards the raiders, and began to slow to improve her gunnery accuracy. Panda fired a full salvo on Lützow and got one hit that did not penetrate. The German began firing back, but only single shells at a time. Panda missed with several more salvos aimed at Lützow. Lützow turned to open her broadside, and fired more often with her 7.2” guns and got the first hit on Panda’s fore deck, wounding two men. Finally Panda got a hit back with a 14” shell under Lützow’s main belt under her second and third funnels and disabling #2 and #3 engines. Lützow chose to turn away.
Panda turned her fire on Freya. Freya was firing her 7.2” guns at Panda now. Freya then took a massive flooding it aft, losing her #3 engine. Both German ships, tossed about in a storm, were now slowed seriously. Freya took another 14” hit as she turned away and sank with 820 of her 911 man crew.
Lützow was now between Panda and the convoy, but not moving fast enough to be a threat to the transports. Panda punched another 14” shell through her main belt. All Lützow’s engines were now dead, and she was flooded over 70% of the ship. Two more hits and Lützow ripped apart, losing 802 of her 911 man crew. Panda had taken 10 casualties from Lützow and proceeded to pick up 200 German survivors.
18:05: Yeah, the Sante Fe does not look to be proportional to the other silhouettes.