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I've been itching to see how your Jabba sail barges would perform in action, and I expect you're well-pleased with the results so far. I know you didn't used to be a fan of the early game, but one of my fondest memories as a viewer was an 1890s slugfest you did a year or two ago, where one of your ships chased its opponent around the ocean for what seemed like hours. Your guns, even when they hit, had no effect, and you were relying on short range torpedoes. Every time you made a turn you'd lose way, and it took forever to work back up to speed and try to force the enemy to turn so you could catch back up again. It was both hilariously slow going and nail-biting, and while we didn't get the same thing here (presumably because you've had a few years to get some upgrades in) there were shades of that sense of close-in running up to your enemy and throwing potatoes at each other. Great stuff.
A ligh Cruiser exchanging broadsides with a battleship, the balls in the ship's crew and captain are big 🥚🥚🥚🥚
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7:04: Yes, it's a mite-e cruiser squadron.
Fleet list the Cosmao class so I can get the right navale stations please.
8:06: Sape by 7 knots, yes.
17:00: Marseillaise is really not good at slowing down.
speaking of weird gun calipers 51mm in your cosmao-class.
Miss clicked you may had.
Battle of the Taiwan Strait
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMV, 3 August 1905
The Cosmao class Croiseur Léger Marseillaise from the Fort Bayard Station navale in Kwang-Chou-Wan joined her station mate the Tricolore class Croiseur Léger Tage and Tage’s class sister Duquesne from the Saigon Station navale in Cochinchina, and the Aspirant Herber class Destroyer torpilleur Sape from the Haiphong Station navale in Tonkin on a patrol of the Taiwan Strait. This was too much even for the Chinese Republic Navy, and the Hife class battleship Weisheng, which was only 700 tons greater displacement that Marseillaise, the Shaanix class armored cruisers Anhui and the class lead Shaanxi, and three Zouchange class protected cruisers Yueyang, Xinyi, and Yulin, sortied to drive the French warships out of their territorial waters.
Tage was leading Duquesne and Marseillaise with Sape screening when they spotted the funnel smoke of a half dozen ships to the north-east. Sape was sent forward to scout the incoming ships while Tage closed at her 21 knot speed. The first ship sighted was Yulin, Zoucheng 1891 refit with her six funnels. Tage turned west, hoping the Chinese would feed their lighter ships into her broadsides first without armored cruiser support. Having sighted the enemy van, Sape was pulled back for the moment. Tage and her battle line pumped 155mm shells into Yulin, starting fires and causing flooding. The flooding spread throughout the aft of the ship and Yulin fell back. The unrefitted Yueyang was up next. Under fire for only minutes, Yueyang sank with all but 5 of her 237 man crew.
Xinyi was closing, and she was targeted next. Tage led the line in a turn to get away from Weisheng and close on Xinyi. Tage crossed the T of the Chinese protected cruisers, piling on hits from her 155mm guns. Already damaged, a few more hits and Yulin sank with 447 of her 465 man crew. With flooding fore and aft Xinyi was not long either, but she kept closing, sinking with 431 of her 465 man crew.
Tage would not head towards the Chinese battleship while Sape crept back toward Weisheng for a torpedo run. As soon as Weisheng fired on Sape the destroyer burned smoke to hide her advance. Sape was now to the east of Weisheng and driving her while the Croiseurs Léger were to the west and beginning to take Weisheng under fire. Weisheng tried to break away to the south, setting up the perfect torpedo cross fire, while Shaanxi and Anhui were trying to close on Sape, an objective they were ill designed to achieve. Tage and Sape began to turn south themselves to edge into torpedo range of Weisheng. Sape fired her two 430mm mark 1 torpedoes first, one struck Weisheng on her main belt even as Sape broke away from the battle to reload. Tage’s five port torpedoes missed as Weisheng tried to avoid Sape’s torpedoes, and Duquesne’s five missed because of the turn as well, with Marseillaise’s three were coming in as well, but again Weisheng turned allowed her to miss them.
Tage began a turn to bring her starboard tubes to bear. But even as the battle line moved past Weisheng Marseillaise took a shot with her one aft torpedo tube, hitting Weisheng on her portside as Sape had done. In seconds Weisheng was sunk with 746 of her 789 man crew.
Again Tage led the division in crossing the Chinese cruisers’ T, firing away with her 155mm guns and trying to draw Anhui and Shaanix with their 261mm guns in on them by slowing down the division. As Anhui Tage fired her spread of five torpedoes. However Marseillaise didn’t slow as well as Duquesne and her near collision with Duquesne broke up the formation, ruining the chance to cross torpedo Anhui. Anhui and Shaanix slipped the gap in Tage’s spread. Duquesne however now had an excellent angle on Anhui and launched. Four torpedoes out of five hit, but three were duds. The one good hit was on Anhui’s main belt. Unable to stop the flooding from the one hit, Anhui sank with all but 5 of her 390 man crew. Tage was trying to bring the division around for a torpedo attack on Shaanix when ship simply sank from 155mm fire, taking 378 of her 390 man crew with her.
Sape and Tage picked up the 117 Chinese survivors while Marseillaise took care of her light damage and one casualty and Duquesne to her six casualties.
The Flotte de Brest had just stopped to coal at Djibouti.
The Flotte de Brest Sails
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMV, 28 June 1905
While its preparations were kept secret it’s impossible to miss the Flotte de Brest sailing from their Base navale principale. Consisting of six Cuirassés de 1er Rang class, The Bretagne, lead of her Cuirassé de 1er Rang class, the Lyon, lead of her class, the Gaulois class Surveillante, the Démocratie class Requin, the Normandie, lead of her class, and the Indomptable, lead of her class, along with the Tonnere class Croiseur Cuirassés Chanzy, the Troude class Frégate Cassard, and the Aspirant Herber class Destroyer torpilleur Commandant Lucas. Their destination and mission have not been announced.
China Declares War on France!
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMV, 21 June 1905
The Republic of China has declared war on the Troisième République Française, perhaps imagining that we would not have the resources to send to support the Flotte d'Extrême-Orient. This is certainly a question of balance, but the Amiral leading the office of the Force d’Action Navale assures us that the Marine Nationale will be able to support operations, though not what will be sent. The Flotte d'Extrême-Orient, the Djibouti Station navale, the Saint-Denis Station navale in Réunion, and Moroni Station navale in the Comoros Islands have already been put on high alert and full operational status.
Diplomatically, we have the support of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Soviet Union, Empire of Japan, and the Reino de España. The Republic of China has the support of the Deutsches Kaiserreich, the United States of America, the Regno d'Italia, and the Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie. Three of which are uncomfortably close.
Ill Timed Accusations
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMV, 17 June 1905
The Parisian press, in a remarkably ill-timed attempt to undermine the government before the outbreak of war, has accused the Bureau de carénage et reparation (Office of refit and repair) of corruption in the April 1900 refit of the Indomptable, Bruix, Colony, and Troude classes. This charge is based on such scanty information and is so outdated as to be beyond irresponsibility.
The Premier amiral de France however has pledged over $300 million to conduct an investigation into the charges. A mind boggling sum at a moment like this.
Chinese Extortion
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMV, 12 June 1905
The Republic of China seems to think a lot of themselves, as they have fabricated a claim that the Flotte d'Extrême-Orient is operating ‘on their borders’ in a threatening manner. We control Kwang-Chou-Wan and Fort Bayard and have our Base navale régionale along with the Bruix, lead of her Croiseur Cuirassés class, the Tricolore class Croiseur Léger Tage, and the Aspirant Herber class Destroyer torpilleur Francis Garnier posted there, and their standard operations we do not apologize for.
Those Chinese "battleships" are so bloody horrible, I love them!
In the spirit of the french quad turrets, will there be a theme later of attempting to have quad turreted ships as often as possible? Seems like a cool nod
I am really looking forward to trying a playthrough with your mod 🙂
That wee little cruiser you lost was amazing ? Kind of ok really considering what they dish out and how much they can take despite being glorified armoured destroyers . Like next time i play France im making a million of them
The absolute terror that will be caused when the Chinese meet the French Battleships.
25:24: Early game fun, flash fires and torpedoing big ships. Late game fun massive battles.
44:24 The Captain of the Mistral "Hey, hey, hey. guys. I think it would be funny if we rammed the torpedo boat!" "Yes, hic, sir…" "Captain, perhaps we should all put away the cognac now?" "Spoilsport!"
The D’Estrées and her crew will now be immortalized as legends in the Munro French Navy and on this channel for their heroic actions of standing up to a battleship, albeit a bad battleship but a battleship nonetheless and being successful in doing so!🫡
42:37: Forfait of the Cosmao class and we would like to see the fleet/port dispositions of them please.
44:23: OMGMA, friendly fire. A 155mm just hit Mistral.
Battle of Chinchew
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMV, 19 August 1905
Two Croiseurs Léger, the Cosmao class Forfait from the Fort Bayard Station navale in Kwang-Chou-Wan and the Tricolore class Jean Bart from the Cam Ranh Bay Station navale in Annam were joined by two Aspirant Herber class Destroyers torpilleur, the Francis Garnier from the Fort Bayard Station and the Mistral from the Haiphong Station navale in Tonkin, in a commerce raid up the coast of China towards Chinchew. They found seven Cixi class 4.6 thousand ton 25 manned unarmed Navires de transport escorted by three Shaanxi class Croiseurs cuirasses, the 1890 refit Jingsu and the unrefitted Fujian and Yunnan, two Zoucheng class Croiseurs Léger, the 1891 refit Chaozhou and the unrefitted Haimen, along with two Y-1 class Torpilleurs, the Y-11 and the Y-20.
To get in close to Chinchew the Capitaine de frigate of Forfait waited for fog and overcast before closing. This allowed him to spot the funnel smoke of a dozen ships to the north-west coming out of Chinchew without them immediately spotting him. Jean Bart led Forfait in the Croiseurs division while Francis Garnier led Mistral in the Destroyers division. They both headed towards the funnel smoke. Jean Bart sighted the first two Chinese ships, Y-20 and the Y-11, and opened fire. Y-20 took hits from 155mm and 80mm guns, with her conning tower damaged. This drove her off but Mistral got badly out of formation and came up on Y-11, invoking a torpedo launch. The torpedo hit but it was a dud. However Mistral, while trying to avoid the torpedo, ended up Y-11 ram her. Y-11 came off the worse for the ram but two 155mm shells meant for Y-11 hit Mistral, doing serious damage fore and aft. The Capitaine de corvette of Mistral was ordered to return to Haiphong Station navale to explain his 8 crew losses. The board of inquiry is ongoing at this moment.
Francis Garnier turned hard to reengage V-20. Jean Bart and Forfait were also turning head back towards the battle and firing on V-20. The Chinese Croiseurs cuirasses where closing on Jean Bart. Finally Francis Garnier sank V-20 with all 19 of her crew.
Jean Bart was turning away from the Chinese Croiseurs cuirasses, not willing to head directly at them. She sank Y-11 with one survivor. Jean Bart now targeted Haimen, just two kilometers off her starboard bow. Francis Garnier crossed behind Forfait towards the gap between Haimen and the Croiseurs cuirasses. However this put her right in the path of a torpedo spread from Haimen, One was a dud but the other hit on her amidships. Haimen sank with 231 of her 237 man crew as Francis Garnier took flooding in her engineering spaces losing her #3 engine. Francis Garnier couldn’t get clear because she was in the arc of fire from the Chinese Croiseurs cuirasses, taking a torpedo from Jingsu that shattered her strained bulkhead and spreading the flooding forward. She lost #2 engine.
Jean Bart and Forfait were engaging Chaozhou meanwhile and finally sank her with 421 of her 465 man crew. This didn’t help Francis Garnier who was taking more firs from the Chinese Croiseurs cuirasses and lost engine #1. With no auxiliary power Francis Garnier was dead in the water. She sank with just 9 of her crew as the other 86 abandoned ship as a torpedo from Yunnan came streaking in.
Jean Bart turned to cross the T of the Chinese Croiseurs cuirasses, launching torpedoes at Yunnan. Four of her five torpedoes hit, three on the fore belt and one on the main belt. Yunnan’s #1 and #2 engines were disabled. She quickly flooded forward of her amidships with over 40 casualties reported. Forfait launched her forward torpedo at Yunnan as well. As Forfait’s torpedo streaked in Yunnan launched hers at Jean Bart. Yunnan sank with 254 of her 237 man crew before seeing if her torpedoes struck Jean Bart.
Jean Bart took one torpedo on her main belt, losing 14 men. Jean Bart was ordered to withdraw. Now the battle was between Forfait against Jingsu and Fujian. Forfait quickly began to hit Jingsu with her 155mm guns, putting most shells through her 112.5mm compound armor. Jingsu was flooding fore and aft, with over 50 casualties. Jingsu sank with 367 of her 390 man crew.
Forfait now engaged Fujian, but the range was longer and the hits were not penetrating, so Forfait tried a torpedo launch. Two hit one on the main belt disabling #3 engine and one on the aft belt disabling Fujian’s steering gear. Then Fujian lost her 261.6mm powder magazine, and her aft twin main turret blew into the air on a column of blue flame. This triggered her fore twin main turret, which also flew away.
Rather than chasing the convoy, now well out of sight and likely back in Chinchew, Forfait recalled Jean Bart and Mistral to pick up survivors. There were 86 men rescued from Francis Garnier and 93 Chinese sailors found.
Battle of Hong Kong
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMV, 14 August 1905
The Bruix, lead of her Croiseur Cuirassés class and Vaisseau amiral of the Flotte d'Extrême-Orient, from the Fort Bayard Base navale régionale in Kwang-Chou-Wan, joined the Indochinese stationed Tricolore class Croiseur Léger Colbert from the Kompong Som Station navale in Cambodia, and two Troude class Frégates, the Catinat from the Saigon Station navale in Cochinchina the D'Estrées, from the Haiphong Station navale in Tonkin went out into the South China Sea to conduct a commerce raid off the port of Hong Kong. They found a convoy of thirteen Huolo class 7 thousand ton 29 manned unarmed Navires de transport escorted by the Shusheng class Cuirassé du 2ème rang Pellun, the Shaanxi class Croiseur cuirassés Jiyuan, two Zoucheng unreftted Croiseurs protégé Chuzhou and Qidong, and the Y-1 class Torpilleur Y-22.
Colbert led Catinat and D'Estrées when Bruix spotted the funnel smoke of a score of ships to the north-east coming out of Hong Kong. The Contre-admiral aboard Bruix ordered the Croiseurs Léger to close on the smoke while he ordered the Capitaine de vaisseu of the Bruix to fall in behind the Croiseurs Léger where his 180mm guns could range with the 155mm on Colbert and the 130mm on Catinat and D'Estrées.
Colbert sighted the first two ships and identified them as Chinese Republic Navy. Again the Chinese Siáu-chiòng was sending in his ships by division rather than forming them into one formation, allowing the ships of the Marine Nationale to pick them off as they came. The Y-22 was in the lead, and Colbert turned to receive her with full broadsides. Behind Y-22 Qidong and Chuzhou were hiding under smoke. Y-22 closed to torpedo Colbert but Colbert avoided the torpedoes while putting one dud into Y-22 with her forward tube, then hitting with four torpedoes from her port tubes, two duds and two hits amidships of Y-22. The Torpilleur sank with 6 of her 19 man crew, 13 having abandoned the boat after taking the first hit.
Colbert now targeted the Croiseur protégé Qidong as she closed on the French battle line. The Siáu-chiòng had gotten his formation in order, with Qidong leading Chuzhou and the Croiseur cuirassés Jiyuan with his Vaisseau amiral Pellun tight on their port beam. Qidong closed on the battle line as Colbert began to turn them around, sending along with Catinat more torpedoes at Qidong. Qidong took five hits, two of which were duds, and launched her own torpedoes at Catinat. Qidong sank with 219 of her 237 man crew as her torpedoes streaked towards Catinat. Catinat turned hard to starboard but couldn’t avoid the torpedo which fortunately proved a dud.
Chuzhou was closing in and the battle line targeted her. D'Estrées launched on Chuzhou but the Chinese Croiseur’s bow was towards D'Estrées. D'Estrées’ torpedoes missed even as Catinat send her aft torpedo at Chuzhou’s port side. Chuzhou turned so that torpedo missed as well. Bruix was now coming up on Chuzhou and put two 180mm shells into her, sinking Chuzhou with 222 of her 237 man crew.
With a two knot advantage Pellun had moved ahead of Jiyuan and the French battle line targeted the Cuirassé. D'Estrées was closest to Pellun but her port torpedo tubes were reloading and D'Estrées was taking fire. At less than a kilometer Pellun got the first 129.5mm hit on D'Estrées. Catinat cut between Pellun and Jiyuan and sent torpedoes at Jiyuan. Jiyuan dodged them. Jiyuan sent out her own torpedo and hit Catinat but it was a dud. Jiyuan however was taking shell hits and sank with 248 of her 273 man crew.
D'Estrées finally finished loading her tubes and launched at point-blank range on Pellun. Three torpedoes hit amidships on Pellun’s starboard side. Flooding swept through Pellun but D'Estrées was flooding as well. The crew of Pellun abandoned ship when they saw D'Estrées’ torpedoes coming, with only 109 of her 604 man crew being lost. The venerable D'Estrées was ordered to slow and conduct damage control, but she wasn’t able to stop the flooding and sank with 468 of her 487 man crew.
Colbert, Catinat, and Bruix were closing on the convoy. Being faster, Colbert got up on the convoy first and began tearing into Navires de transport with her 80mm guns. The Nyan sank with all 29 hands. Changxi sank with 27 men. Bruix was reaching into the convoy with her 180mm guns. Dezhou sank with 28 men. Cixi sank with all hands. Zhanjiang sank with one survivor. Bruix and Catinat were now up and able to deal with the Navires de transport Colbert had passed. Colbert was closing on the head of the convoy. Bruix sank Pingyuan with one survivor. Colbert sank Nanchang with one survivor. Colbert then sank Hsing-chu with one survivor. Colbert sank Shiyi with two survivors. Bruix torpedoed Baotou and sank her with one survivor and then sank the Tieling with all hands. Colbert sank the convoy leader Huolo with all hands. Catinat was still closing on Huaxinjie, sinking her with two survivors. The Chinese Merchant Maring had lost 92 thousand tons of shipping capacity, 365 officers and seamen killed, and 12 found.
566 Chinese Republic Navy personnel were found as well. Catinat took 6 casualties. D'Estrées had 19 survivors.
Battle of Tainan
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMV, 8 August 1905
The Porcupine class Croiseur cuirassés Foudroyante from the Saigon Station navale in Cochinchina, the Portuguese surrendered Porcupine class Croiseur cuirassés Henri IV from the Kompong Som Station navale in Cambodia, and the Aspirant Herber class Destroyer torpilleur Hussard from the Cam Ranh Bay Station navale in Annam attacked a convoy of four Jiamusi class 6 thousand ton 28 manned unarmed Navires de transport escorted by the Shusheng class 1894 refit Cuirassé du 2ème rang Jintang, the Shaanxi class Croiseur cuirassés 1890 refit Heilongliang, the Zoucheng unreftted Croiseur protégé Jinzhou, and the Y-1 class Torpilleur Y-15.
Henri IV led the Croiseur division with Hussard screening when they spotted funnel smoke to the north from a near dozen ships. Hussard surged forward to investigate the smoke, determine their nationality, and report back to the Croiseurs. Sighting two Chinese Croiseurs, Henri IV first fired on Jinzhou, which was attempting to hide in smoke. Jinzhou emerged out of the smoke driving in towards Henri IV. As she closed the 80mm guns on Henri IV began to hit. The 80mm hits began to rip Jinzhou up, while the 230mm shells passed entirely through the ship. With flooding forward and aft Jinzhou still tried to close and fire her torpedoes, but Henri IV’s 405mm torpedoes had more range and the Croiseur launched her two port torpedoes at Jinzhou’s starboard side. Seeing the torpedoes closing in the crew of Jinzhou abandoned the ship before they hit. Only 45 of her 237 man crew were killed.
With both ships closing on them Henri IV targeted the Cuirassé Jintang and Foudroyante targeted the Croiseur cuirassés Heilongliang. Hussard was working her way around the Chinese escorts to close on the Torpilleur Y-15 and Jintang, firing on Y-15 and lining up her torpedoes for the Cuirassé Jintang. Foudroyante meanwhile put two 230mm shells through Heilongliang’s main belt, starting flooding in the bow and in her engineering spaces. With her engines disabled Heilongliang couldn’t run her pumps to control the flooding. She sank with 98 of her 390 man crew even as her 262mm powder magazines lit off, sending her two twin main battery turrets flying into the air.
Realizing that death was coming on the wings of the Hussard, Jintang turned her guns on the Destroyer torpilleur. Hussard of course was living up to her mission and firing her 80mm guns on Y-15 even while turning to port to line up her torpedo tubes for a launch on Jintang. Hussard closed to less than a kilometer before firing her two torpedoes. Both torpedoes hit Jintang on her port side but only one exploded. Hussard pulled back to reload. With 75 casualties reported Jintang was flooding forward back to her main tower. Foudroyante took up firing on Y-15 while Henri IV continued to fire on Jintang, making their task of damage control more difficult. Hussard was sent to sight the Navires de transport again.
Foudroyante launched torpedoes at Y-15 and Henri IV at Jintang. With flooding now taking her aft and the two torpedoes from Henri IV going to hit the crew of Jintang abandoned ship, losing only 102 of her 785 man crew. Low on fuel, Y-15 was now trying to break away from the battle, but the two Croiseurs Cuirassés were keeping her under fire with 80mm and 230mm guns. With four 230mm shells blasting through the hull of Y-15 the Torpilleur was sunk with all but 1 of her 19 man crew just as Hussard signaled that she had found the Navires de transport.
Hussard closed on the convoy and sank the Liacheng with all 28 of her crew. Heze also sank with all hands. The convoy leader Jiamusi sank with 1 survivor. Wuxi had tried to break away from the rest of the convoy but this was only leading her towards Henri IV and Foudroyante. Hussard however turned hard and caught up with Wuxi, sinking her with 80mm fire while Wuxi also took a 230mm shell. The Navires de transport had 1 survivor. The Chinese Merchant Marine had lost 24 thousand tons of shipping capacity, 110 officers and seamen killed, and 2 survivors.
Henri IV and Foudroyante had to collect the 1168 survivors of the Chinese Republic Navy while Hussard picked up the two survivors of the Chinese Merchant Marine. Hussard had taken a hit from Jintang and had one man killed.
That battleship is literally slower than HMS warrior. Amazing.
Hi, I've been having crashes on bootup after installing the mod – looking through Nexus mod pages and Game-labs forum, but to no avail.
Is it normal to have crashes when you have uninstalled the game as well as the mod, then reinstalled the game along with the mod?
Why not slow down and turn instead of just turning when avoiding torpedoes?
Can't help thinking those impact angles aren't going to help the torpdeo dud rate. They're not exactly likely to be running magnetic detonators at this date, and contact detonators generally didn't like working at <45 degree angles.
Given the slow speed of early torpedoes, a 30 degree impact gives a very real chance of not generating enough force to actually trigger the impact detonator even if everything in the torpedo was working perfectly.
17.42. I do believe that first batch of toredoes hit the cruiser behind [ at least 1 ] at the same time the second batch hit with one. Otherwise that flooding was awful fast.