The Royal Navy is ahead of its time in many ways, not least our extensive and highly successful project to provide ample marine habitats for the sealife of the Mediterranean.
This campaign was recorded using Admiralsnackbar’s balance mod which you can find here https://forum.game-labs.net/topic/40790-uad-rebalancing-mod-for-13-v1/
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Captain of the 1st Company: Treefrog
Lieutenants: Armande Christoph
Veteran Sergeants: 1stplaceonion, LCG Canyon, Welshy
Sergeants: Jackie, Twitchyknees, Alerik Rahl, paga1985s, Haytor, King Memphis
Veterans: Telemonian Dan, Sunless Sky Nova, Threadoflength, Darth Vendar.
Battle Siblings: Jacky Chan, nagebenfro, scurvekano, Cpt Graftin, Icd, Iroey, Zadrias, JT Bismarck.
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Perfect sinking (40:04)
The Italian battleship had the war thunder trailer playing, " their is a beast deep inside you. It will not die, it will fight back
11:36: And certain people thank you.
Oh, I call shenanigans on that hit on Courageous. But it was interesting earlier to see 6 shots miss by Furious with a 54% chance.
Secretary of the Admiralty Ricky Kopf
November 1922
Another two months go by where we turn our enemy's ships into artificial reefs. Despite Courageous receiving a big hit, the crew were able to save the ship; however, the Italians may want revenge for the loss of their prized battleship by wanting HMS Courageous sunk with no mercy. Meanwhile, Admiral Munro and I decided to survey diplomatic relations between the various world powers including us. Long story short, the French still dislike us because we are good friends with Japan whom they are at war with. Meanwhile, we may go to war against the Chinese as well. If this is the case, I feel Japan may have a predicament as they are friends with both us and the Chinese. However, if they choose neutrality, they are more than welcome to be neutral in our war against China. If they choose to side with China, then we will have to commit more ships to the Pacific Theater.
Join us next time as we may go to war against more nations.
Repurposed coral reefs
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The Greeks navy will lose every battle because it’s is so large they can’t stay replenished!
8:00
“It’s the last out of the ninth inning, the pitcher is working on a perfect game, no batter has even made contact, not even a foul ball, some of the batters seem unsure which end of the bat to hold, and … HOLY COW THERE’S JOHNSON WITH A HARD SHOT DOWN THE THIRD BASE LINE FOR A TRIPLE!! … and … the next batter grounds to first and the game is over.”
The Royal Navy is only the 4th largest fleet on earth tonnage-wise (and almost numbers-wise as well).
Admiral Munro while your performance against the Germans, Italians, and Spanish has been without flaw, this state of being is simply unacceptable! You have allowed the Americans, Japanese, and Russians to surpass you, even though parliamentary decree has forbidden the scrapping or mothballing of fleet assets regardless of age and the highest naval budget on earth. The British Empire expects – nay, demands this disgraceful state of affairs be rectified as soon as humanly possible either through a massive new building program or through the systematic destruction of the American, Japanese and Russian Fleets – ideally both.
God Save the King
(Great episode as always, keep up the good work!)
It's been a while now since I've seen the target locking bug raise it's ugly head, do you think it's gone for good?
So I’m not sure a transport ship was ever built with five funnels. Passenger ship 3-4 maybe but transports almost always one and generally right smack dab in the middle of the ship.
You have to admire the details they put into this game. The main belt pen leading to flooding the the perfect placement of the hit and hole and displayed damage is so wonderful.
Every time I see those wonderful torpedo launches, I hope for the addition of just two buttons: Calculate torpedo solution & hold fire, and Manually fire all torpedoes. It would be quite a game changer, no need for manual targeting along whatever vector, just that, aim and manual fire.
It seems this game isnt a challenge at all!Did you lose a ship in your whole campaign?This game looks like sealclubbing from episode 1!I waited to get exited!But it doesnt happen!
The rum ration is suspended till accuracy is restored😅.
Yeah im waiting for some new ships designs , its been ages ;dd
Remember to refit the Admiral Block IIs when you get the chance to. Their Conning Tower armor is way too thin
So, I only recently started to watch panzergraff's 1910 German campaign roughly a week ago.
One of the things that he has done, besides helping the ai nations by building some of their ship designs for them; (which was the second,) was going back into his save file and editing the technology for all of the nations.
Therefore, preventing them from being in the 1920's and using iron plate, nickel steel, etc.
While still leaving room for the ai to still design its own ships alongside the ships he designed for them.
If/when you decide to kick off a new campaign, would you consider doing the same thing? The save file tech tree editing thing, not the enemy ship design thing.
15:13
This is the point where the enemy ship’s depth charges and / or boilers would explode and cause extensive damage to your ship because it’s less than a hull-length away.
You do know you get no extra points for swapping paint, right?
31:44: 130 Japanese heavy cruisers, of which a lot are probably armoured cruisers, is the reason I keep saying build some more Counties.
Cutting off Supplies to Albania
The Times: 14 November 1922.
The Government, Crown, and Navy of the Hellenic Kingdom have been pressing the Royal Navy to do more operations in the Adriatic to cut off supplies to the Italian Army occupying Albania. Having Italian troops so close to their country rightly concerns the Greeks.
Though alone against a Nemboe class destroyer, Giuseppe Sirtori, escorting one 7 thousand ton armed transport, the Royal Navy F-class destroyer HMS Fennel braved the one on one duel so rarely offered the Regia Marina and attacked. HMS Fennel detected the torpedo launch by Giuseppe Sirtori and turned to dodge the spread and then back to close some more. HMS Fennel got the first hit, damaging Giuseppe Sirtori’s rudder. HMS Fennel’s first torpedo launch was as badly timed and Giuseppe Sirtori dodged her spread. As she closed HMS Fennel’s 2” quick firing guns opened up, peppering the Giuseppe Sirtori. Finally HMS Fennel got the flooding hit she needed to slow Giuseppe Sirtori down. Now HMS Fennel got in solid hits, further flooding the Italian destroyer. Giuseppe Sirtori however sank from structural damage with only four survivors of her 140 man crew.
HMS Fennel then chased down the transport and with six 5” hits sank the ship. Three men survived.
Algeria or Sardinia?
The Times: 8 November 1922
The Galatea class battlecruiser San Luigi, accompanied by the Piemonte class protected cruiser Regina and the Nembo class destroyer Lampo was escorting three Bastarda class 8.6 thousand ton 46 man crewed 4.6” armed transports though the Central Mediterranean south of Sardinia and north of Tunisia when they were intercepted by the Courageous class battlecruiser HMS Furious accompanied by the Myrtle class light gun cruiser HMS Hotspur and the ever present Greek HHMS Steadfast. HHMS Steadfast was ordered to retire being low on fuel and having no torpedoes or armour piercing shells.
The HMS Furious sighted the enemy immediately and ordered HMS Hotspur to close with her on the San Luigi. HMS Furious hit first with her 15”, taking out San Lugi’s 14.1” B turret. Now both battlecruisers had the same number of main guns. HMS Furious got more hits and took out San Luigi’s main tower and 42 bridge crew. Without her tower San Luigi could, for the moment, no longer see HMS Hotspur.
Lampo however could, and launched eight torpedoes at HMS Hotspur. She took two hits on her engineering spaces and two engines disabled. HSM Hotspur was ordered to retire with HHMS Steadfast.
HMS Furious got four 15” hits in her next salvo, destroying A turret and flooding the ship in two forward compartments below the forward turrets. San Luigi again took four 15” shells, one blasting through the whole ship aft. Another round of hits and San Luigi lost her Y turret and was flooding across the whole ship with two compartments completely filled. Listing to starboard and down by the stern, San Luigi sank with 227 survivors out of her crew of 1743.
HMS Furious put her secondary guns on Lampo and her main guns on Regina which was trying to close on the wounded HMS Hotspur. Lampo sank from 5” hits, with 22 survivors of her 136 men on board. HMS Furious then got a 15” shell into Regina, destroying a casemate gun. Regina was now trying to close on HMS Furious, daring the withering fire only to have her foremost funnel destroyed. Already down over a hundred men and flooding in two forward compartments, Regina was out of torpedoes and had lost her 3.6” magazine. Regina lost her second funnel of four and began flooding in three more forward compartments. She quickly sank taking all but 28 of her 442 man crew to the bottom.
With the convoy still in sight HMS Furious charged towards them. With her range she was able to sink Zoea III with six survivors from her 46 man crew. The convoy leader Bastarda sank with only one survivor. Murena’s magazine exploded and she sank with all hands. In total the shipping losses were only 25 thousand tons, but no senior officers survived who knew the final destination. Were the transports going to be turned north to try and run into Cagliari with supplies for the army in Sardinia or south to land on a remote stretch of coast and hump supplies into southern Algeria?
HMS Hotspur had three casualties. HMS Furious had two.
Flensburger Förde
The Times: 29 October 1922
North of the major German Baltic Sea port of Kiel, lying between Holstein, Germany and Syddanmark, Denmark is the Flensburger Förde. Here a raiding force of three bold Royal Navy ships, the Country class heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire, Myrtle class light gun cruiser HMS Adventure, and the F-Class destroyer HMS Fervent found a convoy of fourteen Schleswig-Holstein class 6 thousand ton 32 manned 3.2” armed transports escorted by the Augsburg and Lübeck, two Seeadler class protected cruisers, and one V-10 class destroyer, V-41. These same three Kriegsmarine warships had been spotted in the English Channel three months earlier by HMS Fervent sister ships HMS Fareham and HMS Fennel but not engaged. They had come home from overseas stations to help protect Germany’s dwindling transport fleet and now had a major convoy to shepherd.
Closing on the Danish reported position of the convoy, HMS Dorsetshire spotted the Augsburg and Lübeck closing on her with the V-41 quickly sighted as well. HMS Dorsetshire opened fire with the two protected cruisers replying. HMS Dorsetshire got the first hit with her 11” gun, destroying the Augsburg’s main tower. HMS Dorsetshire then shifted fire and put two 11” hits through the main belt of the Lübeck. The Lübeck sank almost immediately as flooding disabled her engines and crippled her flooding control with 42 survivors of her 354 man crew. The destroyer V-41 launched torpedoes from smoke at HMS Fervent rather too early to get a hit.
HMS Adventure was putting 6” shells into Augsburg and HMS Dorsetshire was hitting the German with 4” secondary shells. An 11” shell banged off the fore deck. Even HMS Fervent was contributing. Augsburg lost a secondary gun and was burning from several fires but had not yet taken a flooding hit. Augsburg was able to make another torpedo launch at HMS Adventure and HMS Dorsetshire, forcing them to turn away from their course towards the convoy, leaving just the destroyer to proceed onward. HMS Dorsetshire came around and pulling out of her turn, she was able to get two hits on Augsburg, finally starting to flood the ship in five compartments aft and disabling one engine. With over a hundred killed or wounded Augsburg was facing the fire from two Royal Navy cruisers. Just as Augsburg got one final hit on HMS Dorsetshire the heavy cruiser got three 11” hits. Augsburg broke in two with only 24 survivors.
With the Augsburg sunk HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Adventure closed on the transports. HMS Fervent was ordered to change course and engage the V-41. Both destroyers were reloading their torpedo launchers but V-41 was well ahead on the task. HMS Fervent’s eight 5” guns greatly outmatched V-41’s two 4.3” guns and one 3.5”. HMS Fervent was able to get a flooding hit on V-41. V-41 sank with 14 survivors of her 96 man crew.
The Royal Navy ships closed on the convoy and quickly started sinking the transports before they could reach the German coast. Lothringen IX sank with one survivor. Ostfriesland III sank with three survivors. Prinz Eitel Friedrich #10 sank with three as well. Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm sank with five survivors.
Star XI was abandoned by her crew to fires, with three survivors. Kaiser Barbarrossa #2 sank with two survivors. Sachsen II only had one. Schleswig-Holstein IX, the leader of the convoy, was abandoned by her crew. Only two survived. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse #11 sank with nineteen survivors.
Having rounded the head of the convoy the HMS Dorsetshire led her division back to pick up the stragglers. Kaiser Karl der Grosse #12 was sunk with five survivors. Hilderbrand XI was sunk with twenty survivors. Ägir XIII was sunk with all hands. Wittelsbach XIII was abandoned to fires by her last two crew as was Armimius VIII.
HMS Fervent had taken two casualties. HMS Dorsetshire had taken one. HMS Adventure had been hit but had taken no personnel casualties.
Calling a Ship “Marksman” doesn’t make it One
The Times: 26 October 1922
A destroyer division of HMS Clacton, a C-class Roya Navy ship, HMS Dervish, a D-class, and the Royal Hellenic Navy’s HHMS Tancred were transiting the Central Mediterranean in rough weather to take the Greek ship home, as she was low on coal and unable to fight, when they spotted the smoke of a small group of ships. Ordering the HHMS Tancred to continue on her course, HMS Clacton led HMS Dervish towards the smoke to investigate. They spotted a ship closing on them and recognizing the profile of a Regia Marina’s Nembo class of destroyers, they opened fire. The destroyer immediately generated smoke and disappeared. HMS Clacton turned her division to avoid the obvious torpedo strike which she detected only seconds later. HMS Clacton launched her two torpedoes in return only to receive a second launch of four from Lupo. HMS Clacton then passed Bersagliere and heard her fire her torpedoes, but not at HMS Clacton. The torpedoes spread was aimed at HMS Dervish and though nearly bow on to the incoming torpdoes, when HMS Dervish tried to slip the spread she took one torpedo amidships, disabling #3 engine and starting flooding. Bersagliere, seeing that she hadn’t seriously damaged HMS Dervish, tried to circle for a ram but pasted behind the Royal Navy destroyer.
Now it was a close in duel between two Italian ships with six 4.2” guns and one British ship with four 5” guns and one with eight. Throwing shells barely 60% of those of the Royal Navy ships, the Regia Marina’s destroyers were at a serious disadvantage. With Bersagliere disappearing again HMS Clacton and HMS Dervish focused on Lupo. With her torpedoes expended, flooded in her aft three compartments, and down twelve wounded men, Lupo was struggling to control flooding in her engineering spaces to keep her #2 engine online to maintain her speed. Then a 5” shell penetrated her main belt below her B gun turret. Her magazine exploded and she began to take flooding forward. Flooding taking hold forward and aft, Lupo sank with eight survivors of her 140 man crew complement, having failed to make one hit during the battle.
HMS Clacton led her division towards Bersagliere. They finally got a flooding hit one compartment aft of the engineering spaces. A second hit opened two more further aft with water pouring in below the secondary tower. Flooding filled the compartment and pressed on into the one aft of the engineering spaces, stressing the bulkheads between. Bersagliere however got a hit on HMS Clacton, starting flooding in her two aft compartments. Bersagliere then took flooding hits forward and with six compartments flooded and two more filling, she sank with thirteen survivors.
The Royal Navy destroyers immediately turned to run down the convoy, HMS Clacton having pumped out one compartment and able to maintain 26 knots. Bouncing in the heavy swells, HMS Clacton sighted the rear of the convoy and opened fire. One of seven 11.7 thousand ton Fama Volante class 80 man crewed armed transports with two 4.1” guns fore and aft in elevated armoured cups and 1.7” guns mounted on her sides, Comandante Faà di Bruno sank with eleven survivors. With her escorts gone silent, her convoy mate sunk behind her, her forward gun mount destroyed, all her remaining ammo explended, Volframio surrendered with forty-four men alive. Venezia Trionfante II took less damage but also surrendered with forty-four survivors.
The destroyers cruised past the next four transports, destroying Francesco I’s, Gemma’s, Ondina’s, and Fama Volante’s fore 4.1” guns and generally opening the ships to the sea. As HMS Clacton came to the head of the column the lead transport Fama Volante surrendered just as her 1.7” and 4.2” magazines exploded leaving forty-two survivors. HMS Clacton sailed past her stern as the fire from HMS Dervish forced Ondina II to surrender with forty-nine survivors. Francesco I sunk with six survivors. Convinced now that she couldn’t escape with the weather clearing, Gemma surrendered with forty-six survivors.
In total the Italian Merchant Marine had lost 319 officers and merchant seamen along with 82 thousand tons of shipping. The Regia Marina had lost 259 officers and ratings killed or lost at sea along with two Nembo class destroyers. HMS Dervish had suffered nine casualties. HMS Clacton had four.
Catching up with Suprema, Part 2
The Times: 22 October 1922
Meanwhile the destroyers had found the convoy and closed on it. The transport Zaffiro III sunk with thirty-seven survivors from her 42 man crew. Turchese sank with four survivors. Marcantonio Bragadin II sank with all hands. Zoea II sank with three survivors.
With Malfatano sunk the HMS Furious turned to find Suprema, remembering that the ship had gotten away from the Royal Navy in July, and the destroyers continued their transport hunt. HMS Courageous, with her dangerously low hull breach, was ordered to slow and effect repairs.
The destroyers sank Airone with six survivors. Malachite II sank with seven survivors. Granito sank with all hands. Ammiraglio Millo sank with six survivors. In total the four Royal Navy destroyers had sunk 49 thousand tons of armed transports with 283 officers and merchant seamen killed or lost at sea. Malachite II and Marcantonio Bragadin II hit HMS Concord but only did hull damage. Zaffiro III his HMS Concord but also only did hull damage.
HMS Furious closed to torpedo range with Suprema, then held that while pounding on the heavy cruiser. With a 15” hit she destroyed Suprema’s funnel and wounded or killed forty-seven men. Another hit stared flooding aft and damaged her rudder. Dodging three torpedo spreads, HMS Furious tried to get a killing blow on the fast and elusive heavy cruiser. Completely flooded in two aft compartments and with her X and Y turrets destroyed as well has her funnel, Suprema had lost three hundred and fifty men not answering to stations. Her full efforts were on damage control and firing her two remaining main 8.1” gun turrets. She was running as fast as she could to get away from HMS Furious. With a salvo hitting with five of six 15” shells HMS Furious broke Suprema’s keel, with the ship leaving 117 of her 972 crew complement floating in the water.
HMS Furious took thirteen casualties, one of whom would be returned to duty after treatment on board. HMS Courageous took 186 casualties from one hit, twenty-six of whom would be returned to duty.
Catching up with Suprema, Part 1
The Times: 22 October 1922
HMS Courageous with a strong squadron found the Miseno class heavy cruiser Suprema and the Ichnusa class super dreadnought Malfatano escorting a convoy of eight Ammiraglio Millo 6 thousand ton 42 man crewed armed transports sailing south east of the island of Sicily. Noting that HHMS Steadfast and HHMS Lochinvar were both under supplied with torpedoes, fuel and shells the Rear Admiral commanding ordered them to linger behind has he sent the two Courageous class battlecruisers led by HMS Furious forward with the destroyers HMS Concord and HMS Duchess in one division and HMS Fareham and HMS Caribbean in another division thus pairing a C-class with a D-class and a F-Class each.
HMS Furious quickly sighted enemy warships and directed the squadron to close with them, keeping an eye out for the convoy. The Malfatano opened up with her 15” guns first. HMS Furious led her division into battle line to open their broadsides while the destroyer divisions continued to close, looking for torpedo armed escorts to tease.
The Suprema was hit by a 15” shell from the battlecruisers before their fire was directed at Malfatano by the Rear Admiral. They got a 15” hit on Malfatano that destroyed her secondary tower and wounded or killed seventy-two men. Several salvos later they destroyed one of Malfatano’s secondary guns. Malfatano turned to close on the Royal Navy ships. HMS Furious got a hit on Malfatano’s main tower, destroying it and killing or wounding twenty-nine of the bridge crew. HMS Courageous disabled her #3 engine with an aft belt penetration. Malfatano was flooding in three compartments aft, had lost her Y turret and superstructure, and had three hundred twenty-nine crew not manning stations. All her efforts were on damage control and fighting her remaining main battery. Another 15” shell from HMS Furious penetrated her main belt, blasting a hole right at the waterline between her second and third funnels, destroyed a casemate gun, disabled her #2 engine, and killed or wounded another seventy men. Malfatano was now flooding in all her engineering compartments. Another salvo from HMS Furious spread the flooding to a seventh compartment. While HMS Courageous was pounding away at Malfatano HMS Furious was systematically taking the ship apart. Her next salvo hit forward, opening two more compartments to the sea. With six compartments aft already completely flooded, and struggling to control the flooding in the seventh, this was a death blow for Malfatano. With their next salvos HMS Courageous continued to break up the Italian battleship while HMS Furious managed to open the last compartment forward to flooding. In her death throes Malfatano got one more salvo off, aimed at HMS Courageous of four shells. One 15” shell hit the main belt amidships just above the waterline, destroying a secondary gun and flooding the #2 engineering compartment below the funnel along with wounding or killing 181 men. Malfatano came apart as much from the recoil of her guns as the damage inflicted by HMS Courageous and HMS Furious. She left twenty-eight men of her 1971 complement of officers and ratings floundering in her debris.
@31:00 korea allied to japan? Well thats broke my immersion. 😂
You close the range to more or less point blank then call a hit to the courageous by the enemy magic? Crippled ship or not, you should expect this and maintain range. But no, blame the game. Old habits die hard I see.