We introduce the German Navy to the advanced super dreadnoughts and battlecruisers we have been building and I think it is fair to say that they really don’t have an answer to them. Yet.
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Captain of the 1st Company: Treefrog
Lieutenants: Armande Christoph
Veteran Sergeants: 1stplaceonion, LCG Canyon, Welshy
Sergeant: Jackie, Twitchyknees, Alerik Rahl, paga1985s, Haytor
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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I kinda want France to be left alive for a while
Mainly so the AI can do some stuff with 1930’s-40’s tech and Pre-dreadnoughts,
And so some actually threatening modern battleships get shown, from France, not just bathtubs and hotels
I’m not sure if the Funnels with rangefinders on Sparrowhawk and her sisters do much, so I’m not sure if spamming them for accuracy works
But I guess the way Sparrowhawk took those transports shows something?
This whole episode has been quite strange, but I appreciate the lack of CL enemies this time, even if the BB’s are also trash
I definitely noticed the improvement in secondary gun accuracy while experimenting in Custom battles last night.
Runing a 1890 US campaign, reached 1899 and just kicked off a war with Spain, experimenting with the Battleship I and II hulls to come up with the best setup for making use of all those nice new Mark 2 main guns.
When using the cage masts both fore and aft for weight savings, it was the usual "meh" results we've come to expect with those.
But surprisingly, just replacing the aft cage mast with the top end secondary tower – while still keeping the forward cage mast for weight and balance reasons – and having a uniform secondary battery of the same caliber and mount type – resulted in a NOTICEABLE improvement in accuracy and performance.
As in, any light cruisers that came within 3 km literally got shredded by the secondary 5 inch or 6 inch battery alone.
To the point that, I have a feeling that they might have to tweak it back a bit in the future.
Secretary of the Admiralty
May 1909
The Germans attempted to lay a trap for some of our cruisers in the North Sea; however, they weren’t expecting our newest battle cruisers to make their debut in the area. As a result, their entire task force got obliterated including one of their old battleships. With the Germans unable to score naval victories at the moment, the British Army decided to conduct two offensives in Africa. The offensive in Togoland is supported by the French Army while we are alone in invading Cameroon. Admiral Munro initially considered positioning our ships in support of our attacks; however, he felt our ships would be better off attacking German colonies elsewhere starting with German Southwest Africa. Meanwhile, our intel indicates the Germans are building more ships. The problem is we are unsure if they are new ships they have recently designed or more of the same. In the diplomatic front, we have befriended the Americans as they are fighting a two front war against the Germans, the Japanese, and the Chinese. We do wish they would send some ships to fight the Germans in the Atlantic.
Join us next time as we see how the Germans will respond to their most recent defeats.
3:10
“Not well armored?”
More like “not armored.”
The Admiral Scheer and the Odin were transports… 😂
I have watched you sink so many A.I ships That I'm confident that you will sink anything that comes your way.thank you for this and please keep bringing us great vids.
I like your content❤
After your comment about the quality control with the weights i noticed that the weights in the post battle sceen are different with one of the battle cruisers actually gaining 1,060t while the others lost weight, wasnt from flooding or ammo usage either?
The classic ¨Give us Helgoland in war reparations"is coming, and you know it!
So one thing i dont like what they did in a recent update, for some reason you cant right click on a minefield when moving a taskforce, meaning that you physically cant do naval invasions, it annoying as fuck since i literally just started to invade india right before the uodate
8:46
Just as Admiral Fisher intended.
Harvey armor? Isn't that like the WORST armor in the game besides plane steel plating? and its been what 5 years? AND ITS LEGONDARY DIFFCULTY!!!! Oh god this AI….. It make Total War look good by comparison.
I wonder if its a pitch/roll thing affecting accuracy as your main battery is at each end so is moving more than the guns in the centre
Rule Britannia intensifies
11:56: It's Ironic because Germany has the most advanced naval technology. Must be putting it all into Mines.
Stormy Weather
The Times: 28 May 1909
The HMS Vindictive, an older but refitted Tribune '05 class semi-armoured cruiser and the A-class destroyer HMS Argyll, taking advantage of bad weather to close on a small convoy of two Undine class transports escorted by the protected cruiser Regensburg. This was particularly hard on the crew of the Argyll, tossed about by the waves as she closed on the transports. The flash of lightning and the crack of thunder put to shame the 3” shells of the Argyll, and she had to close to practically boarding range to sink the Scharnhorst II and then the Undine. The Argyll collected the five survivors before rejoining the HMS Vindictive and leaving the area.
Kaiserliche Marine Pushes Cruisers into the North Sea
The Times: 20 May 1909
The Kaiserliche Marine has sent a squadron of four Freya class armoured cruisers deep into the North Sea to challenge the Royal Navy. In true preparatory school fashion the Royal Navy sent three of their Argonaut class armoured cruisers to meet the Germans. Of course some might point out the Germans were bring a total of sixteen 7” guns to the British bringing twenty-four 8” guns. But the Kaiserliche Marine brags about being the most technologically advanced navy in the world, so they must have compensating advantages?
The battle lines formed under a dark overcast sky, with the two sides exchanging opening hits. But the HMS Zetes. HMS Coronus, and HMS Priasus pounded the lead ship of the Kaiserliche Marine line, the Thor, until she pulled out of the lead but in falling back to the end of the column, she turned to port towards the Royal Navy ships, allowing them to continue to target her until she sank from uncontrolled flooding taking 659 of her 670 man crew with her. Fire shifted to the Irene, now leading the Kaiserliche Marine line. Within in a minute the Irene was also attempting to fall out of line, but she was already flooding fore and aft. She went down with 608 of her crew. The Hertha and Fürst Bismarck turned away to starboard to break off the engagement, but by now the Argonauts were too close. The Fürst Bismarck went down from 4” secondary fire, taking 604 of her crew. The Hertha attempted to turn back to the battle and close on the British, but she too was quickly sunk, losing 624 of her crew.
The only serious damage was on the HMS Coronus who took sixty-seven casualties. The HMS Zetes lost only four men, and the HMS Priasus was not hit.
Undoubtable Demonstration of the Battlecruiser Concept
The Times: 14 May 1909
When the Director of Naval Construction first proposed the concept of the Battlecruiser, conservative voices, that is, retired admirals that had served on traditional battleships, complained that the ships were too weakly armed and the money on a three ship class might better be spent on a couple of standard battleships and some conventional cruisers. The battle in the North Sea by two of the Indefatigable class, the HMS Indomitable and the HMS Indefatigable herself, against a Kaiserliche Marine squadron led by the Wörth class pre-Dreadnought Zähringen, armoured cruiser Widder and Prinz Eugen, Berlin class protected cruisers Mainz and Dresden and the destroyer V-7, certainly provided the validity of the Battlecruiser concept.
The battle began with the HMS Indomitable and the HMS Indefatigable opening their broadsides to bring all their 13.5” guns to bear on the enemy, along with their 5” secondary batteries. Main battery fire was kept on the Zähringen while the secondary guns fired on the lighter ships to keep them away. The Zähringen lost her main tower with the implications to fire and damage control, then took a massive main belt hit through her iron plate armour. The Mainz attempted to sail close to the Zähringen to provide her smoke as a cover, but this just resulted in her taking on hit from a stray 13.5” shell so devastating that the crew had to abandon ship, with 56 of her 509 man crew making it off alive. The Zähringen quickly followed, sinking from uncontrollable flooding and taking all but eleven of her 622 man crew to the bottom. The Widder also lost her main tower but the Dresden was sunk next, shattered by a 13.5” hit from the Indomitable and losing 506 of her 509 man crew.
The Destroyer V-7, of the V-1 class, sank from flooding with only fourteen survivors of her 106 man crew. The armoured cruisers were the next targets. The Prinz Eugen was sunk and then the Widder. Both took 603 of their 670 man crews with them. With the last of the warships of the Kaiserliche Marine gone the two transports were next. Too slow to get away from the battle while the German ships attempted to cover their retreat, the two 7400 ton armed transports with their two 1.6” guns weren’t even able to range on the battlecruisers as they closed from astern. The Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm was sunk with three survivors of her 36 man crew. The Scharnhorst had four survivors.
The Royal Navy losses in officers and ratings in the battle was twenty-one killed or seriously wounded, two-thirds being from the HMS Indomitable.
Bringing the War to Germany’s Doorstep
The Times: 10 May 1909
The Royal Navy cruiser squadron, led by the Argonaut class armoured cruiser HMS Pollux and her sister HMS Theseus and the Interceptor class fast protected cruiser HMS Sparrowhawk attacked a German convoy near the German North Sea coast. Escorted by the Freya class armoured cruiser Blücher, the Berlin class protected cruisers Gefion and Condor, the convoy consisted of six Amazone class 10 thousand ton armed transports carrying eight 3.1” guns and having 69 man crews, the Amazone, Leipzig, Brandenburg, Lippe, Odin, and Admiral Scheer.
With the enemy transports sighted the HMS Pollux and HMS Theseus formed a division to drive right at the enemy and engage their escorts while the HMS Sparrowhawk worked to flank the escorts and attack the convoy. The Gefion and Condor maneuvered to cover the convoy but this brought them under the guns of the Pollux and Theseus. The Condor was sunk first, unable to control her flooding, and lost 433 of her 509 man crew. Fire shifted to the Gefion and she too succumb to flooding hits, losing all but two of her crew when she went down. With the protected cruisers gone, and the Freya class armoured cruiser Blücher not attempting to intervene, the Pollux and Theseus drove up the column of transports while the Sparrowhawk flanked them. The transports tried to defend themselves and the Brandenburg, Lippe, Odin, and Admiral Scheer all inflicted damage, mostly on the Sparrowhawk, but they all demonstrated a fatal flaw in their design, the Germans had not given their ammunition magazines any protection, and each one would suffer the detonation of their magazines, that of the Brandenburg being so massive that the ship broke apart taking all but seven of her crew to the bottom. In total the German Merchant Marine would lose 343 officers and seamen with only 71 survivors rescued from the sea. Since they were on armed transports and made resistance these 71 will be held has prisoners of war. The Kaiserliche Marine had 78 survivors rescued and taken prisoner. The Blücher escaped the battle.
The Royal Navy suffered 72 officers and ratings killed or seriously wounded and took damage on all three cruisers.