The Italians have been copying us, but how will their imitation fare against the real thing?
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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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While I see it happening to you here and there, you have WAY better luck than I on the uncontrollable ship bug.
I'm firing this game up about once a week, starting a new campaign, dipping my toes (ships) into the water and seeing if they are going to wor- and no, they still don't work, @#$% this I'll go play AoW4 😀
You need to stop buying torpedoes off the Americans 😆
Once Again in the Mecklenburger Bucht
The Times: 25 August 1922
Chasing down a convoy of six Brummer class 8.6 thousand ton, 56 man crewed, 3.1” armed transports escorted by two Seeadler class protected cruisers, V-2 and V-27, and one V-10 class destroyer V-39 headed for the Mecklenburger Bucht east of Kiel, the Country class heavy cruiser HMS Sussex and the F-class destroyer HMS Furnace were operating deep into German waters in the Baltic Sea. Or as deep as German waters go now they’ve lost Prussia to the Russian Federation.
The Royal Navy ships chased the transports into a fog bank, closing on the enemy with their detectors. Fifteen minutes into the chase they spotted the destroyer V-39closing on them to fire torpedoes. In the fog HMS Furnace made a bad choice and turned into the torpedo’s path, taking a hit aft and losing six crew. As V-39 passed by HMS Furnace torpedoed her back, but of four torpedoes all were duds.
Asked later to explain this the manufacturer suggested that one of the crewmen killed must have been responsible to setting the arming devices.
HMS Sussex had to step in and hit the V-39 with an 11” shell as the destroyer dodged the torpedoes from HMS Sussex. However hits from HMS Sussex’s 4” guns caused the V-39 to sink with six survivors of her crew of 96.
After dodging one of their torpedo spreads HMS Sussex got two 11” hits on V-2, breaking the ship and leaving thirteen of her 354 man crew floating in the water. Fire on V-27 also sank that Seeadler with forty-two survivors.
Now all the raiders had to do was find five transports in the fog before they made it into port.
Hit by 11” fire from HMS Sussex, Lothringen X broke apart under her nine survivors of her 56 man crew. Sachsen sank with one survivor. Ostfriesland II sunk with seven survivors. Ägir XIII, very unluckly, sank with five survivors. The convoy leader Brummer sunk with two survivors.
In all the German Merchant Marine lost 52 thousand tons of shipping along with 307 officers and merchant seamen. The Kriegsmarine lost 742 officers and ratings killed or lost at sea. HMS Furnace took seven casualties. HMS Sussex took twenty-five casualties.
I didn't hear about the game from you, but you are the first youtuber charming enough to get me to watch 😉
Off the Danish Coast
The Times: 20 August 1922
The Danish government, because of their alliance like Sweden with the Republic of Austro-Hungary which is at war with the Republic of Germany, shares intelligence about German convoys trying to sail up the coast of the Danish peninsula with the Royal Navy.
Which you’d think even the Hun would be smart enough to figure out.
But apparently not, which is why the Country class heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire was able to lead the destroyers F-class HMS Fervent and A-class HMS Adder straight to a convoy of five Star class 8.6 thousand ton 46 man crewed merchant ships escorted by the Blücher class armoured cruiser Friedrich der Grosse and the V-10 class destroyer V-48.
Closing on their reported position, HMS Dorsetshire spotted Friedrich der Grosse heading west to attack the raiders while the convoy turned east to avoid them. The reported destroyer was not visible but a suspicious smoke screen near the tail of the convoy was. HMS Dorsetshire opened up on Friedrich der Grosse and the armoured cruiser swung to port to open her broadsides. Using the advantage of her three triple 11” ABX layout HMS Dorsetshire continued to close and fire with 66% of her armament.
The V-48 became visible, clearly trying to close for a torpedo run. HMS Dorsetshire shifted fire to the destroyer, dodging her poorly timed torpedo launch. The two cruisers then exchanged torpedo spreads which they both dodged, and HMS Dorsetshire dodged Friedrich der Grosse’s second port side launch. HMS Dorsetshire sent her port side launch out at Friedrich der Grosse’s stern, also badly timed and missing because the center torpedo of the spread failed. HMS Dorsetshire had to rely on her 11” guns, and hit three times including destroying a casemate gun with fifty-five crewmen on the casemate deck. Friedrich der Grosse was flooding in six compartments aft. HMS Dorsetshire hit with all six of her next salvo, breaking Friedrich der Grosse in her citadel. The armoured cruiser came apart spilling thirty-eight men into the water from a crew of 757.
HMS Fervent and HMS Adder were no on the convoy, starting to shoot up transports. HMS Fervent sent four torpedoes at Hildebrand X which took two hits and surrendered with twenty-five survivors. Prinz Eitel Fredrich #9 surrendered with twenty-seven survivors. Ägir XII surrendered with twenty-five of her crew still alive. Kaiser Karl der Grosse #11 surrendered with twenty-seven survivors. The convoy leader Star X surrendered like her convoy, with twenty-five survivors. In total the German Merchant Marine suffered 101 officers and merchant seamen killed or lost at sea along with 43 thousand tons of shipping.
The V-48 was allowed to return to the Kriegsmarine with one casualty and perhaps a clearer understanding of the danger of sailing through the waters of enemy co-combatants.
HMS Dorsetshire suffered nineteen casualties.
Nice moment there with Dorsetshire telling the Friedrich to "go flood yourself, you muppet".
Also, isn't it nice when something a f f e c t s g u n a c c u r a c y ?
A possible reason for the sudden circling of all ships as seen in the first battle is that you appear to set them to AI control initially, I assume to get them to close with the enemy. It may be that they head towards the location of the enemy at that time. If they reach this location without encountering the enemy, the ships then just circle around that location as they don't know where else to go.
I knew of the game before I started watching your videos but your videos made the game look really fun so I bought it last week, already have 80 hours on it. I started with Austria like you suggested, the British Empire fell apart and I was in the process of taking their Middle Eastern possessions. Unfortunately I followed you in using the Balance Mod, in particular the one with the gun resizer. I like that the devs update the game a lot…that being said, it broke some of my designs the moment I update to any new versions they put out. Yesterday they updated again and now the game is completely broken, won't even launch with the gun resizer mod. I'm waiting patiently for an update to the mod but looks like I might have to restart my campaign. Real kick in the gut.
Convoy to Palermo Intercepted
The Times: 18 August 1922
The six 15” armed Courageous class battlecruiser HMS Furious, HMS Tribune, lead ship of her semi-armoured cruiser class, and the D-class destroyer HMS Dervish found a convoy of four Venezia Trionfante class 10.6 thousand ton, 107 man crewed, 2.7” and torpedo armed transports north of Sicily heading for port at Palermo with an escort of the Galatea, lead ship of the Regia Marina’s eight 14.1” armed battlecruiser class with 90% of a Courageous throw weight, and the Piemonte class protected cruiser Irrequieto (restless, literally ‘unquiet’ like the sleep of their Captains).
HMS Furious fired on sighting Galatea and all three Royal Navy ships closed as Galatea replied. HMS Furious got the first hit on Galatea’s funnel as she spotted the enemy transports. HMS Tribune and HMS Dervish were ordered to close on the transports. HMS Furious as getting hits on Galatea but she had none in reply so noting HMS Dervish trying to sail past her she turned her secondary on the destroyer. HMS Furious spotted the smoke off Galatea’s port side and concluded that was Irrequieto in hiding.
HMS Furious finally got two 15” starboard fore belt penetrations on Galatea, wounding sixty-six men and starting the ship flooding forward. Galatea began to roll towards the massive hole, and already heavy towards the bow, began to nose into the sea. Flooded in five compartments forward, she took another hit that started flooding aft. Galatea sank with 1590 officers and rating killed or lost at sea out of a crew of 1743.
HMS Furious turned her guns on the Irrequieto while HMS Tribune and HMS Dervish came up on the torpedo armed transports, both ships warned to keep a safe distance. HMS Dervish sank Fionda II with nine survivors. HMS Tribune sunk Narvalo III with all hands. Despite the warnings HMS Dervish took a torpedo from Venezia Trionfante amidships, taking eight casualties. Sibilla sank with all hands. The protected cruiser Irrequieto was abandoned by the last forty-four of her 442 man crew. HMS Tribune sunk Venezia Trionfante with eleven survivors.
In total the Italian Merchant Marine lost 42 thousand tons of shipping and 408 officers and merchant seamen killed or lost at sea. The Regia Marina lost 1987 officers and ratings killed or lost at sea. HMS Dervish had eight casualties. HMS Furious had two.
The Huns in the English Channel
The Times: 15 August 1922
Questions have been asked during Prime Minister Hour of the recent passage through the English Channel of the Kriegsmarine ships Augsburg, Lübeck, and V-41, two Seeadler protected cruisers and a V10 class destroyer. Apparently they were unmolested by a squadron of six Royal Navy destroyers. The Prime Minister pointed out it was standard Royal Navy doctrine for destroyers to avoid heavier ships when not accompanied by a cruiser, and the squadron was not able to call one in to help with an interception. The Royal Navy directive making no exceptions for the English Channel, distressing however much it is for our waterway to be used like this.
Don’t let those shiny magnetic exploders get to you!
Showing up a Little Late
The Times: 13 August 1922
The Royal Army and Royal Marines, along with the French Army, completed operations in the recently liberated Tripolitania when the Regia Marina finally sent a Vittoria class dreadnought, the Santissimo Crocefisso, the Piemonte class protected cruiser Generale Carlo Montanari and the Nembo destroyer Sagittario to disrupt our invasion.
Unfortunately they found the fleet with all boilers lit ready to move to their new mission. The L2 battleship HMS Leviathan, the super dreadnought HMS Queen Elizabeth lead ship of her class and her sister ship HMS Valiant, HMS Renown, lead ship of her battlecruiser class, the Indefatigable class battlecruiser HMS Indomitable, and the G-class destroyer HMS Gallant were all ready to assume cruising stations when the Italians were reported closing from the north.
With HMS Gallant sent ahead to spot the enemy the capital ships moved out at their best speeds. The whole force opened fire when they sighted the Santissimo Crocefisso. HMS Renown got the first hit but HMS Queen Elizabeth first penetrated her armour through the aft belt. HMS Leviathan penetrated the fore belt, demonstrating what 18” shells can do and wounding fifty-five men. Santissimo Crocefisso got two 13.6” hits on HMS Valiant, wounding thirty-seven men and a hit on HMS Leviathan’s A turret that wounded twenty before HMS Queen Elizabeth got another penetration through the aft belt of the Italian. Now flooded fore and aft with water spreading into a seventh compartment and two engines disabled, Santissimo Crocefisso was running with only 744 men answering to stations and all departments undermanned. A last hit from HMS Renown finished her when flooding breached an eight compartment Santissimo Crocefisso and she sunk with 722 of her 860 men aboard. She had sailed sixty-two men short of complement.
With her flagship gone Generale Carlo Montanari dithered, not willing to leave the fire but not willing to charge into the monsters to get into torpedo range. A 15” shell through her funnel convinced her to run, but flooding was starting in three compartments and one was already completely flooded. Another 15” hit from HMS Renown destroyed her secondary tower, disabled #3 engine, and started flooding in three more compartments, including engineering spaces. Soon #1 and #2 engines were disabled. Generale Carlo Montanari sank with 364 of her 417 men on board, having a sailed thirty-five men short of complement. The Italian destroyer Sagittario fled the battle.
For the Royal Navy HMS Leviathan suffered twenty-one casualties. HMS Valiant suffered thirty-six. HMS Renown suffered four. HMS Indomitable had one combat related accident that killed one man.
Getting Away in the Red Sea?
The Times: 6 August 1922
In the narrow waters of the Red Sea you would think even a ship as fast as a Miseno class heavy cruiser of the Regia Marina couldn’t slip past four battleships, two battlecruisers, a heavy cruiser and a destroyer. Yet somehow Gorizia did it, in the dark of night evading the Revenge class dreadnought HMS Ramillies, the Queen Elizabeth class HMS Warspite, the Orion class HMS Monarch and HMS Thunder, the Renown class battlecruiser HMS Repulse, the Courageous class HMS Glorious, the County class heavy cruiser HMS Kent, and the B-class destroyer HMS Barfleur.
All stations have been warned to watch for sightings of Gorizia or any suspected Miseno class cruiser.
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Even in this made up world Warspite has steering trouble!!
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Dynamic, or center, justification?
The V-39 is the ship equivalent of the guy in Saving Private Ryan who has a bullet ricochet off his helmet being totally uninjured, takes it off because he doesn't believe it and is then hit by machine gun fire.
24:35 You're going to have to rename a DD "the quad dud"
Is the royal navy importing its torpedoes from the USA or something? Four duds at once?!
Can you make subemarines?
"Quadruple duds? Send the men at HMS Vernon to go and count penguins in South Georgia." – Admiral Munro.
"Port torpedo crew fell asleep at their posts? Send them to go and count penguins in South Georgia." – Admiral Munro.
"…and the gun crews can't be bothered. Send them to go and count penguins in South Georgia." – Admiral Munro.
"Twice now Admiral Munro has allowed the destroyer component of a defeated enemy force to escape despite overwhelming advantage in firepower. The finding of this court martial is that he is guilty, very guilty, and that we pass a sentence that he be sent to go and count penguins in South Georgia."
These events are believed to have contributed to the establishment of a major British colony beyond the edge of civilisation in the far South Atlantic.