With the Russian Far East secure our thoughts turn to eliminating the remaining forces of the Spanish in the area. We then move onto taking the fight to the Germans, who seem intent on opposing us in the largest fleet engagement of the campaign.
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Those German BB's were tough. Highly resistant to flooding damage, it seemed to me.
Wörth, it's similar spelled like word but with a hard T at the end.
there is no th in german, it's just a prolonged t, maybe slight h in the end. but spelling it as an ordinary t is just fine
unless the H comes from a different word of course, like in Palasthof made out of the two words Palast and Hof
Love the episodes good sir👍.I really enjoy the mod u put together. U very good at it
That BB vrs BB was indeed more realistic thanks to the Mod i think. The biggest difference was the outcome really was not a forgon conclusion from the outset. As the Admiralty experience grows will be increasing a factor especially when the AI uses template ships. Great work BM that battle is definately a proof of concept.
I have to say you're the first YouTuber I've ever decided to push the join button. I absolutely love your content and hope you keep making such amazing content
Hello BrotherMunro
The German BB Wörth is in flash fire. I like explosive moment (42:44)
Just going to engage in this content
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and Boxing Day. I thought you took the week of for the holiday. But, you proved me wrong. The celebration must have worn you out quick so much so you were very keen on getting content out there. I applaud you for that.
Is it not morw effective to team up on one BB at the time, making your numbers advantage bigger?
One issue im starting to have with this game is the frequency of wars, ive been doing an 1890 germany campaign and its 1922 right now, 8 haven't seen peace since 1898, its starting to be a pain
Munro yu should do a Russia campaign next
Almost 94 thousand Victory point for that last battle – I commend you Sir.
pronounced "voert"
Peace Treaty with Republica de España
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 8 May 1936
The new government of Spain has agreed to peace negotiations with the Empire of Japan. After their seventeen month war they have offered $919.5 billion dollars. Having no overseas territories left this was the number agreed.
In their war against the Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun the Armada Español lost one battleship, six battlecruisers, 18 heavy cruisers, and 17 light cruisers, some 683,959 tons of warship displacement. They lost 41,374 officers and enlisted men killed, 2,919 captured and to be returned. The Spanish managed to sink the Asama class heavy cruiser Aoba, the Tsugaru, lead ship of her light cruiser class, and the Tunisian Ikazuchi class destroyer Mikazuki.
The Armada Español is remarkably well off, with seven battleships, two battlecruisers, 3 heavy cruisers, and seventeen light cruisers.
Spanish Attack on Okinawa Fails
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 14 April 1936
The Spanish have announced they are ending their campaign to invade the islands of Okinawa. Since they had no fleet left to support operations this seems a wise move.
Peace with the Russian Federation
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 7 April 1936
With the fall of the Communist Party as they tried to reestablish a Capital in Sevastopol, the new government of the Russian Federation has agreed to make a peace treaty with the Empire of Japan. Their offer for peace was to give a war indemnity of $1.124 billion dollars to end their seventeen month war of aggression.
In their war with the Empire of Japan the Soviet Navy lost two battleships, two battlecruisers, three heavy cruisers, and seven destroyers, some 228,235 tons of warship displacement. They lost 8,046 officers and enlisted killed and 893 captured, to be returned with the signing of the peace. The Soviet Navy managed to sink the Ikazuchi class destroyer Ōnami in March of 1935.
The Russian Federation Navy consists of the heavy cruiser Kronshlot, the light cruisers Svetlana, Griden, Tallin, Dnepr, Boyarin, and Leytenant Illyn, and the destroyers Almirante Guise, Yastreb, Zhelezniakov, Donskoy Kazak, Koshun, Gagara, Zavetnyi, Sampson, Bodryi, and Leytenant Zatsarenni.
Cruisers fight East of the Azores
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 13 March 1936
The Abukuma class light cruiser Yoshino, operating out of Ponta Delgada at the Azores, found and fought the Conde del Venadito class light cruiser Diana. Yoshino sighted the Diana to the east and immediately closed on her. Though peace negotiations were in the offer the Azores squadron had developed a serious distaste for the Armada Español. Diana had other things in mind and she turned about to try and avoid the battle.
Yoshino gunnery was particularly good this day however, getting a lot of early hits. Eventually Diana turned to engage, but the damage was too severe. Diana sank with 835 of her 1006 man crew, having failed to hit Yoshino once. 171 officers and enlisted were picked up and taken to the Azores as prisoners.
Spanish Cruisers Cornered
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 15 February 1936
The Maria Juan class heavy cruiser Santa Maria de Gracia and the Conde del Venadito class light cruiser Miguel de Cervantes, which travelled from the Golfo de Cádiz where they lost a convoy in July against the Haguro and Ioshima, to the Sea of Japan too late to engage in any of the battles outside of Vladivostok, were cornered by the Dai-ichi Kantai (1st or Main Fleet) consisting of Satsuma class battleships Satsuma, Hyūga, and Kaga, the Karasawa class battlecruisers Karasawa and Yari, the Kirishima class battlecruisers Kirishima and Hiei, were accompanied by the Tsugaru class light cruisers Izumi and Matsushima and the Mogami class light cruisers Sendai and Tama. The Japanese ships had fought a major battle two months before and were still damaged and undermanned.
Santa Maria de Gracia and Miguel de Cervantes were reported to be operating South-east of Japan’s newest port, and were found at night in good weather. Hyūga was leading the battle line with Satsuma and Kaga following. Hiei led Yari, Karasawa, and Kirishima formed behind the battle line. Sendai, Tama, Izumi, and Matsushima scouted the enemy. Santa Maria de Gracia headed away, drawing the Dai-ichi Kantai forward, until they detected the Miguel de Cervantes, which had stayed back to try and ambush the Japanesee cruisers. Miguel de Cervantes got close and launched on the cruisers with Sendai, breaking up their formation but failing to hit any of them. Miguel de Cervantes sank with 967 of her 1006 man crew. She had managed to put a hit on the light crusier Sendai, inflicting one casualty.
Santa Maria de Gracia was under fire from the 16” guns from the Satsuma class battleships. She quickly succumb to the damage and took 1034 of her 1072 man crew down with her. She had gotten a hit on the light cruiser Tama, inflicting thirteen casualties.
By the next morning 77 Spanish officers and enlisted men were found and pulled from the winter sea.
Centrists Win in Elections Again
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 5 January 1936
The Centrist party has again been returned to power in Tokyo. Their campaign promises include making peace with Spain and Russia while supporting our allies against the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Economically their policies have seen an unprecedented growth in the Imperial GDP.
Negotiations with the Soviet Union have not yet progressed. Apparently the size and shape of tables are of paramount importance.
Revolution in Spain
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 2 January 1936
The Spanish Monarchy has fallen and the Republica de España has been declared. The Foreign Ministry opines that this will increase the likelihood of peace.
Last Convoy Out
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 22 December 1935
The Soviet Government in Exile has been operating out of the Khabarovsk Oblast of the Far Eastern Krai with their capital at Vladivostok since they initially liberated the territory after the fall of their historical capitals in Saint Petersburg and Moscow to the Germans after the collapse of their rule across Russia.
With Vladivostok now fallen, the Soviet government had critical state papers they wanted to spirit out of the Far Eastern Krai, and with their navy very depleted, they assigned the Bespokoiny class 1923 refitted destroyer Gavriil to escort three transports carrying those state papers, and a lot of other stuff, out of the Pacific theatre.
The government in Tokyo did not want that to happen, but they didn’t know where the Gavriil and transports would be, so they had to spread their assets out widely.
The Harukaze class destroyer Sumire, with her 1925 refit, found the Gavriil and transports moving north in an effort to break out through the Sea of Okhotsk. Gavriil has almost as many and bigger guns than Sumire, and as many torpedo tubes. And she had the weather on her side.
Sumire was still able to find the convoy and close on them. She closed and the Soviet ship disappeared into a smoke screen. Sumire continued to close and to shake the Soviet up, launched fire her four torpedo spread and then her two torpedo spread. Gavriil dodged the torpedoes but got hit by Sumire’s 3” guns. The damage piled up and Gavriil took a hit that exploded her 4.4” magazine. Minutes later she sank with 121 of her 132 man crew.
Sumire then closed on the three Bayan class 7.4 thousand ton 53 manned 3.3” armed transports. She quickly found the ships, and opened fire, only to have fire come back her way. To demonstrate how serious the situation was, Sumire launched torpedoes at the transports. This didn’t change their behavior. Sumire was forced to sink the Iskusnyi with 44 of her 53 man crew just as the Poti to a hit on Sumire aft, damaging the stern of the ship but inflicting no personnel casualties.
Poti broke up under fire, taking 50 of her crew down with her. The Bayan resolutely resisted and was sunk with all but one of her 53 man crew.
The state papers of the Soviet Union were not captured, but than they were also not shipped back to Soviet Territory on the coast of the Black Sea. With no losses on the Sumire, minor victory for Japan.
This series has me wanting to abandon the end of my us campaign and try the Japanese tbb, the management on a huge us fleet can be a bit much once they're spread all over
19:48: Badespielzeug für Kinder.
Battle of Hurghada
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 18 January 1937
The Dai-ni Kantai (2nd Fleet); consisting of the three Sagami class battleships, the Sagami, Aso, and Kasagi, three Tosa class battleships, the Tosa, Fuji, and Hou-Ou, the Tsugaru class light cruiser Ōi, and four Mogami class light cruisers refitted in 1925, the Katori, Yaeyama, Yasoshima, and Unebi, were attacked by three Wittelsbach class 17.3” armed 84 thousand ton battleships, the König, Kurfüst Friedrich Wilhelm, and the class lead Wittelsbach, and two Bismarck class 14.6” armed 64 thousand ton battleships, the Wörth and Schwaben.
The Japanese battle line formed on Hou-Ou, with Aso, Fuji, Kasagi, Sagami, and Tosa following. The light cruisers formed on Katori with Yasoshima, Unebi, Ōi, and Yaeyama following. The ships immediately opened fire when they sighted the enemy to the west. The weather was clear and the sea smooth. The Reichsmarine ships were sortieing from the port with low fuel.
Hou-Ou and Katori led their divisions in a turn north. The first 17.3” hit of the battle took out the A turret on Hou-Ou, but she remained in the battle line. Katori took a 17.3” and was ordered to withdraw. Then the Japanese battle line began to get hits. Yashoshima led the division in further and launched torpedoes. She dropped back and Unebi came up, launching her torpedoes and taking one minor hit. She too fell back. Ōi kept closing as a distraction to allow Yaeyama to launch her spread. But once Ōi took a hit she dropped out, and Yaeyama finally launched and fell back as well. Yaeyama got a torpedo hit on König but the battleship mostly shrugged it off.
The Japanese battle line took their counter parts under fire. Hou-Ou fired on the lead ship Kurfüst Friedrich Wilhelm. Aso took Wittelsbach, Fuji took Schwaben, Kasagi took the Wörth, and Sagami and Tosa double teamed König. Hou-Ou began to rip apart the main tower of the Kurfüst Friedrich Wilhelm. Then the weather closed in. Badly damaged, Hou-Ou fell back into a second line as Aso took the lead.
The Japanese proved much better at getting hits in the storm than did the Germans. They continued to put high explosive shells into the upper works of the German battleships. After a long exchange the Kurfüst Friedrich Wilhelm signaled her surrender to the Hou-Ou after taking 403 casualties, 320 who would die of their wounds, out of a crew of 888. With Kurfüst Friedrich Wilhelm out of the battle Hou-Ou was allowed to draw back and instigate repairs. She had taken 169 casualties out of a crew of 1720.
Wörth fell out of line as fires reached towards her 14.6”/39 Mark 2 gun magazine. Her Picric Acid charged shells exploded, and Wörth was essentially out of the battle. Then the battle lines came out of the squall and the ships began to fire with effect.
Fuji switched fire to the Wörth to finish her off as Fuji fell back to avoid any more hits from the rest of the German battle line. This left Schwaben unmatched for a while. Wörth was flooded aft with three engines disabled and fires on the ship. When flooding started below her forward magazine Wörth sank with 1705 of her 1734 man crew. Fuji was then allowed to retreat.
The remaining battle line turned their guns on the König. After pounding on her the König surrendered with 382 casualties from her 888 man crew. Schwaben was the next target. She had two engines disabled, flooding aft and spreading forward of the center line, her main battery destroyed, and one of her funnels destroyed was well as her secondary tower. She had over 600 casualties. Schwaben broke apart, taking 1562 of her 1734 man crew with her.
Now the class lead Wittelsbach was left. She was well ahead of the Japanese battle line but only able to go 17 knots. She had both forward guns fully operational but was at a bad angle to hit the Aso. Aso was firing all ten guns back. Wittelsbach was forced to surrender when she lost four hundred members of her crew, 329 who would not recover.
In total the Reichsmarine lost five modern battleships, 4297 officers and enlisted killed or lost at sea, and 1835 captured. The Fuji suffered 244 casualties, the Tosa 170, the Hou-Ou 169, the Kasagi 128, the Aso 101, the light cruiser Katori 77, the Ōi 50, the Unebi 3, and the Yashoshima and Yaeyama one each.
The liberation of Upper Egypt
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 17 December 1936
After forcing their way into the Red Sea the Dai-ichi Kantai approached the port of Hurghada and began the invasion of Upper Egypt. The Kaigun-Hohei began landings south of the port.
Portuguese Navy in Exile
Yomiuri shinbun, Tokyo, 12 September 1936
The Portuguese have lost their homeland on the Iberian Peninsula to the Republica de España. Now, reduced to a few colonies under the protection of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the Portuguese Navy in Exile hires themselves out a convoy guards using ships built by the Empire of China in built in 1910.
Armed with two twin 10.2” Mark 3 turrets fore and aft firing a 200 kg nose fuze high explosive shell with a range of 12.9 km and a 309 kg semi armor piercing shell with a range of 14.0 km, four twin 7.1” wing turrets mounted two per side, four 6.2” casemate guns, ten 3.2” casemate guns, and four underwater 18” fast torpedo tubes mounted two per side, the Sarhuda class battleship Weisheng was protecting eight German Berlin class 9.6 thousand ton 63 manned armed transports off the coast of Western Sahara and the port of Dakhla when the Nikko-Shirane class heavy cruiser Haguro and the Tsugaru class light cruiser Ioshima found them in a storm coming out of port.
Ioshima detected the convoy and guided Harugo in for the attack. As they closed they opened fire, but the weather was making their fire inaccurate so they continued to close under the crack of thunder and the flash of lightning. As they closed Weisheng pulled to the side in a bid to draw them off as the convoy turned back towards port. But the cruisers continued to close on the transport ships, ripping into as they came. Haguro sank the Graf Spee with all 63 men, then Isoshima sank the Rhineland with 59 of her crew. The Ágir was sunk by Haguro with 53 of her crew and the Isoshima sank the Cöln with all but one of her crew. Isoshima followed up by sinking the Thetis with 51 of her crew and Haguro sank the convoy leader Berlin with 51 men as well. Isoshima took the prize by sinking the Frederich der Grosse and the München with all hands.
The cruisers then turned to close on the Weisheng, warming up their torpedo launchers to take out the pre- Osore-shirazu battleship. Haguro launched her starboard underwater torpedoes, then swung around to launch her port underwater torpedoes. With crossing spreads the battleship couldn’t evade everything. Of four hits two were duds, the first live torpedo struck forward, the third aft. Flooding fore and aft, Weisheng was burning and had lost her secondary tower and second funnel. Weisheng sank with 1198 of her 1306 man crew.
In total the German Merchant Marine lost 77 thousand tons of shipping, 465 officers and seamen killed or lost in the sea, and 39 picked up by the time the storm ended. The Portuguese Navy in Exile lost 1198 officers and sailors killed or lost in the storm with 108 picked up after. The Japanese cruisers took no casualties.
Done some test myself and it appears the AI fails to use designs