HMS Glasgow has been the terror of the China seas for years, but today she may finally have met her match!
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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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Very Fortunate the Glasgow had a veteran crew and the opposition only had a regular one. If they were matched, that could have been very different.
Cape to Cairo! Awesome. Been waiting for that!
Brother munro switch gears and try to tak as much territory as you can till the end
Secretary of the Admiralty Ricky Kopf
October 1941
We nearly had a devastating loss after HMS Glasgow engaged a Japanese battlecruiser. However, the Glasgow will be repaired in 6 months whereas the Japanese need 10 months to repair their battlecruiser. Now our concern is whether Japan has more of these battlecruisers sailing in the world’s oceans. On a positive note, we now welcome Kiautscho Bay and Mozambique as our new colonies. Surprisingly enough, the British Army decided to unify the entire island of Greenland as our colony by annexing Eastern Greenland. With Mozambique now under our control, we can now complete our most ambitious project since the Suez Canal: the Trans-African Railroad. This railroad will link Cape Town in South Africa to Alexandria in Egypt. Of course we will have forts and other settlements along the route serving as station for the smaller railroads as well. Meanwhile, the Chinese have done nothing since our intervention, but that can change at any point.
Join us next time as we continue the war against China and Japan.
You've achieved Cape to Cairo, now its time to do Cape to Singapore!
Gotta love the giant pagoda towers,
Lots of spotting and everything else, although a bit lacking in other areas
In my US 1890 campaign, I've reached 1930. Allied with Austria against Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union.
My economy is over twice that of Germany's, and my fleet is over 4 times their total tonnage – matter of fact, it's twice that of Germany and Austria combined – my tech already in service is far ahead of Germany's – and they only have like 40 ships total in service, and only building 30 more – while I've 8 full fleets with 3 BB's/BC's each going around the map hoovering up their colonies.
But it did give me a little pause, when I checked their various ports to see what was in each. In Livorno in Northwest Italy, which is controlled by Germany, it showed 82,000 tons in that port – and then it dawned on me, that there was only ONE battleship in that port…
Haven't had the need up until now, but I guess it's high time to start designing my own version of the Montana class…
Now where are those bloody Mark 3 16 inch guns?
I believe the time has come, with the arrival of the Vanguards China has dragged us into multiple continues wars in the pacific they have only one costal Provence left id say we revel HMS Vanguard with the fall of China
You got all the guns great Now put the tripple mk 5s on your ships especialy the desstroyers and light cruisers
What a heroic David versus Goliath. Can I ask, how do you have such a large income every month? I am in 1925 and (have been spending a lot) but can't seem to get a consistent amount.
A heavy 4 k festroyer with 5 tripple high fire spead guns is nasty . Ok tripple 5.9k 5s
I wish there was a hms Gloucester in the fleet she is always over looked
When would the 20" quads come? I'd like to see something of the Graf Spee, just A and Y turrets lol, maybe 8" triples on dual barbettes for secondary?
Is it actually possible for a fire control system of “plain guns” to generate a solution that results in hits on any basis other than sheer luck?
After a meeting of the war cabinet the Prime Minister issued a one line communique to the Admiralty;
“Sink the Norikura”
The Glasgow had about as much freeboard at the start as USS Monitor
0:30: So you are going to pick up Iceland soon?
03:49: Are so many of the older capital ships undermanned? It seems to be all the ships from HMS Ajax's fleet.
8:30: I think you'll need to move the fleet to the Sea of Japan to invade north east korea.
Red, White, and Blue Battle, Part 2
The Times: 12 October 1941
Convoy is the Prize
HMS Glasgow took two more 14.2” hits on her aft belt and secondary tower, but both went through without exploding. HMS Glasgow had totally lost control of the flooding and four compartments were completely awash, with two engines disabled. With only one engine and the auxiliary HMS Glasgow was making only 23 knots, fast enough to catch transports but not to get away from the Norikura if she followed hard after HMS Glasgow. The Norikura however was splitting her fire with HMS Glasgow and USS Portland, putting only 7.1” and 4” fire on HMS Glasgow while trying to hit USS Portland with 14.2” fire. Though Norikura had the range to USS Portland she did not have the stability to be accurate.
HMS Glasgow slowly edged her course towards the convoy so as not to attract the attention of the Norikura. HMS Glasgow was still getting 9” hits on Norikura when the battlecruiser realized what HMS Glasgow was doing, and turned all her guns on the heavy cruiser. HMS Glasgow however was out of Norikura’s range to get hits, and having all her guns firing on one bearing only destabilized the ship more. Norikura had burned through her 14.2” high explosive shells, and was finding that armour piercing shells weren’t getting hits. Her one triple 7.1” gun turret wasn’t getting hits either, and her 4” guns were out of range. Though Norikura had no flooding, her structure was beaten up, and both funnels damaged, slowing her down. Her stern was almost wrecked, and three of her four 14.2” turrets were damaged. Her crew losses were nearly five hundred men, and only her main guns were fully manned. And she was still taking 9” shell hits.
HMS Glasgow, listing to starboard so her 4” guns couldn’t engage, and with her 2” magazine destroyed, finally got in range of the convoy and turned her 9” guns on the transports. Without the left of her rapid firing 2” guns and her medium 4” guns it took HMS Glasgow a long time and much precious 9” ammunition to take down the convoy.
The Hizen was sunk first with eight survivors. Shirataka was sunk less than a minute later with all hands. Three minutes later Kari sank with four survivors. Five minutes after that Hyūga surrenders and her twenty-six survivors were given time to get to their lifeboats before the transports was scuttled. Three minutes more and the Suzukaze II surrendered under the same conditions, twenty-two men getting off the ship. The Nizuki had to be sunk, with six survivors, three minutes after the Suzukaze II. Seta was the next target, and it took nearly four minutes to sink her with six survivors.
The remaining transports had been able to gain space on the rest of the convoy, and after a further chase HMS Glasgow began to engage. Ten minutes after sinking Seta the Manazuru was sunk with two survivors. After nine minutes of pounding on her the convoy leader, Sakaki was sunk with one survivor.
HMS Glasgow didn’t have time to collect up the merchant seamen and their officers however. The Norikura was still floating, and HMS Glasgow had to disengage as 14.2” shells splashed around her. With only one engine and her auxiliary working HMS Glasgow managed to break free with 192 casualties from her 1129 man crew. USS Portland had taken 165 casualties from her 1100 man crew while distracting Norikura from HMS Glasgow’s stealthy approach on the convoy. The Gorgone had retired early enough that she took no casualties and was able to break away from Norikura at only cruising speed.
The Norikura was reported to have taken 501 casualties from her 1354 man crew and to be under repairs for at least eight months. Losses for the Japanese Merchant Marine were 64 thousand tons of shipping, 302 officers and merchant seamen killed or lost at sea, and 76 picked up by the Norikura.
Red, White, and Blue Battle, Part 1
The Times: 12 October 1941
A Daring Battle
HMS Glasgow, a City class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy, was operating with an American Galveston class 6.1” armed light cruiser, USS Portland, and a French Bugeaud class 7.6” armed light cruiser, the Gorgone, in a joint patrol along the coast of the Chinese mainland near territory controlled by the Shanghai government when they found a Japanese convoy of nine Sakakiclass 7 thousand ton 42 man crewed 4.1” and 3.2” armed transports escorted by the Warusawa class 14.2” armed battlecruiser Norikura.
Normally a well made and handled battlecruiser with capital ship sized guns would be capable to protecting a convoy and seeing off three raiders that barely matched her in total displacement. However the Warusawa is neither a well made nor designed class, and with the purges by the nationalists of the imperialist Japanese naval officer corps and the further losses in the last war the Norikura is not a well handled ship, even after five years to learn their craft.
The Captains of the HMS Glasgow, USS Portland, and the Gorgone did not know that yet, and it would prove an expensive lesson, but perhaps because each refused to be thought lacking by the other two, all three agreed to close on the battlecruiser and the convoy and do as much damage as they humanly could.
Which apparently the Gorgone couldn’t. Being low on fuel she was directed to drop back and conserve her supply. HMS Glasgow moved to bracket the Norikura to the south while USS Portland moved to the north. HMS Glasgow got the first two hits in the battle, already doing significant damaged to the Norikura.
With the Norikura targeting the USS Portland the Captain of the HMS Glasgow decided to close, and head in the direction of the convoy.
Norikura got a fore deck hit on USS Portland that wounded fifty-one men, destroyed her A turret, and started her flooding in two forward compartments. USS Portland began a series of turns to throw off the fire of the Norikura. Which was certainly unnerving as splashes from Norikura’s eight 14.2” shells gushered around her. But Norikura’s attention on USS Portland was allowing HMS Glasgow to get more 9” hits on the battlecruiser. But when USS Portland reported that it was confirmed, her entire 6.1” magazine was destroyed, the Captain of the HMS Glasgow insisted that she took retire.
HMS Glasgow now had the field to herself, with nine transports as the prize and Norikura as the defender. When trying to shake her aft turrets lose so they could add their fire on the Norikura, HMS Glasgow got too close to the battlecruiser. She took two massive 14.2” hits through her main belt. HMS Glasgow was flooding over 40% of the ship. Defeating Norikura was now an impossible task, HMS Glasgow would have to content herself with nine transports. She took another 14.2” hit that struck too high on the aft belt and went completely through the cruiser, doing little damage, and 4” shells from Norikura. HMS Glasgow turned away, only slightly angled towards the convoy. The Norikura had taken serious damage from her 9” guns and saw HMS Glasgow’s course as a hopeful effort to break off the battle.
Cont’d
The Taking of Tshingtau
The Times: 8 September 1941
The Royal Army, operating out of the Weihaiwei peninsula, and the Royal Marines, have taking the Kiautsuchou Bay Leased Territory with its critical port of Tsingtau.
The Grand Fleet, which covered the invasion, has been moved across the Yellow Sea to the coast of northern Korea.
Liberation of Mozambique
The Times: 22 August 1941
The Royal Army, with support of the Royal Marines and the Royal African Army, have defeated the forces of the Republic of Japan occupying Mozambique. The governing officials in Maputo have signed the convention of transfer agreeing to give up the protectorate over Mozambique to the Kingdom of East Africa.
Chase of the Nishinōtori
The Times: 17 August 1941
The Grand Fleet, headed by the HMS Duke of Kent, the Royal George V class battleship, stumbled the Shiomi class 14.6” armed battlecruiser Nishinōtori while patrolling one night in the Yellow Sea. The Japanese battlecruiser naturally tried to retire from such an overwhelming force, however she was not fast enough to avoid the pounding she took from the Admiral class battlecruisers HMS Rodney and HMS Howe, the Iron Duke class dreadnought HMS Marlborough, and the HMS Royal George, lead of her dreadnought class. But the killing blows were dealt by HMS Duke of Kent.
The Nishinōtori sank with 1157 of the 1322 men on board.
Vanguard’s New Guns
The Times: 28 June 1941
The Mark V 20”/55 guns are frankly terrifying to behold. Only the largest cranes at Rosyth are able to lift these tubes into place, and their improved capabilities make them remarkably deadly. Even though the Governments are at war it has been decided to replace the main guns and correct the secondary and tertiary guns as well as recladding the whole ship with modern II armour. Time to complete is five months.
A Rum Show
The Times: 22 June 1941
The Admiral Flota Boris Beren of the Russian Federation Navy has recently been on a visit to London and the southern ports. In a number of ill received speeches he has, we suppose, been trying to mollify discontent in this country over the Russian Federation’s reaction to our just complaints about Japan seizing the independent nation of Mozambique, at which we have just begun operations to resolve this issue, and their ongoing attempt to erase the last independent province of Korea. He has instead been seen as blundering like a Russian bear through a tea party.
Royal Greenland Constabulary and Yeomanry Pacify Eastern Greenland
The Times: 18 June 1941
The Royal Greenland Constabulary and the Royal Newfoundland Yeomanry have completed their six month campaign to bring the insurgent forces along the eastern coast of Greenland into submission to the Royal Authorities. 8 Constables and 16 members of the Yeomanry were killed. Losses for the insurgents were estimated at 193.
The Japanese BC was 42% depopulated when Glasgow switched aim to the transports. Looked like only a few more hits were needed for a surrender.
Admiral "Beatty" Monroe 😛
HMS Glasgow had a similar sort of hole in 1982.