The Royal Navy is certainly being annoying, prventing us from invading Hong Kong and bothering our ships on training exercises.
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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 do it almost every video, move my cursor over a ship expecting to see its status like im playing the game. duh
Owww, a second shot at the Carnarvon. Let's sink the B***h.
06:30: Made me smile.
Can't lie…..kinda missing the Lithuanians this episode 😅
Those new 4000 ton destroyers bob and weave like Mohammed Ali.
Also, the GDP being out of control of the player seems fine, as long as it's fairly consistent, i.e. the US GDP is always at the high end, Spain and China are lower. That just seems to add to the difference and challenges of each nation. But the lack of information and ability to influence naval invasions and crew pool size vs training level are just poor game design. As is the inability to at least influence army strategic targets as you're playing as the chief naval officer. UAD can and should do better.
This episode could be labelled "AKA The Gong Show"
Jeez, the British CLs are tougher than their CA's. But I also think that your frustration with hitting stuff in this video is directly the crew quality. Which, yeah, is borked. The newest ships would likely have the best crews and you notice that the older destroyer in one of those fights had a veteran crew while the new ships were cadets. So another thing to fix.
As fun as this game can be, its core concept is flawed. You want players to have control, but that would just make you a national leader rather than just the fleet's admiralty. If the devs lean too hard into the control part, it'll just turn into HOI IV or some other similar game.
I’m confused on how All or nothing citadel V works in this game, especially combined with belt extended (fore and aft) armor
Is it all or nothing, or not?
I kinda like how the Gong was a meme design, but is probably one of the best ones,
Even if it’s just Richelieu on steroids… at Richelieu’s displacement…
I’m not questioning how that works at all
This just in from the Third Sino-British War:
The British continue clinging on their colony Hong Kong as if we are invading their capital of their precious Empire. Meanwhile, the heads of the Royal Navy decide to attack our new ships during their training exercises. However, their imperialistic efforts were futile as our crews fought until they secured victory for the People's Republic of China. Even better, we also won against the British in another large battle between our fleets. Also, according to friendly spies in the British Empire, the British are now beginning to fear one of our battleships. They say that if you hear the sound of a gong, then another British ship is doomed to a watery grave. Once this legend got to friendly territory, our people got excited including many sailors. At this rate, it will be the British who will arrive on their knees as they beg for our mercy in ending this war they cannot win. One thing is for certain, by the stroke of a pen or the firing of a gun, the port of Hong Kong will be ours to reclaim.
Join us next time as we witness whether the British wish to sign a peace treaty or continue the war.
i came for grand fleet battles and all it get is hot DD on DD action.
So, a maxed out advanced destroyer tips the scale at a hair over 5000 tons (max beam & draft). Arming one with 10 5.9"/45 guns is basically a light cruiser, and definitely spooky.
The heavy cruisers with the 10 inch guns from your Spanish campaign seemed like the best counter to the light cruiser spam. Perhaps something to keep in mind in the future.
my wish for this game if wecould increase the army strenght in lets say a region i really hate if i go to war with china as the british i will loose india becouse i only have arround 10000 men while china have 500 000 in one army
I hope they’ll overhaul the torpedoes at some point as well, for example swap the the detection range for a RNG system (but only for the AI) so there will be a chance to actually hit something beyond point blank range since enemy warships sometimes would not be able to detect the torp at all.
Some targetting settings might also be a cool additional, Germans and Americans developed homing torpedoes (they can be balanced with significant damage debuff since the targetting systems takes some space which otherwise could be used to store explosives. Germans also used some torps which changed direction and moved kinda like a tractor on the field just to increase the chances of hitting ships in the convoy.
Also I’m surprised they haven’t yet added more calibers, if we have the 20,9 inch guns then the 28 or 30 inch torpedoes should also be available.
Another thing are the warheads.
Second thing that would be nice to see is Electronic warfare like jamming RDFs and radars to increase the survival chances of smaller warships which simply get murdered too easily thanks to these inventions.
48:54 That's a weird angle for the torpedo to come from…
49:50 Could you try goung closer and charge with torps at close range? This episode tour DDs edges close, but not up close, to the CLs, and gets pummelled to smithereens.
2. It pained me to experience Stealth17 trashtalk this game and finally stop altogether playing it. I hope the same won't happen to you.
I have not been able to play the game for a long time, and used both of your videos to learn about the game, looking forward to playing it, and it's hard to want to play it, and see ones YT-heroes being annoyed about the game. Try mentioning the cool stuff in the game as well, please 🙏 . It would help lift my mood in a hard time.
Will Admiral deadnoughts ever get bombers? its kinda weird doing huge naval battles in the 1940s without air support. Its what mostly won pacific ww2 for US.
Hey brothermunro is there a bug with accuracy?. It seems to be messed up at the moment, only sitting at 2% hit chance
I'm afraid the ineffectiveness against the lighter ships is a direct result of the balance mod. Back when the game updates were breaking the balance mod after 1.3, I switched back to vanilla, and I was amazed at just how fast my destroyers and light cruisers were able to obliterate other nations' ships, which on the balance mod had proven to be a hand full to take care of.
47:44: Terpsichore is a Greek Muse. Relating to music.
The Experience sailors have their Rice Bowls, and the new ships are getting the new sailors inexperienced in playing the personnel systems.
The Captain of the HMS Terpsichore should be hung from the yardarm. What an idiot.
I amuse myself by screaming in my head "Don't Retreat the Xinmin, assign it as a screen for the transports!"
Between Heaven and Earth Pao: 10 November 1946
Canton, Pazhou, Guangdong Province, Republic of China
British in the Yellow Sea
The newest destroyer class, the Jintonglu, is still trying to get its footing. After fighting in a battle last month the Foshan and Zhenbei were assigned convoy duty in the Yellow Sea. But the Royal Navy is bold, and sent a Talbot class light cruiser, the HMS Dragon, and a Talisman class destroyer, the HMS Shamrock, to interdict our trade. Operating on their own, the division has a chance to shine.
With the enemy sighted, the two destroyers raced to close. The Shamrock reciprocated, with the Dragon holding back. Likely the Shamrock was on a torpedo run. As the Chinese ships opened fire the Shamrock turned to bring her deck launcher to bear to send her one spread of torpedoes. But careful observation detected the launch and the Foshan swung the division out of the way, opening up her broadside while the Shamrock fled back to the support of her flagship. But the 5” shells of the Foshan and Zhenbei outraced her, and she sank from numerous flooding hits, taking 225 of her 248 crew down with her after firing 94% of her ordinance without getting a hit.
The Dragon sailed to keep the range steady but put all her guns on target as the Foshan and Zhenbei worked to get in range with their 5”/38 guns. Again the torpedo spread, this time from the Dragon, was spotted in time and the division turned to avoid it. The Foshan and Zhenbei turned back to interpose themselves as the Dragon made a clear run towards the convoy. The Foshan launched her torpedoes to drive the Dragon off course. With her charge against the convoy blocked the Dragon began to dodge and weave while exchanging shells with the Foshan and Zhenbei. Another torpedo spread from the Dragon was spotted and avoided, but took the Fushan’s rear turrets out of line for a moment, reducing her salvo strength.
With the Dragon unwilling to allow the division to close to effective range and relying on her rapid fire 3.4” guns to pepper the Foshan and Zhenbei the Siá-hāu commanding the Foshan decided to fall back on the transports and dare the Dragon to close on them. The Dragon sent them one last torpedo to see them off, then a full spread that caught the Zhenbei but did little damage.
The Foshan, having lead the division, took 35 casualties from her 273 man crew. The Zhenbei took only 5. The Royal Navy announced that the Dragon took 11 casualties. The five 11 thousand ton Tangshan class armed transports did not suffer any damage.
Between Heaven and Earth Pao: 22 October 1946
Canton, Pazhou, Guangdong Province, Republic of China
Convoy through the Formosa Strait
The battleship Gong, sole member of her class, with the Hunan class heavy cruiser Shandong and four green Jintonglu class destroyers, the Zhenbei, Bagongli, Xinmin, and Fengtian, where leading a convoy of eight Fengtian class 3988 ton armed transports to support the liberation of Hong Kong when they sighted a strong Royal Navy taskforce closing.
The Gong has built a reputation of being able to blast her way through massive enemy fleets when she defeated a Soviet task force in the Taterskiy Proliv with one escort. With these escorts she had no problem dealing with the Royal Navy, sinking her first ship so quickly that it was identified only after the battle from survivors’ accounts as the Talbot class light cruiser HMS Newcastle. Though the Gong would take a number of torpedo hits in the battle, she was able to sink the Talisman class destroyers HMS Eme and HMS Werewolf before ordering her escorts to fall back. The Talbot class light cruiser HMS Proserpine sunk next, and the Talisman class destroyer HMS Manley abandoned to spreading fires. The Vittoria class destroeyrs HMS Lookout and HMS Waveney sank next. The Gong turned her attention to the two Blake class heavy cruisers, sinking the HMS Euryalus and shattering the HMS Vindictive. The two 1939 Talisman class destroyers HMS Hith and HMS Unity were the last ships sunk.
For all this the Gong took a pounding, and lost 286 officers and ratings killed or seriously wounded. Her escorts lost another 106 men. The Royal Navy suffered 4541 killed or lost at sea with another 576 rescued and taken prisoners of war.
Between Heaven and Earth Pao: 15 October 1946
Canton, Pazhou, Guangdong Province, Republic of China
Patrolling Deep in the South China Sea
Operating off the cost of French controlled Indo-China, the Wulidian class destroyer Zhenzhong detected a ship in the heaving sea and misty skies. Coming closer, she started to see splashes of shell fire all around her, and a round that banged off her main tower. As the mist cleared enough to see the target, the white and red Royal Navy ensign could be clearly seen. The Zhenzhong swung over her wheel to bring her broadsides to bear, and rapidly smashed the Royal Navy Wye class destroyer HMS Trenchant. With two engines damaged the Trenchant tried to lose herself in the mist, but the Zhenzhong had her in her teeth, and with three 5” penetrations of her aft belt the Trenchant flooded out, losing 246 of her crew to the sinking or the rough sea. Fifty-four were rescued from the water. The Zhenzhong suffered no casualties and only slight damage.
Between Heaven and Earth Pao: 5 August 1946
Canton, Pazhou, Guangdong Province, Republic of China
Revenge for the Lithuanian Navy in Exile
The Hunan class heavy cruiser Shandong, back on patrol near the Caroline Islands, accompanied by the Wulidian class destroyer Zhenzhong, encountered a Blake class heavy cruiser involved in the destruction of the Lithuanian Navy in Exile, the HMS Carnarvon and her escort the Talisman class destroyer HMS Tactician. Though the night was dark and visibility was poor, the Shandong and Zhenzhong immediately closed to engage. The Carnarvon’s 8.7” guns opened up first, but the Shandong soon sighted the enemy and too them under fire, destroying first a main gun turret, then a secondary gun turret on the Carnarvon. Targeting became easier as the Carnarvon was literally outlined by the fires on her deck.
The HMS Carnarvon sunk from flooding, losing 1039 of her 1070 crew complement in the sinking or in the stormy waters afterward.
The Shandong and Zhenzhong had lost sight of the HMS Tactician, but only a few minutes following her trace brought her into view. A massive penetration of her main belt compromised her damage control, and the ship was abandoned to fire by her remaining fourteen crew. The Shandong lost 70 and the Zhenzhong 10 officers and ratings killed or seriously wounded. A total of 45 Royal Navy personnel were found despite the gale like conditions.
18:56 The attack of the Wobbly Gong.