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Captain of the 1st Company: Treefrog
Captain of the 2nd Company: Alerik Rahl
Lieutenants: Zaeren
Veteran Sergeants: 1st Place Onion, Rui, Welshy, Telemonian Dan, Rocket Linux
Sergeants: Charles Wright, Jackie, Twitchyknees
Veterans: Adrien Young, Sunless Sky Nova, Darth Vendar, Martti
Battle Siblings: ArtsyJohnE, Caleb Mayer, DWB001, Haytor, Jackychan97, Jeffery Labbe, Joakim B, JT Bismarck, Laszlo Szidonya, M van Dongen, nagebenfro, Patrick Connerney, Patrick Welsh, PS_Games, Tentacle Shogun, Zadrias, Good Boy 24, Jessica Rae
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Keep doing that good work! Great series!
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For an english speaker, you basically pronounce it the same as if it was written as "Michl", the e is very short so it may as well be silent, like with "Tackle".
Need a 2nd Louco
10000 t "light" cruiser…..
turbine do not a dreadnaught make south carolina is proof of that
When is this mod plan to be updated to the latest version?
Luitpold got the Hood treatment from Louco 25:50
Love the new light cruiser ❤ awesome
uad could lern alots on how ships move on the seas from sea power and war on the sea ive never been a fan on how ships move on the sea in uad special when it come to syupid fast ships and they do that tokyo drift
can't wait for the next episode of Ultimate Admiral Battlecruisers
Atlanta style cruisers which is fantastic.
FIRE EVERY DIRECTION
Have you thought of putting the torpedo launchers on the outside of the hull like on historic cruisers
9:25 Could it be that 7" gun/double turret is lighter than corresponding 6" gun/tower??
9:40 – why does the 7" double turret weights less than the 6"?
More battle cruisers with16" twins!!!
Playing a vanil camp where france and england are disintegrating(scotland went independent) and me(china) an germany are the super powers. Been a roller-coaster ride with my civil gov keeps wanting four front wars.
Get Namibia
Michel is Besitzer Michelle what is French Nor Michael.
Michel with the X Sound Like Water Hose
Assessment of the Brazilian Navy battle doctrine and fleet capabilities
The concept of "Construção de Corrida" (Race-Build) as implemented in the designs of the Brazilian battle line was put to the test during recent engagements with their counterparts in the waters around the Solomon Islands and and off the coasts of German West Africa, during which a squadron of four battlecruisers led by the Brasilia and later joined by the Luoco set out in a naval campaign to capture German Pacific and West African holdings.
A series of engagements against German armored and protected cruisers by the Nigella had proven the capabilities of the Brasilia Class and their successors as cruiser hunters, a concept already seeing experimentation and implementation among contemporary navies following the shocking introduction of the Brazilian navy's "Construção de Corrida" Naval Battle Doctrine.
Meanwhile, the Luoco, having completed her sea trials and training, sailed off from the port of Rio de Janerio leading a squadron of destroyers towards the western coasts of Africa. Detaching her escorts to secure recently captures ports, the battlecruiser sent a radio telegram stating she intercepted a battleship flying German colors. According to post-battle reports provided by the ship's captain, a brief engagement ensued in which the Luoco scored multiple direct hits, including what appeared to be a critical hit to the battleship's left-wing Q turret. A massive explosion was observed, followed by another two explosions. Observers on the Luoco's towers reported seeing three large turrets blown away from their mounts, indicating a catastrophic magazine detonation within. As the battleship later capsized and sank, the battlecruiser picked up 187 survivors. Large outward dents and cracks below the waterline were observed as the stricken vessel slipped beneath the waves.
Three days later, Brazilian main battle line encountered another German battlecruiser on the prowl. Identification of the vessel was difficult as the silhouette was not recognizable either by the Brazilian commanders or British observers; rumors were circulating among the admiralties of Britain and the Netherlands of a new, experimental class of capital ship fielded by the German Navy, albeit until now remains unverified. Regardless, the squadron formed a battle line to engage the enemy. As both sides exchanged ranging shots, large splashes coming from the enemy hinted a main battery of a significant caliber. The Germans scored a critical hit against the Nigella, knocking out her B turret and setting fires near her magazines. Damage control parties attempted to flood the magazine, but this was not enough, as B turret erupted in a flash fire. A second explosion occured shortly after, effectively knocking out all artillery in the forward section of the vessel. Nigella veered off course while the rest of the squadron continued to engage the enemy ship until no reply from the latter was observed. As the enemy battlecruiser was sinking, the squadron picked up 436 survivors from the wreck. Interrogations with the surviving officers of the vessel are ongoing as of this writing.
In the light of recent events, it can be concluded that while the concept of a fast, heavily armed and armored capital ship as pioneered by the Brazilian Navy is questionable in theory, the "Construção de Corrida" Battle Doctrine centered around the nation's main battle line has proven its effectiveness in small engagements. The concept, although yet untested in this environment, may also have merits in a major fleet action.
Source: Lt. Cmdr. Henry Pierce, British observer on board the battlecruiser Brazilia
The fact that the German dreadnought literally did a HMS Hood to the Louco (except it actually hit) is hilarious, especially considering it was after a magazine detonation (yes I count turret popping as a mag det)
Weren’t the Germans allied to you?
Nice to see the AI actually coming up with some opposition you don't instantly steamroll with minimal damage to your battlecruisers.
The USA aren't building any ships. Smells like a bug. They have budget to do it for sure.
2 things based on observation during this Brazilian campaign so far. The incessant world war is keeping nearly every nation's navy small, including the historic colonial empires, likely through incessant naval battles and attrition suppressing fleet size: note how that gives the small nations an army logistics advantage early in the game via easily having enough warships to cover their trade ships, while perpetually leaving the colonial empires weakened and susceptible to being invaded and conquered by even small nations. The colonial empires and the non-colonial nations all start with the identical fleet sizes. In this campaign, the colonial empires did not start with dramatically larger navies than the non-colonial nations, and essentially had only a territorial advantage but not the economic, naval and invasion advantages, making it easy for the small nations to beat up on the colonial empires without suffering substantial reprisal. It would seem that for all of these small nations to be playable, the historical colonial empires need to start out with fleet sizes which are larger than the fleets of the small nations (so that both small and large nations can protect their trade and keep their army logistics up) and the tendencies toward declarations of war need to be curtailed a bit so that widespread war is neither the status quo nor is common (so that the majority of nations can maintain and grow their fleets rather than nearly everyone's fleet constantly being sunk so as to leave the larger nations easily conquered by even small nations). Not sure whether UAD's developers did anything to for the current version of UAD to dissuade incessant widespread war, but your campaign demonstrates that there is a national stability problem springing up from widespread war preventing most nations from seeing anything more than the slightest bit of growth. Your campaign also demonstrates that there may be an issue in the logic for channeling funding into building and using an navy (the US appears to be channeling everything into tech spending and perhaps transport capacity, foregoing building any warships for more than one decade so far in the campaign despite being at war and having no navy for most if not all of that time; and, this doesn't appear to be confined to the US: other nations have demonstrated prolonged periods of not building any warships despite being at war and having little to no navy. It appears that the consequences of making all of the small nations playable were not fleshed out and addressed by the developers, unless this is moreso a manifestation of the mod you're using. So, is it the mod, or is it the base game?
Why don't you put 2" or 3" secondaries on your CL to intimidate DD and to hunt transports down?
Michel: the ch is not existent in the englisch language, you don't even pronounce it by using different letters. Use Google translate and let it translate "I" to German "Ich", there you have it as in M-ich-el
I started a Japanese campaign in 1900 in the base version of the game and staying on top of the financial game is incredibly difficult
Are there any tips?
Peace with Germany 36:42:
Estadão, 7 September 1919
With the Gold Coast taken and at the urging of the Comandante da Marinha de Guerra Brasil the government has proposed the Deutsches Reich bring a peace proposal to the table and allow the revolutionary government to get their house in order.
The Comandante had to explain to the government this was not the time to threaten Greece, Turkey, Austria, Russia and especially not Japan with war, it was a time to repair, consolidate, and build up the fleet and bring all Brazil’s new territories under proper administration.
Berlin offered a war indemnity of $999 million. Brasilia looked at this and suggested that a revolutionary government was in no condition to promise to take up that much debt, and suggested they give up the Marshall Islands, which some bright young officer missed when planning the New Guinea Campaign, and the island of Heligoland. This island in the North Sea, off the coast of Germany, of course was a pointed humiliation, a reminder for the new government in Berlin not to think of messing with Brazil.
The new government, unstable in their cabinet posts and fearing a counter-revolution, was forced to agree, and paid only a $657 million indemnity.
The Deutsche Reichsmarine has been reduced to the Schlachtschiff Württemberg, 31 thousand tons, 19.7 knots, six twin 14.2” gun turrets and a twin 8.3” gun turret, 1456 crew, armor to only 14” on the turret faces, and the Königsberg Class 1914 Refit Leichter Kreuzer München, 8 thousand tons, 18.4 knots, two single 7.1” guns, 608 crew, and a maximum of 5.4” of armor, along with two Zerstörer.
Battle of Accra 28:13:
Estadão, 13 May 1919
The four Encrouraçdos Rapido, the Foguete, lead her class, and her sister ship the Invictus Cohete, and the Brazilia, lead her class, and her sister ship the Nigella, were moving from Lomé to Abidjan to support the landings against the Gold Coast when they were found by German’s newest innovation. Laid down after the start of the war in response to early reports of the Brazilia class coming out of Chile, the Lützow Class Kampfkreuzer was the German answer. Armed with four twin 16.2” gun turrets, six twin 8.2” gun turrets, eighteen 4.4” casemate guns, four triple and two twin 4.7” guns, she also carried two underwater torpedo tubes. With a cost of 293 million and a build time of 19 months, the ship was clearly designed to hunt down and engage Encrouraçdo Rapido, but at only 26.4 knots speed, doubtlessly chosen because of reports of Brazilia and Nigella operating at cruising speed during engagements, the Lützow lacked the speed to control the range of the engagement, or to force one to happen. Nor with only 9” of armor was she really built to take 14” shells.
While the Brazilian Encrouraçdos Rapido are noted for their long empty fore decks, Lützow looked remarkably heavily front loaded. The 16.2”/45 Mk1 turrets were mounted on the center line in super firing pairs. The 8.2” turrets were mounted one super duper firing forward on a very tall barbette, one on the center line elevated on the quarter deck between the two aft main battery turrets, which should have been brought behind the main deck turret so as not to obstruct it, two on the quarter deck flanking this, and two on the main deck flanking the second of the funnels mounted behind the secondary tower. There were nine casemates per side and the tertiary battery turrets mounted triples on the secondary tower and under the 8.2” turrets flanking the aft funnel and twins next to the main tower. The ship’s citadel was enormous, stretching almost the whole of her length to protect her 32 thousand ton displacement, explaining why the main belt was only 7.5” thick. Two torpedo launchers were mounted one per side.
Lützow could fire approximately 7.5 rounds per minute. The four Brazilian Encrouraçdos Rapido could fire 36 14” round per minute.
Lützow fired fire, but Nigella, leading the battle line, replied almost immediately, her mark 2 guns evening up the range. She turned the battle line south-east to match Lützow’s course and open the battle line’s broadsides. Lützow demonstrated however her design philosophy wasn’t entirely unsound when she got a flooding 8.2” hit forward on Nigella. A second 8.2” hit struck under the forward turret. Then a 16.2” shell hit B turret, and the blast broke through the internal barbette protections to the 14” powder magazine. The Brazilian ship, pride of the Chilean campaign, blew off both forward turrets. Nigella was out of the fight and Foguete took the lead. 36 rounds per minute were now 27, and they still hadn’t hit Lützow.
Finally Lützow was hit on her 8.2” starboard funnel flanking turret. Lützow was now kiting away, trying to engage only Foguete. The battle line switched to HE shells and soon Lützow’’a stern was being ripped apart, her steering damaged, and flooding started to the mid line. Her bulkheads began to breach under the water pressure as Lützow began to list. She have 260 casualties reported from her proud and ready crew. Foguete got more hits as Lützow began to turn back to train her forward guns across her bow rather than over her tilted beam. The turning engine on her elevated forward 8.2” turret couldn’t train the guns because of the increasing list jamming it. Her quarterdeck mounted starboard wing 8.2” turret was destroyed and water had flooded the ship through to the 3rd bulkhead forward. Only her bow was keeping Lützow afloat as all three of her boilers died. However she was finally able to fire her forward 16.2” guns at Foguete.
Lützow’s turn had put her bow towards Forguete, but Invictus Cohete and Brazilia could still hit her broadside. The final shells came in and Lützow blew up, losing 933 of her 1085 man crew.
Nigella took 143 casualties to add to her 13 missing crew. Foguete took 2 casualties. Brazilia picked up 152 German survivors.
West African Campaign
Battle of Lüderitz 20:56:
Estadão, 17 November 1918
The four Encrouraçdos Rapido, the Foguete, lead her class, and her sister ship the Invictus Cohete, and the Brazilia, lead her class, and her sister ship the Nigella, were wrapping up their invasion duties at Lüderitz, the main port of German Southwest Africa, when the Kaiserliche Marine’s Frankfurt class Leichter Kreuzer Sperber came steaming out to meet them. Armed with two single 7.2” guns fore and aft and six 3.2” and six 3” guns as well as four underwater torpedo tubes.
Nigella was leading the division this day, and she took a few hits from Speber before getting the range on her. But when the 14” shells began to hit they ripped Speber open from the middle, disabling all three engines. Then Speber took a flooding hit aft and sank with 414 of her 425 man crew.
Nigella took 12 casualties. 11 Germans were pulled from the water.
Louco Joins the War 23:10:
Estadão, 8 December 1918
The Louco, lead of her class of Encrouraçdos Rapido, from the Rio de Janerio Naval Base de Estado Rio de Janerio, joined the war and was posted off the port of Lüderitz where two Kaiserliche Marine ships were reported to be lurking. The older Encrouraçdos Rapido had moved north to Luanda and Lobito.
Louco was found by the German ships, the Schleswig-Holstein Class German Schlachtschiff Prinzregent Luitpold and the Frankfurt, lead of her Leichter Kreuzer class. Prinzregent Luitpold carries eight 13.4” guns in four twin turrets fore, aft, and two per side, two 8” guns in a super firing turret aft, and 14 4” casemates. She is slow however at 19.2 knots. Clearly an attempt to create a modern battleship on an all big gun concept, but lacking naval architectural innovation.
Louco closed until she was in range, then slowed to her cruising speed. Louco’s first full salvo and she blew off the aft turret on Prinzregent Luitpold, triggering a magazine fire that also lifted off the wing turrets. Prinzregent Luitpold was reduced to her forward turret and ready ammunition. Prinzregent Luitpold was flooding fore and aft and had over 200 casualties.
Louco switched her fire to Frankfurt, and was ordered to switch her 14” guns to HE shells and her 6” guns to HE shells. This worked marvelously. This combination sank Frankfurt in less than a minute, sending her to the bottom with 390 of her 425 man crew.
Louco turned her guns back on Prinzregent Luitpold, who fired back with her remaining 13.4” guns. Prinzregent Luitpold got a flooding hit on Louco just before Louco flooded out Prinzregent Luitpold’s citadel, sinking Prinzregent Luitpold with 1583 of her 1820 man crew.
Louco took 17 casualties and picked up 271 German survivors.
Revolution in Germany
Estadão, 13 May 1919
With the loss of Angola, Cameroon, and Togoland in West Africa poltical upheavel swept through Germany against the House of Hohenzollern and the incompetency of the German Imperial system since the loss of the Iron Chancellor. The Kaiser was forced into exile, along with Prinzregent Luitpold and Prinz Heinrich, Großadmiral of the Kaiserliche Marine. The new republican government styled their country as the Deutsches Reich and adopted the revolutionary Black/Red/Gold flag of the 1848 uprisings.
Relatório: Design of the Aratu class of Cruzadors Caçador. 04:24:
Diretoria-Geral do Material da Marinha: Relatório da Direção: 17-Oct-1917
Brief: The Aratu class will consist of three Cruzadors Caçador designed to a target displacement of 10,000 tons and a top speed of 31 knots. This class is designed to replace the three Cruzador Protegido. They will be much more capable ships and be good escorts for the Encrouraçdos Rapido.
Propulsion: The class has three geared turbine engines provided steam by three induced draft boilers burning new fuel oil vented though one funnels generating 30,269 indicated horsepower turning three screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 9,754 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 18,454 nautical miles. The class carries diesel auxiliary engines for emergency power.
Armament: The class' main battery is six twin turrets mounted in super duper firing triples fore and aft bearing 6"/45 Mark 3 guns with 6" face, 3" top, 3.4" barbette Krupp improved cemented armor, turned by electro-hydraulic systems with enhanced reloading, using advanced Coincidence range finders, and with greater protective systems against flash fires. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Cordite Medium Burn as the propellant and Amotal as the bursting charge. One triple Mark 2 deck torpedo mounts launching a standard load of 24" torpedoes with compressed air aided combustion rounds out the armament.
Protection: Krupp Improved Cemented armor is clade with an advanced citadel scheme 5" on the main belt, 2.5" on the extended belt, 2.5" on the 1st inner belt, 2" on the 1st inner belt, 3" on the main deck, 1.5" on the extended deck, 1.8" on the inner deck, 2.5" on the superstructure, and 6" on the conning tower. The Class has a double bottom hull and reinforced bulkheads separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction. A crew of 769 officers and enlisted men will be provided spacious quarters. The class carries advanced radio communication and improved Hydrophone detection systems.
Construction: The class will consist of the lead ship Aratu, Vinganca, and Ravia. Build time will be 13 months with a commissioning time of 2 months. Cost per ship will be $160,616,800, and monthly maintenance in port of $7,388,371.
War News, Papau New Guinea Campaign
Germany Declares War on Brazil! 00:00:
Estadão, 4 June 1917
The Deutsches Kaiserreich has decided they don’t like sharing a border with the Estado Novo do Brasil, and broke their alliance with Brasila.
Which is quite an amazing problem, as they don’t share a border with the Estado Novo do Brasil. Once again a country has tried to extort money from Brasilia. This time, Brasilia wasn’t in the giving mood.
To compound their error, the Deutsches Kaiserreich caused the Crusader State of Nederland, our ally, to declare war on them, and the Reino de España then joined Nederland, their ally. This last has caused the Österreichisch Föderative Republik to declare war on the Reino de España and the Reino de Portugal, perhaps simply because Portugal and Brazil both speak Portuguese, and the Austrians were concerned they might get the two mixed up.
Marinha de Guerra Brasil is mobilizing, and the Encrouraçdos Rapido have their mission.
The Kaiserliche Marine has two Schlachtschiffe, three Gepanzerkreuzer, three Leichter Kreuzer, and one Zerstörer, many recently coming out the the drydock from repairs. The entire Kaiserliche Marine displaces what the four commissioned Encrouraçdos Rapido do.
They Arrive 04:04:
Estadão, 20 October 1917
The four Encrouraçdos Rapido have arrived off Honiara in the Solomon Islands. They will move west, picking off German colonies left exposed by Germany’s foolish warmaking.
Solomons Fall!
Estadão, 14 January 1918
The Soloman Islands fell the the overwhelming force of Fuzileiros Navais. The campaign moves west.
Battle of Wilhelmshafen 12:14:
Estadão, 8 May 1918
The Nigella class Encrouraçdo Rapido, from the Belém Naval Base de Pará, operating on her own, drew out the Limburg class Gepanzerkreuzer Hertha from Friedrich Wilhelmshafen. The province of German New Guinea had fallen and the German ship had to sortie from port.
She was greatly outmatched.
Nigella was lying off the port to the north-east. She had reports of a Kaiserliche Marine hiding in the port, and surged forward when she spotted funnel smoke. Nigella opened fire when she sighted Hertha, who was bravely charging into the larger ship. In the rough seas it took a few salvos before Nigella punched a 14” shell through the main belt below the gap between the first and second funnels. The veteran crew on Nigella had all the advantage on the merely trained crew of Hertha. Soon Hertha was flooded fore and aft, her conning tower destroyed, and her rudder damaged. She had 240 casualties reported. Another salvo and Hertha was breached in her citadel, and sank with 1320 of her 1427 man crew. Nigella took one casualty and picked up 107 German survivors.
Battle of Lorengau 15:42:
Estadão, 23 May 1918
Königsberg Class 1914 Refit Leichter Kreuzer Dresden joined two Limburg class Gepanzerkreuzer, the Limburg and Michel in attempting to break out of the port of Lorengau as the Bismarck Archipelago fell to Brazilian Fuzileiros Navais. They were met by the Brazilia, lead of her class of Encrouraçdos Rapido, from the Rio de Janerio Naval Base de Estado Rio de Janerio.
Apparently the same trick works everytime. Brazilia was stationed over the horizon from the port, expecting the three Kaiserliche Marine ships to attempt a break out. They came out and Brazilia closed into range, then slowed to her cruising speed. The sun was setting behind them, to help silhouette them for the gunnery crews. In her first full salvo Brazilia dropped two 14” shells into Michel, one through her main belt and the other through her fore deck. Michel’s bow was torn off and flooding filled her first four compartments. Damage control fought to pump out just one compartment. Then she took a flooding hit under her secondary tower. Michel fell back and Limburg charged forward to replace her.
Limburg took flooding hits as well. More hits and her damage control was stretched to the max. While they fought Brazilia turned her guns on Dresden. It wasn’t long before she too was flooded fore and aft.
Dresden was the first to sink, losing 517 of her 608 man crew. The damaged Michel was sunk next, losing 1351 of her 1427 man crew. When the first turned on the class lead Limburg she blew up, losing 1374 of her 1427 man crew. Brazilia, undamaged, picked up 220 German survivors.
Western powers, its 1915, 23 knots is simply as fast as we can go. Brazil: hold my beer