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So close to remaking the Mediterranean into a Roman lake, ya love to see it 😄
Ps. Play as the Dutch.
Ultimate split empire problem.
Well, the Brits weren't afraid to come out and fight. It was just very unwise. 🙂
I say for the next campaign to play the Dutch just a recommendation.
21:46 my battlecruiser again her second battle here's hoping she defeats the enemy
My suggestions would be Portugal or the Dutch.
But I'm happy with every nation for your next campaign as long you are happy with that nation.
I advise against Scandinavia for the moment tho, most guns won't fit on the early hulls, maybe for when we're released the 1.7 version of DIP.
Ah, the Roman Empire, unified at last! And there was much rejoicement. Well, there's still the matter of Spain, but they conveniently provoked you during this episode too.
I see the Southern Italy invasion, and BM glosses right over it and says it's not there. 🙄
Are there any 1.7 support dip release date predictions? I'm iching to start a new british supercampaign but holding on for the new shiny Nelson hull. Honestly after trying dip, I just can't go back to vanilla, thanks for the superb work!
Maybe a chinese camPAIN
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A technocratic china where you have to keep tech spending over 65%, you have to use the most advanced towers and funnels and if they don't fit you must make them fit, you must use the highest mark of gun even if it is smaller than you would normally want, and you must use the most recent technology internally.
Edit: if you want to make a ship you must use the hull that is the most modern
I'd like to see a campaign with the explicit goal of conquering the entire globe.
Scandinavia – Viking world conquest in the modern era. Though I'd certainly like to see another British campaign soon too.
I would love to see a scandinavian campaign but with a twist! NO standard builds and lot of looting ships! that would make a nice change! Basicly limit urself to build bb/bc u must capture them and so on. Oh and did u find out why the AI is using single gun´s all the time?
An enemy task force (1 CA 5 DD) blocks our path (5 BB 3 BC 1 CL) and battle is unavoidable! Really AI do you think this was a wise move??? LOL And then after the massacre they do the same thing with 1 CL and 2 DD? With the same group! roflmao
All this action in North Africa, makes me wonder if a '1984' scenario would be possible. See what 'Floating Fortresses' would be like. But then you would only have 3 factions and have to change the names of your ships all the time as the previous namesake might have gone down the 'memory hole'.
I can just hear the Byzantine navy going round the med going people of (Insert country here) We have come to save you. (Insert provenance here) yay it'd the Byzantine empire. (Byzantine empire) from your selves. (Isert provenance here) Oh no it's the Byzantine empire
Can you play Portugal?
If Justinian were alive, he would be very pleased with our progress in Europe.
My vote is, of course, for Britain. I know the new factions have a sparkle factor, but Britain will be FUN
The Empire Strikes Back
France being JUST Tunisia is pretty hilarious.
Next Champaign should be a British Tarkin Doctrine.
Hey brothermunro, have you ever ran into the bug where the game gets hung up "move ships" when you lress next turn? I really want to figure out how to fix it, if i can
Scandinavia or Korea would be interesting.
I have been thinking about this idea for a campaign for a while. What if you did a campaign that was focused on economic growth through export ship sales?
For example, say you are doing a German campaign, and it's the 1910s. Your fleet battleships are armed with 14-inch mk 2 guns. So, to sell an export ship to your allies, but to ensure the ship you sell them can not instantly destroy your battleships; you arm them with 11.5-inch guns. As well with less armor. Not too much less that they will sink instantly, but enough that your ships, BB's, BC's and CA's can get through.
And you do this for every ship class. As soon as a type of ship is outdated, and you unlock other hulls; you immediately get to ship designs for new exports and sales. This will not only make the campaign more challenging in the event one of the minor nations turns on you, and you are forced to sink your own exports. But, for ship hulls you don't use nor like can easily be used for exports.
The nations I would like to see with this style of campaign that could handle the ship building capacity would be: Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the US. Preferably, I would like to see a Russian or German focused campaign. But that's just me.
Next your railway shall extend the length of the world, you know which nation we shall have next…
The Roman city of Londinium is once again secure
Just for fun can we build and end of campaign mega battleship. Max weight no budget concerns.
What we haven’t seen:
The East Africa Campaign has taken Southern Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, British and Italian Somaliland, and Ethiopia. They moved on to the Indian Ocean where Réunion and Mauritius have just fallen. In Western Africa Upper Volta, Chad, and Niger have fallen and Nigeria is under attack along with Ivory Coast. Back in East Africa South Sudan, a landlocked province, is under attack. In the Persian Gulf the Trucial States have been taken but Bahrain remains. In Asia Eastern India, Kashmir, Burma, Bangladesh, and Laos have been taken. The attack on Xinjiang fails but Afghanistan is under attack. Malaysia and Singapore are still in British hands. Hong Kong is under attack by land. In America the army is trying to roll up the east coast, now attacking through Maryland into New York, Pennsylvania, and, New England. Belgium and Netherlands are yet to be liberated but the fleet is turning its attentions there.
North Sea Campaign
British Isles Landings
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 6/18/7467, A.D. 6/18/1959
In its largest campaign ever, the Naftikó Pezikó has landed on the coast of England and had begun to attack the Great Republic of the British Empire on its home ground. The British have lost nearly 45 thousand men this month to only 31 thousand of the Naftikó Pezikó.
Second Battle of Helgoland 16:34:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 1/1/7466, A.D. 1/1/1958
The Salamis, lead of her class of Thoriktá 3is vathmídas, and oldest capital ship of the Aftokratorikó Romaïkó Naftikó, was operating in the North Sea to discourage the British from attempting invasions of the Jutland Peninsula and the Island of Helgoland. She was found by the Prymus class light cruiser Emerald and attacked.
The battle lasted 18 minutes from the first sounding of the claxons to battle stations to the sinking of the Emerald with 503 of her 614 man crew.
Salamis Scrapped!
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 5/11/7467, A.D. 5/11/1959
The Salamis, lead of her class of Thoriktá 3is vathmídas, from the Sasebo Naftikó Ársenal in Kyūshū, oldest and venerable capital ship of the Aftokratorikó Romaïkó Naftikó, engaged another British ship off Jutland, and was heavily damaged during the fight to defeat the British ship. When her repairs needs were reviewed, the Navarcheío (Admiralty House) decided it would be best to scrap the ship.
Another Jutland Invasion 21:46:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 6/8/7467, A.D. 6/8/1959
With the Salamis gone the the Poseiden class of Katadromiká máchis Aionios and Kryptes Thanatos were sent to the North Sea to discourage the British from attempting landings on the Jutland Peninsula. The British sent the heavy cruiser Diadem, the Pyramus class light cruiser Argonaut, and the Vanessa class destroyer Meteor to attack them and keep them away from the newest British attempt to take Jutland.
Aionios and Kryptes Thanatos closed in the British coming from the south-west. The Diadem was of a new class, armed with three single 10.1”/47 Mark 5 gun turrets mounted ABX, 3.2” secondaries and 1.9” tertiary gun mounts, and underwater torpedoes. She had a crew of 1605 officers and men and a top speed of 33 knots, making her the fastest ship in the British fleet, with 2.5 knots more speed than the Meteor. She carried deck and underwater torpedo launchers. But even though she was up against the two oldest and smallest Katadromiká máchis of the Aftokratorikó Romaïkó Naftikó, she didn’t have a chance, but as she came in she did get hits on Aionios. But in the exchange she lost many 3.2” secondary guns and their magazine, and took flooding fore and aft. She launched torpedoes just before breaking up, but Aionios anticipated them and turned away to avoid.
Meteor tried to come in next, but she flamed out, taking four 16” shells forward, losing her central torpedo launcher and #1 funnel, as well as taking flooding forward with her bow smashed in. Another salvo and the 18 hundred ton vessel was simply gone.
Argonaut got in range with her 7.4” guns, but her shells just plinked off the armor of Aionios and Kryptes Thanatos. She sank after multiple 16” shell hits.
Aionios took 36 casualties with 2 returned to duty after treatment. The British were left to row home (YOU DIDN’T SHOW THE STATS!).
This defeat of the British ended their attempt to take Helgoland but on the Jutland Peninsula the ARS suffered 300 casualties against the 88 of the British Marines.
Ship of Theseus 26:50:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 8/3/7467, A.D. 8/3/1959
Desperate to disrupt Roman operations in the English Channel, the British sacrificed one of their new heavy cruisers, the Theseus, to attack fourteen Thoriktá of the Aftokratorikó Romaïkó Naftikó escorted by two Katadromiká máchis and the Rodos class Kynigós Katadromikó Particeps. Theseus didn’t last long at all, blown out of the water before getting into range with her own guns.
With this last defeat resistance in southern England has ended, and the Naftikó Pezikó have not only taken the ports of Dover, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Newhaven, but have marched into London and taken the Medway as well.
Rather more resistance has been shown in Xinjiang, where the British have recruited heavily the indigenous Uygur population, the campaign has ended with the ARS losing 37 thousand men while the British and Uygurs lost 25 thousand.
Suez Campaign
Battle of Suez 11:02:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 10/23/7466, A.D. 10/23/1957
The Prymus class light cruiser Defiance tried to break out of Port Said and through the Belisarius and other ships, now heavily reinforced by the Megálos Stólos. The Kataphraktos class Katadromikó máchis Theodosius, from the Vladivostok Naftikó Stathmó in the Russian Far East, did the most damage on Defiance.
Defiance, after taking flooding hits and losing her 7.4” powder magazine, goot a salvo from Theodosius that tore the ships apart. Defiance lost 595 of her 614 man crew, with 19 survivors found.
On the ground at Port Said the GRBEA has lost 3400 men this month to 1600 for the Naftikó Pezikó.
Second Battle of Suez 13:57:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 11/7/7466, A.D. 11/7/1957
With the Megálos Stólos split into the Stólos tou Souéz and the Stólos Riviéra, and many of the larger ships heading to the coast of southern France, the Prymus class light cruiser Blanche slipped north through the Canal with the Vanessa class destroyer Negro, and attempted to attack the Doxa, lead her class, her sister ships Episteme and Dogma, the Kataphraktos, lead her class, and her sister ships Mugiatbosmo and Theodosius, the Cerberus, lead her class, and the Rodos class Particeps.
Episteme led Cerberus and Dogma in the starboard division while Theodosius led the rest in the port division. With the British coming out of the Canal they turned east to draw the raiders on their broadsides. Blanche lost her B turret immedidately and took damage to her forward port torpedo launcher. More hits came in and she lost her A turret and took flooding. Finally the damage was too great and Blanche broke up, losing 534 of her 614 man crew.
Negro had been closing all the while, weaving to avoid hits, but she took an 8” shell, and then five 16” shells and suddenly she wasn’t there anymore. She lost 274 of her 287 man crew.
The Stólos tou Souéz took no losses. On the grown the Naftikó Pezikó lost less than 15 hundred men while inflicting over 47 hundred on the GRBEA.
Azores Campaign
Mopup at Azores 01:35:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 7/5/7465, A.D. 7/5/1957
Four Vanessa class destroyers, the Dragonfly, Gala, Grasshopper, and Tarpon, joined by the King Alfred class heavy cruiser Berwick, just off repairs after Second Azores, attempted to get a jump on the remaining Megálos Stólos and take down some of the damaged ships. They were reduced to five Thoriktá 1is vathmídas, the Tombazis class Spetsai, the Leon class Kountouriotis, amd the the Heracles class Achilles, Aliakmon, and Xifias, four Katadromiká máchis, the Doxa, lead of her class, the Kataphraktos, lead of her class and her sister Mugiatbosmo, the Cerberus, lead of her class, and the Rodos class Kynigós Katadromikó Particeps. With the exception of Spetsai and Achilles, all the ships were damaged and short of crew, but the Megálos Stólos proved ready and able to handle the lighter torpedo threats.
Berwick closed from the north-east, heading west, and the Megálos Stólos came from the south-west, heading north, the two forces converging until they were in range. Berwick took the first hits, two 18” shells. More hits came in as the 15” guns came in range, and her main tower was destroyed, then most of the bow of the ship. Flooding began to spread aft, then Spetsai got in a last salvo of 18” shells and Berwick shattered, losing 940 of her 999 man crew.
Gala was leading the destroyer division, and with Berwick gone could now go to her anemic top speed of 30 knots. She caught a 15” shell that blew off her #1 funnel, but she had two more. She turned to close straight into the lead Roman division. A second funnel was destroyed, then she took a hit above her engineering compartments. She was flooding out when 47 survivors of her 287 man crew abandoned her to the spreading fires.
Dragonfly was next, but she too headed in, her torpedo launchers already trained to her port bow, just waiting to get into range. She took a hit that ripped off her bow and blew off her twin 5.4” gun mount, before being flooded out and sinking with 227 of her 287 man crew.
Tarpon turned to try and cut ahead of the lead Roman ships, the loss of her sisters bringing her ever closer to the range of her three quintuple mark 5 torpedo launchers. She took a flooding hit forward but kept moving into position. Another salvo took out her forward 3.6” twin gun mount, her bridge and forward tower, and two funnels and two engines, with flooding spreading aft. As her 3.6” shell magazine blew she sank with 227 of her crew.
Grasshopper was left but also coming on under smoke. The first hit took out her #2 funnel. Finally, taking more hits and flooding at the bow, she turned to break away. But another salvo ripped her open at the water line bow to stern, and she sank with 227 of her crew.
Particeps, who managed to get some hits of her own, picked up the 277 survivors. The Megálos Stólos took no losses, and in fact the adrenaline rush caused by the claxons of battle caused a number of sailors to rise from their sickbay bunks and return to their battle stations.
On land the GRBEA lost another 61 men this month to just 10 of the Naftikó Pezikó.
The British continue to lose transports in the North Sea, the Mediterranean, and in the East Indies.
When Failure is a Certainty 07:49:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 8/5/7465, A.D. 8/5/1957
The Megálos Stólos, five Thoriktá 1is vathmídas, the Tombazis class Spetsai, the Leon class Kountouriotis, and the the Heracles class Achilles, Aliakmon, and Xifias, four Katadromiká máchis, the Doxa, lead of her class, the Kataphraktos, lead of her class and her sister Mugiatbosmo, the Cerberus, lead of her class, and the Rodos class Kynigós Katadromikó Particeps, were still on station at the Azores as the last resistance on the islands crumbled. The GRBEN made one last attempt to support the forces stranded there, sending the Pyramus class light cruiser Patrol with two Vanessa class destroyers, the Tormentor and Warwick.
The British came out of the the north-east, and the Megálos Stólos, with Spetsai in the lead, moved towards them. Tormentor was in front and taking hits, soon losing her 5.4” gun turret and her bridge, with flooding started under her 5.4” shell magazine. More flooding hits came in and Tormentor sank with 253 of her 287 man crew.
Patrol took flooding hits amidships, and then in the next salvo blew up, losing 565 of her 614 man crew. This left the Warwick, a storied name. She was ripped open from bow to nearly her stern, and sank with 267 of her 287 man crew. She did however get a hit on the Spetsai, inflicting 27 casualties, with one man returned to duty after treatment of his wounds.
104 survivors were picked up. With this last attempt to support the defenders, the British forces on the Azores have surrendered and Roman administration returned to the archipelago.
Territorial Expansion
More of India Falls 00:00:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 6/3/7465, A.D. 6/3/1957
The British occupied provinces in the Indian Sub-Continent of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharshita, Karnataka, and Kerala have been taken in a tough campaign where the ARS lost over 15 thousand casualties while the GRBEA lost nearly 19 thousand. The ARS is forming up to push east and north, and complete the liberation of the sub-continent from British occupation.
The ARS is also beginning their second attack on Burma from southern China.
The re-invasion of the Azores continues, with the GRBEA lost 289 men this month to just 98 for the Naftikó Pezikó.
The Great Republic of the British Empire is facing another revolt, this time in the East Indies island of Borneo.
The ARS is striking out of Tripolitania to retake our province of Cyrenaica, and secure southern Algeria where the last of the Emir’s forces are hiding.
Gold Coast Taken 05:45:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 7/13/7465, A.D. 7/13/1957
The ARS has taken the British African province of the Gold Coast in a tough campaign with the GRBEA taking over 26 thousand casualties but the ARS taking 28 thousand to clear the jungles of the interior.
Southern Algeria Secured 05:47:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 7/18/7465, A.D. 7/18/1957
The ARS, operating out of Tripolitania, as defeated the last tribes loyal to the Emir hiding in the Plateau de Tademaït, and have established Roman Administration in southern Algeria.
Action in the Americas 05:50:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 7/21/7465, A.D. 7/21/1957
The ARS is moving against the British occupation of the southern American colonies of Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia, aiming to take the Naftikó Ársenals of Charleston, Wilmington, and Norfolk.
Landings begin at Alexandria, Port Said 05:52:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 7/23/7465, A.D. 7/23/1957
After being delayed by the Azores campaign, the Naftikó Pezikó are now landing in Lower Egypt, targeting Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile and Port Said at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal. Control of the Canal will greatly aid the operations of the Aftokratorikó Romaïkó Naftikó and hinder the operations of the Great Republic of the British Empire Navy, as well cutting them out of Mare Nostrum.
March on Rome 05:55:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 7/25/7465, A.D. 7/25/1957
The ARS is crossing the Apennines to attack the British occupation of Rome and the Lazio, or the Latium. If successful the campaign should drive the GRBEA into southern Italy, Campania and Puglia, and the even more barren Calabina.
Action in the Persian Gulf 10:28:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 8/4/7465, A.D. 8/4/1957
The ARS is attacking the British controlled Trucial States in the Persian Gulf. Taking this and Bahrain would drive the British out of this area and simplify our operational requirements.
Jutland Secure 10:29:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 8/12/7465, A.D. 8/12/1957
The British invasion of the Jutland Peninsula, broken up by the ARS and the Salamis, lead of her class of Thoriktá 3is vathmídas.
British Lose Borneo! 10:35:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 8/16/7465, A.D. 8/16/1957
The Great Republic of the British Empire has finally lost a province to an independence movement. The Insurrections on Borneo have driven the GRBEA to some small enclaves along the coast, and have declared a new government.
Landings in Lower Egypt Begin 10:36:
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 8/18/7465, A.D. 8/18/1957
The Naftikó Pezikó have begun their landings at Port Said with great success, inflicting 4448 casualties on the GRBEA and their puppet Egyptian army. The Naftikó Pezikó took 1239 casualties in this first month of an expected half year campaign.
Cyrenaica Recovered!
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 10/4/7466, A.D. 10/4/1957
After took long being plundered by the British, our North African province of Cyrenaica has been recovered by the ARS.
Rome Liberated! 15:05
Konstantinoúpoli Kathimeriná Néa
ε.Κ. 11/11/7466, A.D. 11/11/1957
The ancient capital of the Western Roman Empire, the Eternal City of Roma, has been liberated from the horrors of British occupation, the Protestant indignities inflicted on the Roman clergy, the suppression of Italian culture and art by the blue painted barbarians from the north, and the unending insults to the Roman women.
Now the two capitals of the Roman Empire are reunited. The Great Republic of the British Empire Army lost 41 thousand men in the campaign, their supplies cut off by the blockade of the Suez and the control of the Pillars of Hercules. The Aftokratorikós Romaïkós Stratós lost nearly 27 thousand men in the campaign.