Well I suppose at least our Egyptian allies are trying, and it is interesting to see the US Navy’s ancient designs.
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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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Why is an enemy battleship damaged? (18:50)
Tb ambush and destroyer ambush should start you at like barely visible range. 5 to 10 km range depending on the era
Now we know the French destroyer was hiding in shame or is a very fast anti-submarine ship.
Too valuable for ship to ship fighting!
Agree with your last statement that it might end up that you get Sardinia easier in a peace deal. 🙂 Great video! Love the big battles.
One mod I would love to see is the ability to choose to invade a specific minor nation such as canada
I love the grand battles but they do take a bit to write up.
"What's the actual point of that ship?" Gunnery practice for the Spanish Navy from the look of it. 😏
The Tillman looks like a South Carolina class from back in 1910. You have to wonder why it's still called a battleship though when it is behind your armoured cruiser in basically everything.
Egyptian Naval Order Falls through Again
Heraldo de Madrid: 22 September
The order from the Egyptian Navy for three Villamil ’30 class destroyers at a price of $8,875,475 with delivery in six months had to be cancelled as the yards are all busy with repair orders for Armada Real Española ships.
Battle over Sardinia part 2
The truly horrific capacity for destruction of the 16” guns of the Soberano now came into play as she shifted fire to the 13 thousand ton 7.7” armed Francesco Ferruccio class heavy cruisers engaged by the Velasco’s. While a match in armament with the Velasco’s, their armor had no chance of standing up to the attention of the closing Navarra’s and the Soberano. Worn down by 10” shells, the Pisa simply came apart when hit by three 16” shells through her forward deck, main deck and aft belt. She went down with 832 of her 946 crew trapped on board. The San Domenico followed suit, breaking up after numerous 5”, 7” and 10” hits on top of the seven 16” shells that hit her, losing all but 39 of her crew.
With the smaller Spanish ships now in range, the remaining Francesco Ferruccio cruisers began to fail due to uncontrolled fires with the whole battle line firing on the last two ships in sight. The Capitanos di Fregata of the Fiume and the Ammiaglio di Saint Bon also had to order their ships abandoned, with only 231 men surviving the fires.
Six Regina Marina ships are believed to have abandoned their fleet early enough to save themselves. Led by the Saetta class light cruiser Elba, the Garibaldino class destroyers Lira, Bronzo and Rigel as well as the Ascaro class destroyers Generale Antonio Chino and Muzio Attendolo are believed to have been part of the Italian fleet. Over two thousand officers and ratings of the Regina Marina were taken prisoner after the battle.
Losses to the Armada Real Española were reported to be 67 men with the Burlada the most damaged ship, but with two of her crew and two of the Soberano’s able to be returned to duty with light wounds. The Navarra’s that did the most damage in the battle, but the 16” guns of the Soberano that finished the enemy’s capital ships.
The Invasion of Sardinia is thus uninterrupted with the Ejército de Tierra inflicting 5812 losses on the Regio Esercito forces dug into the hills. Losses have been high as the army presses to complete the conquest of the island, with casualties this month at 11150.
The concentration of the fleet in support of the invasion is also seeing an increase of transport losses, with four lost in the Bay of Biscay and five in the Western Mediterranean.
However the invasion of Southern France is progressing well, with the Armée de Terre having lost 226,830 men so far to only 67,690 of the Ejército de Tierra.
Battle over Sardinia
Heraldo de Madrid: 15 September 1933
The Navarra, the perfect combination of accuracy, rate of fire, and hitting power in one 10” armed ship class.
With their destroyer escorts returned from chasing off the Flore and sinking the Fanion, the Comando de Aguas Profundas covering force at Sardinia was almost to full strength, with two capital ships, the Soberano and the Bandera, and four heavy cruisers, the class lead Navarra with her sisters Burlada, Baranain, and Tudela. Three light cruiser and the ten destroyers formed the escort.
This is the force that two Regina Marina battleships, the F-Class Pace ed Abbondanza and Vinzaglio class Sardegna, appropriate as she is named for the island under attack, with the Fama class battlecruiser Stella Maris led to attack the Armada Real Española fleet. Accompanied by five heavy cruisers, three light cruisers and twelve destroyers. This massive force representing all the capital ships available to the Kingdom of Italy only two months earlier, a quarter of their cruisers, and more than a third of their destroyers.
The Almirante commanding from his flag ship Soberano ordered all the heavy cruisers to form a battle line with his flag and the Bandera, but the orders were confused and the Navarra ended up taking the lead. Two 13.5” hits from the Sardegna on the Soberano convinced him that the flag should operate alone to utilize her full speed. Unleashed, the Soberano got two hits on the Pace ed Abbondanza’s 15.5” gun turrets, destroying one. At the same time the rest of the battle line was hitting the Littorio class heavy cruiser San Marco Grande as she closed ahead of the Spanish but the screen focused their fire on the La Masa class destroyer DD-969 closing on the center of the line. The DD-969 sunk first, from heavy flooding, losing 220 of her complement of 250 men. The San Marco Grande succumb to fires and had to be abandoned, with 1094 of her 1113 complement lost.
It was at this point that a remarkable event occurred. The capitano di vascello of the Pace ed Abbondanza, still surrounded by his whole fleet, realized that the fires on his ship were overwhelming his fire control while he attempted to still fight, and radioed the Spanish that he surrendered. With the Pace ed Abbondanza already damaged, it is a questionable decision by the Ammiaglio who was flying his flag on the Sardengna to choose to bring the Pace ed Abbondanza to battle with only 1111 crew left of her complement of 1944. Perhaps he was concerned that sending home an already damaged battleship, unquestionably a prize target for any enemies, with a sufficient escort would weaken his force too greatly for the upcoming battle, and that retaining her in the middle of his fleet would be the safest course. And of course if he should win the battle he could collect up his errant battleship, hopefully with her having controlled her fires.
With the Pace ed Abbondanza now a tentative prize of success, the Almirante commanding directed his ships to clear out the encroaching light combatants. The second La Masa class destroyer Giacinto Carini and the Garibaldino class destroyers Aquila, Giuseppe La Farina, Aldebaran, and Ottone were burned down with high explosive shells, losing 686 of their 733 crew. The Saetta class heavy cruiser Libia was simply shattered by 10” shells from the Navarra class heavy cruisers and lost 724 of her 833 complement. Another Saetta class, the Albenico de Barbiano, was sunk from 5”, 7” and 10” flooding hits and lost all but 32 of her crew complement.
With the nearer light combatants cleared away fire now concentrated on the remaining enemy battleship, the flagship Sardegna as the battlecruiser Stella Maris was now at the far side of the enemy fleet. The Sardengna took hits from the Soberano, Bandera, Navarra’s, and Velasco’s, losing her main tower thus impeding the damage control of the fires burning her ship. She was abandoned having lost 1509 of her 1753 crew complement.
While the Soberano and Bandera gathered themselves to deal with the Stella Maris the Navarra’s took out the Garibaldino class destroyer closing on their battle line, overwhelming her with fires and causing her to lose 142 of her 161 crew. Able to close, the capital ships could now target the enemy’s battlecruiser, which was choosing this moment to close in return to engage the Spanish ships even while the Velasco’s, now in line astern of the battleline, were engaging the Francesco Ferruccio heavy cruisers San Domenico and Pisa. A 10” hit destroyed the main tower of the Stella Maris, reducing her fire and damage control. The Stella Maris absorbed numerous more hits from 5”, 10” and 16” guns before turning away from the enemy, but took four more hits before she had to be abandoned to uncontrollable fires. Only forty-two of her 1699 man crew successfully abandoned ship.
Passage to Central West Africa
Heraldo de Madrid: 1 September 1933
It is clear from reports that the Reichsmarine is operating several small task forces along the coast of north western Africa so as to secure passage down to their colonies in central West Africa. This however takes their ships right past the Canary Islands station. And this month the V-100 class destroyer V-247 found herself in the range finders of the Basco, and Villamil class destroyer. In a short battle where the V-247 actually fired first the Basco sunk the enemy with 164 of her crew killed or lost at sea and eight taken prisoner. The Basco suffered one casualty from the one hit by the V-247.
“Speed is Our Armor”
Heraldo de Madrid: 20 August 1933
After the sinking of seventeen Gabion escorted French transports, five of the under the supposed protection of the Fanion, the first of the Gabion class destroyers has finally been brought to account. Reports that the Fanion was operating with the light cruiser Flore, the lead ship of her class and the heaviest combatant the French currently have, in the vicinity of Sardinia, a seven ship destroyer flotilla under the Villamil was sent to track them down. They were able to find the Fanion and were amazed to discover that the French had built a 1922 ton destroyer class with one twin 5.4”/41 gun turret mounted forward on a raised barbette to allow it to fire over two single 1.3”/34 gun mounts forward with another two mounted aft behind one triple torpedo launcher.
This joke of a ship of course bolted at the sight of seven Armada Real Española warships, demonstrating her 40.9 knot speed. But ships don’t outpace shells, and every one of the seven destroyers on her tail got in a 5” hit, with the Álava, leading the first division, taking the prize and doing ten times the damage as the next nearest ship, the Ciscar. The Fanion was sunk from flooding with 118 of her complement of officers and ratings killed or lost at sea and twenty-two captured. The Flore was not sighted.
Egypt Brings their Big Guns
Heraldo de Madrid: 14 August 1933
The Egyptian Navy asked for the opportunity to operate with some of the experienced units of the Armada Real Española in a training and doctrine exchange mission. As this was the first time they’d suggested bringing out one of their battleships the Almirante Supremo de la Armada agreed and assigned the Bandera class battlecruiser Rebecca and the Navarra class heavy cruiser Pamplona to form a squadron to work up the American made 25 thousand ton Rhode Island class battleship Tillman with her eight 12.4” guns in the safer waters off the coast near Valencia.
The training mission became a war mission when a Regina Marina task force strayed away from the fleet concentration near Sardinia for easier targets. Consisting of the 66 thousand ton F class battleship Sicilia, two 8 thousand ton Saetta class light cruisers Arcona and Marconi and the La Masa class destroyer Insidioso, the battleship alone out displaced the Spanish ships and her escorts were 75% of the displacement of the older Tillman. Still the opportunity to damage an Italian 1st rank battleship was not to be ignored, so the commodore aboard the Rebecca indicated his intention to attack and informed the Aqid aboard the Tillman to act as he thought appropriate. As it turned out the Aqid decided his ship would close on the enemy at best speed and fire so as to distract them as best as possible and in fact was the first allied ship to fire on the enemy, but wasn’t able to keep up with the Spanish ships.
The Rebecca and Pamplona charged towards the enemy and focused their fire on the aggressively approaching Saetta class light cruisers. The Arcona and Marconi were both sunk from flooding hits as they tried to engage within their range. The Rebecca and Pamplona tried to make a dent in the Sicilia with armor piercing shells but they were having no evident effect so the order to switch to high explosive shells was given. Torpedoes from the Insidioso were detected and a terrifying few moments were spent cutting through the torpedo spread. With the Rebecca and Pamplona now closer to the enemy hits began to tell on the Sicilia, destroying both her X and Y turrets. With the Rebecca and the Sicilia flooding and listing a close range pounding match ensued were the Rebecca exchanging 14” hits for the Scilia’s 15.5” hits and the Pamplona adding 10” shells to the mix. The secondary guns on the Rebecca and Pamplona sunk the Insidioso with flooding. Fortunately the Sicilia was the first capital ship to succumb to flooding, and a near loss of the Rebecca was avoided, though she will be ten months repairing.
Losses were six men on the Pamplona and 137 officers and ratings killed or seriously wounded on the Rebecca. The Tillman took no losses. Losses for the Regina Marina where 3210 officers and ratings killed, seriously wounded, or lost at sea. Another 281 officers and ratings were fished out of the sea and taken prisoner.
Hard-fought battle by the Rebeca there! Looked a bit iffy if just for a second.
On the other hand, another massive battle, another massive victory. Only 65 ships remain for Italy, and they could be gone in a matter of months. Hell, even if they threw every BB they have at once against you, I don't think they would succeed.
I am surprised if destroyer ambush didn't result in destroyers sunk by submarines just because.
33mm, gj France. Next tme swap the turret & the torps, then at least you can shoot something useful while running:p
Good to know it's not just me who has to fight with and swear at the awful division system!
What is that rotating battle formation? The Maypole dance of death?