So good to finally see a good Battleship duel at close range. Just slugging it out between the two, and some added fire support, until one just gets blown to splinters or finally sinks.
Upon review of the footage, it turns out that the Montanas did have a Standard loadout for the main guns, and I was mistaking it for the secondary loadout when I made a comment a few episodes ago. My apologies for this buffoonery, admiral, sir! In other news, yes, the Mark 3 16" turrets do look rather odd, but well... not much we can do about it!
3:14: Someone really needs to explain to the developers that the Hertha class light cruiser Sachsen and ther Hertha class light cruiser Saxony are both named for the same Kingdom of the German Empire, one with the German spelling and one with the English spelling.
Well, I will say this the Prussen is rather on nose for Germany. I think it would be rather interesting to see you do a Germany with accomplishing the H plan
8:28: Actually the torpedoes mattered a lot, as most of Frauenlob's crew abandoned ship before they struck, thus saving them from being dragged down with the wreck. That's a ridiculously impressive image.
I guess Campbell used as the name Campbell is used by the USGC and have since 1830 and was named either for George Washington Campbell Treasury Sec or James Campbell Postmaster General. USS McCampbell is a Arleigh-Burke DD, and is named after Capt. David S, Campbell Medal of Honour and Navy Cross from WW2
8:45: Apparently when you adopt 1.6 it won't matter anymore but there is a way to know the name of the sunken transport. You only have to click on it, either in the summary or the detail list here, and it will give the class information, which is also the ship name.
Patrolling the Irish Sea 8:49: New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 18 January 1931 The Idaho class Battleship Long Beach, from the Boston Naval Base in Massachusetts, and the Shenandoah class Battlecruiser Puerto Rico and the Bridgeport class Heavy Cruiser USS Cedar City CA-3 from the Cádiz Naval Base in Andalusia, joined the Dutch Koninklijke Marine’s Coontz class destroyer Balch on patrol of the Irish Sea. There they found the Gneisenau class Kampfkreuzer Mackensen, the Hertha class Gepanzerkreuzer Admiral Hipper, the Brummer class Leichter Kreuzer Dresden, and the V-78 class Zerstörer V-80. Balch was advised to hold back for an opportunity to run in for a torpedo strike, Puerto Rico turned to use her superior long range fire, and Long Beach closed with Cedar City following her. Long Beach opened fire first, but swiveled her guns to take out the V-80, trying to sneak in for a torpedo run. The whole American forced got hits on her, driving her off. This however had allowed Mackensen to close in Long Beach and get an 8” hit on her. Mackensen got multiple hits before Long Beach and Puerto Rico found the range, but once they did Mackensen lost her A turret to a flash fire. As Mackensen and Long Beach continued to exchange fire it became clear that Long Beach had the armor to ricochet 15.1” shells while Mackensen could not do the same for 14” shells. Mackensen was soon flooded amidships, leaving her weaker armored fore and aft to hold her afloat. Mackensen continued to take hits, losing two engines to the increasing flooding and listing so badly she no longer could fire her guns. She had nearly 800 casualties reported. Able to target only the Puerto Rico, Mackensen sank with 2835 of her 3150 man crew. With Mackensen’s sinking Dresden broke away from the battle. The Dutch ship Balch was closest, and charged after Dresden. Dresden burned smoke but Balch continued to close until she could make out the silhouette in the haze. After a long stern chase Balch got the flooding hits to slow Dresden down. As she closed Balch was able to also engage with her 2” guns. As Balch edged closer her 5” shells did more damage, constantly penetrating the aft belt on Dresden. Dresden finally got a 6.1” shell into Balch, causing her to start flooding as well. But Balch kept tearing at Dresden like a Smoushond with a rat, slowing to stay astern of Dresden where only one 6.1” could bear while Balch pumped out four 5” shells a salvo along with more 2” shells. Finally the crew of Balch made an error, misjudging Dresden’s speed, they rammed the Kreuzer, but did more damage to themselves than to the German. With the two hulls in contact the gun crews exchanged shells at point blank range, with crewmen on both ships grabbing personal weapons to fire on the opposing crew. Now the same speed as Dresden, Balch’s bow rose and fell with the waves, grinding into the German’s hull and ripping her bow apart. Balch lost the wrestling match, and Dresden slowly pulled away as 130 of Balch’s 181 man crew made it to the life boats. Meanwhile Puerto Rico engaged the Admiral Hipper. Admiral Hipper got two torpedo hits on Puerto Rico, but both were duds. Admiral Hipper finally got two 10.5” hits on Puerto Rico, but she was already badly damaged. With another salvo of 14” shell Puerto Rico sank Admiral Hipper with 514 of her 605 man crew. With Admiral Hipper gone Puerto Rico took up the chase of Dresden. At 30 knots Puerto Rico was closing fast while Dresden tried to get more than 13 knots. Soon Puerto Rico spotted Dresden’s smoke screen, which only led the battlecruiser to the wallowing German ship. As Puerto Rico came into range of Dresden’s 6.1” guns she turned to open her 14” broadside. Dresden however was a pathetic sight. Listing so hard that once Puerto Rico was out of her stern arc, Dresden could not fire. She had flooding astern past her mid line, and all three engines were disabled. Her steering was out and she was aflame, with over 270 casualties reported. Puerto Rico pinged away with 2” shell while she loaded her next 14” salvo. When the three shells hit Dresden ripped apart, taking 689 of her 783 man crew down with her wreck. The Zerstörer V-80 had left the battle after attempting to torpedo Long Beach, and survived with 34 casualties reported from her 227 man crew. Long Beach had taken 86 casualties, and Puerto Rico 5. USS Cedar City CA-3 had taken no casualties. Balch had lost 51 men. Five Hundred German personnel were found by sweeping the vast expanse of the battle.
Montana Class in Battle 32:21: New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 24 January 1931 The Montana class Battleship Illinois, from the Cádiz Naval Base in Andalusia, got the honor of debuting her class in battle. For this rare opportunity, she also got to engage the newest German capital ship, the Kampfkreuzer class Wuppertal, in what may be her class debut. At 49 thousand tons displacement the Illinois carries ten 16” guns in two triple and two twin turrets, six casemate 6” guns, and twelve triple 5” gun turrets, has a top speed of 21 knots, and a crew of 2079 officers and men. Wuppertal carries eight 17.6” guns in four twin turrets, ten casemate 8.2” guns, two triple 8.1” and two twin 8.1” guns turrets, and an extensive tertiary battery. Apparently logistics are not a constraint to the Deutsche Reichsmarine. Wuppertal sighted Illinois and opened fire first, dropping her ranging shot off Illinois’ starboard bow. Illinois replied with a half salvo. Wuppertal’s next shots literally bounced off Illinois. Illinois’ next half salvo dropped one 16” shell through Wuppertal’s main deck. Because the elevated main turrets had fewer guns than the deck mounted turrets Illinois fired in staggered half salvos, avoiding the recoil that plagues ships with matching turrets. Illinois bounced shells off Wuppertal, which trying to close in to get penetrating hits herself, the German ship was making the Americans’ chancing of hitting and penetrating go up as well. By closing so sharply Wuppertal was also denying herself her full broadside, and taking another deck penetration. Illinois kept her full broadside open, which also kept in in front of Wuppertal and in the arc of her forward turrets. Wuppertal however was now in range with her 8.2” guns, and adding their fire. Finally Wuppertal put a 17.6” shell through one of Illinois’ 6” casemates. Wuppertal was finally turned to fire with all eight main guns when she lost her main tower. Illinois’ 6” guns were now in range, but she had only three to fire off her starboard bow. Her eighteen 5” guns in six triple turrets on her starboard side made up the difference. Then tragedy struck when A turret took a penetrating hit that set off her powder magazine. The turret blew off the ship in a column of blue and yellow flame. Faced with this, the Captain calmly ordered a few degrees turn to port to favor the aft turrets. Wuppertal was flooding amidships, with one engine already disabled, her fire control lost, and fires across the ship. Nearly 500 casualties were reported, and her 8.2” magazine was blown. Her whole forward deck was a shambles, and her main tower essentially wasn’t there anymore. As Wuppertal’s flooding increased she began to list, and could no longer fire any of her guns. The list at least kept one massive hole in her port side out of the water. Illinois continued to pound away with 5”, 6”, and 16” shells as more of Wuppertal’s unarmored hull rose into above the water. Flooding finally broke into the last aft compartments, and Wuppertal sank with 2855 of her 2901 man crew. Illinois suffered severally as well, needing months of repair, and losing 375 casualties, she found only 46 German survivors.
1:02:24: Because Germany is at war with three countries it's really hard to say, but I think they may have three or four Schleswig-Holstein class battleships.
A Standard's Duty is to sail in a battleline, dish out broadsides, and take broadsides in return. They were less warships, more mobile floating fortresses of steel and guns, built to absorb fire and punch right back. Long Beach Embodied that Ethos to a T. And it was Glorious.
She's not really a match for your BBs, but I think if the Wuppertal-class runs up against your cruisers and older battlecruisers she could be quite dangerous. She's nearly as well armoured as they are and has bigger guns.
Re: Redesign for the Lexington '32 refit of battlecruisers. Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division: Bureau Report: 10-Mar-1932 The Lexington 1932 refit will cover six battlecruisers originally designed to a target displacement of 31,200 tons and a top speed of 30 knots. The class has three double geared turbine engines provided steam by three naturally aspirated boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though two funnels generating 98,174 indicated horsepower turning four reduced cavitation screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 31,023 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by advanced electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 14,475 nautical miles. The class carries diesel auxiliary engines for emergency power. The class' main battery is four twin turrets mounted two pairs super firing forward and aft bearing 16"/50 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 5" top, 12" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by advanced electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, modernized Stereoscopic rangefinders, the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Cordite Low Burn as the propellant and Composition B as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is ten casemates mounted five per side bearing 3"/44 Mark 4 guns with 3" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. The secondary magazine carries a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells. Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 12" on the main belt, 3." on the extended belt, 6" on the 1st inner belt, 1.8" on the 2nd inner belt, 4" on the main deck, 1.5" on the extended deck, 2.4" on the inner deck, 1.9" on the inner deck, 3" on the superstructure, and 14" on the conning tower. The Class has a triple bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 1286 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems. The refit will cover the ships USS Congress BC-4, USS Manchester BC-7, USS Johnathan T Yale BC-6, USS President BC-5, and Constitution. Refit time will be 3 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $380,899,100, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $14,474,170.
Re: Redesign for the Montana '32 refit of battleships. Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division: Bureau Report: 24-Mar-1932 The Montana 1932 refit will cover five battleships originally designed to a target displacement of 49,500 tons and a top speed of 21 knots. The class has three turbo electric engines provided steam by three naturally aspirated boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though one funnels generating 63,967 indicated horsepower turning four high speed screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 49,295 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 11,309 nautical miles. The class carries improved battery backup power for emergencies. The class' main battery is two triple turrets with two super firing twins fore and aft bearing 16"/45 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 5" top, 16" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, using modernized Coincidence range finders, and with the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Tube Powder Extra Low Burn as the propellant and TNT High Mixture as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is six casemates mounted five per side bearing 6"/52 Mark 4 guns with 3" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. A tertiary battery consists of twelve triple turrets, mounted six per side bearing 5"/44 Mark 4 guns with 1.5" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. The secondary and tertiary magazines carry a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells. Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 16" on the main belt, 3" on the extended belt, 2" on the 1st inner belt, 1.7" on the 2nd inner belt, 4" on the main deck, 2" on the extended deck, 0.3" on the inner deck, 0.2" on the inner deck, 3" on the superstructure, and 18" on the conning tower. The Class has a double bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and extended double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 2079 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems. The refit will cover the ships Montana, Illinois, USS Rising Freedom BB-3, Louisiana, and Texas. Refit time will be 3 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $962,040,000, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $26,937,120.
The model of the mk 3? 16 inch looks like the 6 inch gun turret that was on the rl Cleveland class light cruiser. They look horrible on the big ships imo 😢
Battle of Porto-Novo New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 18 May 1931 The David R. Ray class Destroyer USS Richard Nelson DD-17, from the Lobito Naval Base in Angola and the Briantree class Destroyer USS Drunken Seagull DD-9, from the Tampa Naval Base in Florida, found the V-78 class Zerstörer V-24 (it’s a retread name) escorting three Schlesian class 8 thousand ton 47 manned 2.4” armed transports past Porto-Novo in French occupied Dahomey. Seagull spotted funnel smoke to the north-west, exactly where she expected it. She quickly found the convoy and Dick Nelson opened fire with her bigger 5” guns. Seagull opened fire but with her 3” guns she was also in range 5.5” guns on V-24. Seagull launched her six 21” torpedoes and drove V-24 back. Between Seagull’s 3” shells and Dick Nelson’s 5” shells they sank the V-24 with 220 of her 227 man crew. With V-24 gone the two destroyers closed on the transports. Weissenburg blew up losing 44 of her 47 crew. Beowulf also broke under fire, losing 44 men. The convoy leader Schlesian broke as well before flooding out, losing 40 men. The massive explosions that took out the transports demonstrated they were carrying ammunition to the combat zone in Portuguese Guinea. USS Drunken Seagull DD-9 took 2 casualties, USS Richard Nelson DD-17 took 1. They picked up 7 survivors from V-24 and 13 surviving merchant seamen.
Re: Redesign for the Connecticut '32 refit of battleships. Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division: Bureau Report: 3-Mar-1932 The Connecticut 1932 refit will cover four battleships originally designed to a target displacement of 37,000 tons and a top speed of 21 knots. The class has three new turbo electric engines provided steam by three balanced draft boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though two funnels generating 46,442 indicated horsepower turning four reduced cavitation screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 36,752 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by advanced electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 7,073 nautical miles. The class carries improved battery backup power for emergencies. The class' main battery is four twin turrets mounted in two pairs super firing fore and aft bearing 16"/45 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 5" top, 14" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by advanced electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, using modernized Coincidence range finders, and with the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Tube Powder Extra Low Burn as the propellant and Composition B as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is fourteen casemates mounted eight per side bearing 6"/50 Mark 4 guns with 4" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. A tertiary battery consists of ten triple mounts, five per side flanking the main tower bearing 2"/54 Mark 4 guns. The secondary and tertiary magazines carry a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Battlistic AP shells. New Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 14" on the main belt, 1.5" on the extended belt, 2.4" on the 1st inner belt, 1.9" on the 2nd inner belt, 4." on the main deck, 1.5" on the extended deck, 2.4" on the inner deck, 1.9" on the inner deck, 1.5" on the superstructure, and 16" on the conning tower. The Class has a double bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 1847 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class now carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems. The refit will cover the ships Connecticut, West Virginia, Utah, and Iron Hand. Refit time will be 5 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $539,979,900, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $16,199,400.
The mod would be good if the torpedo damage wasn't so extremely strong. It destroys any balance, I tested the mod with a pure DD fleet you can conquer the world, thanks to nuclear torpedoes.
I wonder why Mackensen insisted on blasting Long Beach with HE when it clearly lacked the pen to do any damage... Edit: And Wuppertal as well... HE against a BB and it just bounces.
I’m playing with a mod (that I wrote) and part of it is an economy overhaul. Once you get to the trillion or so GDP mark things can snowball a bit but overall it’s mostly balanced
To be fair I am using a mod, however as the author of the mod there’s only a few very minor things I can do to help the ai more than I already have (what’s really annoying is it worked perfectly for about a week before they ‘improved’ things)
Last Modern Battleship New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 9 May 1931 Thirteen battleships, the Maine, lead of her class, and her sister ships Mississippi, and USS Darmen Tyranis BB-2, with the Connecticut, lead of her class, and her sister ships West Virginia, Utah, and USS Iron Hand BB-1, the Idaho class Vermont, and the Virginia, lead of her class, and her sister ships Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kansas, and Massachusetts, along with the Lexington class Battlecruiser USS Congress BC-4, attempted a strike at the port of Haichow in German occupied China. This forced the sortie of the 76 thousand ton 17.3” armed Hildebrand class Schlachtschiff Preussen along with her escorts the Brummer class Leichter Kreuzer Breslau and the V-73, lead of her Zerstörer class. The Deutsche Reichsmarine ships attempted to attack under the cover of darkness as the American fleet steamed into position with Pennsylvania leading Virginia and Connecticut in the van, Maine leading Iron Hand and Massachusetts in the starboard division, with Congress accompanying them, Indiana leading Mississippi, Vermont, and Kansas in the port division, and Darmen Tyranis leading West Virginia and Utah in the central division. On receiving reports that Pennsylvania sighted Preussen, the Admiral commanding decided to form battle line on Darmen Tyranis. The American ships opened fire first, but Preussen soon replied. The first hits were two 14” shells on the Breslau, who immediately made smoke and disappeared into the night. Preussen closed on the scrum of American ships trying to get into line astern, but began to take hits which she mostly ricocheted. Pennsylvania took the first hits from Preussen and was ordered to fall out of formation. As the American battle line began to form they filled the night with shells leaving blazing trails as they sought out the German ship illuminated by the fires burning on her hull fore and aft. Preussen’s armor kept most shells out, but her super structure was not as well armored, and the towers began to shred. As Preussen closed on the rear of the American line she came into close range of Vermont and took shells through her fore and main belt. Then Preussen took the lethal hit, with her powder magazine penetrated a 17.3” turret blasted into the air on a column of blue flame, the gunnery crew both cooked and mashed as the ready ammunition exploded. With flooding taking his ship, the Kapitan of the Preussen ordered her to try and break away. The order came too late, and Preussen exploded in the night, taking 2366 of her 2851 crew to the bottom of the Yellow Sea. The two billion dollar ship was gone. Breslau and V-73 were in sight, and the battle line targeted them both. V-73 sank with 135 of her 143 man crew. Darmen Tyranis was already leading the battle line to chase Breslau, who was retreating on auxiliary power. With flooding aft and 160 plus casualties, Breslau could only make smoke and hope the Americans lost her in the night. This didn’t happen. Breslau took two 16” hits and flooded out, losing 781 of her 783 man crew. Connecticut went into the battle with a crew shortfall of 17 men. USS Iron Hand was down 1 man and suffered 8 casualties. Vermont took 7 and Kansas 1. Pennsylvania had 77 casualties. 435 German personnel were picked up by the next day, though only two survivors of V-73 were found.
Kiautschou Bay Taken! New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 4 April 1931 Two years after taking Shanghai and Hangzhou the United States Marine Corps had taken the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory with its naval base of Tsingtau. Losses have not been reported, but were probably very high. However information about the losses this month in Togoland were leaked, and at the moment the Germans are losing 1800 a month to the Marine’s 1500. Germany is also fighting a campaign to take Portuguese Guinea off Portugal and doing better there. The Troisième République Française is facing revolts in Africa and French Indochina.
For one, since the dogwater AI mostly forgets to put armor on the pen is kinda irrelevant, for two having shorter barrels helps with rate of fire, and lastly all US BBs up to the Iowa class used 16"/45 guns historically.
Togoland Invasion Ordered New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 23 January 1931 The Navy Department has dispatched the fleet and the Second Marine Expeditionary Force to the coast of West Africa to begin the invasion of Togoland, Germany’s last coastal province on the Dark Continent. The Army Department has directed the United State Army forces in Burundi to begin the invasion of the landlocked Rwanda.
So, I've been sent as the Commander of the African Squadron, eh (my flagship is the Battleship Montana)? After the matters in Congo are resolved, can I get my squadron assigned to the North sea, please?
@@BrotherMunro I command the new USS Montana, of the Montana Class (the American Andrea Doria) as my flagship. All the ships in her squadron are, in the roleplay, under my command (in this case, the African Squadron). My demand was, once the situation in Africa will be over, in case we're stll at war with the Germans, for my squadron to be sent in the European theatre, because I think that the best preys are there, so I can train my crews better
Almost Away New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 18 January 1931 With the United States Army pressing north into German occupied China, Berlin was anxious to get what materials out of Chinese ports while they could. Thus the crew of the newly built Brummer class Leichter Kreuzer Frauenlob must have felt relieved when the Navigator reported they had left the Yellow Sea and entered the East China Sea with their one charge, the Transport ##. Sadly for them, this is when a destroyer division of the United States Navy found them, led by the David R. Ray class USS Robert E. Cowger DD-15, from the Tainan Naval Base in Formosa, with the Tucker class Radford and the Coontz class Sampson, from the Manila Naval Base in Luzón, and the Tracy class Caron, from the Gensan Naval Base in Korea. It didn’t help the German morale that they were caught in a storm. Caron led the division, using her advanced detection systems to get a bead on the enemy. Frauenlob opened fire first, putting a 6.1” shell through Caron’s fore belt. Caron detached and turned to find the transport lying to her starboard bow while Sampson led Bobby Cowger and Radford on. Frauenlob and the transport were soon taking 5” shell hits. Frauenlob got a torpedo hit on Caron, adding flooding aft to the flooding she had forward. Caron was ordered to retreat. Because Frauenlob had focused on Caron in order to save her charge, she found Sampson and the other destroyers closing quickly on her starboard quarter. Their hits were piling up, and Frauenlob had lost her steering and her #1 engine. She had flooding amidships, with only one engineering compartment dry. Sampson got into the perfect position and launched torpedoes. Frauenlob launched more torpedoes at Caron in the hopes of getting one kill while Sampson’s torpedoes closed. Though Sampson’s skipper thought his torpedo officer missed forward, in fact he got three out of four torpedoes on target, and the Kapitan of Frauenlob was forced to order Alle Mann von Bord! All three torpedoes blew, and Frauenlob sank with just 219 of her 783 man crew. Sampson now turned to close on the transport. Her 5” shells tore the ship apart, and the wreck took 63 of the 70 man crew to the bottom of the East China Sea. Caron had suffered 13 casualties. 564 German military personnel were recovered during and after the storm, requiring ships to come out and help the overwhelmed destroyers. Only 7 merchant seamen were found.
My suggestion would be cancel your original subscription then re-join at the tier you want. If you try to reach Google, they'll probably beat around the bush and make spend more then you need to.
Thanks for the answer. So no chance for new flaws? If so, then that opens up the possibility of a minor exploit. Build with the equipment that doesn't increase flaws chance, then refit the flaws chance increasing equipment on as soon as the build is complete.
Hunting in the Sea of Japan New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 4 January 1931 The Fresno class Light Cruiser Langley from the Nampo Naval Base in Korea started the New Year off right by finding the newly built Hertha class Gepanzerkreuzer Saxony, not to be confused with the older Sachsen, operating in the Sea of Japan. Langley spotted the fast moving funnel smoke of one warship to the north-west and closed to investigate, well aware that the Imperial Japanese Navy also operated ships in the area, as did the Soviet Pacific Red Banner Fleet. Another Hertha would make an excellent silhouette to paint on her bridge. Langley opened fire first, but Saxony soon was returning fire. Langley got the first hit, penetrating Saxony’s fore belt. More hits piled into Saxony, with the German ship not being able to hit back. Finally Saxony got a hit on Langley’s #1 Funnel and inflicted a dozen casualties. In return Langley got a magazine hit on the main battery powder magazine and Saxony lost her A turret to a flash fire. Saxony was now down to one single 10.5” turret forward, and was turning to keep her bow towards Langley, losing the ability to fire her aft main battery. Langley turned to keep all ten of her 6” guns on Saxony, easily able to penetrate the poorly armored ship. Saxony was flooded fore and aft, listing so her secondaries couldn’t fire, reduced to one 10.5” gun, and reporting 150 casualties, nearly a quarter of her crew. She was burning, had an engine disabled, and her steering damaged. Only her torpedo stations were fully manned. Langley turned back and tried to get a beam of Saxony so she could breach the last unflooded compartments holding Saxony afloat, but the unforgiving Sea of Japan got there first, smashing through the bulkheads of the engineering spaces and sinking Saxony with 526 of her 605 man crew. Langley suffered 13 casualties and picked up 79 German survivors.
The Army Gets it Done! New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXII: 21 February 1932 The United States Army, operating from our territory in China, has driven the Germans out of Asia. They have taken the rest of Shandong province, Hebei, Shanxi, and Henan. Losses on this front were high, with 112 thousand American killed or invalided out of service to 75 thousand casualties for the Germans.
Marine Campaign to Take German Occupied China Fails New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 4 November 1931 The United States Marine Corps has failed to take German occupied China by sea. Losses have not been reported but the number leaked in July showed the Marines taking only slightly higher losses than the Germans and their Chinese conscripts.
Togoland Falls New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 8 July 1931 The German occupied Africa province of Togoland has fallen. The Germans are reduced to the landlocked province of Rwanda, though they are pressing to take the Congo Free State, and independent country adjacent to Rwanda. Rwanda is under attack by the U.S. Army from our protectorate of Burundi.
Re: Redesign for the Essex '32 refit of battlecruisers. Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division: Bureau Report: 31-Mar-1932 The Essex 1932 refit will cover five battlecruisers originally designed to a target displacement of 48,000 tons and a top speed of 30 knots. The class has three turbo electric engines provided steam by three naturally aspirated boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though two funnels generating 152,742 indicated horsepower turning four high speed screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 47,987 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by advanced electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 14,207 nautical miles. The class carries improved battery backup power for emergencies. The class' main battery is three triple turrets mounted with a pair super firing forward and one aft bearing 16"/50 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 6" top, 14" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by advanced electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, using stabilized modern Stereoscopic range finders, and with the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Cordite Low Burn as the propellant and Composition B as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is ten triple turrets mounted five per side bearing 5"/38 Mark 4 guns with 3" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. A tertiary battery consists of ten quad turrets, five per side bearing 1.6"/40 Mark 4 guns. The secondary and tertiary magazines carry a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells. Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 14" on the main belt, 3" on the extended belt, 2.9" on the 1st inner belt, 2.3" on the 2nd inner belt, 5" on the main deck, 1.5" on the extended deck, 2.4" on the 1st inner deck, 1.9" on the 2nd inner deck, 3" on the superstructure, and 16" on the conning tower. The Class has a triple bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and extended double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 1992 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems. The refit will cover the ships Essex, Legend, USS Mocowmoo BC-8, Philippines, and Lexington II. Refit time will be 3 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $1,032,184,000, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $28,891,570.
Re: Final Redesign for the Maine '32 refit of battleships. Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division: Bureau Report: 17-Mar-1932 The Maine 1932 refit will cover three battleships originally designed to a target displacement of 42,000 tons and a top speed of 21 knots. The class has three turbo electric engines provided steam by three naturally aspirated boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though one funnels generating 53,391 indicated horsepower turning four reduced cavitation screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 41,963 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by advanced electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 13,263 nautical miles. The class carries improved battery backup power for emergencies. The class' main battery is four twin turrets mounted in two pairs super firing fore and aft bearing 16"/45 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 5" top, 14" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by advanced electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, using modernized Coincidence range finders, and with the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Tube Powder Extra Low Burn as the propellant and Composition B as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is ten casemates mounted five per side bearing 6"/55 Mark 4 guns with 4" face and 2" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. A tertiary battery consists of eight triple mounts, four per side flanking the main tower bearing 3"/50 Mark 4 guns. The secondary and tertiary magazines carry a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells. Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 14" on the main belt, 3" on the extended belt, 2" on the 1st inner belt, 1.7" on the 2nd inner belt, 4" on the main deck, 2" on the extended deck, 1.9" on the inner deck, 1.5" on the inner deck, 3" on the superstructure, and 18" on the conning tower. The Class has a double bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 1783 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems. The refit will cover the ships Maine, Mississippi, and USS Darmen Tyranis BB-2. Refit time will be 5 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $618,720,800, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $17,298,340.
Marine Campaign to Take German Occupied China Fails New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications MCMXXXI: 4 November 1931 The United States Marine Corps has failed to take German occupied China by sea. Losses have not been reported but the number leaked in July showed the Marines taking only slightly higher losses than the Germans and their Chinese conscripts.
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I can fit a "Refit Dreadnought tower IV" in that slot on the "Large Scout Cruiser" hull, you can make it look a lot better...
Germany has learned the Japan lesson. Don't. Touch. The. Boats.
I feel like the Captain of the Vermont at somepoint spoke to his XO and said 'Get us in close! I want to hit them with my Cavalry sword!"
In response, the German crew decided to throw an entire 4000+ ton gun turret at them!
I may have gone for a torpedo run with the Balch. Brave little DD.
So good to finally see a good Battleship duel at close range. Just slugging it out between the two, and some added fire support, until one just gets blown to splinters or finally sinks.
Upon review of the footage, it turns out that the Montanas did have a Standard loadout for the main guns, and I was mistaking it for the secondary loadout when I made a comment a few episodes ago. My apologies for this buffoonery, admiral, sir!
In other news, yes, the Mark 3 16" turrets do look rather odd, but well... not much we can do about it!
3:14: Someone really needs to explain to the developers that the Hertha class light cruiser Sachsen and ther Hertha class light cruiser Saxony are both named for the same Kingdom of the German Empire, one with the German spelling and one with the English spelling.
Well, I will say this the Prussen is rather on nose for Germany. I think it would be rather interesting to see you do a Germany with accomplishing the H plan
The DD was named the Balch, not the Black. 18:25
8:28: Actually the torpedoes mattered a lot, as most of Frauenlob's crew abandoned ship before they struck, thus saving them from being dragged down with the wreck.
That's a ridiculously impressive image.
Doc Holiday moment!
" Oh, Hipper, I'm sorry I forgot you were there! You may go."
54:23: Oy, new class of German light cruisers.
29:15: That may be the most dramatic two ship duel I've seen in UAD.
59:10 brother Munro lowkey endorses operation paper clip.
44:20 shootings stars 🤩
You must acquire one of those Hildebrands for research purposes.
I guess Campbell used as the name Campbell is used by the USGC and have since 1830 and was named either for George Washington Campbell Treasury Sec or James Campbell Postmaster General. USS McCampbell is a Arleigh-Burke DD, and is named after Capt. David S, Campbell Medal of Honour and Navy Cross from WW2
8:45: Apparently when you adopt 1.6 it won't matter anymore but there is a way to know the name of the sunken transport. You only have to click on it, either in the summary or the detail list here, and it will give the class information, which is also the ship name.
1:58: Oh My Giddy Maiden Aunt, that damned button just disabled every engine on USS Speedy as well as two each on the Roberts and one on Cogswell.
Wonderful episode, a joy to watch.
1:03:27: I think the Dutch might appreciate a fleet off their coast.
Patrolling the Irish Sea 8:49:
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 18 January 1931
The Idaho class Battleship Long Beach, from the Boston Naval Base in Massachusetts, and the Shenandoah class Battlecruiser Puerto Rico and the Bridgeport class Heavy Cruiser USS Cedar City CA-3 from the Cádiz Naval Base in Andalusia, joined the Dutch Koninklijke Marine’s Coontz class destroyer Balch on patrol of the Irish Sea. There they found the Gneisenau class Kampfkreuzer Mackensen, the Hertha class Gepanzerkreuzer Admiral Hipper, the Brummer class Leichter Kreuzer Dresden, and the V-78 class Zerstörer V-80. Balch was advised to hold back for an opportunity to run in for a torpedo strike, Puerto Rico turned to use her superior long range fire, and Long Beach closed with Cedar City following her.
Long Beach opened fire first, but swiveled her guns to take out the V-80, trying to sneak in for a torpedo run. The whole American forced got hits on her, driving her off. This however had allowed Mackensen to close in Long Beach and get an 8” hit on her. Mackensen got multiple hits before Long Beach and Puerto Rico found the range, but once they did Mackensen lost her A turret to a flash fire.
As Mackensen and Long Beach continued to exchange fire it became clear that Long Beach had the armor to ricochet 15.1” shells while Mackensen could not do the same for 14” shells. Mackensen was soon flooded amidships, leaving her weaker armored fore and aft to hold her afloat. Mackensen continued to take hits, losing two engines to the increasing flooding and listing so badly she no longer could fire her guns. She had nearly 800 casualties reported. Able to target only the Puerto Rico, Mackensen sank with 2835 of her 3150 man crew.
With Mackensen’s sinking Dresden broke away from the battle. The Dutch ship Balch was closest, and charged after Dresden. Dresden burned smoke but Balch continued to close until she could make out the silhouette in the haze. After a long stern chase Balch got the flooding hits to slow Dresden down. As she closed Balch was able to also engage with her 2” guns. As Balch edged closer her 5” shells did more damage, constantly penetrating the aft belt on Dresden. Dresden finally got a 6.1” shell into Balch, causing her to start flooding as well. But Balch kept tearing at Dresden like a Smoushond with a rat, slowing to stay astern of Dresden where only one 6.1” could bear while Balch pumped out four 5” shells a salvo along with more 2” shells.
Finally the crew of Balch made an error, misjudging Dresden’s speed, they rammed the Kreuzer, but did more damage to themselves than to the German. With the two hulls in contact the gun crews exchanged shells at point blank range, with crewmen on both ships grabbing personal weapons to fire on the opposing crew. Now the same speed as Dresden, Balch’s bow rose and fell with the waves, grinding into the German’s hull and ripping her bow apart. Balch lost the wrestling match, and Dresden slowly pulled away as 130 of Balch’s 181 man crew made it to the life boats.
Meanwhile Puerto Rico engaged the Admiral Hipper. Admiral Hipper got two torpedo hits on Puerto Rico, but both were duds. Admiral Hipper finally got two 10.5” hits on Puerto Rico, but she was already badly damaged. With another salvo of 14” shell Puerto Rico sank Admiral Hipper with 514 of her 605 man crew. With Admiral Hipper gone Puerto Rico took up the chase of Dresden.
At 30 knots Puerto Rico was closing fast while Dresden tried to get more than 13 knots. Soon Puerto Rico spotted Dresden’s smoke screen, which only led the battlecruiser to the wallowing German ship. As Puerto Rico came into range of Dresden’s 6.1” guns she turned to open her 14” broadside. Dresden however was a pathetic sight. Listing so hard that once Puerto Rico was out of her stern arc, Dresden could not fire. She had flooding astern past her mid line, and all three engines were disabled. Her steering was out and she was aflame, with over 270 casualties reported. Puerto Rico pinged away with 2” shell while she loaded her next 14” salvo. When the three shells hit Dresden ripped apart, taking 689 of her 783 man crew down with her wreck.
The Zerstörer V-80 had left the battle after attempting to torpedo Long Beach, and survived with 34 casualties reported from her 227 man crew. Long Beach had taken 86 casualties, and Puerto Rico 5. USS Cedar City CA-3 had taken no casualties. Balch had lost 51 men.
Five Hundred German personnel were found by sweeping the vast expanse of the battle.
I think this is the first episode where I have seen one of your battleships losing a turret, it was highly unexpected and I feel RNG was a bit harsh.
Montana Class in Battle 32:21:
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 24 January 1931
The Montana class Battleship Illinois, from the Cádiz Naval Base in Andalusia, got the honor of debuting her class in battle. For this rare opportunity, she also got to engage the newest German capital ship, the Kampfkreuzer class Wuppertal, in what may be her class debut. At 49 thousand tons displacement the Illinois carries ten 16” guns in two triple and two twin turrets, six casemate 6” guns, and twelve triple 5” gun turrets, has a top speed of 21 knots, and a crew of 2079 officers and men. Wuppertal carries eight 17.6” guns in four twin turrets, ten casemate 8.2” guns, two triple 8.1” and two twin 8.1” guns turrets, and an extensive tertiary battery. Apparently logistics are not a constraint to the Deutsche Reichsmarine.
Wuppertal sighted Illinois and opened fire first, dropping her ranging shot off Illinois’ starboard bow. Illinois replied with a half salvo. Wuppertal’s next shots literally bounced off Illinois. Illinois’ next half salvo dropped one 16” shell through Wuppertal’s main deck. Because the elevated main turrets had fewer guns than the deck mounted turrets Illinois fired in staggered half salvos, avoiding the recoil that plagues ships with matching turrets.
Illinois bounced shells off Wuppertal, which trying to close in to get penetrating hits herself, the German ship was making the Americans’ chancing of hitting and penetrating go up as well. By closing so sharply Wuppertal was also denying herself her full broadside, and taking another deck penetration. Illinois kept her full broadside open, which also kept in in front of Wuppertal and in the arc of her forward turrets. Wuppertal however was now in range with her 8.2” guns, and adding their fire. Finally Wuppertal put a 17.6” shell through one of Illinois’ 6” casemates.
Wuppertal was finally turned to fire with all eight main guns when she lost her main tower. Illinois’ 6” guns were now in range, but she had only three to fire off her starboard bow. Her eighteen 5” guns in six triple turrets on her starboard side made up the difference. Then tragedy struck when A turret took a penetrating hit that set off her powder magazine. The turret blew off the ship in a column of blue and yellow flame. Faced with this, the Captain calmly ordered a few degrees turn to port to favor the aft turrets.
Wuppertal was flooding amidships, with one engine already disabled, her fire control lost, and fires across the ship. Nearly 500 casualties were reported, and her 8.2” magazine was blown. Her whole forward deck was a shambles, and her main tower essentially wasn’t there anymore. As Wuppertal’s flooding increased she began to list, and could no longer fire any of her guns. The list at least kept one massive hole in her port side out of the water. Illinois continued to pound away with 5”, 6”, and 16” shells as more of Wuppertal’s unarmored hull rose into above the water. Flooding finally broke into the last aft compartments, and Wuppertal sank with 2855 of her 2901 man crew.
Illinois suffered severally as well, needing months of repair, and losing 375 casualties, she found only 46 German survivors.
1:02:24: Because Germany is at war with three countries it's really hard to say, but I think they may have three or four Schleswig-Holstein class battleships.
Well, that was an odd lighting effect on the Dresden as the Balch closed in.
Aura of Afraidness.
good show!
52:00: The badges look nice but they were fairly easy.
Yes would love to see you do a German and Russian and Austria Hungary campaign's please ❤
My god Long Beach is a monster!
A Standard's Duty is to sail in a battleline, dish out broadsides, and take broadsides in return. They were less warships, more mobile floating fortresses of steel and guns, built to absorb fire and punch right back. Long Beach Embodied that Ethos to a T. And it was Glorious.
She's not really a match for your BBs, but I think if the Wuppertal-class runs up against your cruisers and older battlecruisers she could be quite dangerous. She's nearly as well armoured as they are and has bigger guns.
52:20: It's the first time for a Trenton and I don't know were they are based because you haven't scrolled the fleet screen since they completed. 😞
I'd love a "reverse-engineer" option in the ship building options in game, maybe we should make the suggestion to the devs?
1:10:56: range still improves about 600 nautical miles.
Re: Redesign for the Lexington '32 refit of battlecruisers.
Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division:
Bureau Report: 10-Mar-1932
The Lexington 1932 refit will cover six battlecruisers originally designed to a target displacement of 31,200 tons and a top speed of 30 knots.
The class has three double geared turbine engines provided steam by three naturally aspirated boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though two funnels generating 98,174 indicated horsepower turning four reduced cavitation screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 31,023 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by advanced electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 14,475 nautical miles. The class carries diesel auxiliary engines for emergency power.
The class' main battery is four twin turrets mounted two pairs super firing forward and aft bearing 16"/50 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 5" top, 12" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by advanced electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, modernized Stereoscopic rangefinders, the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Cordite Low Burn as the propellant and Composition B as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is ten casemates mounted five per side bearing 3"/44 Mark 4 guns with 3" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. The secondary magazine carries a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells.
Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 12" on the main belt, 3." on the extended belt, 6" on the 1st inner belt, 1.8" on the 2nd inner belt, 4" on the main deck, 1.5" on the extended deck, 2.4" on the inner deck, 1.9" on the inner deck, 3" on the superstructure, and 14" on the conning tower. The Class has a triple bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 1286 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems.
The refit will cover the ships USS Congress BC-4, USS Manchester BC-7, USS Johnathan T Yale BC-6, USS President BC-5, and Constitution. Refit time will be 3 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $380,899,100, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $14,474,170.
are we going to see the brooklyn class in all her quintuple turret glory in the 30s
Probably!
@@BrotherMunroyes! thx m8
i believe its modern light cruise 1
Re: Redesign for the Montana '32 refit of battleships.
Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division:
Bureau Report: 24-Mar-1932
The Montana 1932 refit will cover five battleships originally designed to a target displacement of 49,500 tons and a top speed of 21 knots.
The class has three turbo electric engines provided steam by three naturally aspirated boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though one funnels generating 63,967 indicated horsepower turning four high speed screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 49,295 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 11,309 nautical miles. The class carries improved battery backup power for emergencies.
The class' main battery is two triple turrets with two super firing twins fore and aft bearing 16"/45 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 5" top, 16" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, using modernized Coincidence range finders, and with the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Tube Powder Extra Low Burn as the propellant and TNT High Mixture as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is six casemates mounted five per side bearing 6"/52 Mark 4 guns with 3" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. A tertiary battery consists of twelve triple turrets, mounted six per side bearing 5"/44 Mark 4 guns with 1.5" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. The secondary and tertiary magazines carry a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells.
Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 16" on the main belt, 3" on the extended belt, 2" on the 1st inner belt, 1.7" on the 2nd inner belt, 4" on the main deck, 2" on the extended deck, 0.3" on the inner deck, 0.2" on the inner deck, 3" on the superstructure, and 18" on the conning tower. The Class has a double bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and extended double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 2079 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems.
The refit will cover the ships Montana, Illinois, USS Rising Freedom BB-3, Louisiana, and Texas. Refit time will be 3 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $962,040,000, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $26,937,120.
1:10:33 You have folders called "Trombone Champ" and "Trombonechamp"? Nosey people want to know why...
That’s where the American national anthem lives 😂
@@BrotherMunro More, why two folders? App in one and the resulting works of art in the other?
@@vholes2803 correct
41:01: Why aren't you forming on Pennsylvania?
The model of the mk 3? 16 inch looks like the 6 inch gun turret that was on the rl Cleveland class light cruiser. They look horrible on the big ships imo 😢
The Mk3’s should look like the turrets on the Colorados IMO
1:14:46 you forgot to change to TNT IV
Darn
When you get to the peace deal, can you try to obtain one for the U.S. Navy please?
I second this
I second this.
DD Cogswell? Nope sorry couldn't help it - I read it in Codsworths voice......
I say you appear to be a human!
Battle of Porto-Novo
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 18 May 1931
The David R. Ray class Destroyer USS Richard Nelson DD-17, from the Lobito Naval Base in Angola and the Briantree class Destroyer USS Drunken Seagull DD-9, from the Tampa Naval Base in Florida, found the V-78 class Zerstörer V-24 (it’s a retread name) escorting three Schlesian class 8 thousand ton 47 manned 2.4” armed transports past Porto-Novo in French occupied Dahomey. Seagull spotted funnel smoke to the north-west, exactly where she expected it. She quickly found the convoy and Dick Nelson opened fire with her bigger 5” guns. Seagull opened fire but with her 3” guns she was also in range 5.5” guns on V-24. Seagull launched her six 21” torpedoes and drove V-24 back. Between Seagull’s 3” shells and Dick Nelson’s 5” shells they sank the V-24 with 220 of her 227 man crew.
With V-24 gone the two destroyers closed on the transports. Weissenburg blew up losing 44 of her 47 crew. Beowulf also broke under fire, losing 44 men. The convoy leader Schlesian broke as well before flooding out, losing 40 men. The massive explosions that took out the transports demonstrated they were carrying ammunition to the combat zone in Portuguese Guinea.
USS Drunken Seagull DD-9 took 2 casualties, USS Richard Nelson DD-17 took 1. They picked up 7 survivors from V-24 and 13 surviving merchant seamen.
Re: Redesign for the Connecticut '32 refit of battleships.
Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division:
Bureau Report: 3-Mar-1932
The Connecticut 1932 refit will cover four battleships originally designed to a target displacement of 37,000 tons and a top speed of 21 knots.
The class has three new turbo electric engines provided steam by three balanced draft boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though two funnels generating 46,442 indicated horsepower turning four reduced cavitation screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 36,752 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by advanced electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 7,073 nautical miles. The class carries improved battery backup power for emergencies.
The class' main battery is four twin turrets mounted in two pairs super firing fore and aft bearing 16"/45 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 5" top, 14" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by advanced electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, using modernized Coincidence range finders, and with the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Tube Powder Extra Low Burn as the propellant and Composition B as the bursting charge.
The secondary battery is fourteen casemates mounted eight per side bearing 6"/50 Mark 4 guns with 4" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. A tertiary battery consists of ten triple mounts, five per side flanking the main tower bearing 2"/54 Mark 4 guns. The secondary and tertiary magazines carry a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Battlistic AP shells.
New Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 14" on the main belt, 1.5" on the extended belt, 2.4" on the 1st inner belt, 1.9" on the 2nd inner belt, 4." on the main deck, 1.5" on the extended deck, 2.4" on the inner deck, 1.9" on the inner deck, 1.5" on the superstructure, and 16" on the conning tower. The Class has a double bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 1847 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class now carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems.
The refit will cover the ships Connecticut, West Virginia, Utah, and Iron Hand. Refit time will be 5 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $539,979,900, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $16,199,400.
The mod would be good if the torpedo damage wasn't so extremely strong.
It destroys any balance, I tested the mod with a pure DD fleet you can conquer the world, thanks to nuclear torpedoes.
What year?
I wonder why Mackensen insisted on blasting Long Beach with HE when it clearly lacked the pen to do any damage...
Edit: And Wuppertal as well... HE against a BB and it just bounces.
How the hell did you get the economics to this? Looks awesome
I’m playing with a mod (that I wrote) and part of it is an economy overhaul. Once you get to the trillion or so GDP mark things can snowball a bit but overall it’s mostly balanced
Seems the game has a fundemental flaw if the AI won't armor their ships. Really shouldn't be an issue after so long in development.
To be fair I am using a mod, however as the author of the mod there’s only a few very minor things I can do to help the ai more than I already have (what’s really annoying is it worked perfectly for about a week before they ‘improved’ things)
@@BrotherMunro Not critizing the mod at all, I consider it essentail to play. It just seems something deep within the devs code isn't working right.
@@Gardalop I think I might have an idea, I’m going to try something for the b2 update and see if that helps
You pronounce Balch a bit odd lol
Last Modern Battleship
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 9 May 1931
Thirteen battleships, the Maine, lead of her class, and her sister ships Mississippi, and USS Darmen Tyranis BB-2, with the Connecticut, lead of her class, and her sister ships West Virginia, Utah, and USS Iron Hand BB-1, the Idaho class Vermont, and the Virginia, lead of her class, and her sister ships Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kansas, and Massachusetts, along with the Lexington class Battlecruiser USS Congress BC-4, attempted a strike at the port of Haichow in German occupied China. This forced the sortie of the 76 thousand ton 17.3” armed Hildebrand class Schlachtschiff Preussen along with her escorts the Brummer class Leichter Kreuzer Breslau and the V-73, lead of her Zerstörer class.
The Deutsche Reichsmarine ships attempted to attack under the cover of darkness as the American fleet steamed into position with Pennsylvania leading Virginia and Connecticut in the van, Maine leading Iron Hand and Massachusetts in the starboard division, with Congress accompanying them, Indiana leading Mississippi, Vermont, and Kansas in the port division, and Darmen Tyranis leading West Virginia and Utah in the central division. On receiving reports that Pennsylvania sighted Preussen, the Admiral commanding decided to form battle line on Darmen Tyranis.
The American ships opened fire first, but Preussen soon replied. The first hits were two 14” shells on the Breslau, who immediately made smoke and disappeared into the night. Preussen closed on the scrum of American ships trying to get into line astern, but began to take hits which she mostly ricocheted. Pennsylvania took the first hits from Preussen and was ordered to fall out of formation.
As the American battle line began to form they filled the night with shells leaving blazing trails as they sought out the German ship illuminated by the fires burning on her hull fore and aft. Preussen’s armor kept most shells out, but her super structure was not as well armored, and the towers began to shred. As Preussen closed on the rear of the American line she came into close range of Vermont and took shells through her fore and main belt. Then Preussen took the lethal hit, with her powder magazine penetrated a 17.3” turret blasted into the air on a column of blue flame, the gunnery crew both cooked and mashed as the ready ammunition exploded.
With flooding taking his ship, the Kapitan of the Preussen ordered her to try and break away. The order came too late, and Preussen exploded in the night, taking 2366 of her 2851 crew to the bottom of the Yellow Sea. The two billion dollar ship was gone.
Breslau and V-73 were in sight, and the battle line targeted them both. V-73 sank with 135 of her 143 man crew. Darmen Tyranis was already leading the battle line to chase Breslau, who was retreating on auxiliary power. With flooding aft and 160 plus casualties, Breslau could only make smoke and hope the Americans lost her in the night. This didn’t happen. Breslau took two 16” hits and flooded out, losing 781 of her 783 man crew.
Connecticut went into the battle with a crew shortfall of 17 men. USS Iron Hand was down 1 man and suffered 8 casualties. Vermont took 7 and Kansas 1. Pennsylvania had 77 casualties. 435 German personnel were picked up by the next day, though only two survivors of V-73 were found.
38:36: I know Portugal isn't your ally, but do you really want Germany to take Portuguese Guinea? Well maybe.
Kiautschou Bay Taken!
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 4 April 1931
Two years after taking Shanghai and Hangzhou the United States Marine Corps had taken the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory with its naval base of Tsingtau. Losses have not been reported, but were probably very high.
However information about the losses this month in Togoland were leaked, and at the moment the Germans are losing 1800 a month to the Marine’s 1500. Germany is also fighting a campaign to take Portuguese Guinea off Portugal and doing better there.
The Troisième République Française is facing revolts in Africa and French Indochina.
Those 45s look absolutely horrible, not to mention for the Germans you need as much pen as you can get so idk why you would reduce that
For one, since the dogwater AI mostly forgets to put armor on the pen is kinda irrelevant,
for two having shorter barrels helps with rate of fire,
and lastly all US BBs up to the Iowa class used 16"/45 guns historically.
When will you get oil 3
Not sure!
Togoland Invasion Ordered
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 23 January 1931
The Navy Department has dispatched the fleet and the Second Marine Expeditionary Force to the coast of West Africa to begin the invasion of Togoland, Germany’s last coastal province on the Dark Continent.
The Army Department has directed the United State Army forces in Burundi to begin the invasion of the landlocked Rwanda.
So, I've been sent as the Commander of the African Squadron, eh (my flagship is the Battleship Montana)?
After the matters in Congo are resolved, can I get my squadron assigned to the North sea, please?
The standards are probably going to be based out of New York and LA as invasion fleets
@@BrotherMunro
I command the new USS Montana, of the Montana Class (the American Andrea Doria) as my flagship. All the ships in her squadron are, in the roleplay, under my command (in this case, the African Squadron).
My demand was, once the situation in Africa will be over, in case we're stll at war with the Germans, for my squadron to be sent in the European theatre, because I think that the best preys are there, so I can train my crews better
I didn’t notice Illinois getting mixed duals and triples during refit. Is that still a bad thing for accuracy, or have they changed something?
It does reduce accuracy slightly but that’s offset by the reduced recoil of the staggered broadside
I think BM should build a ship with trips over quads
Almost Away
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 18 January 1931
With the United States Army pressing north into German occupied China, Berlin was anxious to get what materials out of Chinese ports while they could. Thus the crew of the newly built Brummer class Leichter Kreuzer Frauenlob must have felt relieved when the Navigator reported they had left the Yellow Sea and entered the East China Sea with their one charge, the Transport ##. Sadly for them, this is when a destroyer division of the United States Navy found them, led by the David R. Ray class USS Robert E. Cowger DD-15, from the Tainan Naval Base in Formosa, with the Tucker class Radford and the Coontz class Sampson, from the Manila Naval Base in Luzón, and the Tracy class Caron, from the Gensan Naval Base in Korea. It didn’t help the German morale that they were caught in a storm.
Caron led the division, using her advanced detection systems to get a bead on the enemy. Frauenlob opened fire first, putting a 6.1” shell through Caron’s fore belt. Caron detached and turned to find the transport lying to her starboard bow while Sampson led Bobby Cowger and Radford on. Frauenlob and the transport were soon taking 5” shell hits. Frauenlob got a torpedo hit on Caron, adding flooding aft to the flooding she had forward. Caron was ordered to retreat.
Because Frauenlob had focused on Caron in order to save her charge, she found Sampson and the other destroyers closing quickly on her starboard quarter. Their hits were piling up, and Frauenlob had lost her steering and her #1 engine. She had flooding amidships, with only one engineering compartment dry. Sampson got into the perfect position and launched torpedoes. Frauenlob launched more torpedoes at Caron in the hopes of getting one kill while Sampson’s torpedoes closed. Though Sampson’s skipper thought his torpedo officer missed forward, in fact he got three out of four torpedoes on target, and the Kapitan of Frauenlob was forced to order Alle Mann von Bord! All three torpedoes blew, and Frauenlob sank with just 219 of her 783 man crew.
Sampson now turned to close on the transport. Her 5” shells tore the ship apart, and the wreck took 63 of the 70 man crew to the bottom of the East China Sea.
Caron had suffered 13 casualties. 564 German military personnel were recovered during and after the storm, requiring ships to come out and help the overwhelmed destroyers. Only 7 merchant seamen were found.
I went to upgrade my membership here (UA-cam) and the option to is greyed out.
I’m really sorry I don’t know why that would be, you’d need to contact UA-cam support I’m afraid ☹️
My suggestion would be cancel your original subscription then re-join at the tier you want. If you try to reach Google, they'll probably beat around the bush and make spend more then you need to.
Taking tech would make china and japan easier
How does refitting effect flaws? Can existing flaws decrease or new flaws appear?
Refitting gives a chance for negative flaws that aren’t ‘overweight’ to be reduced or removed
Refitting gives a chance for negative flaws that aren’t ‘overweight’ to be reduced or removed
Thanks for the answer.
So no chance for new flaws? If so, then that opens up the possibility of a minor exploit. Build with the equipment that doesn't increase flaws chance, then refit the flaws chance increasing equipment on as soon as the build is complete.
Hunting in the Sea of Japan
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 4 January 1931
The Fresno class Light Cruiser Langley from the Nampo Naval Base in Korea started the New Year off right by finding the newly built Hertha class Gepanzerkreuzer Saxony, not to be confused with the older Sachsen, operating in the Sea of Japan. Langley spotted the fast moving funnel smoke of one warship to the north-west and closed to investigate, well aware that the Imperial Japanese Navy also operated ships in the area, as did the Soviet Pacific Red Banner Fleet.
Another Hertha would make an excellent silhouette to paint on her bridge.
Langley opened fire first, but Saxony soon was returning fire. Langley got the first hit, penetrating Saxony’s fore belt. More hits piled into Saxony, with the German ship not being able to hit back. Finally Saxony got a hit on Langley’s #1 Funnel and inflicted a dozen casualties. In return Langley got a magazine hit on the main battery powder magazine and Saxony lost her A turret to a flash fire. Saxony was now down to one single 10.5” turret forward, and was turning to keep her bow towards Langley, losing the ability to fire her aft main battery. Langley turned to keep all ten of her 6” guns on Saxony, easily able to penetrate the poorly armored ship.
Saxony was flooded fore and aft, listing so her secondaries couldn’t fire, reduced to one 10.5” gun, and reporting 150 casualties, nearly a quarter of her crew. She was burning, had an engine disabled, and her steering damaged. Only her torpedo stations were fully manned.
Langley turned back and tried to get a beam of Saxony so she could breach the last unflooded compartments holding Saxony afloat, but the unforgiving Sea of Japan got there first, smashing through the bulkheads of the engineering spaces and sinking Saxony with 526 of her 605 man crew. Langley suffered 13 casualties and picked up 79 German survivors.
The Army Gets it Done!
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXII: 21 February 1932
The United States Army, operating from our territory in China, has driven the Germans out of Asia. They have taken the rest of Shandong province, Hebei, Shanxi, and Henan. Losses on this front were high, with 112 thousand American killed or invalided out of service to 75 thousand casualties for the Germans.
Marine Campaign to Take German Occupied China Fails
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 4 November 1931
The United States Marine Corps has failed to take German occupied China by sea. Losses have not been reported but the number leaked in July showed the Marines taking only slightly higher losses than the Germans and their Chinese conscripts.
Togoland Falls
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 8 July 1931
The German occupied Africa province of Togoland has fallen. The Germans are reduced to the landlocked province of Rwanda, though they are pressing to take the Congo Free State, and independent country adjacent to Rwanda. Rwanda is under attack by the U.S. Army from our protectorate of Burundi.
day 16 of posting a obligatory comment to boost engagement
Re: Redesign for the Essex '32 refit of battlecruisers.
Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division:
Bureau Report: 31-Mar-1932
The Essex 1932 refit will cover five battlecruisers originally designed to a target displacement of 48,000 tons and a top speed of 30 knots.
The class has three turbo electric engines provided steam by three naturally aspirated boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though two funnels generating 152,742 indicated horsepower turning four high speed screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 47,987 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by advanced electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 14,207 nautical miles. The class carries improved battery backup power for emergencies.
The class' main battery is three triple turrets mounted with a pair super firing forward and one aft bearing 16"/50 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 6" top, 14" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by advanced electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, using stabilized modern Stereoscopic range finders, and with the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Cordite Low Burn as the propellant and Composition B as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is ten triple turrets mounted five per side bearing 5"/38 Mark 4 guns with 3" face and 1.5" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. A tertiary battery consists of ten quad turrets, five per side bearing 1.6"/40 Mark 4 guns. The secondary and tertiary magazines carry a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells.
Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 14" on the main belt, 3" on the extended belt, 2.9" on the 1st inner belt, 2.3" on the 2nd inner belt, 5" on the main deck, 1.5" on the extended deck, 2.4" on the 1st inner deck, 1.9" on the 2nd inner deck, 3" on the superstructure, and 16" on the conning tower. The Class has a triple bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and extended double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 1992 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems.
The refit will cover the ships Essex, Legend, USS Mocowmoo BC-8, Philippines, and Lexington II. Refit time will be 3 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $1,032,184,000, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $28,891,570.
Re: Final Redesign for the Maine '32 refit of battleships.
Bureau of Construction and Repair, Design Division:
Bureau Report: 17-Mar-1932
The Maine 1932 refit will cover three battleships originally designed to a target displacement of 42,000 tons and a top speed of 21 knots.
The class has three turbo electric engines provided steam by three naturally aspirated boilers burning improved fuel oil vented though one funnels generating 53,391 indicated horsepower turning four reduced cavitation screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 41,963 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by advanced electro-hydraulic power for an operational range of 13,263 nautical miles. The class carries improved battery backup power for emergencies.
The class' main battery is four twin turrets mounted in two pairs super firing fore and aft bearing 16"/45 Mark 3 guns with 16" face, 5" top, 14" barbette Krupp realloyed cemented armor, turned by advanced electro-hydraulic systems with semi-automatic reloading, using modernized Coincidence range finders, and with the most advanced flash fire protection. The main magazine carries a balanced load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells using Tube Powder Extra Low Burn as the propellant and Composition B as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is ten casemates mounted five per side bearing 6"/55 Mark 4 guns with 4" face and 2" top Krupp realloyed cemented armor. A tertiary battery consists of eight triple mounts, four per side flanking the main tower bearing 3"/50 Mark 4 guns. The secondary and tertiary magazines carry a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% Improved Capped Ballistic AP shells.
Krupp Realloyed Cemented armor is clade 14" on the main belt, 3" on the extended belt, 2" on the 1st inner belt, 1.7" on the 2nd inner belt, 4" on the main deck, 2" on the extended deck, 1.9" on the inner deck, 1.5" on the inner deck, 3" on the superstructure, and 18" on the conning tower. The Class has a double bottom hull, reinforced bulkheads with water tight hatches separating extensive compartmentation, counter-flooding systems, improved pumps and piping for flooding reduction, and double layer anti-torpedo bulges. A crew of 1783 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class carries Radio Direction Finding (RDF) systems.
The refit will cover the ships Maine, Mississippi, and USS Darmen Tyranis BB-2. Refit time will be 5 months with a recommissioning time of 3 months. Valuation of each ship will rise to $618,720,800, and monthly maintenance in port will now be $17,298,340.
Marine Campaign to Take German Occupied China Fails
New York Evening Journal: Hearst Communications
MCMXXXI: 4 November 1931
The United States Marine Corps has failed to take German occupied China by sea. Losses have not been reported but the number leaked in July showed the Marines taking only slightly higher losses than the Germans and their Chinese conscripts.