I have to admit, I ended up getting so far behind in the American campaign that I may never catch up. But I’m here for this one!

In the first war you can achieve something real Spain couldn't and retake Gibraltar

In one of the previous patches when Spain still had Cuba and the Philippines, that was one of my most favorite campaigns of UAD.

I'm surprised the Spanish fleet didn't begin by having a galleon or two in reserve. Would've been almost historically accurate!

I always expand the shipyard because it increases your total shipyard capacity not only on a ship basis

Very sorry to hear you and your princess are (at time of this episode) ill. Speedy recovery.

Resounding first victory. You crossed the Soviets' T perfectly. Viva Espana!

Heraldo de Madrid: 20 June 1906 The Armada Resucitada (Cont’d) The San Pedro Apóstol class of battleships were designed to replace the two ship Argonauta class battleships. Designed in response to rising tensions in Europe, and an active war against Austro-Hungary, the class had standard beam and draft, and a target displacement of 16,500 tons. Though small, the ships would be armed with three twin 12”/40 mark 3 gun turrets, two super firing forward and one aft in an ABY configuration, having 14” face, 3” top, and 14” barbette armor with flash fire III protection, enhanced reloading, and advanced hydraulic turning engines which are aimed with the use of a coincidence II range finder. The class also carries fourteen mark 3 3”/35 quick firing guns in casemates with 4.8” of face and 1.5” of top armor for close in protection. The class carries an even number of standard sized capped armor piercing (AP) shells and base fuze high explosive (HE) shells for the main battery and three quarters of HE shells for the quick firing guns. The shells use TNT I for their bursting charge and white power for their propellant. Innovative turbine engines eliminate pistons used to turn the drive shaft with steam driven turbine blades, the first ship in Spanish service to use this system. Using just naturally aspirated boilers vented through one funnel burning coal to heat the steam that drives the turbines gives a fantastic 16,742 indicated horse power to create a top speed of 21.5 knots, remarkable for a ship of this size, and an operational range of 8817 nautical miles with a balanced rudder turned by an electro-hydraulic engine. Krupp armor is laid 12“ thick on the main belt, 1.5” inner belt, 6” fore and aft belt, 1.5” on the whole deck, 0.5” inner deck, 1.5” superstructure, and 14” conning tower. The class has an advanced anti-flooding system, double bottom hull, reinforced bulkhead on extensive compartmentation, and anti-torpedo II protection. The class has an advanced radio telegraph system. Crew complement is 998 officers and ratings provided spacious quarters. All six ships of the class were laid down in March of 1905 with a design displacement of 16,468 tons at a cost of $21,280,910 each and a build time of 16 months. Monthly maintenance in port is $1 million. The class consists of the San Pedro Apóstol, Septentrión, Begoña, San Miguel, Poder, and Censeur. With these new ships, officers, and men, España can once more hold her head up as a proud member of the Great Powers of Europe, and strongly resist the march of World Communism.

That was strange. You move the ships and have the tonnage. But I think they you also have to send in troops or invade the region in some manner to squash the rebels. Tonnage is just so you can move the men in. So six months later they won lol.

All in all the fleet looks more modern than the historical fleet.

I haven't watched the past campaigns but this one is certainly going to be fun to watch

I like Spanish campaign in Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts.

A mi me gustaría un crucero que se llamará santa coloma de gramenet, solo por las risas 😅

Heraldo de Madrid: 20 June 1906 The Armada Resucitada (Cont’d) The Arquera class of destroyers were designed to replace the Destructor class. Built on a hull with a raised foredeck with reduced beam and draft on a minimal displacement to minimize costs with a length of 262’ 2”, a beam of 31’ 10”, and a depth from keel to freeboard of 13’ 11”. The class is armed with four 3”/30 single unarmored gun mounts with enhanced reloading and advanced hydraulic turning, two super firing forward and two super firing aft in an ABXY configuration. Provided a reduced number of standard sized shells one quarter of which are capped AP shells and three quarters base fuze HE shells for the main battery, the shells use guncotton for their bursting charge and white power for their propellant. A twin deck torpedo launcher mounted just forward of the X gun mount firing 17” fast torpedoes completes the armament. The class can lay and sweep mines. Triple expansion engines using coal fired induced boilers vented by two funnels provide 7,675 indicated horse power for a top speed of 33.5 knots on a design displacement of 606 tons with an operational range of 5046 nautical miles with a balanced rudder turned by a hydraulic system. Krupp armor is laid 1.5” thick on the whole belt, with a 0.5” thickness for the main deck and 0.1” for the extended decks, the superstructure has an armor thickness of 1.5”. The ships has a double bottom hull with an advanced anti-flooding systems and reinforced bulkheads protecting its increased compartmentation. Crew complement seventy-seven officers and ratings in spacious quarters. The ships cost $1,608,791 each, laid down in January of 1900 they took 7 months to build, and have a monthly cost of $91,416 when in peacetime. The class consists of ten ships; the Arquera, Lérez, Teruel, Vigia, Yumuri, Erbo, Almirante Antequera, Perla, Villamil, and Viva. The San Juan Baptista class of armored cruisers were designed to replace the Reina Regente class. The class was designed with reduced draft and beam and minimal displacement. Armed with two twin mark 3 9”/40 gun turrets forward and aft with 11” face, 2” top, 11” barbette armor with advanced flash fire protection, enhanced reloading, and advanced hydraulic turning engines which are aimed with the use of a coincidence range finder. The class also carries sixteen mark 2 3”/35 quick firing guns in casemates with 4.8” of face and 1” of top armor for close in protection. The class carries an even number of standard sized capped armor piercing (AP) shells and base fuze high explosive (HE) shells for the main battery and three quarters of HE shells for the quick firing guns. The shells use guncotton for their bursting charge and white power for their propellant. Three underwater torpedo tubes firing aft and on each broadside use a standard load of 17” torpedoes. Triple expansion engines using coal fired inducted boilers vented by three funnels provide 17,077 indicted horse power for a top speed of 21.5 knots for a range of 3815 nautical miles with a balanced rudder turned by an electro-hydraulic engine. Krupp armor is laid 7“ thick on the main belt, 1” inner belt, 3” fore and aft belt, 1” main deck, 0.1” inner deck, 0.5” fore and aft deck, 1” superstructure, and 6” conning tower. The class has an advanced anti-flooding system, double bottom hull, reinforced bulkhead on extensive compartmentation and anti-torpedo protection. The class has an advanced radio telegraph system. Crew complement is 458 officers and ratings provided spacious quarters. The first two ships were laid down in May of 1900, two in August of 1900, two in November of 1900. The class took 14 months each to build finishing in January of 1902. The class consists of six ships, the San Juan Baptista, Celedon, Velasco, Santa Cruz, San Juan, and Cardenal Cisneros.

Heraldo de Madrid: 20 June 1906 The Armada Resucitada The Kingdom has been proud to meet the new century as the Nueva España. And no small part of that is the creation of the Armada Resucitada, with the design of our new battleships now approaching completion. Following the catastrophe of 1898 the Crown pressed the Consejo de Ministros, with the support of the Centrist party, to approve a new Ministro de Armada and a new Almirante Supremo de la Armada given the writ to purge the Armada of Aristo deadweight and Carlist sympathizers, to bring in technical knowledge to modernize a new generation of warships and new thinking on education, training, doctrine and treatment of naval personnel both on ship and ashore, and to create of new naval facilities to support an enlarged modern Armada and new Spanish industry to create it. The Almirante Supremo de la Armada’s first act was to scrap the whole of the Halcón class of torpedo boats. This class has become outdated with the invention of the torpedo boat destroyer, the lightest practical warship in today’s Armada. He also cancelled the construction of the Reina Regente class armored cruiser Aragon. In the four years since then the first fruits of this policy, the creation of the Armada Resucitada, began to slide off the slipways of Cadiz and Barcelona. Aided by the Junta Técnica de la Armada Real Española, the Almirante Supremo has given España an Armada in which the people can reside their pride and hope. The Francisco de Asis class of Light Cruisers were designed to replace the older Infanta Isabel class, the most deficient ships remaining from the old Armada. Designed on a semi-armored cruiser hull with reduced beam, draft, and displacement to minimize costs, the Francisco de Asis is armed with three single 5”/40 gun mounts with 2.2” gun shield face and 1.1” top, enhanced reloading systems, advanced flash fire protection in the shell handling spaces below the gun mount which have 2.2” of armor, and advanced hydraulic turning engines, one mount firing forward and one firing aft with another positioned forward of the aft mount able to fire broadsides are the main battery which are aimed with the use of a coincidence range finder. The class also carries fourteen mark 2 3”/35 quick firing guns in casemates with 4” of face and 1” of top armor for close in protection. The class carries an even number of standard sized capped armor piercing (AP) shells and base fuze high explosive (HE) shells for the main battery and three quarters of HE shells for the quick firing guns. The shells use guncotton for their bursting charge and white power for their propellant. Three underwater torpedo tubes firing aft and on each broadside use a standard load of 17” torpedoes and carries mines which completes the armament. Three stage triple expansion engines powered by coal fired higher pressure induced draft boilers vented through two funnels to provide 11,457 indicated horse power for a top speed of 20.5 knots on a designed displacement of 3008 tons for an operational range of 2609 nautical miles. Hydraulic systems use fluid pressure to power the ship’s balanced rudder which reduces speed lose in a turn. Krupp armor using an alloy with 1% of chromium provides greater hardness of the surface of the plate compared with Harvey armor and is laid 4” thick on the main belt, 0.4” on a second inner belt, 2” on the fore belt forward of the main battery magazine, 2” on the aft belt, 1” on the main deck, 0.5” on the fore and aft decks, 1.2” on the superstructure, and 4.8” on the conning tower. The ships has a double bottom hull with an advanced anti-flooding systems that provide piping and pumps to drain flooding from the ship and reinforced bulkheads protecting its standard compartmentation. The 224 crew of officers and ratings are provided spacious quarters in consideration of their health and welfare. The original design was demonstrated to be heavy by the bow, so the planned foremost casemate guns and the forward torpedo tube were removed. The ships cost $2,676,105 each, laid down in January of 1900 they took 10 months to build, and have a monthly maintenance cost of $144,806 when in peacetime status. The class consists of ten ships; the Francisco de Asis, Vasco Nuñes de Balboa, Almirante Cervera, Satélite, Colón, Santa Lucia, Resolución, Andaluza, Península, and Principe Alfonso.

I'm a real Johnny-come-late to the start of this campaign, but... It must be quite a shock going from running a profligate USA, to pinching pesetas in Spain. And did I really hear Brother Munro looking forward to 14" guns? My, this game has changed over the last year. Best of luck with Gibraltar, and beyond. And good work with that Soviet squadron.

Well, I wasn't expecting to see this today.

Heraldo de Madrid: 21 August 1909 Major Refits Conducted During Time of Rising Tensions The Almirante Supremo de la Armada has ordered all ships into refit except the battleships Argonauta and Vencedor, which he has ordered released for scrapping to free up personnel for transfers to other ships. The refits are modernizing all the ships, installing turbines where these are missing and converting the boilers to burn either coal or oil, and thus installing oil tanks in the ships. Where possible armor is being thickened, and all armor cladding replaced with Krupp II. A new acoustics device, the hydrophone, is being installed in all ships to help detect incoming torpedoes or that war crime tool, the submarine. Other protections against torpedo attacks and flooding have been improved. Equipment suites on all ships will now be standardized, easing training requirements. Guns have all been updated to mark 3 designs, though some 3” casemate guns had to be pulled out of the Francisco de Asis and San Juan Baptista classes. Cordite II, which is significantly safer to use, has become the standard propellant throughout the fleet. Initial estimates placed the time of refit to be one month for all classes except the Arquera, which would take two, but the estimates did not consider the impact of putting the whole fleet into refit at the same time, doubling the duration of the refits. With war breaking out in Europe the Cortes Generales has questioned why the Almirante Supremo de la Armada did not suspend work on the San Pedro Apóstol class battleships Real Famila and Contento being built for our Mexican and Esthonian allies, and then suspending work on up to half our the Armada Real Española so that the Nation would always have operational ships available.

Great kickoff to the Spanish campaign !!!

Not being able to influence the government party is in my opinion one of the hardest parts about this game and in my opinion needs to be fixed.

Heraldo de Madrid: 16 December 1906 New Armored Cruiser Class With the amazing success of the new Turbine engines in the San Pedro Apóstol class the Junta Técnica de la Armada Real Española has decided to design a new armored cruiser. The Princesa de Asturias class armored cruisers are designed to supplement the cruiser force of the Armada Real Española. The main battery is four twin 8”/40 mark 3 gun turrets, two super firing forward and two super firing aft in an ABXY configuration, having a 10” face, 5” top, and 9.3” barbette armor with flash fire III protection, enhanced reloading, and electro-hydraulic turning engines, the guns are aimed with the use of coincidence II ranger finders. The class carries eighteen mark 3 4”/35 casemate guns as a secondary battery. This is the first class of the Armada Resucitada provided with a tertiary battery, of twelve mark 3 2”/35 casemate guns in the superstructure. The class carries an even number of standard sized capped ballistic armor piercing (AP) shells and base fuze high explosive (HE) shells for the main battery and three quarters of HE shells for the secondary and tertiary. The shells use TNT I for their bursting charge and the innovative Cordite for their propellant. Turbine engines powered by naturally aspirated boilers burning coal vented through two funnels provide 11,594 indicated horse power for a top speed of 19.5 knots and a range of 3364 nautical miles with a balanced rudder turned by an electro-hydraulic engine on a design displacement of 12,514 tons. Krupp II armor, which has a new composition that reduces the brittleness of the back of the armor plate, is laid 10” thick on the main belt, 1.5” inner belt, 5” on the extended belt, 1.5” over the whole deck, 0.1” on the inner deck, 1.5” on the superstructure and 10” on the conning tower with reinforced bulkheads, extensive compartmentation, a double bottom hull, anti-flooding systems, and anti-torpedo II protection. The class has an advanced radio telegraph system. Crew complement is 818 officers and ratings provided spacious quarters. All first ship of the class has just been laid down, others will follow as funding becomes available. Each ship will cost $16,640,560 with a build time of 15 months and monthly maintenance of $790,427 when in port. The class consists of Princesa de Asturias, Santa Ana, Aragon, San Juan el Menor, San Martin, and Emperador Carlos V. The new turbines have also had the benefit of improving conditions in the engineering spaces. While coal fired boilers are still dirty, the use of turbines instead of triple expansion engines has made the engineering spaces much quieter, which in turn has increased the interest of officer cadets in following an engineering career track.

I do love how much of a Brawl the early eras are. Would love to see a good ol' brawler BB in the late stages, but that would likely end in tragedy, unfortunately.

Heraldo de Madrid: 18 September 1909 The World Seems at War The current tensions in the world seem to have sprung on us unawares, but this global conflict has been building slowly over months. In November of 1908 Great Britain declared war on both the Republic of China and the Republic of Germany. In August of 1909 Great Britain expanded that war to include Austro-Hungary and Japan. This kicked off a flurry of further declarations. The Soviet Union declared war on Germany, China, and Japan. France then declared war on Germany, China, Japan and Austro-Hungary. Now the government of the United States has declared war on Great Britain, France, and especially the Soviet Union. The only two major powers not drawn into this conflict are the Kingdoms of Italy and Spain. We can only hope the Consejo de Ministros is prepared for any potential further escalation.

wizard 101 campagin

This is awesome

Spanish archer = El Bow!!!

Heraldo de Madrid: 10 August 1903 Mexico Allies with Spain The Empire of Mexico, noting that the Kingdom of Spain had only recently ended its colonization of the African continent, has signed a treaty of trade and defense with Spain. The Mexican Navy is already in discussions with the Junta Técnica de la Armada Real Española about gaining the rights to order Spanish made warships, the most advanced in the world.

It’s not just legendary I’ve been playing Spain multiple times and can’t win because of the economy.

Viva l'Armada!

Very advanced 1900 destroyer.

6, 12 inch for a "small dreadnaught" Not bad for 1905, and you even got the FULL secondary battery filled as well.

Semi-armored (protected) cruiser with more belt than deck armor :D

I was going to suggest removing the bow chasers. Useless in a sea way especially on the Atlantic.

btw in the refit of the BB San Pedro, you got add a knot or two of speed cuz ur engine efficiency is 300%

Heraldo de Madrid: 14 March 1903 Independence Granted to Equatorial Guinea After an eight month conflict with the populace of Equatorial Guinea, the Kingdom of Spain has signed a convention recognizing their independence.

Well can’t have a US Amagi might was well ask for something even more scarier a Spanish Agincourt

Low Naval Prestige + High Unrest = Mission Failed when it comes to colonial conflicts

You're destroyers went from 7 months for refit then put some armor on it and it drops down to 2 months.

Heraldo de Madrid: 25 December 1900 Independence Granted to Western Sahara The Kingdom of Spain has signed a convention with the populace of Western Sahara granting them their own government. It is hoped in this Christmas season that this will bring an end to the long conflict between the Crown and the territory.

Arquera is the feminine form of archer in Spanish. The masculine form is Arquero.

why the barbette on the first destroyer design over just slapping it on the deck?

Do flaws on a specific ship reduce over time? Or does it require an actual refit? Or are they permanent?

1:10:56 Which … isn’t … exactly how GDP works …

Arquera is female archer (or female goalie)

1:00:36 are they “not good,” or “just bad?” 😂😂

1:20 Oh Lord no.

53:30 does it really need 269% engine efficiency?

Hey bro, do you like the spanish names?

Will be funny if you eventually manage to take Corsica and maybe Algeria. To be honest, the biggest danger is probably a french land invasion, and there's very little you can do to mitigate it.

I'm not a fan of the AI generated fleets for Players but I think in this Case Spain seems to have lucked out and you ended up with a Fair flotilla of serviceable ships. The bigger issue as always will be the politics and resulting wars... Hopefully Britain and France will not decide to come all at once

Any thought about the "Naval Arms Race" mod overhaul?

I wonder how well 6x2 6” plus secondaries would do on that CA hull? It wouldn’t have the punch of the 4x2 8” CAs, but it would play havoc on CLs, DDs, and TBs.

The Arquera has 208.5 engine efficiency. You’re wasting displacement on way more funnel capacity than you need.

(S)Pain

It was better to have put it in 1920. One nice thing about Spanish ships is the names.

Instead of scraping I always mothball and then sell to any one that likes me always easy money

Add funnels to the battleship?

Spain might be the single hardest start in the game, and then you go and add self-imposed challenges?

"A bunch of other places." Yeah, like my home island. :P I hope you kick the US's ass at some point in this campaign. ;)

I really really wish that the devs decide to make the map work similarly to HOI4, where if you keep scrolling to one side it eventually loops back

Quite possibly the wackiest war in UAD