My word, that battle was all over the place. I have visions of - at the height of the action - the Admiral staring out impassively at the ships going in all directions and all the torpedoes zipping past in the water, and going "Gentlemen, I think my work here is done. I'll be in my cabin, let me know if anything happens."

Stuttgart : *getting so much flash fires, Katty Perry's "Firework" song is probably about her* Also Stuttgart : "I didn't hear no bell !"

I don't know if you noticed, but the Ancona Class CL is actually a fairly exact reproduction of an Historical Italian CL class: the Regioni class. One of them (or at least half of her), the R.N. Puglia, is part of the Villa belonged to Gabriele D'Annunzio at Riviera del Garda

??????? Comments from two days ago, yet the video is only 6 minutes old?....wait, members of the channel

Almost a million damage on your first large fleet battle of the campaign is impressive

That last battle was one of the most chaotic big ones I have ever seen. Great stuff!

The Battle of Benghazi, Part 2 Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMVIX, 9 September 1909 A Muddled Middle Meanwhile V-15 and V-5 were attempting another torpedo run at the Béarn and were sunk in quick succession. V-15 lost 111 of her 120 man crew, V-5 lost 106. Most of the Zerstörer in front of her were gone with V-2 soon to follow with 110 of her 120 and then the Gepanzerkreuzter could be seen led by Lützow. A division of three Zerstörer tried to cut between the battle line and the Gepanzerkreuzter. Magon was using her speed to circle the enemy’s flank. The three Zerstörer led by V-3 aimed at the battle line cut for the gap between Tonnere and Dévastation. Closing ahead of Dévastation, V-3 launched torpedoes, but Dévastation turned and slipped the gap. V-3 broke away leaving V-22 and V-18 in the arch of the battle line, and in ironic turnabout V-18 took a Cuirassé’s torpedo. V-22 sank first with 112 of her 120 man crew. V-18 sank a minute later with 61 of her 64 man crew. Then V-3 sank with 117 of her 120 man crew. Magon finally got an engagement, two Zerstörer, the V-12 and V-13, were covering the back of the German fleet when Magon closed on them and attempted a torpedo launch on V-13. Cosmao still have five Zerstörer haunting her with three Leichter Kreuzer again trying to close. Magon had brushed past her two Zerstörer, sinking V-13 with 29 of her crew as they abandoned the ship because of the incoming torpedo, and was heading for the sterns of the Leichter Kreuzer. At least two hid in smoke. But now the six Gepanzerkreuzter were uncovered and the battle line could target them. Cosmao sank the V-27 with 80mm fire, sending the 900 ton Zerstörer to the bottom with 109 of her 120 man crew. Béarn finally broke the circling pattern of her movements and turned hard to port to bring the battle line in parallel with Saxony and the Gepanzerkreuzter. This put V-12 on her starboard side. Bent in a horseshoe, the battle line engaged Saxony. Magon was on the tail of the Leichter Kreuzer and engaging Regensburg. Regensburg sank with all but one of her 394 man crew. Magon was now past the Leichter Kreuzer and on the Zerstörer haunting Cosmao. And not too soon as Cosmao ran into a torpedo spread but fortunately the two hits were duds. Cosmao now targeted the V-10, hiding under smoke and loaded with torpedoes. V-17 had gathered a squadron of Zerstörer to try and lead a run at Belliqueuse at the back of the battle line but got cut down with 155mm shells. V-17 sank with 30 of her 120 man crew as her magazines exploded. V-31 sank with 57 of her 64 man crew just as V-17 took a torpedo meant for Tonnere. So focused was V-32 on hitting Tonnere that she missed Dévastation sweeping in past her starboard bow and getting two torpedoes into V-32 at short range. V-32 took 11 casualties and broke off from the battle. Tonnere dodged V-32’s torpedoes. Magon had finally gotten up to Cosmao and they were now ordered to withdraw after having sunk the Leichter Kreuzer Danzig and Regensburg and at least three Zerstörer. Cont’d

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You know that in the world of this campaign, Sabaton has written a song about the Cosmao 😂

40:42: The annoying thing about the 15" torpedoes from the Germans is how long you have to wait for them to get by you.

I still think you should be able to capture transports if you can pull within x range. But I also think that transports should flee by dispersing to all points of the compass.

1:08:29 reminds me of the french artisan campaign... That screen was just beautiful

5:21: The Méduse class 83.5mm armed Navires de transport L'Indomptable got a 83.6mm hit on one of Stuttgart's 137.2mm guns, which set off that gun's powder magazine and triggered another power explosion in the 180.5mm magazine. This did not sink Stuttgart but it did cripple her for the rest of the battle.

Love your French campaign brother. It's been very fun and refreshing. Great video as always

15:22 oof a critical hit from that torpedo.

25:47: Oh be as mean as you want. the Regia Marina is based on the principles of the Jeune École, and their protected cruisers and torpedo boats should be as modernize as they can be.

Judging by all those destroyers rushing your fleet, it looks like this is an alternate reality where the Jeune École got popular in Germany

A way to overcome the lack of tonnage for 100k+ invasions is this: Have a fleet of Armoured Cruisers, Pre-Dreadnoughts or whatever, waiting in the wings to be extra tonnage, and ONLY bee extra tonnage. This fleet of 'Armed Troop Transports' should have the following: 1. 8-10 vessels with a combined tonnage exceeding 100k tons. Leave on Limited until needed for an Invasion. 2. The ships should be slow, have low maintenance costs, probably low-tech, but maxxed out tonnage; accomplish this in whatever way you can. If you want to roleplay, give them Spacious quarters to simulate them carrying Army troops to feed into the invasion. 3. Armament should be relatively small main guns and lots of light secondaries. These transports should be able to fend off TBs, DDs, maybe some CLs, but they should run at the first sign of trouble. 4. A couple small picket vessels to deal with subs and stall enemy surface units while the transports get away. Hope this helps anyone itching to acquire some colonies!

31:31: And this is why I'm not going to call Krupp armor Krupp. HADIR (Hauts-Fourneaux et Aciéries de Differdange-St Ingebert-Rumelange) steel works directed by the French naval architect Gabriel Maugas.

Stuttgart's defiance to the end is the kind of stubbornness that ghost ships are born from. That thing just did not want to go!

Baden was out of main gun ammo so think she just wanted out

31:15 Ouch, imagine being the that one guy that died.

Epic throw down love it keep up the great work

24:04: No that was Confienza sending her death launch.

When the trendy part of Paris puts to sea

2:17: I've forgotten how long ago we had to do a convoy defense.

I like your video bro, keep it up 👍👍👍

Iron plate is just as effective as modern armour 1 ......... If you put at least a metre of it on 😅

Cosmao gets the luckiest light cruiser award 😅 I'm so far behind, lol.

If you do end up reading this. I think if you slow your ship down a little it grants you a little better aim

One thing i keep wondering. Why do you always use balanced rudders? They affect your turning ability dont they? Wouldnt just leaving them semibalanced help in maneuvering

Look up the american light cruiser that was birthed in battle ship row on dec 7 hot sunk raised then look at it combat history. A hard hitting cl that fought like a CA. Her name i forget . But she had 15 / 6 inch guns in 5 mounts quite fast . Plus 4 five inch turtents left rear right rear set not on fan tail same set up in the bow plus. Bofer guns a plenty and torps. Amazing ship got its revenge in spades vrs the jabs . Ues she was sunk but she gave them hell

1:07:00: Wow! That was exhausting.

Battle of Cam Ranh Bay Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMVIX, 23 August 1909 The Normandie, lead of her Cuirassé du 2ème rang class, from the Keelung Station navale on Formosa, joined the Tricolore class Croiseur Léger Tage from the Fort Bayard Base navale régionale in Kwang-Chou-Wan, to escort a convoy of four Méduse class 83.6mm armed Navires de transport through the South China Sea east of Cam Ranh Bay. They were attacked by two Graudenz Class Leichter Kreuzer of the Kaiserliche Marine, the Stuttgart and the Pillau armed with a one single turret 180.5mm gun, four single turret 137.2mm guns, some smaller caliber guns, and four underwater torpedo tubes. Normandie spotted funnel smoke of ships closing fast from the south-west. She and Tage moved to investigate. They sighted the two German Kreuzer and prepared for battle, still closing until they got into range. Then Tage turned and launched her five starboard torpedoes. Tage was getting hits with her 155mm and 80mm guns, and even L'Indomptable got an 83.6mm hit that destroyed a 137.2mm gun turret on Stuttgart. This set off Stuttgart’s 137.2mm and 180.5mm powder magazines, launching her turrets into the air. Normandie got into range and got two 300mm hits on Stuttgart right after L'Indomptable’s hit but before the powder magazines exploded. Tage turned her guns on Pillau. Normandie fired her 80mm guns on Stuttgart to finish her. Both sides began to circle each other d’soleil, keeping out of each other’s torpedo range. Finally Normandie was able to get 300mm hits on Pillau and sink her with 543 of her 633 man crew. Stuttgart was still trying to fight. Finally Normandie got a hit aft with her 300mm gun that flooded Stuttgart to her amidships. A few 80mm hits from Tage and the bulkheads caved on Stuttgart. She sank with 563 of her 633 man crew. Normandie suffered one casualty. Tage took 10 and picked up 160 German survivors. It was from the damage control officer of the Stuttgart that we learned that it was the Méduse class 83.6mm armed Navire de transport L'Indomptable’s 83.6mm hit on one of Stuttgart's 137.2mm guns which set off that gun's powder magazine and triggered another power explosion in the 180.5mm magazine. This did not sink Stuttgart but it did cripple her for the rest of the battle.

Your Armoured Cruisers may as well be predreadnoughts as far as the Germans and Italians are concerned . Kind of feel should have just thrown your destroyers in there to create havoc and lose a couple ships ........ You can build how much bigger destroyers by now ?

can you do another ai built starter fleet campaign in the future ,i know you did one in a german campaign a long time ago ?

Could you turn on the avg reports in the feed so we can see things like partial pens. Especially on the smaller battles.

Seriously though, how much of Germany's non capital fleet, percentage wise, was lost in that one battle?

6:00: Stutt-gone.

Has your mod turned refits off for the AI inadvertently ? Because I'm upto 1906 in a 1890 vanilla campaign and id be delighted to still be seeing iron plate and black powder

A Graf Spee class of ships before the death of Spee..?? 😂

On the outset of the biggest naval battle of the game, why did you decide to retire your DDS? Why not have them screen so you could keep Redfor DD's away from the battleline?

Not sure if I'm the only one but the video is silent Edit: The volume has been fixed

will you update the mod to the non-beta 1.5?

click on 32:50 for the start of the TUMBLEHOME ARMADA!!!

A lot of unnecessary risk taking near the end of the last battle, so close to enemy's torpedo ships

Whooooo just took a torpedo..? Why would you sail BBs into a hornets nest of DDs? No, honestly I really want to know. You already washed your hands of the support ships (like a true Royal Navy fan) in favor of your BBs fighting DDs.....?!?!

Russian-French Entente Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMVIX, 5 September 1909 With the country of Russia now a modern centrist republic, the Troisième République Française has agreed to an alliance with the Russian Republic. This means the Deutsches Kaiserreich has to watch its eastern frontier even as the Armée de France métropolitaine moves against Southern Germany in an attempt to break them away from German imperial rule.

Well you'll have these two navies decimated in a couple months ....... Then you can take all their colonies I've found as a Spain allied with France and the UK these two have colonies you can help yourself to .......... Not like the epic 6 year struggle I had do Vs the US to get Hawaii and Alaska

Its painful to see this micro

0 - 32 so ai is dumb as always xd

Can I say that you have a terrible italian pronounciation? Many italian words are pronounced like they're written, not with strange vocal changes (the name Garibaldi, for example, is pronounced as it's written, Gariboldi (as you pronounced it) is another whole family)