So, interesting tidbit. Your battleship class is called "Indomptable" ; your armoured cruiser class is called "Bruix". Bruix was a napoleonic era naval officer who first became the captain of the "Indomptable" ship of the line.

But still no, " Just shoot the bloody torpedoes", button. 😞

You got an imperial fist shake of anger at the use of metric.

The Colony class should have been called the Colonie class in my opinion. It is the same thing, but French. Otherwise, this is looking like it will be very fun.

Mr Munro i have a suggestion could you modify the year when tripple and quad turret are unlocked because by 1908 to 1912 historically most nations were choosing twins over tripples because the twins were more accurate but they could build them . Just an idea though .Thanks you for the video.

I think you'll find that not retiring ships isn't too much of a restriction. Old slow ships stationed in fairly secure areas will protect your merchants from the raiding between turns, and can be used for minor invasions. They can also be used at straits to complicate enemy pathfinding. Upsizes the Colony class. "Being small is an advantage in and of itself." 😂 Good to see that you have designed both these and picket ships. Build Troudes while you can, they will go obsolete very quickly unless you've edited that tech. If you ever add mines back in DIP, they could be refitted to cost effective minelayers.

A good start to a hopefully interesting campaign.... Your videos (and mod) are always something to lighten my day....

I cannot wait to potentially see a Munrovian style Danton as the campaign progresses! Viva la France!

French small torpedo cruiser is probably my favorite hull in the game. Its so small and has an age of sail broadside xD. If memory serves theres a bigger version of the hull you get later on.

I have a request: Going forward, could you stick with historical calibers, only (at least until you reach guns that are bigger than anything France used)?

The tumblehome is back

If the devs are watching, please tell them that in 1890 Alsace and Lorraine were part of the German empire (since the 1870 war). They were returned to France in 1918.

I watched your French long campaign (1890-1950) and I hope to see more of this new series

Floating hotel campaign lets gooooooooooooooo

Another french relic campaign. I cant wait for quebec 2 electric booagloo. A real ironclad of legend that scored a kill toward the end of your french campaign.

Stumbled upon your channel and this mod thanks to my sudden addiction to naval history and haven't been able to put down the game since. I love listening to funny English man play ship game, subscribed.

I like the tonnage used in vs max to a port feature

As a French speaking belgian it s really funny earing you destroying French names 😅

I'm very happy u are starting a new campaign I love new starts and new ships

I like the challenge. It's like it's an All Hands On Deck campaign.

im just so glad that finally the brooklyn class is a thing now

I'm in love with the ironclad designs they are so beautiful

15:26 Just enough to keep Jacques and Henri from falling through the deck.

Be interesting to see how the torpedo boat stay relevant in the future

glad to be on the ground floor for this one! bonne chance!

I'm super excited for the start of a new series!

Yaeh!!! our mighty captain sets out to conquer the world once more very excited for french campaign❤

"When Hotels go to War."

Call it the "No steel wasted" campaign

Glad you sensibly kept the Colonies , although you spelt it wrong

I already give you an idea for the next campaign. Italy, Britain or U.S.A. with ships that, at least on the exterior, are obligatory historical (same gun layout, caliber and external look. You still can do what you want on the interior and the equipment). Your objective is to defeat your country long date Enemy (if Britain, it's Germany or France, if Italy, it's Austria or Britain or France, if U.S.A., it's Japan or Spain or Russia).

Re: Design of the Troude class of Frégates. Personnel de l'Amirauté: Division de construction navale: Bureau de conception: Rapport de bureau: 4-Mar-1889 The Troude class will consist of eighteen Frégates designed to a target displacement of 1,500 tons and a top speed of 18 knots. The Troude class will consist of eighteen Frégates designed to a target displacement of 1,500 tons and a top speed of 18 knots. The class has three steam engines powered by naturally aspirated boilers burning coal vented though two funnels generating 4,626 indicated horsepower turning two screws for the required top speed on a design displacement of 2,261 tons fully loaded with a balanced rudder turned by steam power for an operational range of 7,992 kilometers. The class' main battery is four single turrets mounted fore, aft, and one per side bearing 110mm/27 Mark 1 guns with 60mm face, 2.5mm top iron plate armor, turned by hydraulic power with enhanced reloading, and flash fire protective systems. The main magazine carries a balanced standard load of standard sized 50% Base Fuze HE and 50% standard AP shells using Brown Powder as the propellant and Black Powder as the bursting charge. The secondary battery is four casemates mounted two per sides bearing 40mm/36 Mark 1 guns with 40mm face, 2.5mm top iron plate armor. The secondary magazine carries a HE heavy standard load of standard sized 62.5% Base Fuze HE and 37.5% standard AP shells. Four underwater torpedo tubes launching 380mm Mark 1 compressed air aided torpedoes rounds out the armament. Iron Plate armor is clade 60mm on the main belt, 20mm on the extended belt, 3mm on the main deck, 3mm on the extended deck, 20mm on the superstructure, and 60mm on the conning tower. The Class has a single bottom hull, standard bulkheads separating extensive compartmentation. A crew of 235 officers and enlisted men will be provided standard quarters. The class will consist of the lead ship Colonie, Surcouf, and Suchet. Build time will be 9 months with a commissioning time of 2 months. Cost per ship will be $5,019,704, and monthly maintenance in port of $265,040.

I caught that the patch notes mentioned "Chinese Large Torpedo Warship" as a new hull. Now that sounds interesting. :)

Nice a new campaign

you should try handicapping yourself in the terms of as many refits but you cant change the hull, armour and engines so on but you can change guns and other aux stuff

I like the Porcupine class light torpedo cruisers.

Finally a French campaign!!!

What about a hoarding campaign

Always liked French ships from this era, even if they were terrible in reality. Looking forward to this campaign.

Well, the Troude is very much just an oversized destroyer with that many torpedo launchers. xD

So this start to: what if french were competent in their desing, unlike IRL at same time.

Hey. I love your ship designs. I wont lie I used your method and was finally able to beat a Spanish campaign on this game. Another game you might possibly enjoy with the design aspect is Automation. It's very in depth in the design aspects. If you decide to do it. I would live to see that.

Well guess in that case you need pocket battleships Munro

Babe wake up, new Brother Munro series just dropped

A 5mm or >0.2 inch deck is hilarious you could jump really hard and probably punch a hole in the ship

I wonder if you reduced weight to make the boats disappear, out on the 3rd gun then Increased the weight back up to 5000 tons what would happen....

11:00 Your designs are far better than mine but I feel you are missing a bet with your quick choice of "the largest funnel that fits". Look at the "bang for buck" of funnel capacity per unit weight. Here four "Mini Enhanced II" funnels give 104.4% engine efficiency for 120 tons less weight. 39:30 ALSO consider if (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) lighter less efficient funnels will give just over 100% efficiency. Two "Angled Funnels" = 106%, save 50 tons. 43:30 Sometimes the smaller funnels just fit really well on these cramped pre-dreadnought hulls. Four "Dual Funnels II" weigh 10 tons more but give 110% efficiency in less hull space, reducing citadel size, getting back the 10 tons. If you are aiming for just over 100% engine efficiency, comparing funnels is worth as much time as you spend considering different towers. Later on I often gain operational range AND spare displacement by reducing the explicit range and increasing engine efficiency towards 200%. Funnels for the win!

Great video. Minor request. Could you say what the guns are in inches for those of us who don't speak metric? Love you stuff!

End of the Jeune École Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MDCCCLVIII, 12 October 1888 The Premier amiral de France (First Admiral) has laid forth his naval policy for the Marine Nationale the Troisième République Française (Third French Republic). It is an end to the power of the Jeune École (Young School) as the Amiral dictates “No Torpedo Boats”. Construction has begun on four basic classes of ships; Cuirassés de 1er Rang (Battleships of the 1st Rank). These ships will constitute the Vaisseau amiral (Flagship) of the three main Base navale principale (Main Naval Bases), Le Harve, Brest, and our own Marseille. For now the ships will be the three Indomptable class Cuirassés de 1er Rang, Indomptable, Belliqueuse, and Suffren. As naval design develops new ships will take over the task of being the Vaisseau amiral and the Indomptable class may be demoted to Cuirassés d’escardre (Battleship of the Squadron). Croiseurs Cuirassés (Armored Cruisers). These ships will constitutes the Vaisseau amiral of the five Base navale régionale (Regional Naval Base), Fort Bayard in Kwang-Chou-Wan on mainland China, Fort de France in the French Antilles in the Caribbean, Dakar in Senegal in western Africa, Libreville in Gabon in central Africa, and Tunis in Tunisia in northern Africa. The Bruix class has been designed and is being built for these missions, and will consist of the Bruix, Inpennable, Latouch-Tréville, Congrève, and Lave. Croiseur Léger (Light Cruisers). The ships will be assigned to the larger Station navale (Naval Station) around the world where such a presence is required. One will be assigned to Saint-Denis on Réunion in the western Indian Ocean. This will be the Colony class lead ship Colony, which takes its name from the fact it may also be referred to as a Croiseur de Colonie (Colony Cruisers). A second, the Surcouf, will be assigned to Cayenne in French Guiana on the north coast of South America on the Atlantic. The third being built at this time is the Suchet, to be assigned to Djibouti Station navale in Djibouti in eastern Africa off the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Frégate (Frigates). Two ships of the Troude class will be started in 1889, but this will be the first ships of a very large class. The Troude will be assigned to Saint Florent on the Island of Corsica in the Mediterranean, and the Aréthuse will be assigned to Bonifacio on Corsica. As these ships are built and commissioned the Barbette ships Marceau, Neptune, Magenta, and Hoche will be decommissioned, as will all the torpedo boats to provide cadre for the Troude class. The personnel strength of the Marine Nationale will grow with modern training techniques and humane treatment. Monies will also be spent on increasing the size of French shipyards. No longer will the limit shipyard expansion be dictated by accommodating the next design proposal for a capital ship with no thought to future needs. The Marine Nationale will also support the expansion of transport and merchant ship capability.

Everytime I see brothermunro my mind sees Perturabo I am sorry to say.

Do I see a reappearance of the Quebec and the Condorcet

Hey Brother Munro and channel denizens. I came here for inspiration and to get some of that old spark of excitement I used to have for this game back. I have put in almost 1,400 into this game at the moment, but I've been playing it in complete vacuum and, well, I have to say that while the ship design mechanics are quite entertaining for a short time, I've found the campaign to be very disappointing. Looking forward to following this campaign.

56:15 You might be better off trying to ally with Germany because Germany a) has a border with you and b) has a really good army... so yeah

You don’t have a fleet so much as a scattering of ships across the globe 🤣🤣🤣

Your ships have tumbleholm bows. If it collided with a Spanish destroyer that ship was under the waves in ten minutes

I feel like weilding a particularly smelly cheese and singing the La Marseillaise!

I always think it's weird that, when you're designing the ship, it's the rear that's facing the sea, I feel like it should be turned around. Ik it's probably realistic, but iunno, the front facing the sea makes more sense to me

I may have misunderstood your rules but is this a "no scrap" play through? I always enjoy seeing how far I can push an old ship into the future. lol

Fully Active Fleet challenge?

Would love a ”please invade this landlocked region” button. Right now it’s stupid when I’m getting constantly invaded by a region with 30k soldiers against my own with 500k soldiers in it.

Could you in design part put just a text box or something on the sceen showing the guns caliber in inches as fir aome of us seeing milli meter is messing with our heads

Try and watch Tex he made a playtrough with Italy showing in no uncertain way how torpedoboats are anything but useless.

Do the French Hulls actually benefit from from the angling on the hulls? I like how funky they are lol

A word to my fellow Americans going on about using metric measurements. A) The guns listings in the shipbuilder are in the exact same slots as we're used to seeing when imperial measurements are used, so you can read across and figure it out; but B) The math ain't hard. It's 25.4mm to an inch. That being said, seeing 5mm (1/5th of an inch) of armor put on in places makes me laugh.

Sadly the torpedo cruiser got no spare torpedos.

On the light cruiser funnel conundrum: does being 40% over max funnel cap actually give you anything? Otherwise you could've gone with the lighter funnels, still gotten 100% engine efficiency and reduced smoke penalty to boot, no?

Please drop into the fleet screen in November 1890 so we can see where the ships were posted.

The light cruisers should lose casement guns not main guns. Try to mount the main guns centerline.

Oh, Brother Munro, whenever I try to use the 1.7 version of the DIP (Dreadnought Improvement Project) with the open beta for 1.5 (the current open beta is 1.5, right? Whatever the current beta branch is), it doesn’t load, all that comes up when opening the game is a light grey screen that never changes. I’ve followed all the steps correctly, I’ve got the beta working on vanilla, but trying to load the mod doesn’t work. Do you know what might be happening or how I could get it to work? I love your videos by the way, they’re my go-to when I have nothing else to watch and you have a nice/soothing voice

TUMBLEHOMES! TUMBLEHOMES! TUMBLEHOMES!

Why not both numbers on the ship building capacity?

When you were talking about like the theme of this campaign I was thinking the French would have more guns on the back than the front for running away. Maybe next time. And that might be a good strategy to build ships like that for the AI since they like to run away.

Changing the shipyard thing like you’ve suggested would be not a good idea. Max shipyard size 12.5is the max size ship you can build where the ship building capacity is how many ships you can build at the 12.5t cap. Saying you can build a 30t ship with a 30mins cap would mean you can only build one ship till it’s done not only stupid but would hinder you

When will we see a Condorcet

Well I have to disagree with you about the torpedo boat, IMO they are useful particulary at 1890 (until 1905 more or less) as they are cheap, fast (kinda), almost undestructable because of the accuracy of the ships and carry torpedos which are very useful at the beginning. But it also works without them I have to admit ^^

I've got know idea what size guns your using pls go back to inches

You did not built Quebec as a pre-dread? What heresy is this?!😂

1890 is the superior start date

Out of curiosity, why the balanced rudder?

Viva la France

After the Japanese Campain, begin the new Dreadnought Iprovement Project Campain, the France in UAD

Floating hotel 💀

So you can not scrap anything like a normal navy?

I don’t understand the metric system that well

I use metric system but I don't understand shii why millimiters? 😭😭😭

FRANCE FRANCE FRANCE

I always dislike how overpowered the French Economy is Ina most all my campaigns unless I conquer a part of mainland France before 1920, if they get to right wing Democracy it feels broken, they mostly outgrow USA and any other nation in crazy tempo, I hope you can somehow fix it with this mod

I wish they'd actually fix some of the issues plaguing the game, especially in the campaign, rather than add the umpteenth ship hull for China or Spain.

the american in me hurts

If you care about your viewers and community, then help your non-metric friends out.

Why set arbitrary restrictions on yourself like the Artisan campaign, or making all ships stay in until they’re sunk? Maybe I’m crazy, but I’d rather you turn up the difficulty above normal than set unrealistic restrictions. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Man these caliber numbers trip me up, 80mm, 110mm, its so cursed after getting used to real life metric calibers