Tex: "I'm going to build a 'micro Nelson'" Proceeds to build a ship 1.5x the weight of the actual HMS Nelson

>low tech 16” guns, no radar >max caliber and tonnage for era >”we have built an Iowa” tex, you have built the 1931 equivalent of a yamato.

"This is a complex era with a lot of assholes"-- Tex describing every period of history worth studying in a short sentence :-)))

"im refitting the Hapsburg again, no more questions i brake you hands"

Tex uttering the most common phrase of the last 400 years: “GODDAMMIT, England. What the faq?” Had me in stitches.

Just so you know tex, you can mothball ships. Not only it drops the maintenance and crew but random neutral nations will send offers for your old ships, with a discount of course, which might help with your bottom line. It might help with your finances.

I have this image of Tex in 2050 fitting the Hapsburg with railguns

I can hear the dockmaster crying as he has the refit the same ship his great grandfather remembers building.

Imagine how confused the Irish would be when the Austro-Hungarian fleet anchored off the British coast and started playing 'Come Out Ye Black And Tans'

Tex: A very wide empire now *maniacal wheezing laughter*

Can't wait for the Habsburg to rise out of the ocean to achieve spaceflight while Shiro Sagisu tunes are blasting

In this universe it isn't Space Battleship Yamato but Space Battleship Hapsburg. Kids will play with toy models of the lattest and coolest refit.

43:51 "Are we the baddies?" Tex: "Yes, yes we are" *sips scotch*

I imagine that every time the Hapsburg gets an armor upgrade, they just weld, rivet and bolt the new armor plates on top of the old, and that by now it's a literal sandwich of armor.

The year is 1931, we have 16" guns at our disposal, but we still have steam steering on all our ships.

Me in the first 15 seconds after the intro: What? WHAT! Wide Hapsburg... wow. Tex: We're in trouble. You should be!

I know it's an expensive folly, but the Hapsburg is fucking epic. I want to see it until the end!

Tex "he's got 32 fires on board" by this point i think the boat is just made up of fire 🔥

19:43 Tex: You can't use stuff as a napkin. Me, doing a China campaign in a war with Germany: Watch me...

I got a challenge for you for the next campaign. I call it the "Modern Naval Museum and Amusement Park" challenge. Basically, from the start of the campaign you designate one of your major ports as the Museum/Amusement Park port. Every lead ship of the class of all the classes you create gets put into that port and has it's crew reduced to 30-40%. These ships never leave port and never take part in battle. As they are museum ships they are never refit either. This is so you can help establish a great naval tradition and culture among your people as families from all around the country can come to this port and tour the ships over the years, take part in firing the guns, using the radios and flags to communicate with each other, and a multitude of other fun activities as they learn the history of each class of ship. If you survive long enough you'll have to have the ships built in a separate port and then steam them into the museum port. If you REALLY want to make it interesting you can also do the "No Refits allowed" challenege AND the "Lack of Naval Architects" challenge where you can only design new classes every 5 years. I did this with a German campaign and I found it rather fun. Good day to you sir.

On the topic of languages, just remember, in the 1970s Adriano Celentano made a pop song out of nonsense words, which were written to sound English to Italian listeners... And come on, Shootenboaten is just weird to Germans who do not know that Schute is a type of freight ship.....

You know, one of these days you're going to get one of the Hapsburgs commenting on this series and talking about how funny it is.

TSN ShootenBoaten (Tex's Stupendous Navy)

I built a light cruiser in this game that had something like 7 × 5" guns along each side of the ship for a total of 14 × 5" guns. It could shred opposing ships of similar or smaller size and put the hurt on larger ships even. Unfortunately, it did have one problem, and that had to do with how close the guns were, so that when the ship took a bad hit, it had a very high chance of a flashfire going off and when that happened it would take a miracle for the boat to keep itself above water as EVERY GUN on the boat would flashfire if even one cooked off, each gun would would follow suit one at a time going from one side to the next along the whole ship. Which did make for a great visual as the boat could be sailing along with 14 huge pillars of fire if the guns cooked off fast enough. Other times, the guns are still firing as they're exploding

Hope is not a strategy POWER TO THE HAPSBURG!! Shootenboten, granddaughter of Bote! 10" guns with super heavy shells for the BCs! A man is definitely entitled to the sweat of his memes!

And to a German ear "Shootenboaten" sounds Dutch.

The Hapsburgs appear to be trying to build the Mongolian Empire in reverse. Let's see how that works out for them, Cotton

Announcement posted on Steam about 4 days ago - they're Beta testing a Multiplayer DLC for UAD as we speak. They're going to select around 100 people for said test. If interested, you can send them a message asking to be included in the test, along with reasoning as to why you should. If picked, they'll send you a free Steam key to download the Beta. However, once the DLC goes live, said Steam key will expire, and you'll have to pay for the live version. All the pertinent details are on the Steam page for UAD.

a Diesel Habsburg is gross and i hate it! I love the absolute fuck out of all the "Why" of the BPL brand, but that ship distresses me greatly like the same way a flight of weaponized sugar gliders would.....

Having known three generations of chihuahuas, they don't bark because of anxiety, they bark because it is fun to bark.

'While others have spent money on ships, I have spent it on lies' Love it

The Austro-Hungarian 'Belt and Road'

Looks like Historicly accurate Austria-Hungary to me.

Just finished savoring part 6 and i get part 7 already! SWEET!

Thank you Tex for explaining how subs work in this game. Also, thank you to everyone involved in making this series. Personally, I enjoy it when the editor cranks up the music during battle to give it a more dramatic feeling. Now for the campaign: I can only guess that the Brits have such well trained gunners after being forced into so many "target rich" battles throughout the world. XD

Knock knock Who's there? V I O L E N C E

One of the things I find helpful economically, is to make out what I call my merchant marine slider. Tech, and training are important, but getting your merchant marine maxed out as quickly as possible grows your economy at a pretty quick pace.

This campaign has been batshit insane, and if I feel like driving a friend of mine mad I'll tell him about it, sooon. Keep up the good work boss!

Snake Austria is not real, it cant hurt you Snake Austria! Seriously, looks like a regular EU4 Campaign going for some Shenanigans in Asia.

56:26 So instead of "belligerent and numerous", it's rampant and inexcusable

You leave my favorite round alone Tex! Eargesplitten Loudenboomer is amazing.

“A very complex era filled with a lot of a-holes” So, any point in human history, then?

Can I just say how much I love you

Tex, you should do a series where you ask the community to make as many ships as possible in different eras and then you turn on "player designed ships" for the AI and just watch the chaos of what the community + the AI will come up with

Editor’s note: sounds fine on my cell phone.

This made my day! Thank you Tex and crew.

I think the Hapsburg is a fitting ship for the Austro-Hungarian empire. It's a ship hull that carries defects from multiple generations of refits, each making it less competitive and more of an expensive dead end.

THe Poor Habsburg, you can here it crying even now, Please LET ME Rest, PLEASE!!!!

With multiplayer being worked on, I want to see Tex and dep make stupid ships to reenact famous naval battles

"complex era filled with alot of assholes" isn't that just all history in a nutshell? Poor Hapsburg, it's the ship equivalent of a 70 yo soldier who wants to retire, but the enlistment office keeps saying just one more year in perpetuity

Just started my first campaign as China. I’m running into an issue where my attrition assets, like TBs and CLs that I think I built as crap, are actually punching above their weight, but my BBs that I think are good are getting clapped. I love this game so much!

ALL HAIL THE DIESEL MICRO-NELSON! Those plus the Widetom/Iowas are gonna be fun.

"Let's mock the French" Names ship "La Seren Du Mon Kai."

Max shipyard size isn't actually tied to your shipbuilding capacity. It only increases the size of the boats you can build, so there's no reason to increase it beyond super battleship size. Dockyard capacity is tied to growth, and can't be increased manually. Sorry for backseating Tex, but i only stumbled over this while fucking with the game files and i'm not sure if it's common knowledge. Anyways, love the series, it's ridiculous and amazing. Long live the Hapsburg!

HABSBURGS! PRAISE!

love some battleships TEX have a nice weekend! ☺👍🚢💥🚢

I love these, thanks Tex

Ah Tex so close! You thankfully installed the new steering on the destroyer but the BCs deserve some love too

Just sell the shootin' boatin for cashin foldin Riddle resolvin!!

Verily, Broad Thomas rules the waves.

Mr Editor person, I'd be interested in a clipped/edited video of Tex explaining his thoughts on the best way to make coffee.

highlight video of the week incoming! :D

If you've noticed your accuracy has dropped, and a ridiculous amount of your shells are bouncing off and doing 0 damage, it's because they borked combat in one of the recent updates.

I’m waiting for Tex to build a Kitakami for the lols.

Australia-Austria-Hungary needs to be a thing. Kangaroo Goulash and Bay Bug Paprikash for everyone.

first? so happy to see more of this!

In the interest of Shipposting, my current run is Japan, my first war I had a battle with 166 Torpedo Boats, because BANZAI!

The most important question: Will Tex ever build the Kitakami Cruiser? ^^ 40 torps should be amazeballs

"Your navy will shrink by necessity as you advance." Unless you are America.

Tex, one thing I don't understand about the game mechanics - You always tend to max out everything on each boat. Max Sonar, Max Mine Laying, Max Mine Sweeping. Is there really no downside to that? Cost or weight or some balance thing?

More please!

Sooo i picked up this game too, am having a great time, and am about to start building my 125,000 tonne dreadnaught :) i am very excited for it

Also Shootenboaten is silly, it's obviously a Feurerfreikampfboot Edit: No, I did a whoopsie, that's literally the name for search n rescue fire-fighting boats. German is hard. German goes hard.

He did it! He made a chin class Battlecruiser!

Schiessenschiff, not to be confused with scheissenachiff.

I see BPL, I upvotes!

Get some Goat! Marine Air Wing sees you brother! Tex is family but I gotta go with house Calderon. My general disposition and culture. Battletech for life!

in flatlandian shootenboaten would mean lapboat, so weird almost weird enough for the bpl to make

Hell yeah new episode

The mini neocons need 3 main guns up front rabble rabble

I wish that for little to no cost, you could like, Start a ship and pause it, just so you could have eternal hapsburg, ship burns down? Unpause a New one, refit, mascot restored.

Torpedo boot....did tex summon a canadian there for a second?

Tex UAD is doing a close test of Multiplayer Stealth17 Gaming just posted him and Brother Munro testing it there is 100 slots for people to test it

Austro hungarian Australia sounds wonderful, kangaroo gulash!

im so happy to wake up to red white and green flag smorgasbord time

Tex, I can't help but notice that all your reloading crew are using hand cranks and winches to load 16" shells, and that your ship's magazines are PACKED TO THE GILLS with high explossive shells. I think you need a few extra AP in there, and please give the poor men some hydraulics.

1:32:38 I haven't played this game, but wouldn't it have helped if you used the incendiary rounds against Britain's big boy like you did earlier in the episode? You mention it later as i'm typing this, but you had it set to auto the whole time, not incendiary.

Shaft II for the mini Nelson....cramped crew is always a bad idea for a BB. You immediately start to drop performance when you have casualties.....

Ahh tex is number 1 admiral kazakhstan, very nice

I've seen it that you put ships on limited and then manually lower the crew and you can save even more than putting them in mothballs

TEX: Time to refit the habsburg.......yup, gas turbine annnnd how many cwis can i fit, 4 no, ok 3! Now for the harpoons, how many can i fit? allllll of them, GREAT! Can i fit 8in guns? game says no, maybe.......6in ok. Now for the armor i can fit?...... PERFECT!

01:07:30 "finally" no more confusion between austria and australia 😁

@18:30 I used to work with German fella who lived for 5 years in Ireland. When he went back to Germany every one was thikning that he is so yo-yo making fun of them... Including his parents :)

Hmmm....would it be possible to increase the beam and draught of the Hapsburg? Just increase its defiance in the face of all.

would it be a good mechanic for this game be that the older the tech the less it costs? as in average 1910 tech is discounted by 10% by 1920

Started a new campaign, as Italy: 3 turns in Spain went and kicked the pants off America, and are the North American empire. Then they told me where they were going to stick their torpedo boats; In my ear. Not going great.

I love how much Tex thinks we give a fuck about the Hapsburg

LOL MOAR! :)

Battletech/Mechwarrior Lore - Tex Talks Battletech : the Centurion pleas

Where is this Steyr AUG made again? Austrihrumma