That Scotland has the world’s second strongest navy amuses me greatly.

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If i didn't see bad, the heavy cruiser was sunk by 7 inches guns

Re Amagi, I think she looks butch. The pagoda tower, that distinctive Japanese funnel complex combined with the broad beam and oversized turrets conveys an heir of a ship that shouldn't be messed with.

Poor Bruce.

Is it just me or does that German ca look heavy on the nose? 1:45

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I am going to ask the devs for a SPQR flag.

Keep the name Akaishi for that BC, can be considered as a Special Refit of a Bastarda-class from Japan as war reparations

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A correction for your Italian pronounciation. The letter C is pronounced C (like in Charles if there's a I or a E after that, or in Karl with every else letter behind), not S

I just had an idea. You know how the AI usually focuses everything on the first or last ship in the line? Build a very heavily armored ship for the first and last positions in your BB line. Then let the AI waste all his fire on solid steel.

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28:46 Tbf guns with high muzzle velocity are famously inaccurate. That’s why modern snipers prefer muskets to high-powered rifles.

Well I thought that was jolly fun.

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16:47 I might have a solution for your DD problem: Try, for the next campaign, to have a number ratio 1 BB-1 BC-3 CA-3 CL-10 DD in your fleets. This will mean that, if you have, let's say, 5 BB, you'll have in your fleet also 5 BC, 15 CA, 15 CL and 50 DD in total. More battleships, more smaller ships to keep a proper escort and a proper port protection.

By the 1960's all your DD's should have had 6" guns or bigger. All the girls want them over 5"! Your refit cruisers are looking very sweet. Want to see them in action.

The Rhindlands look perfect for postings alone in far away stations covering convoys!

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good show

29:05 there’s something very wrong with the resistance on those US heavy cruiser hulls. They should not be bouncing 16” shells like that. I wonder if there’s an extra 0 in the code.

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And think I enjoy a Chinotto with my pizza. Name Scottish capital ships Macbeth/Lady Macbeth/Duncan/Macduff/Lady MacDuff so on and so forth - hubble, bubble toil and muzzle velocity. BTW Admiral, you might've done this off camera but if not, don't forget to reinstate the naval research budget and that BB or whatever from a few episodes ago.

The symbolism! The screenshot, shows a rather virile looking Italian full heat, full fat triple chilli hot calabrese contrasted with the rather flaccid looking insipid low salt and low fat German sausage. A propaganda picture of class and style Admiral. Will be on Italian cigarette packets marketed by big tobacco to children for decades this pic. In WW2 I think the British predicted if the meat content of the German sausage went below 15% then the allies would win. This reminds me a bit of that.

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All I can say about that DD mission at the end is A fanabla stronzo Nippondenso bastardo

29:10 when LCT’s go to war!

I believe you're correct about not being able to invade Greece, because the country is in rebellion - I've had land invasions cancelled because the locals rebelled against the controlling great power.

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15:55 A bunch of old but really pissed off Battlecruisers and some Destroyers against an entire Japanese Battle Squadron complete with Battleships, Battlecruisers, Heavy Cruisers, Light Cruisers and Destroyers... It's David against Goliath. And they won.

It would be surprising if the Kamchatka wasn’t in trouble

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You did the right thing dispensing with that grotesque ship and vile crew last episode Admiral. Hopefully the great hoards of - whoops I best be quiet, all went down with the ship so there's no witnesses. I see my communication about this whole repugnant sordid business was also expunged from the last episode like in Mission Impossible. I guess this disgusting saga was too awful to become public hence the military triple wipe naval intelligence type censorship. Let's just say Machiavelli (and the Four Seasons) would be proud - nudge nudge wink wink.

I'm fairly sure you can't initiate a naval invasion of a minor nation. Unless they go into revolt and you get a pop up that way. Those Japanese CAs look like they are missing rear towers...

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Good lord, what is going on with the sound effects in this game? As if they haven't had enough bugs in this game already.

Good battles!

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The next battle will truly be a "Clash of Titans" E have more and more powerful guns than them, but they have so much armour that it'll be really difficult

I have a FUN idea for a new series, First Battle ships can only have 9" main guns so, "Protected battle barges". Second, Cruisers are your main battle units. Battlecruisers ok. Third, all Main ships to have UN at the beginning of their names... eg Unnatural or Unwelcome or Unfathomable... you get the idea.. Think about how much fun you will have naming ships... roll it in your head it will make you laugh..

Omg the hold music! 😂😂😂

Time to upgrade the secondary battery. The 4.2s might work well as a tertiary battery on CAs and BCs now but as a secondary battery I feel they are old fashioned considering modern torpedo ranges. A battery of QF 8" might be in order - if they fit, triple or quad barrel 8" turrets behind the front and rear turrets and 3x 2 barrel arrangements to port and starboard - the centre turret on a barbette flanked by 2; 1 each side of barbette.

Spoiler alert Italy, May 1960. The fight between the titans began first with the Japanese and then with the Germans. We suffered losses of brave sailors, merchant ships and destroyers. But a telegram from our Scottish allies made the Italians' blood run cold: the Regia Nave Doria (or the Imperiale Nave given the scale of the conquest) was sunk during an assault on the German convoy. We hadn't lost a capital ship, or rather a battlecruiser for 30-40 years. We came to face a very economically advanced enemy, allied with us until the 1940s, when they changed their political ideas and were afraid of our successes in battle. They know of our power and how to face it, providing various warships to defend the Atlantic coasts

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8:00 If my fleet encountered a ship like the Posen during my time as an Admiral, even I would have run away as soon as I saw that ship. I might have been a notoriously aggressive commander, but I know how to choose my battles... For facing that ship, we need the Big Guns. Or them, or a whole fleet full of veterans

This game is utter utter trash. Barring on unplayable on campaign mode and the AI is TERRIBLE, literally one the worst I've ever seen in a game. Please please don't buy this game if you're reading this.

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