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A decent 1st battle, despite the weather and short days.

Well, you sunk a Escort Carrier. Id call that a win given you didn't even see what your where bombing. And Italy has joined the battle, Doesn't get much more Romen then Germany and Italy teaming up. And the Soviet Union is still giving you dirty looks, oh well they probably won't do much with Italy on your side now. Speaking of the battle, I kinda wish they would improve the visuals on those air contact reports, just a bit of stray thought. Like instead of just a Flag Pin it paints Static ships on the map till you get another contact report and then it moves. Just LITTLE more visual feedback, after all with late 1940s-1950s Radios and Coms equipment you SHOULD be able to get detailed reports on the Fleet formation, Composition and Movements.

It's a shame i've never made it to jets or missiles in a game. The carrier battles bore me so much i just restart. Back to the 1890s!

The French did have 340 light jet fighters and 40 prop fighter to your 162 light and heavy jets. They just swamped your escorts 2 to 1, which is why you lost so many strike aircraft.

Decent result! I saw at the end you have 36 planes at Reykyavik, which IS your largest land-based force--what are they split into? They may have been able to go out again the next day and done something with all the ships safely in port. Hard to justify upping the number based there, though, as they are expensive and can't expect too many battles up that way vs the French. What with Russia maybe getting in it's more the Norway bases. Maybe transfer the planes from Greece up there, now that Italy is covering the Med for you?

If I had a penny for every CV misidentified, I'd be a rich man 😅😅

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Considering the weather and the fact that you didnt actually get to see any ships, not a bad result? XD

The CVL you sunk is likely the close "support" mode carrier that is given to BX groups for cap

For the carrier battles the allowed battle time is huge enough to make it to the next morning. For this one it is 1900 minutes. You have roughly 14.5 hours of left. I think they set it up so there is time for a 2 day carrier battle.

Watching in the early part of the vide not yet the whole one. In my experience it is super hard to find the enemy CVs while the enemy gunline BBs BCs are set up to be sailing toward you. Thus early in the war go for the BBs as something you can find and weaken them greatly in later battles. However in the carrier on carrier battle the forces are so far apart I've had my and their BB miss each other. Recon planes might find their BBs anyway. Manually adding more recon planes in the direction your BBs are going plus either side is helpful.

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One of the effects of worn out machinery is that engines become damaged more often during high speed running. It isn't just the speed reduction. Seen a couple of damaged engine messages during this battle. Letting the battlecruiser engines lapse might cost you when it comes time to chase down an enemy for a decisive victory.

I've never been a fan of ships taking damage from 'stormy seas' in battles. At the end of the day, it's still a video game and it's supposed to be fun. Deploying your fleet, getting everything set up, just to have to run back to port due to a storm isn't very fun gameplay. I feel like storm damage should be a rare random pop-up event that happens between turns where a few of your light ships take some damage, or possibly get lost.

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The unrest level is lowered by: È War breaking out (initially, but longer wars will have the opposite effect) È Social programmes (event answers) È Victories È Lower military spending The amount of money spent for naval and military purposes is the most important factor in affecting the unrest level in the nation. Possible unrest in effect acts as a brake on the naval budget in the game. If you relentlessly press for higher naval expenditures, you will find that the unrest level will be going up. Entering a war with a high unrest level might leave you vulnerable when blockade or trade disruptions caused by war increase unrest further.

happy new year!

It was good to see you again. I hope you and your family have a wonderful new year.

In one of your previous battles, you had the Japanese fight with you even though you could not control them. it can happen when the French and the Russians fight you?

Playing selective battles is too easy🥴 It is more realistic and more interesting to agree to each proposed battle😌In general, I am talking about the fact that it is not interesting to refuse the proposed - generated battles, even if they are unfavorable for you, you need to agree, because in life, when faced with a test, you do not always have an advantage...

Happy new year to you too.

Your Reykjavik pronunciation is epic 😅😅

Happy new year Dickie! I look forward to seeing how this save progresses into 2025, and as always, your detailed analysis and insights. BTW - I enjoyed the pre-war presentation you displayed at the beginning of this video, good stuff.

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Manual search seems a must. Really wish they implement the request to show where the current air target is. Doing manual scouting is a must if you miss the initial search as the enemy is both in a random direction and may be sailing into the wind for their planes rather than in the initial game start direction. Finding the enemy forces in the CV age is a huge part of the battle and itself can prove decisive.

On Jet planes off Iceland land bases. The speed of jet attacks is so high that if they do start attacking enemy ships they will cycle many times in one battle. For CVs there is a side affect of getting barely no time to steer any direction other than into the wind due to the frequent launch and landing cycles of the strikes and CAP.

On how to load airbases be sure to check the tab "Area Overview" to see where enemy subs are and aren't. Use that to suggest how to load up patrol planes. Though for roleplay I sometimes have fighters, float planes or dive bombers they are very rarely useful in tactical battles. They do still provide support to the resistance to invasion. Land air bases are a rare way to surge up defense of an invaded colony. When invaded the colony can't build a new gun battery but can increase its airbase. Risky if its captured. Either way where you might have had only 4 patrol planes can be maxed to the current airbase of 20/40/etc planes which boosts the colony defense score. A good thing to do as you will get tactical battles related to the land battle with a trend to getting closer to the air base to do shore bombardments etc. Colonial air bases in peace time are typically 4 or 6 planes in a Patrol boat and sometimes a medium bomber. For your northern Europe its your home waters and the enemy (France, Britain) home waters so lots of subs and planes will be about. Iceland is a bit far making long range planes needed.

It's an old video, but still;) Your new DDs are very heavily armed for historical standards of the period and size - 8 5inch guns is a very heavy gun armament on only 2200 tons, so the lower-ish speed is not suprising. I'm eager to see how they performed in later episodes!

On land air power as much as Ive tried to have 60+ airbases helping they rarely do much in large battles. They do seem to be helpful in medium battles when even 8 MBmbr launching 8 HSSM can turn the tide.

Some thoughts on this age. By now the CVs are the main fighting power. There are battles were its only air strikes or so dominated by airstrikes before even HSSM. BB/BC are useful as a >second< line force as you need to hide them from the air and HSSM strikes then they can come out and club anything without old school guns and armor. Destroyers are the most common by far as they give efficient HSSM launch plus resistance to air and HSSM by various HAA/RdrMAA and by having sheer numbers of low value targets. In this era I rarely build a BB and keep refitting the ones from the earlier years. BC being built for HSAM/MSAM use. CLs and DDs are built in number as good enough to toss missiles in offense and defense.

Happy New year. What a great pre battle summary - really good to have that. I'd go for a quick hit and run too. Looking forward to Episode 73

I really like your analytics🥰

Happy New Year!

I'd launch coordinated on that area. Ah, you came to that conclusion a bit after you posed the question! But yeah, being coordinated is 'new' in that now you can actually do it instead of of it taking all day to gather it up! BTW, when you are looking at the battle generator left panel, the top line is ENEMY forces known to be in the area. The second line is also ENEMY forces expected to be in the battle, NOT your forces like you had been saying. Your forces are always the big list in the right panel.

The second line in the battle generation screen is "Expected enemy forces" not your own forces (which are on the right). You could have taken all of those battles.

Happy new year! I love the new overlay graphics for the Divisions. I would wait with the strike though, as long as you haven`t been spotted you can afford to get a few more reports.

Happy New Year!

Happy new years mr RvT!

Happy New Year

It's very interesting to watch the development of the fleet in the jet era, I'm looking forward to the release of new episodes😌

This series convinced me to buy the game during steam sale, never knew excel graphics could be so addicting!

Hey Merry Christmas to you RtV! Thabks for this series, which was holding me up this year :) One small thing I noticed: The refit of CA Gneisenau semms to have the 3inch guns not DP and not autoloading by mistake. Needs a further refit but with the current situation, should probaly only done when it's damaged (ships can go to refit while repairing). Thanks for your exxellent contet and good luck with the war, I really like there your fleet is going!

Dickie: Peace is awful!

A Persian cat gifted by the King of Siam? I had to fact check, and indeed the King of Siam gave old Fredrich a Siamese cat. Sounds like this guy was the original Baron von Munchhausen

Excellent stuff, many thanks. I'll definitely give this a try. Like you, I write the occasional book review. Not for much longer, I suspect. Thanks again, Andrew

What?

16 carriers involved, and only 13 hits on ships from aircraft. They were just all up there slaughtering each other.

I bought this game during the winter sale after having watched all your germany videos and being too impateint to wait for the new Thank you for traching me about such a cool game

Still saying Bloss und Vuhm. Never change Dickey

@RvT wargames Merry Christmas to you, my good sir. Thank for a lot of entertainment this year. ❤