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Looks like the FAA let us down in that battle off the coast of the UK, never mind, we'll get them next time.

Welp, this war should be interesting.

10:00 there was once a battle, if I remember correctly, where a pair of MTB squadrons sank a battle cruiser… in game, of course, and at night, but interesting nonetheless…

Seen all episodes so far. There is a reason your DDs won't cooperate. You need to order flotilla attack (drop the Black Flag in the OB section). Just thought I'd post that since you couldn't hear me yelling over the sound of the surf . . . Also, you badly need to take advantage of force reorganization before battle if you pass your command check. Finally, I strongly advise you to tweak your designs rather than just throw down another now-obsolete ship. (I got TONS of other advice if you are interested.)

Bro. You. NEED TO PUT "LETS PLAY" IN THE FUCKING TITLE, otherwise no one will find your vids. You gave old youtube nostslgia ❤

And the struggle for more funding continues. When it comes to building ships at the request of the prime minister the game is quite smart. You can lay down the ships and halt their construction, but you have to keep them all building in the turn when the project is evaluated. Afterwards you can once again pause construction, but you can't scrap them unless a war happens to break out which cancels all restrictions. I pretty much always agree to the submarine construction requests. They're rarely a priority but I find in most cases the extra budget covers most if not even more of the construction cost when you go for the cheap option with coastal submarines.

Give peace a chance, man, lol

Ahh, my comment vanished when I refreshed. Nice victory, though looking at the global tonnage now that the uninvolved AI nations got multiple years to build up their fleets hurts. Now, Britain is in 5th place after Germany, the US, Japan and even the French. Not only that, of the 10 available British capital ships, only 3 got 14" guns and the rest puny 12" peashooters. Safe to say that the surface fleet is in urgent need of recapitalization, pun intended. At least the carrier fleet is looking decent.

21:34 POV: You are Germany in either world war

At this rate, you’ll need a mass capital ship building program just to keep the heavy ship force relevant

The AI sometimes really is just: I RECEIVE [1 Fleet Carrier] YOU RECEIVE [2 Destroyers] ACCEPT?

Good job taking Panama, if the AI is smart, it will go nuts trying to take it back.

9:03 fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. fool me three times, uhhhh…

Thank you for naming another ship after me, admiral Janda.

About torpedo shots from seemingly out of range: You have to keep in mind that the AI isn't aiming at where a ship is but where a ship will be when the torpedo is supposed to reach the ship. So especially at long range when you are chasing the AI, it might have a firing solution even when it seems you're out of range.

That destroyer’s crew must’ve been devastated when they saw New Zealand coming back for round 2

Are you playing on rear admiral mode, admiral Janda?

TPS4 is one of the techs that has an unlock chance and isn't guaranteed to be there each run. The first battlecruiser had sloped deck instead off all-or-nothing which is why it was so much heavier.

I like your destroyer design; it seems like it will make a good general-purpose ship.

Ah yes, Spain. The renowned 20th Century naval power, coming to rescue the minuscule and inferior Royal Navy!

Ouch. Losing two out of three 14" armed battlecruisers almost back to back hurts. Losing Lion sucks, but being hit by four torpedoes up close at night is just bad luck. However, I too didn't expect the Australia would sink so quickly. She took the first hit at 50 minutes. At 175 minutes her structure was basically gone after 18 15" hits, so the subsequent hits made her take more and more flotation damage until she sank at 218 minutes after 28 15" shell hits. There were a couple of hits to the engine room, but overall nothing stands out in particular. Sinking after 28 hits doesn't seem too crazy, but I've also seen plenty of ships survive that level of punishment with more or less the same tonnage and armor.

RIP HMS Lion, we won't forget you. To be fair, if the AI's pathfinding was better, I dare say that enemy fleet would have made it safely to port.

I think the AI still needs some work, your CL's should have done a better job of staying in front of your CA's during this fight. That's my only real complaint with this game, if they can improve the AI a little the game would be perfect.

Always with the cursed looking ships😂

Your destroyer captains must have balls of steel, admiral Janda. I expect nothing less from the Royal Navy however.

9:25 Perhaps the airmen added a few ‘0’s onto the tonnage. After all, they all mean “nothing”, right?

It looks like this war may be the fleetbreaker. Only one major power will stay major by the end of this war. Good luck!

9:55 I don’t think that’s how you make more ships…

Hell yeah. Always love these fleet reviews. Shame that the 1920s one skipped the battleships but oh well. On interwar CLs: I also didn't like them at first, but nowadays I actually appreciate them quite a bit. Since they're light cruisers instead of protected cruisers you get a much better armor layout (flat deck on belt or even sloped) and if you can cram TDS in you get a lot more protection than even large protected cruisers. The 6" single turrets become outdated relatively quickly since you can build twin turret CLs in the 1920s already, but heavier designs like the Surcouf are relatively competitive for a while. What I like to do is give them a midlife refit to 5" DP twin gun turrets. That way you squeeze the maximum value out of them and get capable heavy AA cruisers that still slaughter destroyers, and can is probably better than before vs CLs too even after downsizing the caliber (With a modernized turret setup you'll look at 4 5"-DP guns firing straight forward or backward vs 2 6" guns. Only on mostly broadside situations do you lose a bit of performance). Also on the Sinop, I think 6" is still considered to be small caliber so it also gets the bonus against destroyers. And in a world of mostly 12" battleships 9-10" armor belts hold up a lot better than they usually do. I also like the Japanese 6 14" style budget battlecruisers. 14" guns really have a lot more stopping power and range than 12", especially once taking 10"+ armor belts into account.

Ahhh yes. I do enjoy a 2 and a half hour long video essay as part bedtime routine…

Are you able to change the font size? It's impossible to read most text ...

10:56 Have you been listening to my calls with my mum?

Thanks for naming a ship after me Admiral, it's much appreciated👍

I believe you may be able to cheat on your treaty limitations somewhat. I think I read that in the manual or patch notes.

I am fairly sure that “Colonial Service” is a x1.5 multiplier to Foreign Tonnage fulfilment

God damn politics, me thinks a petition to his majesty is in order. Maybe that will get us out of the naval treaty!

Thus video is honestly an IRL example of how the UK navy feels about the politicians

16:54 Classic UK military moment

16:44 the brilliance of British torpedo crews are unmatched, clearly

not the bridge turret🥲

26:16 it appears HMS Ruby was going to invade Iceland herself

Russian fire control must really suck.

PrivateLsd reporting for duty, admiral Janda. Keep up the good work with this series, you've inspired me to start my own USA campaign and to stick with it even though I've no idea what I'm doing, lol.

17:42 either the Admiralty is REALLY bad at learning from their lessons, or the Russians have got some teleportation technology…

Keep up the good work, Admiral Janda. It's a shame we have to babysit the army transports but it is what it is I guess.

The life of the Merchant Navy must be seen pretty dire every time the navy fails to learn their lesson!

Screw the army, right admiral?

You may have figured this out by now, but Flotilla Attack is a whole force action. If you were playing on Captain's mode rather than Rear Admiral, you could individually order vessels to fire torpedoes. The Flotilla Attack button is if you right click the force and it's in the same menu as full retreat

27:40 like a parent and a grumpy baby 😂

Why do you keep using the mouse pointer button to set a new course instead of shift-clicking?