I rewatched those episodes the other day. Goddamn that thing just ran the table on the USN. And the design process didn't LOOK like a cataclysm-gone-swimming, but damned if it wasn't just carved out of an ingot of steel. Like John Wick had a very nautical daughter. Glorious. Uchuu Senkan Exporto!
"Are you suggesting the Military Industrial Complex fans the flames of war in order to benefit from it? That would be crazy; why would I suggest such a thing?" - a former analyst with years of experience dealing with the MIC and its "antics".
2 Ultimate Admiral videos within a day? A very welcome surprise! Thanks Tex, I've been enjoying the series a lot. Learn a bit of history as well in a way that is more engaging than it was in school.
It's all about the story teller, not the story. Tex know how to tell the story... That, or we are a bunch of weirdos. I hope it's a bit of colomn A and bit of column B.
for the weight: the most important part of weight offset is the engine location (the red box on the ship diagram on the left)-this is determined by where you place the funnels-Tex put them way at the front for the SPESSBOTE, with the sole funnel at the front, so much so that the front of the boiler spaces isn't protected by the main belt but instead by the 3 inch foreward belt
Tex is also either unaware that you can, or is opposed to, putting the funnel behind the rear tower. Which is really handy for balancing little boats with all their big guns in the front.
And that's why he's a historian, not a ship designer. For every EXPORTO he puts out, he also has moments where he decides looking at the UI is for cowards, and that's part of the charm.
love Tex sailing right into knife-fight range with a bunch of cruisers and torpedo boats and being annoyed the French had the temerity to launch torpedos at him
@@Deridus if you design a good hull it can last generations in refits. I had a battleship made in 1906 last over 40 years and had to decommission them because they could no longer handle modern threats. Ideally and realistically you want a hull to last between 20 to 40 years.
@@eddapultstab2078 Oh, how well I know. I love having my 1890's German BB's carrying 18" guns with radar in the '40s. There's a small refit exploit that I like to use which allows me to have quite a few more BB's than the opponents. If anything, I frequently have more ships than I can crew.
@@Deridus same on crew shortages, by late game I'm building dozens of destroyers and light cruisers at a time and that eats the pool fast but plugging the dock yards with battle cruisers and larger gives time to rebuild the pool only to build more light ships.
@@eddapultstab2078 Ain't that the truth. I can afford to build three times my dockyard space, as it's worth it if you can can afford double or more. I just wish there was a way in increase our crew pool faster, especially for Austro-Hungary and Spain.
1:07:30 Tex, you don't want Japanese steel katanas. Japan doesn't have any iron mines, they had to refine it from sand, and the folding thing was to eventually distribute the imperfections lest the sword snap in half. No one else "folded their blades 1,000 times" *because no one else needed to*
Good Japanese steel exists in extremely Iimited amounts, but yeah, their swords are overrated. It's always the soldier wielding it, the armor of the opponent, and how crazy either of them are.
i mean the techniques were still pretty cool stuff - it was making really poor quality iron work for forging steel swords... they absolutely were nowhere near the quality of proper springsteel, but they were pretty damn good for the crap they were made from gotta work with the materials you got right?
Making Japanese swords out of bloom steel could be considered 'doing it the very hard way' simply because the tamahagane produced was at some pretty outrageously inefficient ways of both making and refining it. Like I love metalworking with old wrought iron, the artisanal carbon steels and fiddling around with antiquated processes involving an idiot with fire and a hammer. But that's no way to arm your defense forces! There's a reason people went mad for crucible and bessemer processes because it meant they had not only something that was guaranteed to be what it was sold as, but it was also a uniform product that did what it said on the ingot. One thing that I find a bit annoying is the somewhat over-hyped nature of pre-modern Japanese steels Europe had and still has some of the worlds best iron and steel workers since the early middle ages, the steels produced in Sweden, Germany, Austria and Britain are still world class products with the Italians, French and Spanish in particular having a very distinguished manufacturing of cutlery, swords and other products. Heck, anyone running around from the 1700's on probably had a blade on their hip made in one of the big European cutlery centres and they sold them all over the world from Africa to South America.
European sword blades were also folded during early stages of forging all the way up to the 18th century. because it was a necessary part of the process all the way up past the development of the Bessemer converter. It was pretty much universal, not exclusive to japan. Nor were any swords folded 1,000 times. They were folded 7-10 times, which will result in 1,000 *layers*. 1000 folds would result in delamination.
Yeah those ships could have reeked havoc for 10 to 20 years under periodic upgrades. In 5 years technology would have allowed him to upgrade to 12 inch guns and for that time he would have mollywhopped battleships and smaller in that era.
Wow, what a great cliff hanger. I don't know why, but Tex talking about the Navy being the "shadow government" had me rolling with laughter. We didn't deserve this series; but we 100% are thankful for it! o7
Good job on the little guy giving Japan one heck of a phyric victory. Lol, the fact that any survived against a battleship with their entire 1" of armor. Magnific
Watching tex make boats while I know nothing about naval design convention is pretty fun. He says "this is cursed" or " I know some of you are screaming..." I'm I'm just here like "seems fine to me".
Awesome overload! AWESOME OVERLOAD!! I feel royally spoiled to get so much in a single day to watch! This couldn't be at a better time I'm stuck at home because my car just stopped wanting to do car things.
In this installment Prof Tex takes on, for the most part, the entire Japanese fleet consisting of two BB class and multiple Cruisers from heavy to light, DD and TP boats with Fat Len and his twin brother. While Tex's large formation of CL thanks to AI control do pretty much nothing. Yet Fat Lenny and his brother come out swinging sinking the entire Japanese fleet by themselves in fierce exchanges of gun fire. Although damaged the class of the Fat lives on to fight another day Lenny himself taking a serious pounding that left him and all onboard less than half way from a watery grave. What a glorious display of just how important it is to stay up to date as best as possible with tech and to overbuild a few special tools for your tool box, war chest if you will. This holds true in this game as well as the great game of the real world with those who seek power and greed over everything else including the well being of their own. Thx Tex and BPL for another installment of this game, truly entertaining but also educational with the comments of a true history aficionado in the studied Prof Tex. Take care and God Bless...
I could see an autocrat adm Tex sending a letter to his third favorite cousin ruling France about how their navy lacked enthusiasm by taking too long to sink one of Russias newest ships.
Memes aside, the Japanese military once paraded, yes, PARADED through Spain. Imagine if there had been just one Japanese warship not named Kamchatka...
I did a Spain run. I started in 1890 so I still had Cuba and the Philippines. It was VERY hard not getting curb stomped by the USA. But it worked, in the end. Much harder than Italy or China even.
- There should be a naval tradition of turning a ship over to it's captain/crew when it's decommissioned, and they can do what they want with it. And then they can become military contractors, modern privateers. 😂
hey mr tex, sir grunk of the aux here. Idea for the next one: china playthrough where every ship you build is a copy of another nations. Discount Tans house of soap and warships! (dojo channel reference)
For giggles I started an 1890 Japan game last night, built my navy and immediately provoked China. 10 Heavy cruisers and 10 Light Cruisers running screen, scrubbed 36 ships, half China's starting navy, 2 BB's to 12 TB's and all classes in-between, from the water while only losing 2 CL's, probably because i forgot to give them torpedoes. I just circled them like sharks firing into the middle. It was glorious, and then the game crashed trying to get to the map screen, like it couldn't come to terms with what i'd done. My absolute victory was so heinous the game must've deleted the RNG seed because every attempt to re-create that slaughter was to my detriment. In five turns I was fired, my fleet gone and my invasion broken.
dammit...while I appreciate the joy that you all feel for 2 videos in one day, please understand that Tex saving (inserted woe begotten navy here)...yall need to understand that this is how i start my Sunday...tall mug of coffee 4x4, and Tex...sigh now i need to fire up the Keurig at 10:20 PM on a sunday...I'm sure my boss will understand...
TWO videos in 24 hours? Tex, are you doing the not sleeping thing again? But I certainly can't complain about more Naval shenanigans 🙌 ALL SHIPS MAKE SMONK!!💨💨💨💨💨
*And we'll just blockade them if they don't want to fight."* We ne'er see the foe but we wish them to stay / They ne'er see us, but they shout WHAT THE FUCK?!?
I wish we could play smaller nations, like Greece, Turkey, Persia, and Thailand in particular, but there's always the Danes, Dutch, and Portuguese, and the South American Drednoughts.
goddamnit Tex, it always hurts me seeing you drive your ships that have range and speed advantage into knife fighting ranges, where your advantage is almost no more, and also will get torped constantly ... i weep for your poor ships and sailors
To Tex and any other history folks - I've almost finished Massie's "Castles of Steel" and finished "Dreadnought" already - does anyone have recommendation of other works of that caliber? I didn't think I'd be into it, but I'm actually sad to realize I only have 10 hours left (out of 40) in the second book! Side note - man, I knew NOTHING about WW1 before these books!
Seafood... er, sifu Tex, you seemed to be doing so well. The Widdle was just awful. What happened to ocean-going DD, like maybe giant Okhotnik? They could not really explode any faster, after all.
"I make Okay Ships"
Humble words from the creator of EXPORTO, the Fleet killer
I rewatched those episodes the other day. Goddamn that thing just ran the table on the USN. And the design process didn't LOOK like a cataclysm-gone-swimming, but damned if it wasn't just carved out of an ingot of steel. Like John Wick had a very nautical daughter. Glorious.
Uchuu Senkan Exporto!
What do you want to bet that Exporto's captain was a former Krieg Lieutenant . . . . .
"Are you suggesting the Military Industrial Complex fans the flames of war in order to benefit from it? That would be crazy; why would I suggest such a thing?" - a former analyst with years of experience dealing with the MIC and its "antics".
The way Tex drives these ships the only tech he really needs are ramming bows, torpedoes, and cutlasses.
2 Ultimate Admiral videos within a day? A very welcome surprise! Thanks Tex, I've been enjoying the series a lot. Learn a bit of history as well in a way that is more engaging than it was in school.
It's all about the story teller, not the story. Tex know how to tell the story...
That, or we are a bunch of weirdos. I hope it's a bit of colomn A and bit of column B.
@@Deridus definitely both
@@Deridus Definitely both.
for the weight: the most important part of weight offset is the engine location (the red box on the ship diagram on the left)-this is determined by where you place the funnels-Tex put them way at the front for the SPESSBOTE, with the sole funnel at the front, so much so that the front of the boiler spaces isn't protected by the main belt but instead by the 3 inch foreward belt
Tex is also either unaware that you can, or is opposed to, putting the funnel behind the rear tower. Which is really handy for balancing little boats with all their big guns in the front.
And that's why he's a historian, not a ship designer. For every EXPORTO he puts out, he also has moments where he decides looking at the UI is for cowards, and that's part of the charm.
love Tex sailing right into knife-fight range with a bunch of cruisers and torpedo boats and being annoyed the French had the temerity to launch torpedos at him
Add to the list of nautical sins committed in this game, a 30 knot battlecruiser in 1902.
I managed to get a Modern BB1 in 1915 in my last German playthrough. Since I abuse the refit system, I had over a hundred of 'em by 1954.
@@Deridus if you design a good hull it can last generations in refits. I had a battleship made in 1906 last over 40 years and had to decommission them because they could no longer handle modern threats. Ideally and realistically you want a hull to last between 20 to 40 years.
@@eddapultstab2078 Oh, how well I know. I love having my 1890's German BB's carrying 18" guns with radar in the '40s. There's a small refit exploit that I like to use which allows me to have quite a few more BB's than the opponents. If anything, I frequently have more ships than I can crew.
@@Deridus same on crew shortages, by late game I'm building dozens of destroyers and light cruisers at a time and that eats the pool fast but plugging the dock yards with battle cruisers and larger gives time to rebuild the pool only to build more light ships.
@@eddapultstab2078 Ain't that the truth. I can afford to build three times my dockyard space, as it's worth it if you can can afford double or more. I just wish there was a way in increase our crew pool faster, especially for Austro-Hungary and Spain.
1:07:30 Tex, you don't want Japanese steel katanas. Japan doesn't have any iron mines, they had to refine it from sand, and the folding thing was to eventually distribute the imperfections lest the sword snap in half.
No one else "folded their blades 1,000 times" *because no one else needed to*
Good Japanese steel exists in extremely Iimited amounts, but yeah, their swords are overrated. It's always the soldier wielding it, the armor of the opponent, and how crazy either of them are.
i mean the techniques were still pretty cool stuff - it was making really poor quality iron work for forging steel swords... they absolutely were nowhere near the quality of proper springsteel, but they were pretty damn good for the crap they were made from
gotta work with the materials you got right?
@@SharienGaming True, that. You have to admire the skill, if nothing else.
Making Japanese swords out of bloom steel could be considered 'doing it the very hard way' simply because the tamahagane produced was at some pretty outrageously inefficient ways of both making and refining it. Like I love metalworking with old wrought iron, the artisanal carbon steels and fiddling around with antiquated processes involving an idiot with fire and a hammer. But that's no way to arm your defense forces! There's a reason people went mad for crucible and bessemer processes because it meant they had not only something that was guaranteed to be what it was sold as, but it was also a uniform product that did what it said on the ingot.
One thing that I find a bit annoying is the somewhat over-hyped nature of pre-modern Japanese steels
Europe had and still has some of the worlds best iron and steel workers since the early middle ages, the steels produced in Sweden, Germany, Austria and Britain are still world class products with the Italians, French and Spanish in particular having a very distinguished manufacturing of cutlery, swords and other products. Heck, anyone running around from the 1700's on probably had a blade on their hip made in one of the big European cutlery centres and they sold them all over the world from Africa to South America.
European sword blades were also folded during early stages of forging all the way up to the 18th century. because it was a necessary part of the process all the way up past the development of the Bessemer converter.
It was pretty much universal, not exclusive to japan.
Nor were any swords folded 1,000 times. They were folded 7-10 times, which will result in 1,000 *layers*. 1000 folds would result in delamination.
"You are making my yard workers do work!" No the drunk admiral driving BCs straight at the CAs is giving the yard work.
🤫🤣 Smonk bank goes CHOO CHOOOOOOO!
Imagine how much of a enomonic depression there would be with that large a number of coal engines suddenly not using coal.
I just love the fckin bath toy light cruisers just minigunning down everything in front of em
Me: saying "YES!" and laughing maniacally
Tex: "Some of you are probably screaming no"
The "Fat Leonard" paid off the ocean so that it wouldn't sink!
Two in one day!? It's Christmas
Christmas shaped, some would even say Christmas themed.
Dare I say a Christmas factor of seven
*Crit-mass😉
Just as long as that Christmas doesn't have a Dr. in front of it.
And it'd not ev3n July anymore
The Kursk at 16:37? The one that was at 5% Buoyancy? Yeah, it's lightly damaged. What a goddamn Zombie of a ship.
It wasn't very damaged; it just had a lot of water come in through the relatively few holes in the hull.
I'm a simple man. I ended previous day with a boat video, I begin this day with a boat video. I'm happy. Thanks guys.
You're best off keeping those "Light Cruisers" for as long as possible. They are some amazing ships.
Yeah those ships could have reeked havoc for 10 to 20 years under periodic upgrades. In 5 years technology would have allowed him to upgrade to 12 inch guns and for that time he would have mollywhopped battleships and smaller in that era.
your spoiling us tex two in one weekend
Please continue doing so!
*checks Calendar for the occasion* Happy... Civic Holiday in Canada?
Citizen, are you enjoying "State ordered celebratory mandate # 68305"? Reminder that not enjoying it is a civil offense!
Wow, what a great cliff hanger.
I don't know why, but Tex talking about the Navy being the "shadow government" had me rolling with laughter.
We didn't deserve this series; but we 100% are thankful for it! o7
Good job on the little guy giving Japan one heck of a phyric victory. Lol, the fact that any survived against a battleship with their entire 1" of armor. Magnific
Watching tex make boats while I know nothing about naval design convention is pretty fun. He says "this is cursed" or " I know some of you are screaming..." I'm I'm just here like "seems fine to me".
2 Katyushas in a day? Tex turned himself into an MLRS!
Awesome overload! AWESOME OVERLOAD!! I feel royally spoiled to get so much in a single day to watch! This couldn't be at a better time I'm stuck at home because my car just stopped wanting to do car things.
In this episode Tex learns why people love things like the Panther.
"Short vicious war" reverse uno.
For the crime of keeping Tex's dockyard workers employed, your fleet must perish!
Monday morning and a boating video with my coffee! Hoorayski!
In this installment Prof Tex takes on, for the most part, the entire Japanese fleet consisting of two BB class and multiple Cruisers from heavy to light, DD and TP boats with Fat Len and his twin brother. While Tex's large formation of CL thanks to AI control do pretty much nothing. Yet Fat Lenny and his brother come out swinging sinking the entire Japanese fleet by themselves in fierce exchanges of gun fire. Although damaged the class of the Fat lives on to fight another day Lenny himself taking a serious pounding that left him and all onboard less than half way from a watery grave. What a glorious display of just how important it is to stay up to date as best as possible with tech and to overbuild a few special tools for your tool box, war chest if you will.
This holds true in this game as well as the great game of the real world with those who seek power and greed over everything else including the well being of their own.
Thx Tex and BPL for another installment of this game, truly entertaining but also educational with the comments of a true history aficionado in the studied Prof Tex.
Take care and God Bless...
"Always upwards!"
*nervous shuffling* "Uhm...sir? We're 5he navy, not the airforce."
Never doubt Tex's ability to take a fast, long range ship and drive it straight into torpedo range.
Good will hunting reference seen and appreciated tex. It is noted
I like how Tex accidentally designed the New Orleans Class of "Light Cruiser"
I could see an autocrat adm Tex sending a letter to his third favorite cousin ruling France about how their navy lacked enthusiasm by taking too long to sink one of Russias newest ships.
In Mother Russia, boat sails you.
are those japaneese torpedo boats in the black sea at 3:12?
Memes aside, the Japanese military once paraded, yes, PARADED through Spain. Imagine if there had been just one Japanese warship not named Kamchatka...
I did a Spain run. I started in 1890 so I still had Cuba and the Philippines. It was VERY hard not getting curb stomped by the USA. But it worked, in the end. Much harder than Italy or China even.
Yes!!!! Early christmas! Thanks Tex, between this and that boat crew, I now have a desire to play boat shaped object games!
Man, I love this whole series with no knowledge of boats, ships or navies
TWICE IN A WEEKEND! Awesome
- There should be a naval tradition of turning a ship over to it's captain/crew when it's decommissioned, and they can do what they want with it. And then they can become military contractors, modern privateers. 😂
"I design boats okay..sometimes.." ahh the Exporto, legendary ship designed to be crap for sale
hey mr tex, sir grunk of the aux here. Idea for the next one: china playthrough where every ship you build is a copy of another nations. Discount Tans house of soap and warships! (dojo channel reference)
Tex: "You know that Tex vid that he called it his hubris."
Me: "So half or so of your UAD vids?"
The Legend gives us two UAD videos in a row. Today was a good day.
Enjoying some laughter after breaking my arm in two places. The best of medicine.
I just got some putty tang and you uploaded another video today man I love today. Thank you.
56:53 It's like the Sendai-class reincarnated as Heavy Cruisers
Remember huge numbers of ok machines will win out over small numbers of exceptional machines.
For giggles I started an 1890 Japan game last night, built my navy and immediately provoked China. 10 Heavy cruisers and 10 Light Cruisers running screen, scrubbed 36 ships, half China's starting navy, 2 BB's to 12 TB's and all classes in-between, from the water while only losing 2 CL's, probably because i forgot to give them torpedoes. I just circled them like sharks firing into the middle. It was glorious, and then the game crashed trying to get to the map screen, like it couldn't come to terms with what i'd done.
My absolute victory was so heinous the game must've deleted the RNG seed because every attempt to re-create that slaughter was to my detriment. In five turns I was fired, my fleet gone and my invasion broken.
dammit...while I appreciate the joy that you all feel for 2 videos in one day, please understand that Tex saving (inserted woe begotten navy here)...yall need to understand that this is how i start my Sunday...tall mug of coffee 4x4, and Tex...sigh now i need to fire up the Keurig at 10:20 PM on a sunday...I'm sure my boss will understand...
Mister President, a second Tex UA:D video has been uploaded.
A gosh dang double header! Not sure im ready for this!
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Yes
Vibe and a half
Watching Tex for an Hour and a Half
Tex, doesn't that German map man look like the DKoK guardsman dancing to Vengaboys "Boom Boom"-song by Janovich...😂
Now I can't unsee it. Nice!
@@Deridus you're wellcome!
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERES MOAR BOTE? Hell Yeah!
how do you like.. "I apples" fucking funny though
Ahh, sudden boating jumpscare!
Wait what!?!?
2 episodes??
Huzzah!!
The Tzar is good!!
I thought I was supposed to abed. The Tsar has spoken otherwise. I attend!
TWO videos in 24 hours? Tex, are you doing the not sleeping thing again?
But I certainly can't complain about more Naval shenanigans 🙌
ALL SHIPS MAKE SMONK!!💨💨💨💨💨
Come at me again, and I shall taunt at you a second time.
You don't have to say "Amaris" your nobles with a navel coup when "Romanov" works just fine.
Love this series so much
Oh, I'm crazy. Crazy like a fox.
Tex really has a burning love for the Kongo, huh? Damn the French...
its that time of the century, you know when germany gets uppity
"I want to get the tsar into the 50s" NGL, Atomic Tsar is one helluva anime title. Russo-Japanese anime? Russime?
You want the French Congo? Sounds like you should send a gunboat to Morocco!
Multiplayer next week says the devs @The Black Pants Legion
So much boatin, so little time.
"It displeases the autism. I must sink it."
:D
wow Japan suddenly acting like Draconis Combine in this game and by that of course I mean acting like Japan
So Blackadder was right, The Germans really DID only have a sausage factory in Tanganyika.
*And we'll just blockade them if they don't want to fight."* We ne'er see the foe but we wish them to stay / They ne'er see us, but they shout WHAT THE FUCK?!?
He's just a wittle guy! 😢 😂
A Tex-book example of why autocratic governments fail. Graft 101.
Tex, please let us see the abominable ships that the AI commissions into their navies.
Do a Canada one next where we can lose to Liechtenstein!
I wish we could play smaller nations, like Greece, Turkey, Persia, and Thailand in particular, but there's always the Danes, Dutch, and Portuguese, and the South American Drednoughts.
I have never liked the peace treaty system as it really undermines just how badly you have beaten the other nation.
I figured since you’re doing the Russian Playthru maybe we can get you to talk about the hundred year old Sub tender that the Russians have
goddamnit Tex, it always hurts me seeing you drive your ships that have range and speed advantage into knife fighting ranges, where your advantage is almost no more, and also will get torped constantly ... i weep for your poor ships and sailors
Wow, twice in one day?!?
Russian cruisers getting killed by getting citadel'd through the bow? You can really tell this isn't WOWs
To Tex and any other history folks - I've almost finished Massie's "Castles of Steel" and finished "Dreadnought" already - does anyone have recommendation of other works of that caliber? I didn't think I'd be into it, but I'm actually sad to realize I only have 10 hours left (out of 40) in the second book!
Side note - man, I knew NOTHING about WW1 before these books!
- Does the smonk stak determine where the engine is? If so, I'm guessing that is causing the offset. 1:30:00
Prussians draw literal Chad guy in Africa xD
Seafood... er, sifu Tex, you seemed to be doing so well. The Widdle was just awful. What happened to ocean-going DD, like maybe giant Okhotnik? They could not really explode any faster, after all.
for the love of god tex stop driving the fast shooty boat IN CLOSE to the torpedo armed shit, its nerve wracking
This post
Like Umgak in the forge
It's a wonderful day!
Maybe check 2 tube torp launchers when 3 tubes doesn't fit where you envisioned it?
Huh what? I thought this to be a lucid dream... two UA:D uploads!? In one week!? IN ONE DAY!? HUH!?
w/e, I'm here to witness the madness Tex brews.
Tex, you spoil us =D
Just in case anyone is wondering it's at 50:00
It's not stupid if it work's. Inspired, ingenious, bat shit crazy, but who cares it worked. So on to the next what can I invade today on the list.
Been getting into and bumbling my way through my first playthrough thanks to you. I love thebrandom history and Military procurement asides.
2 in 24 hours. How did we get so lucky
34% frontal offset on the heavy CA.
Idk Far Eastern Orthodox Japan sounds hilarious.
Little Guy and Exporto