KptzS = Kapitan zur See [high sea captain] FKpt = Fregatten Kapitan [Frigate captain] the commanding officer ranks in the imperial german navy were in order from lowest to highest Kapitänleutnant - Captain Lieutenant (lieutenant with a command, genarlly smaller units like TBs, KEs and subs; the shortened version "Kaleun" is famous because of the silent hunter games) Korvettenkapitän - Korvette Captain (in command of smaller units and DDs) Fregattenkapitän - Frigate Captain (in command of bigger ships CLs, some CAs, and DD flotillas) Kapitän zur See - High seas Captain (in command of capital ships, bigger CAs, BCs, BBs, any kind of aviation carrier, except maybe AVs)
Diary of Karl Zietsler March 27th 1890 My boyhood days are officially behind me as of now. Though my father had to force me to go, I have completed my basic training for the Kaiser's navy. These last months have taught me valuable lessons in resourcefulness and honor. My mother laments the fact it will be some time before I can visit in my uniform and celebrate this occasion. And mother is not the only woman known to me that appreciates a man in uniform. I have been assigned to a ship as well. The KMS Delphe, a Corvette. While her size and guns may not be the most imposing, we have been assured our role in protecting the fatherland is vital. Hopefully, when construction is finished we will be assigned a station in a far-flung land of mystery and adventure. Though I will not hold my breath. Karl Zietsler
(AN: Might be retconned by future episodes, events, battles, and the like . . . but-) September 1890 ???? My earliest memories were surrounded by the lake- My older brother, me and my father- a canoe out on the lake during the crack of dawn . . . It was a truly majestic sight, and I would always remember it - we brought Tackles and bait- a small fishing trip, it was supposed to be. For most of the trip- it was. We caught a few fish- I even caught a rather big one myself, nearly having fallen out of the boat in an attempt to hold onto the line. I would always remember how the encouraging words quickly turned to panic- We had a good laugh on the way back at the silliness of it all. I remembered the slightly warmer air as we pulled into the dock- I remembered my fathers promise to prepare a nice hot water bath for us - That our mother would make a wonderful dinner from the fish we had caught. We pulled the canoe to the boat house - our muscles ached heavily, but we still bore grins on our face . . . Then we got home. Was it any surprise, then, that I would remember the crying face of my mother- the furrowed brows of my father, the conflicted look in my brothers eyes, and the confused face of my younger sister, to young to understand why everyone was so distressed? I remembered staying up late, stupidly being disappointed at the lack of a warm bath and a hot dinner, hearing my father angrily pacing across the living room downstairs ranting about how “That (something I couldn’t remember) was not a Peace. It was an Armistice for twenty years.” I didn’t know that I _used_ to have an uncle - He didn’t talk about him much. I didn’t know then that my father and my uncle had a falling out. Uncle enlisted in the Army when the war came- He had called father a “coward” for enlisting in the navy. They never got the chance to apologize to each other. It seemed obvious something was going to happen in hindsight - the rise of a French Revanchism over Alsace Lorraine - the, at the time, rather exaggerated fears over the recent laying down of a new trio of German “Panzerschiffes” - Yet even after a moderate expansion of armoured corvettes things did not really seem to get worse. Some Events in the Balkan didn’t help much, and the selling of weapons in order to help _pay_ for the cruisers only served to stew the pot a bit. Yet the tipping point appeared when the announcement of a new design of fast, protected gun cruisers came to light? Their seemed to be only one purpose in the eyes of the French . . . To either break a possible blockade - or . . . bypass it entirely to raid the very critical supply lines that kept vital resources flowing into France. Revanchism and fear mongering over the cruisers filled the halls of discussion - anyone who _remembered_ or who were veterans speaking up about the disaster of the 1870’s? Were shunned for cowardice or accused of being traitors. So It was that day, I remembered, as being the days of uncertainty- would there be a war? Would my brother get called to fight? Would my father be drafted back into the navy? Being young, I was not the most observant - yet even I could tell the underlying tension that now existed between my father and brother. All I could feel back then, curling up in bed, was a selfish unhappiness, wondering why we didn’t have fish that night. Uncertainty about what would happen next never quite crossed my mind as I fell asleep that night.
It's funny to see how under the same looking interface you can already spot the new features they introduced. Can't wait to see more, especially battles and AI designs going forwards. Also love the added details for the ships.
@@LMDAA2LP Captain is the name most often given in English-speaking navies to the rank corresponding to command of the largest ships. The rank is equal to the army rank of colonel and air force rank of group captain Equivalent ranks worldwide include ship-of-the-line captain (e.g. France, Argentina, Spain), captain of sea and war (e.g. Brazil, Portugal), captain at sea (e.g. Germany, Netherlands) and "captain of the first rank" (Russia).
I'm super happy to see the AI Wars mod basically into the vanilla game. That mod was good, but it did not work well for me recently. It would just bug out and stop working, especially when i tried using it with your RTW2 autoresolve mod in the same game.
14:03 if you right click on the specific mount (port side if you have the asymmetric secondary mounts de-selected) you can change the position and rest angle of all the guns, this goes for the main guns, tertiary guns, missiles, torpedoes and floatplane catapults. It means you can make the pre dread's look super scary with all the guns pointing out lol
Unfortunately RtW will be a game series I will never pick up to play for myself, but I do enjoy watching people who are good at it and who have a lot of fun play it (although if I'm being honest, Tortuga is the only person I watch who plays it). Looking forward to how this campaign develops!
Off to a great start, I see. I know you don't often mess around with the ammo types, but it makes a big difference in early game. Throw a bunch of HE at the ships you cannot penetrate, and you'll light fires instead. It worked very well for the Japanese at Tsushima. Once armor penetration gets better you can shift back to the original loadouts and priorities, but until then load HE.
Shoot, I'm glad I found this channel. I just bought this game and I haven't even started it up yet. I've been reading the manual and planning to start as Germany so this is great. I can ape your first few turns to get myself a decent start and see what mayhem unfolds from there. The games you play are right up my alley. The algorithm has been good to me this day.
As promised - and as a Frenchie lover too - I express my utmost displeasure by liking this video in support of the French people facing the Hun aggression. Officially jealous as hell, now. May 18th cannot come fast enough.
Here we go lads! Been a long while since I checked in, congrats on the massive channel growth btw, glad to see you still playing RTW (albeit a couple of versions on from what I remember). Really looking forward to enjoying this series, and hopefully seeing a certain Battlecruiser so I can do some of the Captain's log-y stuff you mention. Good luck for the upcoming war with France!
Thanks for posting this, I didn't have RTW 3 on my radar as something happening soon -- but steam shows releasing on the 18th of May, so a happy surprise there! Will be watching this series closely as I can't wait to see the improvements over RTW 2.
@@michaelwilson5866 I know, amazing to not have to use a 1990s era website ordering process where a guy emails you a key (hopefully). Love them for this series but my god it was hard to get.
Looking forward to this! Absolutly loved your RtW2 Playthroughs. :) Gonna play Italy in my Playthrough on YT. 1890 Battleship designs really are something else. Also really hyped for missile action! :)
I heard it was coming, but haven't kept up with it except from that info. So I am very pleasantly surprised to see it suddenly pop up in my feed, cannot wait to see more of it.
I’ve been waiting so long for Rule the Waves to come back to the channel. Looking forward to the Spain campaign sometime in the future. Should be a good challenge once you get the hang of the features.
i spend a year away from YT and come back and the first thing I find is a new Tortuga RTW series. Can't promise much RP input, but will contribute occasionally when I can :)
Wettin would nicely fit into the category of ships known as coastal battleships. They were small and slow but much more heavily armed and armored than other ships of comparable size and were mostly used to protect coastal waters and ports.
I wonder if they added Spain in because they're in on UA Dreadnoughts, perhaps expecting new people possibly drawn into the genre by that game to expect Spain to be present.
I am very much looking forward to playing RtW3. Never played a RtW game before, so gaining some knowledge from your videos before I dive into the deep end :p
Im looking forward to watching this, over the weekend. I love the RTW series but I've not seen much from RTW 3's 1890 start and I've heard it has got some issues, so I'm curious to see how that start works out here.
So are we talking Kaiser Wilhelm the 3rd, The Last Kaiser of Germany? Glad to see the next installment in Rule The Waves series. ITs definitely not for everyone, but it does what it wants to do and does it well. I think they uploaded some videos about all the New Features on their RUclips channel. Those where MODS? Well clearly they where watching those Series and took notes. (Possibly, Probably)
I just purchased this last night, with Christmas money. I could have purchased anything...it was this, Baldur's Gate 3, Old World, Distant Worlds 2, or the new Master of Magic. Dude..don't let me down, I'm counting on your help to learn this beast!!!
The 5300tm and 7100tm battleships maybe are better described as second class turreted ironclads? a bit like smaller Victoria or Imperator Aleksandr II ironclads
Happy to see another RTW series, and RTW3 to boot. The one thing I had hoped to see with 3 is a dark colour palette, so a bit disappointed about that, but looking forward to the rest of it all the same.
September 1890, outskirts of Berlin Scraps of dying daylight struggled through the tall window gaining barely any purchase in the gloomy interior of the room. The décor was high-class, if on the austere side. Cabinets and shelves were stacked with dry treatises on politics and war. Tables groaned under leather-bound folders of documents of state. A permanent haze of tobacco smoke hung in the air. This was a very Prussian office, one suited for an important government functionary. A place where influential people would sometimes meet. This evening was one of those occasions. -Well, gentlemen. It seems, I won our little bet. -Quite. Still, for the Kaiser to appoint von Torturpitz... The man knows nothing of the navy. -You do know His Highness madly loves his cavalry, and our new admiral led quite the gallant charge at the previous grand manoeuvrers. He was bound to be promoted somewhere, the navy just happened to draw the short straw. Sour silence filled the room for a while. -Right then. Hans, present the situation please. -Sir. My lords. We are all but at war with France. Mobilization orders are being issued as we speak. Involvement of a third party in the conflict is unlikely, even if tensions with the British remain uncomfortably elevated. All ships of the fleet are operational. Crews are of fair quality. Germany shall prevail! -Yes, yes. Quite. You are dismissed. Everyone present watched the aide leave in silence. Once the door slammed shut, a figure spoke. -War, eh? How did we get here again? -Well, there was that… speech. -”The freedom of the sea is threatened by the imperialist aspirations of French Republic!”, he said. Damn the man. At least he had enough sense not to poke the English. -To be fair to Torturpitz, the Balkan crisis didn’t help and he did try to de-escalate lately… -Pah! There’s always a crisis in the Balkans. This war didn’t need to happen now. It is to early, we are not ready yet. How do we line up against them? -Their battle line is superior, in number, tonnage, and broadside weight. We do have an edge in cruisers though. There is a path to a good outcome there, if we just… nudge our new glorious leader into taking the correct engagements. People present mulled over this in silence for a bit. -Speaking of cruisers, I heard our man requested new designs to be laid down? -Indeed. The technical department is at wits end. A machine gun cruiser. A new armoured cruiser even though we have a proven good design in Hertha. And Von Torturpitz even said he liked Hertha! At least there is that new corvette order, competently uncontroversial. -I see. How was that new cruiser christened? Volgaland? -Oh, yes. It is almost like we are provoking the Tzar on purpose, no? -Almost. It seems there are interesting times ahead of us. Well, then gentlemen, let us return to our duties. We have an admiral to manage and a war to win. God willing.
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KptzS = Kapitan zur See [high sea captain]
FKpt = Fregatten Kapitan [Frigate captain]
the commanding officer ranks in the imperial german navy were in order from lowest to highest
Kapitänleutnant - Captain Lieutenant (lieutenant with a command, genarlly smaller units like TBs, KEs and subs; the shortened version "Kaleun" is famous because of the silent hunter games)
Korvettenkapitän - Korvette Captain (in command of smaller units and DDs)
Fregattenkapitän - Frigate Captain (in command of bigger ships CLs, some CAs, and DD flotillas)
Kapitän zur See - High seas Captain (in command of capital ships, bigger CAs, BCs, BBs, any kind of aviation carrier, except maybe AVs)
Ahh, thank you. You saved me some googling.
Do you know the Japanese ones? i have started a Japanese campaign
Not even one episode in as Germany and your already provoking France. Classic
von Torturpitz can't help himself
Why mess with tradition?
There is no day which is a bad day to remind people that it is wrong to be French.
Gaulia Delenda Est
I'm SO forking excited for this.
I was so happy i jumped up and down and my peg leg got stuck in a knot hole and then my parrot took off stealing my eye patch!
Same! Time to blow up British ship in HoI4 to celebrate!
Gotta love being… SPOON fed videos!
Diary of Karl Zietsler
March 27th 1890
My boyhood days are officially behind me as of now. Though my father had to force me to go, I have completed my basic training for the Kaiser's navy. These last months have taught me valuable lessons in resourcefulness and honor. My mother laments the fact it will be some time before I can visit in my uniform and celebrate this occasion. And mother is not the only woman known to me that appreciates a man in uniform. I have been assigned to a ship as well. The KMS Delphe, a Corvette. While her size and guns may not be the most imposing, we have been assured our role in protecting the fatherland is vital. Hopefully, when construction is finished we will be assigned a station in a far-flung land of mystery and adventure. Though I will not hold my breath.
Karl Zietsler
Ah - Das gut!
(AN: Might be retconned by future episodes, events, battles, and the like . . . but-)
September 1890
????
My earliest memories were surrounded by the lake- My older brother, me and my father- a canoe out on the lake during the crack of dawn . . . It was a truly majestic sight, and I would always remember it - we brought Tackles and bait- a small fishing trip, it was supposed to be.
For most of the trip- it was. We caught a few fish- I even caught a rather big one myself, nearly having fallen out of the boat in an attempt to hold onto the line. I would always remember how the encouraging words quickly turned to panic- We had a good laugh on the way back at the silliness of it all.
I remembered the slightly warmer air as we pulled into the dock- I remembered my fathers promise to prepare a nice hot water bath for us - That our mother would make a wonderful dinner from the fish we had caught.
We pulled the canoe to the boat house - our muscles ached heavily, but we still bore grins on our face . . .
Then we got home. Was it any surprise, then, that I would remember the crying face of my mother- the furrowed brows of my father, the conflicted look in my brothers eyes, and the confused face of my younger sister, to young to understand why everyone was so distressed?
I remembered staying up late, stupidly being disappointed at the lack of a warm bath and a hot dinner, hearing my father angrily pacing across the living room downstairs ranting about how “That (something I couldn’t remember) was not a Peace. It was an Armistice for twenty years.”
I didn’t know that I _used_ to have an uncle - He didn’t talk about him much.
I didn’t know then that my father and my uncle had a falling out. Uncle enlisted in the Army when the war came- He had called father a “coward” for enlisting in the navy.
They never got the chance to apologize to each other.
It seemed obvious something was going to happen in hindsight - the rise of a French Revanchism over Alsace Lorraine - the, at the time, rather exaggerated fears over the recent laying down of a new trio of German “Panzerschiffes” - Yet even after a moderate expansion of armoured corvettes things did not really seem to get worse.
Some Events in the Balkan didn’t help much, and the selling of weapons in order to help _pay_ for the cruisers only served to stew the pot a bit.
Yet the tipping point appeared when the announcement of a new design of fast, protected gun cruisers came to light? Their seemed to be only one purpose in the eyes of the French . . .
To either break a possible blockade - or . . . bypass it entirely to raid the very critical supply lines that kept vital resources flowing into France.
Revanchism and fear mongering over the cruisers filled the halls of discussion - anyone who _remembered_ or who were veterans speaking up about the disaster of the 1870’s? Were shunned for cowardice or accused of being traitors.
So It was that day, I remembered, as being the days of uncertainty- would there be a war? Would my brother get called to fight? Would my father be drafted back into the navy?
Being young, I was not the most observant - yet even I could tell the underlying tension that now existed between my father and brother.
All I could feel back then, curling up in bed, was a selfish unhappiness, wondering why we didn’t have fish that night.
Uncertainty about what would happen next never quite crossed my mind as I fell asleep that night.
It's funny to see how under the same looking interface you can already spot the new features they introduced. Can't wait to see more, especially battles and AI designs going forwards.
Also love the added details for the ships.
Yeah, I am fully convinced now that making 3 instead of a DLC for 2 was the correct way to go
Kapitan Zur See is the Z you were looking for, the equivalent of captain in other navies.
Isn´t Kapitän zur See the equivalent of Colonel? Not Captain?
@@LMDAA2LP Captain is the name most often given in English-speaking navies to the rank corresponding to command of the largest ships. The rank is equal to the army rank of colonel and air force rank of group captain
Equivalent ranks worldwide include ship-of-the-line captain (e.g. France, Argentina, Spain), captain of sea and war (e.g. Brazil, Portugal), captain at sea (e.g. Germany, Netherlands) and "captain of the first rank" (Russia).
@@Brusselpicker Ok, thank you for Clarification!
I'm super happy to see the AI Wars mod basically into the vanilla game. That mod was good, but it did not work well for me recently. It would just bug out and stop working, especially when i tried using it with your RTW2 autoresolve mod in the same game.
I'm also happy that it's officially in the game. That's where it belongs!
Love it! This will be an epic series.
Also really happy with the thumbnail. Hope it catches people's eyes in their subscription feeds.
Thanks again!
Shipyard capacity being in the game is amazing to see, the more limits the game puts on the player the more creative you can get with ship designs
14:03 if you right click on the specific mount (port side if you have the asymmetric secondary mounts de-selected) you can change the position and rest angle of all the guns, this goes for the main guns, tertiary guns, missiles, torpedoes and floatplane catapults. It means you can make the pre dread's look super scary with all the guns pointing out lol
Also, single-torp deck mounts can be put on anything, which might be better than giving yourself a submerged torp flat to only get flooded.
Been counting seconds since the rtw3 fourm went up CANT WAIT
Unfortunately RtW will be a game series I will never pick up to play for myself, but I do enjoy watching people who are good at it and who have a lot of fun play it (although if I'm being honest, Tortuga is the only person I watch who plays it). Looking forward to how this campaign develops!
You can always try the demo version of rule the waves 2 if you want a taste without paying the fairly high price.
Now that the game has actual officers modeled, it will be interesting to see it the "we need no coning tower" doctrine still holds up.
Touche
Off to a great start, I see. I know you don't often mess around with the ammo types, but it makes a big difference in early game. Throw a bunch of HE at the ships you cannot penetrate, and you'll light fires instead. It worked very well for the Japanese at Tsushima. Once armor penetration gets better you can shift back to the original loadouts and priorities, but until then load HE.
I address this on vid 2 because you're right, if there was ever a time to mess with it, it's now.
Shoot, I'm glad I found this channel. I just bought this game and I haven't even started it up yet. I've been reading the manual and planning to start as Germany so this is great. I can ape your first few turns to get myself a decent start and see what mayhem unfolds from there. The games you play are right up my alley. The algorithm has been good to me this day.
As promised - and as a Frenchie lover too - I express my utmost displeasure by liking this video in support of the French people facing the Hun aggression. Officially jealous as hell, now. May 18th cannot come fast enough.
lol madlad comment
Been thinking about this game, been playing RTW2 a lot lately and wanting to see what RTW3 would look like. Thanks for getting this series started.
i rarely feel excitement, i feel excitement finding this is coming out so soon , ive been wanting to play rule the waves again!
Crazy how I haven’t watched your channel in 2-4 years never knew there was a rule of waves 3 crazy to see how far you’ve came
Thanks for the series. Just picked it up and appreciate the advice to help get off to a quick start.
So glad to see another Rule the Waves game AND another series of you playing it!
Here we go lads! Been a long while since I checked in, congrats on the massive channel growth btw, glad to see you still playing RTW (albeit a couple of versions on from what I remember). Really looking forward to enjoying this series, and hopefully seeing a certain Battlecruiser so I can do some of the Captain's log-y stuff you mention. Good luck for the upcoming war with France!
Thanks Sharpe!
Thanks for posting this, I didn't have RTW 3 on my radar as something happening soon -- but steam shows releasing on the 18th of May, so a happy surprise there! Will be watching this series closely as I can't wait to see the improvements over RTW 2.
I’m just happy it’s on Steam.
@@michaelwilson5866 I know, amazing to not have to use a 1990s era website ordering process where a guy emails you a key (hopefully). Love them for this series but my god it was hard to get.
Satisfaction level : maximum
Cant' wait for more of this series!
Very nice!! I'm so excited for this! Can someone tell me what VTE (as in coal + VTE) means?
It means coal powered with a Triple Expansion Engine. VTE is one of the earliest powerplants for steam powered ships of the modern era.
VTE stands for Vertical Triple Expansion engine :)
@@garygenerous8982thanks! Would never have guessed that xD
Looking forward to this! Absolutly loved your RtW2 Playthroughs. :)
Gonna play Italy in my Playthrough on YT. 1890 Battleship designs really are something else. Also really hyped for missile action! :)
Awesome! And love starting as Germany, did the same myself for Rule the Waves 1 and 2. Looking forward to put my hands on the game!
I heard it was coming, but haven't kept up with it except from that info. So I am very pleasantly surprised to see it suddenly pop up in my feed, cannot wait to see more of it.
Thank you Tortuga for doing this series! I'm so happy to be back and hearing your voice again.
Very nice of you to say! Thank you
I’ve been waiting so long for Rule the Waves to come back to the channel. Looking forward to the Spain campaign sometime in the future. Should be a good challenge once you get the hang of the features.
It's probably slightly less painful than China, at least.
FKpt = Fregattenkapitän (Frigate captain)
KptzS = Kapitän zur See (Captain at sea)
Waaa, a third version? This is great news! Never expected one :)
Oh great Algorithm Overlords, bless this video with all your awesome power!
I sacrifice a digital bottle of bubbly to the Algorithm Overlords.
Pray hear the humble cries of thine people, Oh Magnificent Algorithm
I also sacrifice a Binary Bubbly to the Algorithm!
Thanks for posting. Looking forward to the release date on 18 May.
you could not make my day better, i fucking love rule the waves
I’ll admit I don’t have a clue what’s going on but it sounds cool
This is why I usually submit a CA name, they always have big roles to play in early Tortuga campaigns :)
I did the same lol
2 weeks can't go by quickly enough!! I've been excited for this since it was initially announced as a RTW2 expansion.
I want it now! Glad to see you covering this though. I believe that Coal VTE means coal fired vertical triple expansion engine.
Back to the Bread and Butter of your channel! Thanks.
i spend a year away from YT and come back and the first thing I find is a new Tortuga RTW series. Can't promise much RP input, but will contribute occasionally when I can :)
That icon looks familiar but a name I don't recognize. Are you taking the Easy Road out of an Alien Stash Tin?
@@TortugaPower yup thats me.
Wettin would nicely fit into the category of ships known as coastal battleships. They were small and slow but much more heavily armed and armored than other ships of comparable size and were mostly used to protect coastal waters and ports.
Ah... Rule the Waves 3, straight into my veins. Joking aside, looking forward to this series!
Good to see you back, Acularius
I wonder if they added Spain in because they're in on UA Dreadnoughts, perhaps expecting new people possibly drawn into the genre by that game to expect Spain to be present.
Great video!
finally
a new excel naval game
it’s been too long
My most anticipated game of 2023!
4:14 is there a specific reason that Germany is starting to get mad at *itself* in that chart you brought up?
It could be unrest (at least, that's how it worked in my mod)
Glad to see your back with RTW
I am very much looking forward to playing RtW3.
Never played a RtW game before, so gaining some knowledge from your videos before I dive into the deep end :p
I was just thinking about Rule the Waves and was searching for it in the channels that I am subscribed to
An armored Corvette dear lord has Tortuga gone mad and is not making a cheap dead trap Corvette for once in a RTW series.😱😂
Im looking forward to watching this, over the weekend.
I love the RTW series but I've not seen much from RTW 3's 1890 start and I've heard it has got some issues, so I'm curious to see how that start works out here.
It's really nice to see games like this still going strong and getting made in 2023.
Very excited for this going forward!
Excited for the new series!
I am SOOO excited for this series!
So excited for this series
"Political Murder in the Balkans, how do you want to respond?"
Can I say "It's the Balkans people it's just a normal Thursday"?
i got into rule the waves 2 very late so im very happy that rules the waves 3 is coming
So are we talking Kaiser Wilhelm the 3rd, The Last Kaiser of Germany? Glad to see the next installment in Rule The Waves series. ITs definitely not for everyone, but it does what it wants to do and does it well. I think they uploaded some videos about all the New Features on their RUclips channel.
Those where MODS? Well clearly they where watching those Series and took notes. (Possibly, Probably)
Good to see you back, Jay. Kaiser Wilhelm I and II for now, we can't know about III until later on in this alt history.
I just purchased this last night, with Christmas money. I could have purchased anything...it was this, Baldur's Gate 3, Old World, Distant Worlds 2, or the new Master of Magic. Dude..don't let me down, I'm counting on your help to learn this beast!!!
This is going to be awesome!
Can't wait for this to release! Also pretty hyped for the 1890 start.
It seems like a bunch of stuff was added compared to RtW2, excited to learn the new old game with you.
Very excited for this :)
The 5300tm and 7100tm battleships maybe are better described as second class turreted ironclads? a bit like smaller Victoria or Imperator Aleksandr II ironclads
I can't wait for this to come to Nintendo Switch
Hopefully backport to my Atari too
KptzS means "Kapitän zur See" i think.
FKpt means "Fregattenkapitän" which is just a frigate captain
Thanks!
Awe come-on, I can't even be "first" when I was looking for it...
😊 Have a great game Tort!
My view/dashboard had a hiccup and didn't show any comments until just now. (So you're all first in my eyes.)
KptzS = Kapitän zur See translated as something like Captain at sea. FKpt = Fregattenkapitän = Frigate Captain.
Thanks!
Dieses Schlachtschiff der Worth-Klasse ist buchstäblich ein Taschenschlachtschiff.🤣😂
I can't believe we have another Rule the Waves series :D
The day I finish re watching you’re Japanese series of rtw2 this popped up 👌🏻👌🏻
This is super exciting, can't wait to try the game myself!
Tortuga and Rules the Waves? - YES!!!!!
Hadn't heard anchors aweigh for sometime.
Yay! a fun RtW 3 Playthrough!
Look promising, and finally on steam! But why did they use the modern map and not historiacally accurate if you start in 1890?
Happy to see another RTW series, and RTW3 to boot. The one thing I had hoped to see with 3 is a dark colour palette, so a bit disappointed about that, but looking forward to the rest of it all the same.
Great first episode!
Happy to see you with the game
16:58 - That's the nation that becomes Tanzania (same borders) . :)
Does the technology setting affect all nations, or just the player? I never was sure about that in RTW2.
All nations
yay! Love the RTW content.
This looks awesome looking forward to this
September 1890, outskirts of Berlin
Scraps of dying daylight struggled through the tall window gaining barely any purchase in the gloomy interior of the room. The décor was high-class, if on the austere side. Cabinets and shelves were stacked with dry treatises on politics and war. Tables groaned under leather-bound folders of documents of state. A permanent haze of tobacco smoke hung in the air. This was a very Prussian office, one suited for an important government functionary. A place where influential people would sometimes meet. This evening was one of those occasions.
-Well, gentlemen. It seems, I won our little bet.
-Quite. Still, for the Kaiser to appoint von Torturpitz... The man knows nothing of the navy.
-You do know His Highness madly loves his cavalry, and our new admiral led quite the gallant charge at the previous grand manoeuvrers. He was bound to be promoted somewhere, the navy just happened to draw the short straw.
Sour silence filled the room for a while.
-Right then. Hans, present the situation please.
-Sir. My lords. We are all but at war with France. Mobilization orders are being issued as we speak. Involvement of a third party in the conflict is unlikely, even if tensions with the British remain uncomfortably elevated. All ships of the fleet are operational. Crews are of fair quality. Germany shall prevail!
-Yes, yes. Quite. You are dismissed.
Everyone present watched the aide leave in silence. Once the door slammed shut, a figure spoke.
-War, eh? How did we get here again?
-Well, there was that… speech.
-”The freedom of the sea is threatened by the imperialist aspirations of French Republic!”, he said. Damn the man. At least he had enough sense not to poke the English.
-To be fair to Torturpitz, the Balkan crisis didn’t help and he did try to de-escalate lately…
-Pah! There’s always a crisis in the Balkans. This war didn’t need to happen now. It is to early, we are not ready yet. How do we line up against them?
-Their battle line is superior, in number, tonnage, and broadside weight. We do have an edge in cruisers though. There is a path to a good outcome there, if we just… nudge our new glorious leader into taking the correct engagements.
People present mulled over this in silence for a bit.
-Speaking of cruisers, I heard our man requested new designs to be laid down?
-Indeed. The technical department is at wits end. A machine gun cruiser. A new armoured cruiser even though we have a proven good design in Hertha. And Von Torturpitz even said he liked Hertha! At least there is that new corvette order, competently uncontroversial.
-I see. How was that new cruiser christened? Volgaland?
-Oh, yes. It is almost like we are provoking the Tzar on purpose, no?
-Almost. It seems there are interesting times ahead of us. Well, then gentlemen, let us return to our duties. We have an admiral to manage and a war to win. God willing.
They added their own autoresolve too? Damn!
I wanted this game so badly
So excited for this, but I thought the person who makes these passed away?
Very nice
IT'S TIME!
I cant wait for this game to release, its presumably more stable then uad and more in depth
Can you customise/build the starting fleet like in the previous games?
Looking forward to this one!
I am so ready for this!!!
KptzS is "Kapitän zur See" is a german military rank. those people are most of the time commanding their own ships
Oh hey! This is back!