"Putting the boots to the hapsburgs because thats just what you do" I can attest that even Edward of hapsburg on twitter says this, dudes brutally honest lmao
Fun thing: there was an interview with a neurology specialist who said that essentially, every act of remembering something is the act of RECREATING that memory - meaning the more you recall something, the fuzzier that memory gets! One of the interesting points in favor of the idea was the development of a drug that would temporarily inhibit the creation of new memories. Under the effects of the drug, some people actually responded really well by recalling traumatic situations. They went through the memory, but the inhibiting effect of the drug apparently helped them take the hard edges off of their traumatic memories! SUPER cool thing, not least because it means that memories are actual, physical things - they can be disrupted by physics means!
I knew this guy, he was a Greek dude who served in the navy, lives in South Africa, haven't heard from him in a while, dude told me about that and I had to look it up, this was about 4 or 5 years ago. I couldn't believe a ship that old was still around.
Imagine the last message from the Kentucky before that battle. BB Kentucky: "Large smoke cloud spotted, moving to engage." *hours pass* HQ: "Kentucky, report in. Kentucky...? KENTUCKYYYY!"
Dear Tex: You are, without a doubt, my favorite history (and probably best) history teacher, no contest, simple as. Please don't stop and continue to improve.
I think this is the best playthrough yet. fixing russia, random rants on naval history, smonk staxs! when are you and Perun going to do a BattleMech procurement and logistics collab? Powerpoint meets the BPL. This needs to happen
That's Tex and crew's style. They just get allot more artsy, and have to put in a modern grain hauler full of shit tons more time, for the Battletech stuff. Though I don't envy the editor for the Ultimate Admirals stuff. Especially dealing with recordings of longer running game saves. Allot of "get up and brew a fresh pot" time between turns for those.
"with both sides as interested in a propaganda victory as anything else good confirmed-loss data for the FedCom Civil War was kinda hard to come-by but..."
Oh man, how much do I need to pay for a Tex/Perun crossover? Perun could lambaste the very concept of battlemechs and why Battle Armor is actually the future of warfare.
I felt that Grad Student remark. Trying to find any and all commentaries on Locke and his relationship to his patron Sir Ainsley (1st Earl Shaftsbury) for my Master's Thesis. SWEET. FUCK. ALL. Not even what was behind paywalls did much. Had to dig up primary sources, use the few secondaries I could get, scrupulously farmed the fuck out of references, and drew what conclusions I could from that. Thank God I'd gotten comfortable doing presentations by that point; nailed the final and left with a very respectable GPA on top of my MA.
Real shame we didn't preserve Prinz Eugen; the Admiral Hipper cruisers were gorgeous. What's a real crime is CV-6 Enterprise was scrapped.... I was recently on vacation & got to visit USS Massachusetts, my first experience with a battleship up close. Gods, it was a great time, I was there for about 3 hours and nearly killed my phone with the use of the camera 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Next year I may try to visit USS Salem.
It is sad they scrapped Enterprise, but I don't know if we could've preserved her, with how much damage she took and the layers upon layers of quick & dirty repairs.
same with the Warspite: most decorated ship in the entire history of the Royal Navy, even moreso than HMS Victory, after the war they decide to scrap the thing. The only consolation is that Warspite in the towing process broke free of its lines and ran aground. The boat itself was seemingly determined to take its own life than let itself be scrapped
About the whole "everything's gotta be a hustle" that's one of the reasons I avoided things I loved doing for so long. Writing especially. Every single piece of advice i ever got revolved around being marketable to the point that their suggestions for my story utterly neutered its identity and what i thought made it special. Everything had to be referred to in creative writing class terms, the themes were "not what's in right now" and got replaced with, no joke, plagiarized plot points from Marvel movies. Characters had to be referred to in paragraph long archetype names instead of just, themselves. The romance between the main character and her future wife was expected to have a bunch of stupid, immature conflicts in it, instead of a general officer and a pilot bonding too hard during a war that made them borderline feral and they had to constantly overcome their passions for professional reasons, because "The navy needs us to win this war. The navy comes first, because if it is doesn't, we lose, and there's no us to go back to, only corpses." My experiences as autistic veteran were shunned because "well just because it's real doesn't mean people will accept it, so you need to lie in favor of their biases". I then realized what happened to mainstream writing and it's been a struggle to get back in since. That's real horror of the sudden push that everything has to be a business venture, people who love making the art don't love it anymore and everything is being made by incompetent, apathetic shleps who keep making increasingly worse crap until everything feels hollow and soulless. That's why i love this channel so much. I can tell it in your speaking cadences for god's sake. Even with your guys's ticks, every sentence feels natural and genuine. So many people are so fake they sound like fuckin' chat bots when they talk, it's that repetitive and rehearsed. You make shit because you love it. We need more of that.
You know, thinking about top heavy, what always annoyed me in Starship Troopers is "everybody fights, nobody just does logistics" which, holy shit, how does anything get to the battlefield if there are not people constantly procuring ammo and food and fuel, people packing it, people shipping it, people unpacking it, and people distributing it to the front lines? Not to mention the people running supply depots, the people coordinating shipping, the people keeping lists of what is going where and how much. You need a decent sized bureaucracy if you want to campaign with any longevity. Edit: losing the NCOs, that is one of the reasons a former Superpower now can't win a war against a bunch of guys using lend-lease equipment, Russia had almost no NCO retention untill recently, and yeah, no NCOs, no functioning army.
Always released late night! Right when I'm running out of excuses to delay my sleep... Thank you! I love sleep more then life when it's morning but late night i just can't bring myself to shut down =D
In a similar situation to Warspite, the stern plate of the USS Enterprise is currently in a small park next to a random local library in the middle of New Jersey
In fairness, IKB didn't design all of the British rail network, just somewhere between 1/3rd and maybe a smidge over half of it. This was a bit of a problem, as he designed his bit (mostly in the southwest and west) to use a completely different track gauge (and loading gauge) as the rest of the country. Mind you, while Brunel was brilliant, he was a bit Mad Scientist at times, who needed to be told No every now and then. A good case in point? The Greenwich Atmospheric Railway- dude *almost* invented a steampunk hyperloop, and got as far as building the tunnel and two stops before someone pointed out that hermetically sealing people in a carriage (in a tunnel under the Thames), propelled and braked by live steam generators at the stations is A) going to kill people pretty much every trip as they either cook from that much steam, run out of breathable air waiting for the station/carriage to cool enough to disembark, or suffer injuries from the (estimated) 3.2g acceleration and braking without seatbelts; B) cost an absolute fortune in running costs as every stop would have to have a constantly operating boiler to generate the steam pressure; which of course leads to concerns of C) if, or rather, *when* there's a boiler failure, it's guaranteed to be somewhere it'll cause massive casualties, unless the stations are built in the least useful place for them. Oh, and D) thanks to the time needed to vent and cool the receiving station, and build up a sufficient head of steam in both stations, it'd be faster to walk along the tunnel (assuming they left it as-is and didn't build the Atmospheric Railway in it). If you're ever in London, the tunnel is, in fact, still there, and still a way for pedestrians to cross the Thames, with stairwells at either end build around where the boilers were intended to go.
Sorry, the only Groves that comes to mind is Leslie Groves, and dude was already the military version. (A colonel, then general, running the Manhattan Project.)
"They don't have the business sense, they didn't go to a school for any of this" -while I agree, it's not like the people who DID go to school for this seem to have any business sense either, unless "insult your customer-base" is actually something these classes teach you and I just don't know.
I love this stuff! He’s so good at military history, while being so bad at these games! I learned how to win at UADreadnauts and Battletech from watching what Tex does and doing other, but everything he talks about at the same time is just so much fun!
There is a piece of the warspite's hull in pool in cornwall, just sitting outside near Michell's engine house. Unfortunately the nameplate was sold at auction according to wikipedia, the Wheel is currently in the city hall of Narvik, and some other bits and pieces are held in the National muiseum of the royal navy in Portsmouth. Otherwise there are a couple of benches made from the Teak from the warspite, at st michael's mount, and at penzance!
On Howard Hughes. I remember doing an autobiographical essay on him in middle school, and I remember going to the library to get a few books to research him. Mind this was... well the internet was around but this was the late 90s and it wasn't quite as prolific and ubiquitous as it is now and Tex has explicitly stated this is how it was, so I had to get multiple books and sources to properly research what I was writing. I remember also having to do bibliographies of my sources a lot of the time. The downside was that i had no idea what each source was going be and the book that ended up being one of my primary sources had a... concerning amount of focus on Hughes' famous Sexcapades. Mind I'm like... 12 reading this. But also I remember at a younger age seeing a lot of movies that I really shouldn't have (sex scenes included). It was also the era of scrambled porn channels on cable. In any case, I was more annoyed than anything that my primary source was sensationalized bullshit. I wanted to read about "this and that experimental aircraft and feat and then he crashed the XF-11 into Beverly Hills and nearly died" not "Oh he fucked this actress and had her in this and that movie". Sadly I never went to college so I didn't have to deal with this bullshit later on either.
I love the history and logistics of naval action in antiquity, how army and navy was pretty much the same thing, how both it was simplistic and yet such a complicated thing. Heck it is funny how many fleets rome lost in the first phyrric war. They built 300 ships... lost them all in a storm... built another, it too sunk in another storm! Third times the charm and they kicked ass with their hook bridges... until they again all sunk in a storm. Then they finally beat them by rushing their fifth fleet and a couple of legions over to Carthage and forced a settlement surrender agreement, and I am sure they'd lost that fleet too if they hadn't made a rushjob of the war in the end!
I was gonna make the joke, in relation to the "Not just do one voice" thing about Steve Blum but no... uh... Man DOES have range even if his voice is extremely distinctive. Just look at his role as Leeron in Gurren Lagan as what he can be capable of.
24:50 you have no fucking idea how right you are Tex. I was trying to find sources for just my senior project in Electrical Engineering, and even with an IEEE membership and access to free white papers, getting schematics and an academic source with some actual weight was easily 60% of the project over the year. Finding an actual proper datasheet for a Boston Fincor (a company that hasn't existed in years because Boston Gear bought them out) DC Motor was fucking nightmare. I just needed to know the damn mass of the rotor to make the flywheel the right size and it was still a got-damn paywall circus, and don't get me started on standards documents, we will actually be here all day.
Alot of the time that's only one income source of many for these organizations too, aside things like licenses, exclusivity deals, patents, and enormous subsidies. So it's like that lie we were all told in the 90s/early-2000s about how "advertisements help pay for our service!" - not to say that it's not a source of income, but that it's not something they do because it's the only thing keeping them afloat, its something they do *just because they can get away with it.*
HMS Warrior was the first iron-hulled ironclad in 1860, and by far the most powerful warship in the world for a short time Brunel designed SS Great Britain, which is also a museum ship, but not HMS Warrior
I recently got to see a museum ship in England - by the Tower of London, the HMS Belfast light cruiser has been made into a museum ship, and I got a great look at it. Sadly our destination was the Tower and we didn't have time to check out the Belfast up close, but it was cool to see! Also its service history gave me a chuckle - commissioned a month before the war began for England, it served with the Hood and Renown at the start of WW2, was involved in patrolling and checking for German vessels (found one disguised as Swedish ship), and was almost sunk by a mine in November, 3 months into the war and before seeing any battle. But it didn't sink, spent 2 years in repair (oof) and was eventually involved in the operation to sink the Tirpitz. This series has given me a curiosity and appreciation for naval history, so thank you for that!
If that does not work and if the paywall site is “kind” enough to show the start of article text in addition to the abstract, copy 8-10 words from the start, paste it in “ “ and search…often articles are posted the open web by professors for a last-minute course resources and never removed.
My wife lives in Bristol UK, seeing the amazing preservation work that they have done on the SS Great Britain, also one of Brunel's ships, is a treat. While not a warship like the HMS Warrior, it does predate the Warrior by 16 years (1843 vs 1859) and was the largest passenger ship of its time. Both are fairly close to each other, about a 2 hour drive apart. Well worth it if you ever visit the south west of England.
I have to put in a shout-out for Big Mamie, aka USS Massachusetts. She's a South Dakota class battleship, moored at Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA. Come visit! She's a beautiful lady.
Your mention of officer and nco corps reminds me of a video where they said they would be interviewing "boots on the ground"... and pulled out a Lt Col. Facepalm.
On the media stuff, I've sat doing things for YT for 10 years now just fooling around as a hobbyist. You have to hit trends and be on those trends if you want to make lots of money.
Love wacky experimental designs for ships and aircraft. The Vitse-admiral Popov is great, Russian monitor ship with a circular hull. Terrible boat but fun.
in my playthroughs i tend of have 3 'sub-classes' of destroyers 1: something very small and cheap with *_a_* gun and *_a_* torpedo launcher, but with decent minesweeping and anti-sub. these stop subs and mines from being an issue and act as export fodder, as other nations will gobble up cheap ships even if they're crap. 2: the Anti-Destroyer or "the destroyer that actually does what destroyers were named for", i.e. it kills torpedo boats and other DDs. this tends to be a fairly large ship with minimum torpedos but lots of small guns. 3: the 'Offensive' or 'Fleet' Destroyer. a large fast ship a pair of elevated guns and as many torpedo mounts as can fit.
I kinda get recycling the steel to use on other stuff. I don't really get blowing up what is effectively a living, floating museum so that we can irradiate some far-flung atoll to prove that world-ending bomb goes boom old ship also sink. I mean... We could have probably assumed that part right? 😂
Would have loved to see Prinz Eugen preserved, blowing it up was a travesty. That test did give a lot of good info on nukes against ships. The air burst test didn't sink a whole lot, with active crews that was survivable. The underwater test was horrifying for the ships.
Honestly, I'm pretty forgiving of the recycling & obsolescence angle - preserving history is important, but lets be honest there's probably smarter and equally-effective ways of doing that than keeping an entire boat around, keeping ships around always seemed like more of a cultural vanity project if anything. Though where I start having issues is the hypocrisy where people recklessly toss aside "historical artifacts" because they're commonplace only for those same people to exploit the "rarity" of some completely banal contemporary everyday-item; because of course speculator markets ruin literally everything they touch...
There is a full size replica of the USS Monitor with a museum that holds the pieces of the ship that where raised from the wreck in Virginia. Drachinifel did a pretty decent video on it.
As to your talk about people thinking something is gonna be easy. Yeah experienced a few of those types, not talking bad about them, as they only seen one little part of what they were changing to do, and only heard it second or third hand, most wrong. This happened while I was in the USMC, right before and during the surge, I was an avionics man on AH-1W’s and UH-1N’s, Cobra attack helicopters and Huey, utility helos. Was a very complex job with so much to learn and know. I was very good at it, but that’s my thing. Anyways. We had multiple grunt types, that enlisted to come to the air wing, as they thought and heard it’d be so easy. All the bones that came to my shop. Or came a unit that was deployed and got sent to us, until that unit was back home, I ended training all of them, when they were 2-3 tanks senior to me, and just talking as we worked inbtween going over what we’re doing and why. And how to do it, etc, all that. After they been there a good 3-9 months, every single one opened to me, and was like holy fuck. No idea you guys do all this. And work this long, 6-7 days a week, continuously even in the states, and get sent all over the US and world for air shows and training then go out and support MEUS, while the rest go to Iraq and/or Afghanistan all at the same time, and continuously stretched to the breaking point, was night crew, our regular shit in the US, when not somewhere for training, was 18 hours, and that was on the 12 on 12 off schedule. That leaves 6 hours a day. To sleep, eat, shower, work out in your own. Do unit PT at times, plus any other things that need to get done, and was 6 days a week, if lucky, all while making far less than minimum wage, for minting up to $14 million dollar aircraft for my MOS. Plus upgrades, to do the most demanding aerial shot, close air support, medevacs and covering medivacs. You have to fix any problem, but the most severe in tens of seconds, as the longer you take, the more guys are killed and wounded, but you also can’t afford to lose your pilots and aircrew, and aircraft…and those E-5’ and E-6’s were blown away by our work schedule, and the responsibilities of a bunch of kids, making this happen. They were like mid to late twenties. Some early 30’s, and we were at this time, the good and trusted ones training them to work on aircraft. 20 to mid twenties as the rare exceptions. I still couldn’t legally drink when I was training E-6 transfers to us. They’d say holy shit. This I the most I worked, ever in my life, except one really bad day in infantry. B it we did 6 days a week in the states, and when deployed, 7 days a week for 6-7 months every year, then back home for 5-6 months, of same hours, but one less day a week, then deployed again, repeat…forever. My unit had the highest deployment rate the of any US unit, also the least mishaps and best safety. Since Vietnam. And until I got out in 2010. We also had the highest divorce rate, highest DUI’s and highest minor trouble, think bar fights and minor shot like that, kinda goes hand in hand. My personal record, once got to my unit and the fleet, the lowest amount of time I spent in a year, where I was “stationed” was 33 days out of 365, the most day I spent where I was stationed was my last year in, and that like 72 days…so yeah. Granted. The ground guys loved us, but they always tried talking shit, until they tried to join us, thinking it’d be so easy…and it’s the most and hardest they ever worked, and we still did ground type shit at times anyways, on top of everything else. I’d just tell them, beware what you wish for, especially when you sign your life away, in a contract, now you gotta do this for 4 more years, or face severe consequences, and then laugh. And tell them that the career jammer, fucked them.
I don't know if Tex is jsut lucky in this game, or I'm especially unlucky, but my playthroughs have been dismal with everything being fine for a bit and then the world turning on me with wildly advanced battlecruisers. But the man clearly knows this game well.
I think you are an influence, even if you don't aim to be. Your approach to the channel, your content, and even your nonsense all feel like they show a lot about you. Mostly that you're a good person - you're honest, you're encouraging, and you really throw yourself into something if you feel that it's worth it. Also that you're perfectly willing to laugh at yourself and just have fun. I'm glad I came across your content! I hope to keep coming across it, too! 😊
Gotta love those fast heavy cruisers... Tex, have you had a lot of trouble with this thing running right? For some daggone reason I keep completely losing control and can't give commands. And of course the torpedo boats that forget to fire their torpedoes. But I expect that.
I can attest to what you said about institutional knowledge, when you lose that corps of senior enlisted and mid grade officers. My uncle served in the USN from 1951 to 1971 as a Gunners Mate Technician, and I from 1977 to 1997 as a Machinist Mate in the Nuclear Power Program on submarines. If my uncle were still alive, between the two of us, we could describe at some length, how we watched and experienced, as what was essentially still the WWII Navy he first enlisted in, ran by the veterans of WWII - even in the early 60's, one of his CO's was one of the dive bomber pilots that took out the Japanese carriers at Midway - into the politicized DEI-riddled mess it is today - to where the social classes that they traditionally depended heavily on to meet their recruiting goals, now wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole - and they're seriously proposing a "service grants citizenship" bill in Congress, to get "migrants" to enlist for several years in return for being made a citizen - and 20 years on, they still can't come up with a design for a decent Frigate, to start replacing all the ships built in the 80's and 90's.
I will say that when I do play this game I more often than not plan them to start when I have a new generation of battleships built and in the meantime I just use endless waves of torpedo boats or destroyers once they get big enough to make worth building. This also let's me have enough tonnage to easily conquer neutral nations when the chance comes up as I can gain the all important supply ports and shipyard space.
Tex plays boat game, goes off on one talk about “x”. Continues to play game, talks about game here and there. Then goes off to talk about “y” where “y” is about hard work, how he actually has standards, how he does it for himself and just hopes some number of people like it… when most of his viewers (at least those that have been around long enough to “understand” the Tex persona.) while usually appreciates what he plays, but really just “watch” to listen to him talk and don’t really care what Tex is playing in his normal vids.
You're 1000% right on the land armies. Been trashing Germany on the ocean, and after 22 months of war, the army still can't take Rhodesia...............
I understand what your talking about on the youtube side... I started my own channel a few months ago and I'm happy playing to an audience of myself. I was ecstatic about having 7 views on a video I did. I'm doing everything on the cheap with stuff I already had. And I'm learning to edit videos myself.
On history: Does everyone else despise 'Battle Books'? (Like 'Gettysburg was the pivot point of history' books) Or is it just me? To be clear: this may be a strawman I invented for myself digging for resources for a middle school project in a public library. But it's colored my feeling of at least one book I read later.
Yep, same deal I found with being a writer. Most everyone thinks "Oh anyone can write, I've been doing it since Kindergarten!" or the like. But there was a lot of grinding away doing mentally breaking labor, having to take like 7 dollar SEO Article Commissions that would take two days to research and write, etc, until I could get to a point of doing more fulfilling commission work. Just under 10 years of grinding out day in and day out before I hit a level of success that let me do it full time. Which has been an amazing blessing and I am thankful nearly every day that I get to get up, and do something that I've dreamed of since I was 6, and make ends meet.
It's like the revolution where would we be without the French we'd still be British and so would every colony we caused to rebel after. A lot of battles were won by outside support.
"Picric Acid works both ways!"
- Tex
" We the unwilling, lead by the unqualified are doing the impossible for the ungrateful"!
Sounds like almost all militaries.
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Truth!
“The objective is to be annoying.” Something General Admiral Tex is uniquely qualified to accomplish.
"Putting the boots to the hapsburgs because thats just what you do"
I can attest that even Edward of hapsburg on twitter says this, dudes brutally honest lmao
Fun thing: there was an interview with a neurology specialist who said that essentially, every act of remembering something is the act of RECREATING that memory - meaning the more you recall something, the fuzzier that memory gets!
One of the interesting points in favor of the idea was the development of a drug that would temporarily inhibit the creation of new memories. Under the effects of the drug, some people actually responded really well by recalling traumatic situations. They went through the memory, but the inhibiting effect of the drug apparently helped them take the hard edges off of their traumatic memories! SUPER cool thing, not least because it means that memories are actual, physical things - they can be disrupted by physics means!
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I love how you tell them to transfer the flag after pressing the button that forbids them of doing that. Totally not confusing for the crew
Greeks still have "Georgios Averoff" preserved - last armored cruiser in the world.
Neat!
I knew this guy, he was a Greek dude who served in the navy, lives in South Africa, haven't heard from him in a while, dude told me about that and I had to look it up, this was about 4 or 5 years ago. I couldn't believe a ship that old was still around.
If you ignore U.S.S. Olimpia.
She's moored up at Paleo Faliro, on the outskirts of Athens and open for visitors six days a week (closed on mondays).
@@markharding6342 Olympia is a protected cruiser. She has only armored deck, while Averoff as an armored cruiser has belt armor too.
Imagine the last message from the Kentucky before that battle.
BB Kentucky: "Large smoke cloud spotted, moving to engage."
*hours pass*
HQ: "Kentucky, report in. Kentucky...? KENTUCKYYYY!"
"[...] their last report needs to be 'We have made contact with the enemy' and that's it" Send a message to Starfleet: "We have encountered the Borg!"
Dear Tex:
You are, without a doubt, my favorite history (and probably best) history teacher, no contest, simple as.
Please don't stop and continue to improve.
Tex, the lead ship's not pulling back because the first thing you do every time the battle starts is turn that off.
hush you
I think this is the best playthrough yet. fixing russia, random rants on naval history, smonk staxs! when are you and Perun going to do a BattleMech procurement and logistics collab? Powerpoint meets the BPL. This needs to happen
I need a bpl powepoint on the intracies of the freat house millitary procurement
That's Tex and crew's style. They just get allot more artsy, and have to put in a modern grain hauler full of shit tons more time, for the Battletech stuff. Though I don't envy the editor for the Ultimate Admirals stuff. Especially dealing with recordings of longer running game saves. Allot of "get up and brew a fresh pot" time between turns for those.
"with both sides as interested in a propaganda victory as anything else good confirmed-loss data for the FedCom Civil War was kinda hard to come-by but..."
Oh man, how much do I need to pay for a Tex/Perun crossover? Perun could lambaste the very concept of battlemechs and why Battle Armor is actually the future of warfare.
I felt that Grad Student remark.
Trying to find any and all commentaries on Locke and his relationship to his patron Sir Ainsley (1st Earl Shaftsbury) for my Master's Thesis. SWEET. FUCK. ALL. Not even what was behind paywalls did much. Had to dig up primary sources, use the few secondaries I could get, scrupulously farmed the fuck out of references, and drew what conclusions I could from that. Thank God I'd gotten comfortable doing presentations by that point; nailed the final and left with a very respectable GPA on top of my MA.
Real shame we didn't preserve Prinz Eugen; the Admiral Hipper cruisers were gorgeous.
What's a real crime is CV-6 Enterprise was scrapped....
I was recently on vacation & got to visit USS Massachusetts, my first experience with a battleship up close. Gods, it was a great time, I was there for about 3 hours and nearly killed my phone with the use of the camera 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Next year I may try to visit USS Salem.
It is sad they scrapped Enterprise, but I don't know if we could've preserved her, with how much damage she took and the layers upon layers of quick & dirty repairs.
same with the Warspite: most decorated ship in the entire history of the Royal Navy, even moreso than HMS Victory, after the war they decide to scrap the thing. The only consolation is that Warspite in the towing process broke free of its lines and ran aground. The boat itself was seemingly determined to take its own life than let itself be scrapped
To be fair, Britain was b r o k broke at the end of the war and needed every penny they could get their hands on. Still a shame warspite was scrapped
"I have to make sure Italy doesn't stab me in the back..."
Et tu Italia?
About the whole "everything's gotta be a hustle" that's one of the reasons I avoided things I loved doing for so long. Writing especially. Every single piece of advice i ever got revolved around being marketable to the point that their suggestions for my story utterly neutered its identity and what i thought made it special.
Everything had to be referred to in creative writing class terms, the themes were "not what's in right now" and got replaced with, no joke, plagiarized plot points from Marvel movies. Characters had to be referred to in paragraph long archetype names instead of just, themselves.
The romance between the main character and her future wife was expected to have a bunch of stupid, immature conflicts in it, instead of a general officer and a pilot bonding too hard during a war that made them borderline feral and they had to constantly overcome their passions for professional reasons, because "The navy needs us to win this war. The navy comes first, because if it is doesn't, we lose, and there's no us to go back to, only corpses."
My experiences as autistic veteran were shunned because "well just because it's real doesn't mean people will accept it, so you need to lie in favor of their biases". I then realized what happened to mainstream writing and it's been a struggle to get back in since.
That's real horror of the sudden push that everything has to be a business venture, people who love making the art don't love it anymore and everything is being made by incompetent, apathetic shleps who keep making increasingly worse crap until everything feels hollow and soulless.
That's why i love this channel so much. I can tell it in your speaking cadences for god's sake. Even with your guys's ticks, every sentence feels natural and genuine. So many people are so fake they sound like fuckin' chat bots when they talk, it's that repetitive and rehearsed. You make shit because you love it. We need more of that.
You know, thinking about top heavy, what always annoyed me in Starship Troopers is "everybody fights, nobody just does logistics" which, holy shit, how does anything get to the battlefield if there are not people constantly procuring ammo and food and fuel, people packing it, people shipping it, people unpacking it, and people distributing it to the front lines?
Not to mention the people running supply depots, the people coordinating shipping, the people keeping lists of what is going where and how much. You need a decent sized bureaucracy if you want to campaign with any longevity.
Edit: losing the NCOs, that is one of the reasons a former Superpower now can't win a war against a bunch of guys using lend-lease equipment, Russia had almost no NCO retention untill recently, and yeah, no NCOs, no functioning army.
Ivan the OK, followed by Petrov the Alright, Alright, Alright!
Always released late night! Right when I'm running out of excuses to delay my sleep... Thank you! I love sleep more then life when it's morning but late night i just can't bring myself to shut down =D
Love this series, not even for the gameplay really but tex is enjoying it and talking about shit he loves and that makes this so much fun to watch
Penny Pincher class? Sounds like a Reduced Rubels design XD
I believe the closet analogue in Russian would be the Kopek pincher
@@Kaarl_Mills but the Russian currency is so inflated that Kopeks are worth less then the metal they're made of
In a similar situation to Warspite, the stern plate of the USS Enterprise is currently in a small park next to a random local library in the middle of New Jersey
In fairness, IKB didn't design all of the British rail network, just somewhere between 1/3rd and maybe a smidge over half of it. This was a bit of a problem, as he designed his bit (mostly in the southwest and west) to use a completely different track gauge (and loading gauge) as the rest of the country.
Mind you, while Brunel was brilliant, he was a bit Mad Scientist at times, who needed to be told No every now and then. A good case in point? The Greenwich Atmospheric Railway- dude *almost* invented a steampunk hyperloop, and got as far as building the tunnel and two stops before someone pointed out that hermetically sealing people in a carriage (in a tunnel under the Thames), propelled and braked by live steam generators at the stations is A) going to kill people pretty much every trip as they either cook from that much steam, run out of breathable air waiting for the station/carriage to cool enough to disembark, or suffer injuries from the (estimated) 3.2g acceleration and braking without seatbelts; B) cost an absolute fortune in running costs as every stop would have to have a constantly operating boiler to generate the steam pressure; which of course leads to concerns of C) if, or rather, *when* there's a boiler failure, it's guaranteed to be somewhere it'll cause massive casualties, unless the stations are built in the least useful place for them. Oh, and D) thanks to the time needed to vent and cool the receiving station, and build up a sufficient head of steam in both stations, it'd be faster to walk along the tunnel (assuming they left it as-is and didn't build the Atmospheric Railway in it). If you're ever in London, the tunnel is, in fact, still there, and still a way for pedestrians to cross the Thames, with stairwells at either end build around where the boilers were intended to go.
Today we learn Tex studied under the military version of Groves. Hello!
Sorry, the only Groves that comes to mind is Leslie Groves, and dude was already the military version. (A colonel, then general, running the Manhattan Project.)
"They don't have the business sense, they didn't go to a school for any of this"
-while I agree, it's not like the people who DID go to school for this seem to have any business sense either, unless "insult your customer-base" is actually something these classes teach you and I just don't know.
Gotta keep your DEI score up. Ita not our fault, the customer is wrong.
I love this stuff! He’s so good at military history, while being so bad at these games! I learned how to win at UADreadnauts and Battletech from watching what Tex does and doing other, but everything he talks about at the same time is just so much fun!
I was gonna go to sleep, but NOOOOOOOOO… Tex uploads this! Love it.
Hahaha exactly the same. I was just falling asleep to magistratum mundane " oh I thought you were a cult" and I spie out of my sleepy eyes this!!
Magistratum Mundanus is quite possibly my absolute favorite RPG narration ever. SOOOO many inside jokes with other friends!
The Great white fleet, it's very sad we didn't keep more of those ships because god did they look good.
Thanks for the episode! also Black Knight mentioned!!!!
Ahoy comrades!!! 🫡🫡🫡
ALL SHIPS MAKE SMONK!! 💨💨💨💨💨
Nah, that’s just that low-grade tar they’re throwing into the boiler😅. Russian navy be doing the Kutznetsov before it was cool.
Black Knight Cometh...
"Ya can't get there from here bud"!
"You can if you fold yhe map"!
*.......*
Sounds like someone explaining wormholes.
The GTO Judge is the sexiest car ever made. I will die on this hill.
Respectable choice 👍
There is a piece of the warspite's hull in pool in cornwall, just sitting outside near Michell's engine house.
Unfortunately the nameplate was sold at auction according to wikipedia, the Wheel is currently in the city hall of Narvik, and some other bits and pieces are held in the National muiseum of the royal navy in Portsmouth.
Otherwise there are a couple of benches made from the Teak from the warspite, at st michael's mount, and at penzance!
11:50 "We are so back" ........ 11:55 "It's so over"
do not be the villian in your own story , I needed to hear that man , thank you.
On Howard Hughes. I remember doing an autobiographical essay on him in middle school, and I remember going to the library to get a few books to research him. Mind this was... well the internet was around but this was the late 90s and it wasn't quite as prolific and ubiquitous as it is now and Tex has explicitly stated this is how it was, so I had to get multiple books and sources to properly research what I was writing. I remember also having to do bibliographies of my sources a lot of the time. The downside was that i had no idea what each source was going be and the book that ended up being one of my primary sources had a... concerning amount of focus on Hughes' famous Sexcapades. Mind I'm like... 12 reading this.
But also I remember at a younger age seeing a lot of movies that I really shouldn't have (sex scenes included). It was also the era of scrambled porn channels on cable. In any case, I was more annoyed than anything that my primary source was sensationalized bullshit. I wanted to read about "this and that experimental aircraft and feat and then he crashed the XF-11 into Beverly Hills and nearly died" not "Oh he fucked this actress and had her in this and that movie".
Sadly I never went to college so I didn't have to deal with this bullshit later on either.
I should add that it was the SCHOOL's library I found this book in.
I love you. I agree 100%. I try things even if it's the wrong way to do it, so I remember why that way is wrong.
I love the history and logistics of naval action in antiquity, how army and navy was pretty much the same thing, how both it was simplistic and yet such a complicated thing. Heck it is funny how many fleets rome lost in the first phyrric war. They built 300 ships... lost them all in a storm... built another, it too sunk in another storm! Third times the charm and they kicked ass with their hook bridges... until they again all sunk in a storm. Then they finally beat them by rushing their fifth fleet and a couple of legions over to Carthage and forced a settlement surrender agreement, and I am sure they'd lost that fleet too if they hadn't made a rushjob of the war in the end!
I was gonna make the joke, in relation to the "Not just do one voice" thing about Steve Blum but no... uh... Man DOES have range even if his voice is extremely distinctive. Just look at his role as Leeron in Gurren Lagan as what he can be capable of.
Bread! WITHOUT SAWDUST!? Tex for Prime Minister!
It’s always fun to just listen to these episodes. Thanks Tex!
Wait......there are people who think Tex is crazy?.....I kinda thought that was confirmed fact at this point.
It's a shame Warspite wasn't saved. My country has the last tribal destroyer.
24:50 you have no fucking idea how right you are Tex.
I was trying to find sources for just my senior project in Electrical Engineering, and even with an IEEE membership and access to free white papers, getting schematics and an academic source with some actual weight was easily 60% of the project over the year. Finding an actual proper datasheet for a Boston Fincor (a company that hasn't existed in years because Boston Gear bought them out) DC Motor was fucking nightmare. I just needed to know the damn mass of the rotor to make the flywheel the right size and it was still a got-damn paywall circus, and don't get me started on standards documents, we will actually be here all day.
Alot of the time that's only one income source of many for these organizations too, aside things like licenses, exclusivity deals, patents, and enormous subsidies.
So it's like that lie we were all told in the 90s/early-2000s about how "advertisements help pay for our service!" - not to say that it's not a source of income, but that it's not something they do because it's the only thing keeping them afloat, its something they do *just because they can get away with it.*
Whoa, from 10:30-11:23 your lead ship took 4 main battery strikes from your own team. Yikes!
HMS Warrior was the first iron-hulled ironclad in 1860, and by far the most powerful warship in the world for a short time
Brunel designed SS Great Britain, which is also a museum ship, but not HMS Warrior
I recently got to see a museum ship in England - by the Tower of London, the HMS Belfast light cruiser has been made into a museum ship, and I got a great look at it. Sadly our destination was the Tower and we didn't have time to check out the Belfast up close, but it was cool to see! Also its service history gave me a chuckle - commissioned a month before the war began for England, it served with the Hood and Renown at the start of WW2, was involved in patrolling and checking for German vessels (found one disguised as Swedish ship), and was almost sunk by a mine in November, 3 months into the war and before seeing any battle. But it didn't sink, spent 2 years in repair (oof) and was eventually involved in the operation to sink the Tirpitz.
This series has given me a curiosity and appreciation for naval history, so thank you for that!
- If you find an article you want, but it's paywalled, email the author directly. Often they'll be very happy to send you the paper.
If that does not work and if the paywall site is “kind” enough to show the start of article text in addition to the abstract, copy 8-10 words from the start, paste it in “ “ and search…often articles are posted the open web by professors for a last-minute course resources and never removed.
My wife lives in Bristol UK, seeing the amazing preservation work that they have done on the SS Great Britain, also one of Brunel's ships, is a treat. While not a warship like the HMS Warrior, it does predate the Warrior by 16 years (1843 vs 1859) and was the largest passenger ship of its time. Both are fairly close to each other, about a 2 hour drive apart. Well worth it if you ever visit the south west of England.
Nice something to take my mind off getting sick, five days before my vacation starts.
HMS Caroline, last Jutland survivor, still in Belfast UK
"Like Corn on the Cob..."
im on the what now?
@@mistercornell4755 Finishing the song for Tex...
A good start of the day, seeing destroyers doing the zoomies.
well, i'm in Italy and it's morning. thank you Tex :)
to be fair on the point of the karmann ghia is a work of art and craftsmanship with the way the body is put together
Oh the Olympia! I went to see that literally a month ago when i was in Philly. Very cool ship. The guided engine room tour is very worth it!
Man that first battle with the US you were bouncing 95% of your shots. almost all the damage done was through fires.
I have to put in a shout-out for Big Mamie, aka USS Massachusetts. She's a South Dakota class battleship, moored at Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA. Come visit! She's a beautiful lady.
USA starts a war with Russia (ingame).
Tex: ZERG MAINE!!!
I made it a point to see the Mikasa last time I was in Japan. Pretty damn cool
"Keep Stalling Stalin!"
9:49 It doesn't look like the rest of the formation are fans of Tex lead ship.
Form follows function. That being said, astetics are their own thing.
Your mention of officer and nco corps reminds me of a video where they said they would be interviewing "boots on the ground"... and pulled out a Lt Col.
Facepalm.
On the media stuff, I've sat doing things for YT for 10 years now just fooling around as a hobbyist. You have to hit trends and be on those trends if you want to make lots of money.
Love wacky experimental designs for ships and aircraft. The Vitse-admiral Popov is great, Russian monitor ship with a circular hull. Terrible boat but fun.
in my playthroughs i tend of have 3 'sub-classes' of destroyers
1: something very small and cheap with *_a_* gun and *_a_* torpedo launcher, but with decent minesweeping and anti-sub. these stop subs and mines from being an issue and act as export fodder, as other nations will gobble up cheap ships even if they're crap.
2: the Anti-Destroyer or "the destroyer that actually does what destroyers were named for", i.e. it kills torpedo boats and other DDs. this tends to be a fairly large ship with minimum torpedos but lots of small guns.
3: the 'Offensive' or 'Fleet' Destroyer. a large fast ship a pair of elevated guns and as many torpedo mounts as can fit.
I kinda get recycling the steel to use on other stuff.
I don't really get blowing up what is effectively a living, floating museum so that we can irradiate some far-flung atoll to prove that world-ending bomb goes boom old ship also sink.
I mean... We could have probably assumed that part right? 😂
Would have loved to see Prinz Eugen preserved, blowing it up was a travesty. That test did give a lot of good info on nukes against ships. The air burst test didn't sink a whole lot, with active crews that was survivable. The underwater test was horrifying for the ships.
Honestly, I'm pretty forgiving of the recycling & obsolescence angle - preserving history is important, but lets be honest there's probably smarter and equally-effective ways of doing that than keeping an entire boat around, keeping ships around always seemed like more of a cultural vanity project if anything. Though where I start having issues is the hypocrisy where people recklessly toss aside "historical artifacts" because they're commonplace only for those same people to exploit the "rarity" of some completely banal contemporary everyday-item; because of course speculator markets ruin literally everything they touch...
You mention the Warspite... the Revenge and Royal Sovereign's remains are part of the Lovell radio telescope.
There is a full size replica of the USS Monitor with a museum that holds the pieces of the ship that where raised from the wreck in Virginia. Drachinifel did a pretty decent video on it.
thank you again tex, you help me get though my day.
Most PhDs are far removed from reality in general ;)
your vids and intros are gold ceep it up
As to your talk about people thinking something is gonna be easy. Yeah experienced a few of those types, not talking bad about them, as they only seen one little part of what they were changing to do, and only heard it second or third hand, most wrong. This happened while I was in the USMC, right before and during the surge, I was an avionics man on AH-1W’s and UH-1N’s, Cobra attack helicopters and Huey, utility helos. Was a very complex job with so much to learn and know. I was very good at it, but that’s my thing. Anyways. We had multiple grunt types, that enlisted to come to the air wing, as they thought and heard it’d be so easy. All the bones that came to my shop. Or came a unit that was deployed and got sent to us, until that unit was back home, I ended training all of them, when they were 2-3 tanks senior to me, and just talking as we worked inbtween going over what we’re doing and why. And how to do it, etc, all that. After they been there a good 3-9 months, every single one opened to me, and was like holy fuck. No idea you guys do all this. And work this long, 6-7 days a week, continuously even in the states, and get sent all over the US and world for air shows and training then go out and support MEUS, while the rest go to Iraq and/or Afghanistan all at the same time, and continuously stretched to the breaking point, was night crew, our regular shit in the US, when not somewhere for training, was 18 hours, and that was on the 12 on 12 off schedule. That leaves 6 hours a day. To sleep, eat, shower, work out in your own. Do unit PT at times, plus any other things that need to get done, and was 6 days a week, if lucky, all while making far less than minimum wage, for minting up to $14 million dollar aircraft for my MOS. Plus upgrades, to do the most demanding aerial shot, close air support, medevacs and covering medivacs. You have to fix any problem, but the most severe in tens of seconds, as the longer you take, the more guys are killed and wounded, but you also can’t afford to lose your pilots and aircrew, and aircraft…and those E-5’ and E-6’s were blown away by our work schedule, and the responsibilities of a bunch of kids, making this happen. They were like mid to late twenties. Some early 30’s, and we were at this time, the good and trusted ones training them to work on aircraft. 20 to mid twenties as the rare exceptions. I still couldn’t legally drink when I was training E-6 transfers to us. They’d say holy shit. This I the most I worked, ever in my life, except one really bad day in infantry. B it we did 6 days a week in the states, and when deployed, 7 days a week for 6-7 months every year, then back home for 5-6 months, of same hours, but one less day a week, then deployed again, repeat…forever. My unit had the highest deployment rate the of any US unit, also the least mishaps and best safety. Since Vietnam. And until I got out in 2010. We also had the highest divorce rate, highest DUI’s and highest minor trouble, think bar fights and minor shot like that, kinda goes hand in hand. My personal record, once got to my unit and the fleet, the lowest amount of time I spent in a year, where I was “stationed” was 33 days out of 365, the most day I spent where I was stationed was my last year in, and that like 72 days…so yeah. Granted. The ground guys loved us, but they always tried talking shit, until they tried to join us, thinking it’d be so easy…and it’s the most and hardest they ever worked, and we still did ground type shit at times anyways, on top of everything else. I’d just tell them, beware what you wish for, especially when you sign your life away, in a contract, now you gotta do this for 4 more years, or face severe consequences, and then laugh. And tell them that the career jammer, fucked them.
Great new intro!
I don't know if Tex is jsut lucky in this game, or I'm especially unlucky, but my playthroughs have been dismal with everything being fine for a bit and then the world turning on me with wildly advanced battlecruisers. But the man clearly knows this game well.
I think you are an influence, even if you don't aim to be. Your approach to the channel, your content, and even your nonsense all feel like they show a lot about you.
Mostly that you're a good person - you're honest, you're encouraging, and you really throw yourself into something if you feel that it's worth it. Also that you're perfectly willing to laugh at yourself and just have fun.
I'm glad I came across your content! I hope to keep coming across it, too! 😊
Gotta love those fast heavy cruisers... Tex, have you had a lot of trouble with this thing running right? For some daggone reason I keep completely losing control and can't give commands. And of course the torpedo boats that forget to fire their torpedoes. But I expect that.
USS Salem in Quincy MA is really really interesting.
I can attest to what you said about institutional knowledge, when you lose that corps of senior enlisted and mid grade officers.
My uncle served in the USN from 1951 to 1971 as a Gunners Mate Technician, and I from 1977 to 1997 as a Machinist Mate in the Nuclear Power Program on submarines.
If my uncle were still alive, between the two of us, we could describe at some length, how we watched and experienced, as what was essentially still the WWII Navy he first enlisted in, ran by the veterans of WWII - even in the early 60's, one of his CO's was one of the dive bomber pilots that took out the Japanese carriers at Midway - into the politicized DEI-riddled mess it is today - to where the social classes that they traditionally depended heavily on to meet their recruiting goals, now wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole - and they're seriously proposing a "service grants citizenship" bill in Congress, to get "migrants" to enlist for several years in return for being made a citizen - and 20 years on, they still can't come up with a design for a decent Frigate, to start replacing all the ships built in the 80's and 90's.
I will say that when I do play this game I more often than not plan them to start when I have a new generation of battleships built and in the meantime I just use endless waves of torpedo boats or destroyers once they get big enough to make worth building.
This also let's me have enough tonnage to easily conquer neutral nations when the chance comes up as I can gain the all important supply ports and shipyard space.
44:00 good lord can you imagine ClF3 filled naval cannons.
Da Koppec class. Aka the penny class.
Tex plays boat game, goes off on one talk about “x”. Continues to play game, talks about game here and there. Then goes off to talk about “y” where “y” is about hard work, how he actually has standards, how he does it for himself and just hopes some number of people like it… when most of his viewers (at least those that have been around long enough to “understand” the Tex persona.) while usually appreciates what he plays, but really just “watch” to listen to him talk and don’t really care what Tex is playing in his normal vids.
Pretty sure that front cruiser in the first fight took a lot of friendly hits.
You're 1000% right on the land armies. Been trashing Germany on the ocean, and after 22 months of war, the army still can't take Rhodesia...............
this episode has good vibes.
I understand what your talking about on the youtube side... I started my own channel a few months ago and I'm happy playing to an audience of myself. I was ecstatic about having 7 views on a video I did. I'm doing everything on the cheap with stuff I already had. And I'm learning to edit videos myself.
Oh, and for penny pincher, you want Скряга or "Skryaga" Class.
Why do i feel like doing the rasputin dance to an ooooompa band? Cos that awesome intro thats why! (You know you want to as well now)
Next Episode: Mighty Laser Disco Ball!
Oh nice I was jus watching some ss13 stuff and saw this drop. 😅
25:59 - 31:26 this is why I love Tex.
I'd like to throw out, The Screaming Kopek, for the next austerity class name for Russia
On history: Does everyone else despise 'Battle Books'? (Like 'Gettysburg was the pivot point of history' books) Or is it just me?
To be clear: this may be a strawman I invented for myself digging for resources for a middle school project in a public library. But it's colored my feeling of at least one book I read later.
Yep, same deal I found with being a writer. Most everyone thinks "Oh anyone can write, I've been doing it since Kindergarten!" or the like. But there was a lot of grinding away doing mentally breaking labor, having to take like 7 dollar SEO Article Commissions that would take two days to research and write, etc, until I could get to a point of doing more fulfilling commission work. Just under 10 years of grinding out day in and day out before I hit a level of success that let me do it full time. Which has been an amazing blessing and I am thankful nearly every day that I get to get up, and do something that I've dreamed of since I was 6, and make ends meet.
Tex, a good suggestion if you do not want to get constantly torped (especially in the early game): Do not drive into knife fighting range ... ^^
It's like the revolution where would we be without the French we'd still be British and so would every colony we caused to rebel after. A lot of battles were won by outside support.
your not crazy, im the one whos crazy