Don't know if you know this, but clicking on the "[Enemy Ship] has spotted [Your Ship]" notification will teleport the camera to the enemy ship's position.
Am I the only one, that hates that the silhouettes that represent the enemy ships at the top of the screen need ten or so seconds after the enemy division is detected to become clickable?
Wews the Duty Eternal's skipper surely had good skills in guiding her around the torpedo soup thrown up by those Spanish cruisers. I think he deserves a medal for that.
Well, the AI certainly chose violence during the first part of the episode! But I'll excuse that given the many, ehm, "lucky" torpedo dodges by the Duty Eternal.
They really need to have a proper fleet formation pre battle screen.. looks almost unplayable otherwise.. as it often precludes correct deployment and gives the enemy a severe advantage
01:15: San Francisco is probably a refit of a San Felipe class. It has the same hull and towers, but different funnels, as a 5.1” secondary which the base design doesn’t, lost 4.3 knots, and has a smaller crew. Also they seem to have picked up deck torpedo launchers. Yep, confirmed.
Strike on Málaga, Part 2 10:35: Die Presse: Wien MCMXXII: 12 September 1922 Guns and Torpedoes Though Duty Eternal was getting more hits, the San Felipe was tanking them and Voralberg wasn’t getting out fast enough. Duty Eternal turned hard around to come on the Spanish ships’ starboard beam with the three Jägerkreuzer trailing behind her, happy to be brought closer to the enemy. Duty Eternal’s charge drew the Spanish attention. Duty Eternal began to take 11.4” shells. She finally got the flooding hits aft to open the rest of San Felipe’s non-engineering compartments. One of those was flooded was well. With no reserve buoyancy left, San Felipe sank with 898 of her 1069 man crew. Almirante Oquendo turned and tried to close on the Jägerkreuzer, switching fire to Götzis when she realized that Duty Eternal was taking the 11.4” hits without serious damage to anything but her towers. Almirante Oquendo attempted a torpedo strike but missed ahead of Semper Victoriam. San Francisco got a torpedo hit but it was a dud. What wasn’t was the 5.1” from Almirante Oquendo that hit the torpedo magazine on Sankt Johann which forced her to withdraw with flooding aft. Sankt Johann’s 6” shell magazine also exploded, and Sankt Johann only had 3” guns to defend herself. Duty Eternal barely avoided a spread of torpedoes coming at her, but San Francisco took a magazine fire of her own, her two forward 11.4” turrets burned out and her aft turret with no ammunition. Now Duty Eternal put her guns on Almirante Oquendo. Almirante Oquendo targeted Götzis and she was ordered to withdraw as well. Duty Eternal swung around and as she did Semper Victoriam finally got into 6” gun range of Almirante Oquendo. More hits began to tell on Almirante Oquendo and she lost her main tower, her conning tower, and hull integrity forward. Water was rushing in back to her fourth bulkhead. Again Duty Eternal saw torpedoes pass ahead of her bow. Facing a more trained crew on San Francisco she might have taken serious damage. And again Duty Eternal cut between three torpedoes coming at her. San Francisco launched again on Duty Eternal and missed aft. Meanwhile, flooded forward, Almirante Oquendo finally took a flooding hit aft. Soon Almirante Oquendo had only her reserve buoyancy keeping her afloat. Her citadel was finally breached and Almirante Oquendo sank with 909 of her 1069 man crew. Santa Lucía had slipped away after San Felipe sank. San Francisco was still a torpedo threat, as she had demonstrated. She still had torpedoes and was reloading her starboard side tubes and launcher. But she turned to head directly at Duty Eternal, coming further into range of Semper Victoriam. Finally San Francisco got a torpedo hit on Duty Eternal, destroying her torpedo magazine. Duty Eternal took flooding aft. As Semper Victoriam swung by she launched back on San Francisco and got one hit out of five from her port side launchers. San Francisco was flooded from her bow to her mid line with her damage control fighting flooding in her sixth compartment. They lost, another bulkhead breached, and second engine was disabled, and fires continued to burn. San Francisco had 260 casualties reported. Flooding broke through to her aft compartments and San Francisco went down by the bow, losing 596 of her 677 man crew. Duty Eternal had 183 casualties. Sankt Johann had 123, Götzis 72, Voralberg 71 and not a hit gotten, Semper Victoriam 47, and The Emperor's Replicae 4. The Cobra’s conducted search and rescue and picked up 413 Spanish survivors.
French Antilles Falls! 04:42: Die Presse: Wien MCMXXII: 17 August 1922 The French Antilles, an archipelago in the Caribbean, has been taken with it two major ports of Fort de France and Point a Pitre. Losses are estimated at 1400 for the Naval Infantry and 3500 for the Armée de Terre. The invasion fleet with now turn to taking the Spanish West Indies. First up, the ports of Chrisiansted and Charlotte Amalie in the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico.
Battle of San Juan 21:04: Die Presse: Wien MCMXXII: 18 October 1922 With the landings against the Virgin Islands going so well the fleet snuck off to hit the nearby port of San Juan on Puerto Rico. This was the Contemptor, lead of her class of Schlachtschiffe, and her sister ship Viribus Unitis, the Oberon, lead of her class of Schlachtschiffe, and her sister ship Prinz Eugen, the Adjudicator, lead of her class of Schlachtschiffe, and her sister ship “Rylanor, Ancient of Rites”, three San Pietro Alcantar class Schlachtschiffe, Venere Armata, Santissimo Crocelisso, and Grand Alessandro, escorted by three Dictator class Gepanzerkreuzer, the Dictator *, lead of her class, and her sister ships Demise of Chaos and Sebastian Yarrick. When they reached San Juan they flushed out two Celedon Class Cruçeros de 2a Clas, Republica and San Gerónimo, and the Cruçero de 2a Clas Reina Victoria Eugenia, the Petronila Class Cruçeros de 3a Clas Petronilla and Principe Alfonso, and the Edetana Class 1909 Refit Cruçeros de 3a Clas Gaditano and Victoria de las Tunas, as well as the Conde de Regla class Cruçero de 3a Clas Infanta Isabel and the Don Antonio de Ulloa class Cruçero de 3a Clas Miguel de Cervantes. The fleet was coming in from the north-east when they saw funnel smoke belching out of ships making steam to meet them. Venere Armata was leading Viribus Unitis. Contemptor, and “Rylanor, Ancient of Rites” in the starboard division while Grand Alessandro, Prinz Eugen, Adjudicator, and Santissimo Crocelisso, formed the port division. Seeing they had opposition, Contemptor and Viribus Unitis broke off to engage on their own with the Dictators following. The port and starboard divisions then formed on Grand Alessandro. Principe Alfonso lead a division of Cruçeros de 3a Clas at the scrum of the forming Austrian ships and took hits on her main tower, on her 2.1” magazine, and on her steering compartment and another further up, the ship. She was flooding in five compartments and had 53 casualties reported. Soon Principe Alfonso sank with 302 of her 312 man crew.
Petronilla was following, and was targeted next. She took a 12” hit that destroyed her forward 7.2” gun and opened her bow to the fourth bulkhead. More hits from the Contemptor and the following Dictators’ 8” guns and Petronilla was sunk with 551 of her 609 man crew. Grand Alessandro was leading the slower Schlachtschiffe west while Contemptor went south to bracket the Spanish ships and make sure none got away. Reina Victoria Eugenia was the next ship closing, heading for the gap between the Contemptor and Viribus Unitis. She turned south as well to open her 7” and 7.4” broadside but she was still too far out. She lost her middle mast and two of her wing turrets aft. Contemptor and Viribus Unitis pounded on her with 12” shells and the Dictators with 8”. The Reina Victoria Eugenia was sunk with 481 of her 541 man crew. The Celedon class San Gerónimo had already lost her main tower but was closing into 8.7” range on her main battery of single turrets fore and aft. She probably wanted to bring her fourteen 5.3” casemates into play as well. For a Spanish ship, she was remarkably fast at 20.4 knots. But taking pounding from the 8” guns of the Dictators, she gave up, and fell back. This was too late, as flooding had taken hold and she sank with 312 of her 323 man crew. Her sister ship Republica, the largest Spanish ship present and the flagship of the squadron, another Celedon, was heading in, leading the remaining Cruçeros de 3a Clas. She got in range to put a torpedo into Sebastian Yarrick, inflicting 23 casualties, before Republica herself sank with 308 of her 323 man crew. Grand Alessandro was bringing the older Schlachtschiffe into range, but it was the Dictators who sank the Gaditano with 384 of her 446 man crew. The rate of fire on the 8” guns was simply devastating. Grand Alessandro got the 11” hit that finished off the Infanta Isabel, sinking her with 336 of her 355 man crew. Miguel de Cervantes, the smallest Spanish ship, was sunk by the dictators, losing 197 of her 204 man crew. Finally Victoria de las Tunas was sunk with 408 of her 446 man crew. This was the end of the Escuadrón de Sotavento, Flota de las Indias Occidentales, Armada Real Española, 61 thousand tons of warship displacement, 3280 officers and men killed or lost at sea, and 277 captured. The KuK Kriegsmarine lost 112 men on Viribus Unitis, 75 on Contemptor, 23 on Sebastian Yarrick, and 13 on Dictator. * Marksman’s Honour
Battle of Oporto 00:00: Die Presse: Wien MCMXXII: 28 July 1922 The Overlord class Kampfkreuzer Invicta Erucae, the Endurance class Jägerkreuzer Sankt Johann, the Sword class Zerstörer The Emperor's Replicae, and the Cobra, lead of her class of Zerstörer, found what appeared to be three San Felipe class Cruçeros de 1a Clas, the class lead San Filipe and the Almirante Oquendo with the 1922 Gun Boat refit, which improved their armor quality but slowed the ships by 3.3 knots, and the San Francisco with the 1922 Torpedo Boat refit, which added two triple deck torpedo launchers, one per side, and reduced the speed by 5.3 knots, escorting thirteen transports along the Portuguese coast near Oporto. The Emperor's Replicae led Cobra forward to attempt a long range torpedo strike on the convoy, but with the weight of the 11.4” guns the Cruçeros carried was ordered not to close. The Emperor's Replicae took a massive hit aft, lost her rudder, and took 13 casualties, but was able to get away. One torpedo hit for damage on a transport, and the transport Venedora sank, but Invicta Erucae and Sankt Johann broke off when Invicta Erucae took three 11.4” hits forward and began to flood. Invicta Erucae continued to take hit until Sankt Johann turned about and drew the attention of the Spanish ships. When Invicta Erucae was clear Sankt Johann broke away using her greater speed. Invicta Erucae took 130 casualties and Sankt Johann took 44. The Spanish did not report their losses but (rightly) claimed the battle to be a victory.
I don't know how feasible this would be, but have you considered trying to put both front guns on barbettes (one being the shortest one you can put the main gun on) so that you can bow mount some deck torpedo launchers, to really lean into the Imperium of Man aesthetic?
Fall of Montevideo 31:29: Die Presse: Wien MCMXXIII: 17 February 1923 The American held province of Uruguay has fallen, the port of Montevideo surrendering when Leviathan, Tegetthoff, and Habsburg again moved up the Río de la Plata and demanded the surrender of the city.
War of the Clones 32:43: Die Presse: Wien MCMXXIII: 8 May 1923 How is it possible for two Spanish ships to be sunk at San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean, in the Western Hemisphere in October to then appear at Davao in Mindanao, in the Philippine Sea, in the Eastern Hemisphere? Not merely two ships of the same classes, but with the same displacement and the same flaws? Well, the Celedon Class Cruçero de 2a Clas, Republica and the Edetana Class 1909 Refit Cruçeros de 3a Clas Gaditano managed to do it. Perhaps they sank right through the planet and out the other side. This didn’t do them much good, as they had to flee Davao as the Austrian Naval Infantry closed in, and ended up finding the Redemptor, lead of her class of Schlachtschiffe, and her sister ships Malcades and Indomator, and the Dominion, lead of her class of Kampfkreuzer, and her sister ship Archduke Franz Ferdinand, recently arrived from French Polynesia. Today Indomator was leading Malcades and Redemptor, with the Kampfkreuzer Dominion and Archduke Franz Ferdinand following. They spotted the funnel smoke coming out of port from their north. They turned to close, then Indomator suffered an engineering failure and ground to a halt. The Dominion were told to head out alone while Dominion got her steam back up and began moving. Dominion sighted the Republica over the horizon, heading away. Dominion opened fire, and Republica, realizing she wasn’t getting away, turned to converge on Dominion’s course. Republica stopped a couple of shells before a 14” punched through her main belt under Republica’s A turret, destroying the gun and flooding the ship forward. Republica already had 26 casualties reported. Republica’s damage control team managed to pump out one compartment, but the other three filled, and Republica turned away now she was dependent on only her aft turret. Then she took another 14” shell into her engineering spaces, losing her 1.9” shell magazine and 32 more of her crew as flooding spread further aft. More 14” hits until one shell blew entirely through the ship aft, opening her port and starboard. Republica sank with 311 of her 323 man crew. Having finished Republica, the two divisions turned north, and Indomator sighted Gaditano on the horizon, and opened fire with her 15” guns. The first salvo blew off her stern and her aft turret. The second salvo blew off her bow, took out her 1.5” shell magazine, and opened the ship up across the waterline. One more shell and she sank with 428 of her 446 man crew. Only 30 survivors were found.
Absolutely despise the division UI. Absolutely rage-inducing trying to sort out a big fleet at the start of a fight and it begins merging unselected groups together for seemingly no reason. God I fucking hope they fix the UI at some point this decade
I asked the Devs now multiple times to add a "lock division" button. But it seems that UI/UX isn't there priority, lika at all....
I love how the US is just casually sat on 13 allied minor nations, I've never seen anywhere near that many allied to one great power before
Duty Eternal ddodged an entire years worth of torpedoes in a single battle
Don't know if you know this, but clicking on the "[Enemy Ship] has spotted [Your Ship]" notification will teleport the camera to the enemy ship's position.
Am I the only one, that hates that the silhouettes that represent the enemy ships at the top of the screen need ten or so seconds after the enemy division is detected to become clickable?
I just imagine the death korp of krieg charging at the enemy endlessly in the offensives that are going nowhere
Wews the Duty Eternal's skipper surely had good skills in guiding her around the torpedo soup thrown up by those Spanish cruisers.
I think he deserves a medal for that.
21:10 Rylanor & co. bullying a port.
'Across its words now, demanding to know
Are we standing here gathered as friend or foe?'
Foe, definitely foe.
Well, the AI certainly chose violence during the first part of the episode! But I'll excuse that given the many, ehm, "lucky" torpedo dodges by the Duty Eternal.
They really need to have a proper fleet formation pre battle screen.. looks almost unplayable otherwise.. as it often precludes correct deployment and gives the enemy a severe advantage
01:15: San Francisco is probably a refit of a San Felipe class. It has the same hull and towers, but different funnels, as a 5.1” secondary which the base design doesn’t, lost 4.3 knots, and has a smaller crew. Also they seem to have picked up deck torpedo launchers.
Yep, confirmed.
Strike on Málaga, Part 2 10:35:
Die Presse: Wien
MCMXXII: 12 September 1922
Guns and Torpedoes
Though Duty Eternal was getting more hits, the San Felipe was tanking them and Voralberg wasn’t getting out fast enough. Duty Eternal turned hard around to come on the Spanish ships’ starboard beam with the three Jägerkreuzer trailing behind her, happy to be brought closer to the enemy. Duty Eternal’s charge drew the Spanish attention. Duty Eternal began to take 11.4” shells. She finally got the flooding hits aft to open the rest of San Felipe’s non-engineering compartments. One of those was flooded was well. With no reserve buoyancy left, San Felipe sank with 898 of her 1069 man crew.
Almirante Oquendo turned and tried to close on the Jägerkreuzer, switching fire to Götzis when she realized that Duty Eternal was taking the 11.4” hits without serious damage to anything but her towers. Almirante Oquendo attempted a torpedo strike but missed ahead of Semper Victoriam. San Francisco got a torpedo hit but it was a dud. What wasn’t was the 5.1” from Almirante Oquendo that hit the torpedo magazine on Sankt Johann which forced her to withdraw with flooding aft. Sankt Johann’s 6” shell magazine also exploded, and Sankt Johann only had 3” guns to defend herself.
Duty Eternal barely avoided a spread of torpedoes coming at her, but San Francisco took a magazine fire of her own, her two forward 11.4” turrets burned out and her aft turret with no ammunition. Now Duty Eternal put her guns on Almirante Oquendo. Almirante Oquendo targeted Götzis and she was ordered to withdraw as well. Duty Eternal swung around and as she did Semper Victoriam finally got into 6” gun range of Almirante Oquendo. More hits began to tell on Almirante Oquendo and she lost her main tower, her conning tower, and hull integrity forward. Water was rushing in back to her fourth bulkhead.
Again Duty Eternal saw torpedoes pass ahead of her bow. Facing a more trained crew on San Francisco she might have taken serious damage. And again Duty Eternal cut between three torpedoes coming at her. San Francisco launched again on Duty Eternal and missed aft.
Meanwhile, flooded forward, Almirante Oquendo finally took a flooding hit aft. Soon Almirante Oquendo had only her reserve buoyancy keeping her afloat. Her citadel was finally breached and Almirante Oquendo sank with 909 of her 1069 man crew.
Santa Lucía had slipped away after San Felipe sank. San Francisco was still a torpedo threat, as she had demonstrated. She still had torpedoes and was reloading her starboard side tubes and launcher. But she turned to head directly at Duty Eternal, coming further into range of Semper Victoriam. Finally San Francisco got a torpedo hit on Duty Eternal, destroying her torpedo magazine. Duty Eternal took flooding aft. As Semper Victoriam swung by she launched back on San Francisco and got one hit out of five from her port side launchers. San Francisco was flooded from her bow to her mid line with her damage control fighting flooding in her sixth compartment. They lost, another bulkhead breached, and second engine was disabled, and fires continued to burn. San Francisco had 260 casualties reported. Flooding broke through to her aft compartments and San Francisco went down by the bow, losing 596 of her 677 man crew.
Duty Eternal had 183 casualties. Sankt Johann had 123, Götzis 72, Voralberg 71 and not a hit gotten, Semper Victoriam 47, and The Emperor's Replicae 4. The Cobra’s conducted search and rescue and picked up 413 Spanish survivors.
24:57 those jokes were so unexpectedly fitting that I laughed my head off....
French Antilles Falls! 04:42:
Die Presse: Wien
MCMXXII: 17 August 1922
The French Antilles, an archipelago in the Caribbean, has been taken with it two major ports of Fort de France and Point a Pitre. Losses are estimated at 1400 for the Naval Infantry and 3500 for the Armée de Terre.
The invasion fleet with now turn to taking the Spanish West Indies. First up, the ports of Chrisiansted and Charlotte Amalie in the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico.
Battle of San Juan 21:04:
Die Presse: Wien
MCMXXII: 18 October 1922
With the landings against the Virgin Islands going so well the fleet snuck off to hit the nearby port of San Juan on Puerto Rico. This was the Contemptor, lead of her class of Schlachtschiffe, and her sister ship Viribus Unitis, the Oberon, lead of her class of Schlachtschiffe, and her sister ship Prinz Eugen, the Adjudicator, lead of her class of Schlachtschiffe, and her sister ship “Rylanor, Ancient of Rites”, three San Pietro Alcantar class Schlachtschiffe, Venere Armata, Santissimo Crocelisso, and Grand Alessandro, escorted by three Dictator class Gepanzerkreuzer, the Dictator *, lead of her class, and her sister ships Demise of Chaos and Sebastian Yarrick.
When they reached San Juan they flushed out two Celedon Class Cruçeros de 2a Clas, Republica and San Gerónimo, and the Cruçero de 2a Clas Reina Victoria Eugenia, the Petronila Class Cruçeros de 3a Clas Petronilla and Principe Alfonso, and the Edetana Class 1909 Refit Cruçeros de 3a Clas Gaditano and Victoria de las Tunas, as well as the Conde de Regla class Cruçero de 3a Clas Infanta Isabel and the Don Antonio de Ulloa class Cruçero de 3a Clas Miguel de Cervantes.
The fleet was coming in from the north-east when they saw funnel smoke belching out of ships making steam to meet them. Venere Armata was leading Viribus Unitis. Contemptor, and “Rylanor, Ancient of Rites” in the starboard division while Grand Alessandro, Prinz Eugen, Adjudicator, and Santissimo Crocelisso, formed the port division. Seeing they had opposition, Contemptor and Viribus Unitis broke off to engage on their own with the Dictators following. The port and starboard divisions then formed on Grand Alessandro.
Principe Alfonso lead a division of Cruçeros de 3a Clas at the scrum of the forming Austrian ships and took hits on her main tower, on her 2.1” magazine, and on her steering compartment and another further up, the ship. She was flooding in five compartments and had 53 casualties reported. Soon Principe Alfonso sank with 302 of her 312 man crew.
Petronilla was following, and was targeted next. She took a 12” hit that destroyed her forward 7.2” gun and opened her bow to the fourth bulkhead. More hits from the Contemptor and the following Dictators’ 8” guns and Petronilla was sunk with 551 of her 609 man crew.
Grand Alessandro was leading the slower Schlachtschiffe west while Contemptor went south to bracket the Spanish ships and make sure none got away.
Reina Victoria Eugenia was the next ship closing, heading for the gap between the Contemptor and Viribus Unitis. She turned south as well to open her 7” and 7.4” broadside but she was still too far out. She lost her middle mast and two of her wing turrets aft. Contemptor and Viribus Unitis pounded on her with 12” shells and the Dictators with 8”. The Reina Victoria Eugenia was sunk with 481 of her 541 man crew.
The Celedon class San Gerónimo had already lost her main tower but was closing into 8.7” range on her main battery of single turrets fore and aft. She probably wanted to bring her fourteen 5.3” casemates into play as well. For a Spanish ship, she was remarkably fast at 20.4 knots. But taking pounding from the 8” guns of the Dictators, she gave up, and fell back. This was too late, as flooding had taken hold and she sank with 312 of her 323 man crew.
Her sister ship Republica, the largest Spanish ship present and the flagship of the squadron, another Celedon, was heading in, leading the remaining Cruçeros de 3a Clas. She got in range to put a torpedo into Sebastian Yarrick, inflicting 23 casualties, before Republica herself sank with 308 of her 323 man crew.
Grand Alessandro was bringing the older Schlachtschiffe into range, but it was the Dictators who sank the Gaditano with 384 of her 446 man crew. The rate of fire on the 8” guns was simply devastating. Grand Alessandro got the 11” hit that finished off the Infanta Isabel, sinking her with 336 of her 355 man crew. Miguel de Cervantes, the smallest Spanish ship, was sunk by the dictators, losing 197 of her 204 man crew. Finally Victoria de las Tunas was sunk with 408 of her 446 man crew. This was the end of the Escuadrón de Sotavento, Flota de las Indias Occidentales, Armada Real Española, 61 thousand tons of warship displacement, 3280 officers and men killed or lost at sea, and 277 captured.
The KuK Kriegsmarine lost 112 men on Viribus Unitis, 75 on Contemptor, 23 on Sebastian Yarrick, and 13 on Dictator.
* Marksman’s Honour
Battle of Oporto 00:00:
Die Presse: Wien
MCMXXII: 28 July 1922
The Overlord class Kampfkreuzer Invicta Erucae, the Endurance class Jägerkreuzer Sankt Johann, the Sword class Zerstörer The Emperor's Replicae, and the Cobra, lead of her class of Zerstörer, found what appeared to be three San Felipe class Cruçeros de 1a Clas, the class lead San Filipe and the Almirante Oquendo with the 1922 Gun Boat refit, which improved their armor quality but slowed the ships by 3.3 knots, and the San Francisco with the 1922 Torpedo Boat refit, which added two triple deck torpedo launchers, one per side, and reduced the speed by 5.3 knots, escorting thirteen transports along the Portuguese coast near Oporto.
The Emperor's Replicae led Cobra forward to attempt a long range torpedo strike on the convoy, but with the weight of the 11.4” guns the Cruçeros carried was ordered not to close. The Emperor's Replicae took a massive hit aft, lost her rudder, and took 13 casualties, but was able to get away. One torpedo hit for damage on a transport, and the transport Venedora sank, but Invicta Erucae and Sankt Johann broke off when Invicta Erucae took three 11.4” hits forward and began to flood.
Invicta Erucae continued to take hit until Sankt Johann turned about and drew the attention of the Spanish ships. When Invicta Erucae was clear Sankt Johann broke away using her greater speed.
Invicta Erucae took 130 casualties and Sankt Johann took 44. The Spanish did not report their losses but (rightly) claimed the battle to be a victory.
I don't know how feasible this would be, but have you considered trying to put both front guns on barbettes (one being the shortest one you can put the main gun on) so that you can bow mount some deck torpedo launchers, to really lean into the Imperium of Man aesthetic?
Fall of Montevideo 31:29:
Die Presse: Wien
MCMXXIII: 17 February 1923
The American held province of Uruguay has fallen, the port of Montevideo surrendering when Leviathan, Tegetthoff, and Habsburg again moved up the Río de la Plata and demanded the surrender of the city.
Again.. 😍
War of the Clones 32:43:
Die Presse: Wien
MCMXXIII: 8 May 1923
How is it possible for two Spanish ships to be sunk at San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean, in the Western Hemisphere in October to then appear at Davao in Mindanao, in the Philippine Sea, in the Eastern Hemisphere? Not merely two ships of the same classes, but with the same displacement and the same flaws?
Well, the Celedon Class Cruçero de 2a Clas, Republica and the Edetana Class 1909 Refit Cruçeros de 3a Clas Gaditano managed to do it. Perhaps they sank right through the planet and out the other side. This didn’t do them much good, as they had to flee Davao as the Austrian Naval Infantry closed in, and ended up finding the Redemptor, lead of her class of Schlachtschiffe, and her sister ships Malcades and Indomator, and the Dominion, lead of her class of Kampfkreuzer, and her sister ship Archduke Franz Ferdinand, recently arrived from French Polynesia.
Today Indomator was leading Malcades and Redemptor, with the Kampfkreuzer Dominion and Archduke Franz Ferdinand following. They spotted the funnel smoke coming out of port from their north. They turned to close, then Indomator suffered an engineering failure and ground to a halt. The Dominion were told to head out alone while Dominion got her steam back up and began moving. Dominion sighted the Republica over the horizon, heading away.
Dominion opened fire, and Republica, realizing she wasn’t getting away, turned to converge on Dominion’s course. Republica stopped a couple of shells before a 14” punched through her main belt under Republica’s A turret, destroying the gun and flooding the ship forward. Republica already had 26 casualties reported. Republica’s damage control team managed to pump out one compartment, but the other three filled, and Republica turned away now she was dependent on only her aft turret. Then she took another 14” shell into her engineering spaces, losing her 1.9” shell magazine and 32 more of her crew as flooding spread further aft. More 14” hits until one shell blew entirely through the ship aft, opening her port and starboard. Republica sank with 311 of her 323 man crew.
Having finished Republica, the two divisions turned north, and Indomator sighted Gaditano on the horizon, and opened fire with her 15” guns. The first salvo blew off her stern and her aft turret. The second salvo blew off her bow, took out her 1.5” shell magazine, and opened the ship up across the waterline. One more shell and she sank with 428 of her 446 man crew. Only 30 survivors were found.
Yeah I hear ya about the AI
Absolutely despise the division UI. Absolutely rage-inducing trying to sort out a big fleet at the start of a fight and it begins merging unselected groups together for seemingly no reason. God I fucking hope they fix the UI at some point this decade
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