RULE THE WA/v/ES: FUCK SUBMARINES (EXCEPT WOLFGIRLS) EDITION
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OP has returned for the third thread of the third season of Rule the Wa/v/es, the Holla Forums Plays series where Holla Forums attempts to manage the affairs of a major naval power in the early twentieth century. For those who are just joining us, Rule the Waves is a mild/moderately autistic game where you play as the head of a nation's Navy. You manage your fleet construction, give orders in battle (depending on difficulty) and make policy decisions. Complicating the whole process is the endless struggle to balance the budget, adapt to your rivals designs, satisfy the politicians and deal with the fact that your glorious new Battle-cruiser will likely be obsolete before it's completed.
PREVIOUSLY…
After several tension-raising events, France and Russia announced that they were jointly declaring war upon us. While Russia did not have the capability to directly engage us in the Mediterranean, they committed most of their cruiser force to raiding our merchant shipping. France on the other hand, was eager to get her revenge for being defeated in 1904, and engaged us furiously. Just off the coast of our borders, our fleets met in the night. Clever torpedo runs by our Mighty Faggot class DDs led to the sinking of three French battleships. While this was a devastating blow to the French, it did not knock them out of the war.
Two years later, just off the coast of Malta, the modern French Dreadnought Redoutable caught a pair of our legacy battleships escorting a convoy and tore them apart. Immediately in response, we launched a massive raid on the harbor of Nice and engaged the French battle line with our own. Our light cruisers Bari and Marsala, led by Spaghetti Hauler, ran a near-suicidal torpedo attack on the French battle line, and managed to hit the Redoutable with a single torpedo which detonated it's ammunition magazine, sinking it within an instant.
Even then, the French/Russo alliance refused to back down, and instead switched to mass submarine warfare. Merchant shipping suffered horribly, and we lost many ships to torpedo attacks. A plan to collapse Russia by allowing a revolutionary safe passage backfired and gave rise to socialists within our nation. This, combined with the shortages imposed by French submarine warfare and five years of war, brought our nation to the very edge of revolution.
In a desperate bid to rally our people, our Battle-cruisers Pax Romana and Italia il Audace engaged the French Battle-cruisers Dunkerque and Duquesne off the Northern coast of Sicily. Despite being outgunned and taking heavy damage, our last-ditch effort resulted in the destruction of both, leaving the French Navy with only a single true Capital ship remaining. With renewed resolve to continue the fight, our forces soldiered on. France threw in the towel and we claimed the island of Cosica, as well as the Falkands, which rebelled against Britain before being taken by France.
Now we stand in the post-war reconstruction era. Many elements of our fleet are outdated and must be replaced, others may be fit to be refitted.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PARTICIPATE
I run almost all major policy decisions past Holla Forums before implementing them, only resolving them myself if they're very minor or Holla Forums has already given feedback on what they want to do. As such, I will often ask for opinions on political events. But in addition, the following things can be adjusted and should be brought up often
As of now this is largely balanced, with some emphasis on researching new guns
Right now we're only training gunnery to keep costs low to finance our new BCs. We can add either Night Fighting or Torpedo Warfare to our training regiments
"Can we design a cruiser to be used as a long-range raider, but still be able to fight on it's own"
"Build more subs/DDs/a new Capital
No ship will be allowed to die without a name, so I ask for Holla Forums to christen them
"ur a fgt"