Rule the Wa/v/es

Forgot picture, off to a great start.

Actually, in retrospect we should just go with user. So instead let's get to fleet creation.

We need a design for a:

Let's start off with the Battleship. We'll need a name, as well as general specifications as to what roles to focus on.

For fucks sake OP, drop a torrent or something. This looks autistic enough to please me, not to mention it seems toaster friendly.

Blowing shit up from afar.

Fielding the best guns Japan has pretty shit, with a modest armor arrangement and an above-average speed, our battleships are designed to pick and choose their fights.

What will this class of battleship be named?

Riceball

Biggu Chinpoko

Riceball it is.

Next is Armored Cruiser. Fulfilling a middle ground, CA's can either be designed as mini battleships, fielding comparable guns, or to fight comparable ships/smaller ships with many smaller guns.

of course it's going to be a mini battleship
more firepower

Mini battleship.

Name it Folded Steel.

We'll call her dubs in honor of your digits

Essential a scaled down version of the Riceball. Next up is Light Cruiser.

"The Impossibru"

Maximum speed, we can leave the hitting to destroyers with torpedoes, right?

Sonic Hispeed Omega

The Impossibru Omega design focuses on speed and light guns, ideal for running down merchant shipping and screening our capital ships from enemy destroyers.

Finally, we need to design a destroyer. I'm going to skip Minesweepers because they're all the same, but we'll still need a name for it.

Pearl Harbor

The Smug Anime Girl

Dreamcrusher

Chink Crusher

Loliship

Dice were rolled to decide name ownership.

The S.A.G combines anti-destroyer weaponry with a pair of torpedos.

The Pearl Harbor is a basic minesweeper.

Now we must choose what ships we will start off with.

Our starting funds are 223,000,000.

Please suggest names, although I will take some from previous suggestions.

do we need a fund reserve for upkeep?

We have the base 223 million. We can only "keep" 12 million. Afterwards, we select ships "in construction". These ships will be 50% complete and we will have to pay for the further construction but we will not have to pay for the initial 50%.

So it goes:

Unless we go crazy on 50% ships, we should be okay as far as initial funds go.

why is that Minesweeper so expensive?

I'm guessing we're gonna be fighting the Russian navy soon, right? That means we need to BTFO them with heavy hitters, prioritize CAs and CLs with maybe a couple BBs

one, two, three then 10 of each should be good to start?

Then my suggestion would be to start with a single fleet in mind. One battleship, two cruisers, one light cruiser, four destroyers and two minesweepers.

especially since our CA's are basically battlecruisers

BUY A HUNDRED SMUG ANIME GIRLS
WE WILL DROWN THEM IN SHITPOSTING

Are you implying that their Pacific Navy is worth a damn?

Their ships are fantastic at being coffins

Here is our starter fleet.

The minesweeper is expensive just because it's almost a destroyer. I believe it's better to spend a bit more to give them a fighting chance if they are found than to lose them en masse.

Which can be sometimes compensated by sheer heroism of Russian sailors. But oh well, we're talking autistic number-crunching here.

should have made a ¥200 million battleship

Here is the current situation. Almost every European power has a stake around us.

We must choose ships under construction. I suggest a B or CA, as well as some MS for coastal patrol.

Protip: the currency in this came is British pounds.

That sounds like a good plan. So, one battleship, one cruiser and two minesweepers then?

I like the sound of this

what can you actually do, is it like you're controlling your nation or just controlling a person that controls the Navy?maybe we should get our tonnage off of a foreign dock. I would go for the battleship

OP sucks cocks

backup nerd, * grips throat in his hand *

If you're still salty about no torrent, here you go: rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=69883534#69883534
Warning: Russian tracker.

Now we actually play.

We must choose our research priorities, training focuses (pick 2) and espionage levels.

We also must move some of our fleet into South east asia to meet our foreign tonnage requirements.

You control fleet battles, naval doctrine, and yell at foreign people to get them to go to war with you so you can demand a bigger budget.

Take over the islands, then take over China, just as god intended.

We need good fire control

Gunnery needs to be a training focus with night fighting

This interface looks markedly similar to Aurora 4X and Real Lives

We advance a few months, and one of our spies captures the plans for a Russian battleship!

If I understand correctly, our plan is to raise tensions in order to hopfully claim nearby lands as war reparations?

WAIT, CAN WE DESIGN OUR OWN SHIPS?

Yes
Is there a way we can compare our fleet strength to Ivan's?

Did you miss:

Unfortunatly, Japan has a fatal weakness that we're nearly 2" behind in gun size :^). We'll have to beat them in other ways than the big guns.

In other news, we have our first event.

lets make fun of italy

Let's go the historical way and blame the drunken Russian prince

Japan get's suprise attack so we might be able to get early vp.

Are telling me there actually is a torrent?
I never thought I would see this day.

I imagine that fleet tactics is king over technological elements at this point, so go for that first. AP projectiles are the second priority, since those are applicable to all guns, which we should put some priority into upgrading, considering how piddly our upper limit is. Fire control is probably good for the same reasons fleet tactics is good, that being likely wide-reaching effects on ships in general, and while I'm not sure armor is terribly useful to prioritize in general, our shipbuilding industry is not good, so we should put some priority on it. Lower casualties means more ships that can be continuously refit Kongo style, which is probably a lot cheaper ingame than new constructions, though I'm not so sure about that in reality.

How are torpedoes, by the by? Our current focus is definitely on catching up in guns, but I wonder if there'd be any use in putting scads of torpedoes on our battlecruisers and future fast battleships.

As for espionage, it'd be wise to allocate that according to our future enemies. If we're going for OTL as a member of the Allies, then snoop around Germany, or Austria-Hungary if our intelligence apparatus isn't so good. Otherwise, if we're going Central Powers, arrange it against our traditional regional enemy, Russia, who have a massive capacity in our home waters albeit no presence, and more importantly against the far more credible long-term threat of Great Britain, who have a very credible Southeast Asian base capacity.

More or less.

That battleship is disquieting. They have twelve-inch main guns, while we only have 8. That belt armor is also pretty immense. It thoroughly outclasses the Riceball in all relevant respects other than speed, it seems like. We do have more and much better secondary guns, but that'll only matter if we can get into knife fighting range. Makes me lean a bit more towards the torpedo arrangement, furthermore.

Imperator Pavel, I'm IJN.

It's unlikely Italy want's to fight, as they only have a single colony which is nowhere near us.

We blame Russia and proudly claim our spy. Things begin to heat up.

Stealing from gaijin pigdogs = Honorabru Action, make this shinobi a hero!

Another B joins the fleet.

YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP

A spy steals the plans for a British Light Cruiser.

Do we care about the Dominican Republic?

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The fuck does Japan care about the Caribbean? Fuck dem niggas

Also that Cruiser seems bretty gud. best not piss off the British for some time

Sage for dbbl post

You know what, I agree with the rest of anons. Fuck everything aside from our neighbors and their lands.

Either 2 or 3. It is not in our interests to rile America as of yet and we have no interest in the Carribean anyways, although raising general tension (assuming that is what 2 will do) against America might be useful to put them at odds with one of the other big naval powers in a limited war pre-WWI.

You're thinking of their neighbor Haiti, user. The Dominican Republic are the negro-hating Hispanics.

taco niggers are still niggers

Need more names for ships.

A crisis arises.

1 or 2. No concessions, whatever the case may be, as war is not likely to come soon and we have no need to intentionally avoid it.

More funding for us, obviously. Fuck those Imperial Army gits, we're the real deal! That, and we'll need Marine Corps under our direct jurisdiction.

1 or 2

Baka Gaijin
Korean Krumper

They're kinda shit in 1901 aren't they? Do they even have a ship-building industry at this point?

Even then I'd still say it's best to avoid a war with them for now, just build up your navy good.

We can now build submarines, although they act as a passive source of Victory Points and occasional destruction of enemy ships. How many should we build?

How about five? Five is a good number.

This may be it boys, do we call Russia on it's bullshit?

4-6, we'll probably have new models soon so not that many

1 or 2. Sorry, mister Braginski, but the time for face-punching is now.

do it

As spare funding allows, which can certainly mean 'none.' Although the decisive battle mindset did not serve the Japanese overly well in WW2 due to the circumstances, here it seems the best option, as the most likely war scenario with our expansionism 30 years ahead of schedule is one with Russia and Great Britain, potentially at once. We will have to destroy them as they come with wolf packs of accurate, maneuverable, and relatively survivable battlecruisers and their upgunned escorts butchering the enemy with close range barrages and torpedo volleys. A long war is neither desirable nor wise to plan around as more than a secondary scenario.

1 or 2, depending entirely on how we stack up to Russia's navy. Seeing to that battleship design, it'd probably be best to Tsushima them now rather than allow them any buildup.

5 it is.

War is begun.

It's…less than a hopeful prospect, Russia has moved it's entire fleet to our waters.

As our fleet attempt to move into position, our destroyer wing jumps the gun and charges directly into port. With the darkness of light, it doesn't become apparent that the entire Russian fleet is at rest here until it's too late. DD Alex is hit below the waterline, while DD Nami move into past her to fire a pair of torpedoes, hitting an enemy battleship.

Our cruisers and battleships are steaming to assist, but they may be too late.

This seems a little more ahistorical than early Japanese interventionism. Oops. Does naval travel time just not exist in any realistic capacity?

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Picrelated: Alex before and after that daring maneuver.

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It does, our period of raising tensions with Russia was drawn out over a year. We're only the Grand Admiral, we can't provoke a war suddenly.

The rest of our fleet moves to assist, Nami is hit while moving away. However, both Nami and Alex manage to limp away.

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The fleet catches a merchant attempting to get to port. Merchant shipping is a valuable target.

It appears that the Russian fleet has slunk into port, clearly not realizing their superiour numbers. Or perhaps they fear the fighting spirit of Japanese sailors. In any case, we take the chance to bombard their coastal battery.

this game looks very nice, how do you get it?
Is there not anyway of getting it free?

Already choking on my words, m8.

THE TIME HAS COME, AND SO HAVE I.

Right here

After bombarding the shore, our fleet retreats. However, we encounter Russian ships! This is either an ourputinity to score some early kills, or a scouting party for their fleet.

How about we try sinking a ship or two and then leg it?

Cheers mate.
Although, I must say, downloading a .exe file from a Russian site is making my stomach turn.

Our battleship identifies the opposing ship as a cruiser. While Faye attempts to scout out the other, she finds more than she bargained for.

Rutracker is a godsend when it comes to getting obscure or just stuff that are no longer in other trackers. Russians are really good are persevering torrents

Unless we're taking Ukrainians into account. EX.ua is also a big site. FOR YOU

Oh, dear. In the best case, that battleship does seem to be isolated from its support, so we might be able to sink it and the other ships in turn.

Isn't it standard practice for torrenting to have a disposable box with every antivirus one can think to grab for testing these kinds of things? Even more preferably, a closed box that the completed file is deposited into before execution or extraction.

As dawn breaks, we realize that a Russian battleship is isolated. We move all assets to engage it.

That was actually a misidentified cruiser.

As we surround the Tsesarevich, Faye launches a torpedo. Unfortunately, the battleship moves to avoid it, while also score a series of hits on her.

Now where have I seen this before…

An escort for a battleship is an acceptable loss. If we can strangle out enough of their capital ships, I imagine they'll be forced to accept an armistice, and their own scads of destroyers won't be able to threaten our own capitals due to their obscenely large secondary armament.

Considering there are minesweepers, is there an active mining mechanic? Can we pen the Russians into Port Arthur and attack their shipping & any attempted breakout at leisure?

Thanks to 1900 era gunnery technology, the Russian ship is able to break through into port. However, because of the damage dealt to it, as well at the destruction of the coastal battery, we technically win this battle.

We can set submarines and cruisers to raid enemy shipping. Later tech allows for active mining, which minesweepers counter.

I can't help but notice that Russia has no minesweepers. None.

Can we rush the tech ahead of time? It might be just the thing we need.

Correction, they have all of two now, sorry. Was going by the previous fleet lineup image from the war start. How long has the war gone on for?

Russian citizens are terrified at the thought of fighting the honorable Japanese military.

The underhanded slavs attempt to raid us. Battle is joined.

Can we commission some ships to be built in England? Say, at least one cruiser? If anything those anglos need to give us discount for shitting on Ivan's plate.

R8 my first BB.

(How the fuck do I add casemate 76mm guns?)

Our cruisers spot enemy raiders and move to engage them.

We currently have 2 cruisers and a set of destroyers in construction. All locally built.

I don't care what you do user, as long as you sink the French Navy.

Heh, that big placard actually says "Larger rations for soldiers' families, protectors of freedom and people's peace".
Another question to OP: are we still conducting espionage on the Ruskies? If yes, how long until we steal some juicy tech?

Also quick question, why haven't you sent fishing boats against the Russian fleet?

While engaging an enemy cruiser, DD Yoko slides up close and drops a torpedo, landing a hit on the enemy cruiser.

Actually, the first thing that got them hating us was that we sunk one of their fishing boats, then told them to deal with it.

We are. Who know, it's random chance.

With the enemy cruiser sunk, the other two light cruisers get skittish. The battle ends with Japan claiming a warship for a single merchant ship.

Here is our ships currently being built.

Good so far. How's the warscore? Can we get any concessions yet? If not, is it worth trying to press them further, or should we be satisfied with having bloodied Russia's nose and cut before losses? We could, in theory, use our smaller fleet to raid their shipping like they've tried and failed, and unlike Russia, get away with it for being able to maneuver better against their interceptors. And, if we can keep cutting up their fleet in these limited engagements, we'll eliminate them as a strategic priority for the near future, while gaining a far future advantage in tonnage and retrofittable ships. But if they go for a decisive action, the advantage is entirely theirs if they can catch us with their whole battlegroup.

I don't understand, how was our little DD able to get so close to that CA without the CA ripping us to shreds with its secondaries?

Maybe we, infact did overestimate the Russian Navy's capabilities?

Please tell me that's in this game!

Yep, you can rebuild older ships. You can change their main caliber, secondaries and engines. That's as far as I can remember.

We Kongo now

Responding to another enemy raid, CL Fast meets an enemy cruiser head on for the worst.

Updates will slow for a bit.

It had been under heavy fire and at least some of it's guns were disabled. The torpedo was a bit of a finishing blow.

Based Nipponese Tactics, that's how.

Is this a chance to wreck a BB?

I don't think it's possible to underestimate the Russian Navy's capabilities.

It's kind of bizarre, because we're going after them some four odd years early after they've already sent everything to the Pacific, and they're still getting a run for their money. I don't understand how they haven't penned us in yet.

Are they seriously deficient in either tech or recruitment?

Japan always finds a way

Are you forgetting how the real Russo-Japanese war went?

Has anyone got that picture that explains how their fleet fucked up before they even got there?

The one where they failed to beat fishermen and pissed off the UK.

Ah ok, you had me worried that this was a world of warships with autism.

I don't want to see destroyers taking on heavier ships and coming out on top.

Yeah, the primary reason the Russians got fucked up so hard was they came into the war with exhausted crew that had to go all the way around Africa, then they met the Japs who were ready for them. Cut that part out of the simulation (which I'm assuming this game doesn't have that level of detail) and you're in for a tougher fight than historically.

I don't think so

Terribly for Russia, because Japan had morale, elan and doctrine with kind-of-par tech, while Russia was turn-of-the-century Russia. Still, we're four years early and our battleships are equipped with 10 inch guns, equivalent to their cruiser primary armaments, and I don't think we've had time to research basic level fleet tactics either. They have more guns, ships, and much better armor, while being slightly underspeed. We do have torpedo parity, if I remember right. You would've thought that we'd get stomped on par numbers let alone so hideously outnumbered, but instead we just keep bleeding them while they rust in Port Arthur.

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Ships in a region that does not contain a friednly port do take crew morale losses. However, because our Russo-Japanese war took so long to get going, the Russian fleet was able to spend some time recuperating in port before war actually broke out.

I'll get the strategic map view of it, but we're just barely holding them off of a technical blockade.

In the current battle, DD Fast bugs out, while the cruisers start exchanging shot. Moeship lands a trio of hits with her 10 inches.

Love you user.

Soon afterwards, we manage to pin the Russian cruisers against the coastline. Both ships appear noticeably slower and a fire breaks out on one of them.

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The other Russian cruiser begins to sink. However, due to "misunderstood directions", CL Sanic turns back to the doomed ship, running directly into a second enemy group. Loliship and Moeship have to make a decision, do they continue to run down the Light Cruiser they've spotted, or turn to rescue Sanic?

SANIC NO

Preservation of our own fleet is the highest priority. We can't keep wolfpacking with no pack. Attempt to relieve the likely doomed Sanic and destroy the cruiser and its escorts. Retreat if the battleship engages.

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An attempt to rescue sanic is abandoned as she starts to sink. CL Hispeed arrives, having suffered engine problems hours before. Rather than use her to bolster our forces, we decide to cut and run. We sound a retreat and pray our engines hold up.

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you can't just leave those sailors as war prisoners!

The remaining fleet sucessfully evacuates. Sanic sinks, having died a hero's death. The post battle chart shows us as having sunk two Russian Armored Cruisers.

And a Battleship. What.

As far as I can tell, a second Russian Battleship engaged a merchant convoy, who promptly led it through a minefield.

Japanese Merchantmen > Russian Navy

This battle took place along the Japanese coast, they'll be fine.

Holy shit. It doesn't even matter that they're more modern than us compared to OTL, or that they've gotten their fleet together in time compared to OTL, they're still getting Tsushima'd. What a mess.

So what's this about a technical blockade? Is it on Port Arthur by us, or as is more likely, are we the ones suffering the blockade?

Eat shit ruskies, this a neet man's ocean!

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After the last couple battles, the blockade is neutral. We posses a comparable amount of large ships, while they have a decent swarm of destroyers. In three months we get a whole new wing of Smug Anime Girls.

Shall we continue on, or is there something that I should do beforehand?

I should mention, the "Force in Area" only includes those ships on Active Fleet. Ships regulated to coastal patrol or in dock for repairs are not counted.

How's our tech doing? Just a quick check-over. I assume we're heavy on doctrine & soft buffs, light on straight-up weapons?

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While most of our advancements has been stuff like "1% armor weight reduction", we just recently managed to research 11in guns. With Heavy Secondary Battery, we could make a ship focused entirely on fielding high caliber guns, although it would be slow and poorly armored.

Do I even need to ask?

Give them their revolutionary

REMOVE COMMUNISM

Send him to the gas chambers!

Both our armored cruisers are in dock with engine trouble, but in about 2 months our fleet will be bolstered by the new set of Smug Anime Girls.

I doubt river fighting is modeled, so we don't really have a need for a battery ship. Anything we could field of that sort would likely be outranged and outgunned by an equivalent Russian ship in terms of maximum caliber, as well as easy to catch, so the best one could hope for would be 1:1 losses. Still, I very much like the idea of dual-purpose guns for both destroying escorts and providing additional medium range guns against other battleships just as I like pocket ships as escorts, so keeping that at at least medium priority is wise. What are the limitations on secondaries, before and after the research?

Let's just not let Lenin start shit over ten years early.

What is your experience with this event, if any? All things considered, we are thoroughly trouncing the Russians, and we're soon to have more or less parity in destroyers, giving us a decisive numbers advantage. Gambling on the Army can either cause us no particular trouble, or deliver us a more crushing victory. I'd say go for 2.

The Loliship and Moeship discover an enemy convoy, poorly defended. Just behind them, a wing of destroyers and the sisters Dreamcrusher and Waifucrusher rush to respond.

About 50/50, to be honest. If they win, it'll pracitcally garuntee reperations, if not nothing.

It seems I spoke too soon. A Russian battleship is spotted on the horizon. What was expected to be a simple convoy raid is shaping up to become a full fledged fleet battle.

I agree with this user, we've done a pretty heavy blow to the Ruskies only losing what? A light cruiser? I'd say let the army have its fun, could lead to more ports right?

Two more Russian battleships are spotted. This is the entirety of the Russian Fleet. If we fight this, it could be the final blow to push them out of our waters, or a comeback for them.

Orders?

Oh snap, spoke too soon.

That's a full battleline of Bs and they're ready to shoot on our CAs, if the CAs can, get them out of the pocket, fall back to our Bs and lets fuck these guys up.

I suggest we remain engaged defensively with our escorts. Continually head off the convoy and destroy its ships, while trying to cross the battleships' T and remaining out of range. Should this fail, our escorts will be preserved and our battleships will be able to get into range themselves. Do as much damage as responsibly possible before bringing the light ships back.

While our escorts retreat, Waifu Crusher and Dreamcrusher set up, firing their main guns at the opposing battleships, while their secondaries fire upon the merchant fleet.

I'm worried if we try that without sufficient support from out own Bs we'll simply be letting the Russians have us.

They've already fired a salvo or two as you can see. CHANGE COURSE SAVE OUR CAs!

The Russian fleet seems to want an outright fight, they've placed themselves in from the convoy, denying us easy kills. Although I hate to say it, we're outgunned here, they have a total of 12 12in guns between them, while we have 12 10in. We may be forced to retreat.

There is another possibility, although it's a big risk. Night is quickly approaching, it may be possible to retreat, then reengage under the cover of night, hoping to find the convoy at close range. The risk is, of course, that we'll end up finding the Russian fleet, and be forced into a close quarters battle we don't want.

What are you, some kind a faggot? Go balls deep, and watch as the Ruskies frantically try to fire at your approaching battleships.

On more serious note, how do battles in this game start? Do fleets have a position on the map, and when they come near to each other, a close in battle starts?

Abandon these overbold conceptions. I don't know how many merchant vessels we've sunk or warships we've damaged, but the worst that can happen if we retreat would seemingly be a minor loss, and only in the operational sense. We'll reengage at a later time once our screens are off the production line.

Uh oh.

Sort of. Ships are stationed in a region (SE Asia, NE Asia, Indian Ocean, ect). When two nations at war share a region, engagements can occur, ranging from full on Fleet Battles to Destroyer Engagements. To simulate the issues of war, you aren't told exactly what you'll be commanding, just what is in the area and is likely to respond.

Time to bounce. No reason to risk an uneven fight.

Seems like opportunism has been doing better so far than wading into full conflict.

Russia claims the day, but by very little. The very next turn we're offered another convoy attack.

Y/N?

Activate it

Again, it's the Russian Fleet. This time we have 3 of our Battleships at the ready.

Go for it.

Only a marginal victory, grand. Let's hope their BBs don't get so obnoxiously well-positioned this time. I assume that marginal victory gave less than outright denying a mission? How do battle points translate into VPs?

The Russian battleships mismanuever, and our fleet moves in on the convoy, now only guarded by destroyers. Our fleet moves in, tearing the slow merchant ships apart. An enemy destroyer attempt to torpedo Waifu Crusher, and is swiftly dispatched for it's trouble. As the Russian fleet moves to defend it's remaining ships, should we take our leave? We've destroyed half the convoy.

For that battle they got like 220 or so, we got 190.

They must be crushed. The Russians must be reminded they don't belong on the water.

Make sure they have no way of counter-attacking first.

Can we cross them?

Use your discretion. If we have a good chance of sinking anything more, do so. Use our destroyer screens to screen if necessary, as they will have replacements soon enough.

I fail to notice night as it comes, and each fleet loses track of one another.

And as much as it pains me, I think this is the last update. I start a new job in the morning. Are we interested in another session of this or no?

YES.

Yeah this is pretty cool.

Last look at what our current situation is, our fleet, ships and subs under construction and our lost brothers.

F

It was fun.

日本 stronk

Yes
Nippon Strong

We need some 12" guns

Was fun, thanks for revealing this game to me, There's just not enough naval warfare games out there.

Good thread.

Pulsar4x never ever

I'd recommend to go crazy with torpedoes. Spam DD's, since they are cheap.

Make them go Sanic Fast and load them with torpedos.

maybe someone can put it on ggn

How close are we to defeating the Russians?

OP is back, and while OP might be tired as a motherfucker, OP is ready to continue the war against the filthy gaijin.

War Update: The Russians have been whittled down to the only the biggest and the smallest parts of their navy. They still maintain a total of 5 active battleships in our waters, as well as 11 destroyers, but only have a single light cruiser. Protests and riots are rumored to have been occurring within Russia.

Forces in our home province:

This is fantastic news, as Russian battleships are incapable of keeping speed with any of our ships, and alone destroyers are easily dispatched with secondary weapons.

Pictured is our kill board.

Should we look into designing any new ships, or shall we continue to advance turns?

We have nearly triple their Victory Points. Based on my experience, surrender is likely near.

Is there any intel on what the American navy is capable of?

Germoney should have some islands in the pacific. See if you can take those after we finish off the slavs.

Have any of our designs been particularly effective at getting kills?

This
What's been working well for us?

Moeship encounters a raider and give pursuit. Unfortunatly, she does not manage to sink the enemy ship, despite landing many hits.

Answers next post

Am I right in thinking that we should mostly avoid any engagement with Rusky battleships as long as they don't attack a major coastal target or something?
I mean, if we just decimate the rest of their fleet while things crumble at home they'll eventually be rendered useless anyway right?
Or is it worth chasing after them with torpedos?

good everything is going according to keikaku.

if we got a lot of technology to update and new guns we should design a new battleship.

She needs moe firepower

Please consult our first image. Choke on sad, bitter tears over our budget.

Overall, I think the Dub Folded Steel Class Armored Cruiser has been our most successful design. It's fast enough to easily outrun enemy Battleships, while packing enough of a punch to put down anything else reasonably reliably.

We have been enacting a policy of only fighting when we have a clear advantage, working away the Russian support fleet and more or less ignoring the battleships.
We've recently acquired a couple torpedo upgrades, so torps will be a more reliable strategy.

We can design a new B, but it will still be obsolete compared to the Russian designs, and will take a couple years to build.

I don't really see the point then unless we plan on doing mass upgrades later on down the line

The Slavs want out, but without payment. I doubt the Admiralty will accept. Am I correct?

We're wrecking their shit
of course we fight on

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Finish them.

まだだ

quite right old chap!

Also will we ever catch up technologically to the other great powers?

If designing a new battleship won't let us win engagements against theirs then it's pointless. Focus on dwindling their fleet until extreme numerical superiority. It will be like the Battle with the battleship Yamato except for the Russians.

It's unlikely this will lead us to war, but it could make for a tense situation.

Orders?

Deny, works for Russia.

He got caught, he can wiggle his own way out. Fuck him, deny it.

Our agent knew the risks, deny

Russia continues to decline battles with our fleet. In addition, one of their Light Cruisers is interned in a neutral port, where it will stay for the rest of the war.

After nearly half a year of delays ranging from steel shortages to "unexplained delays", our third Dub Folded Steel joins the fleet. In addition, we add a small fleet of coastal submarines to the IJN.

With the latest round of demonstrations, Russia comes to the negotiating table.

What say the Admiralty?

Its afraid

Press for hard terms

Any recent naval developments? Otherwise, it seems we can wait them out without risking any of our ships and get a good deal.

Russia has refused to meet our fleet in open combat for the last 2 months. With our fleet developing and with subs, we can begin raiding passively.

press hard

Russia agrees to our terms, and control of Sakhalin is awarded to us.

What goals should we move towards in the aftermath of our victory?

Maybe we should focus on upgrading our ships.

If we have any fire control systems or other improvements to make, now would be the time to implement them.

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Strategically can we take full control of N. Korea at some point?
Continue a build up with goals of kicking Russia out of Port Arthur, then turn our eyes towards Germany

The grey flag means it's not controlled by a major power, right? It should be an easy target.

Looking to see what kind of upgrades we could acquire, we find the US will allow us access to some of their tech if we build within their ports.

Events can occur which allow us to take control of neutral territories, at the cost of increasing tensions significantly.

I think we should agree with USA's offer. It had the second highest tension after russia after all.

Are we going to take advantage of that 19,000 ton displacement we can build up to?

Our new Battleship is in production. It will be ready in 32 months. As a result of the end of the war, tensions are relieved by most nations.

Doesn't it feel great knowing despite all the fucking retarded propaganda Japan still got its shit pushed in?

Time passes quickly when not at war. We place much of the fleet on reserve to save money to pay for the Baka, and another political issue appears.

No shits given.

Demand them to release the ship.

we just made russia gibs clay, fuck those niggers

Oh my. We might end up going in for round two right off the bat.

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Fuck the russians. If they wish to be killed by our glorious steel, then so be it.

do it faget

is this one safe or is it too good to be true?

It's safe.

In other news, another political crisis occurs. Each option will raise tensions, each more than the last, although we will gain prestige and funding for the more aggressive actions.

Cruiser

We need to avoid pissing off the Brits

Let us send a battleship.

gunboat we should ease tensions if we can.

Rolling.

If even, gunboat.
If odd, cruiser.
If dubs, battleship.

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multinational

Great Britian is unhappy about our increase in power. What is our response? Note that disarmament conferences can actually result in treaties limiting ship designs being passed.

Fuck off Britain, the Imperial Navy is the pride of Nippon!

how much stronker are the brits? im guessing we dont really have a choice right?

Tell the Queen shes Scottish, that will show her.

Also what did I miss from last night, did we fuck up Russia yet?

maybe we need to rein in our pride and call a conference. We've got a be on those Brits good side, they are not like they are today.

Call their bluff and call for a conference

Some of their fleet might be tied up to colonial obligations.

russia gave clay

Man, I bet the fucking Kwantung fags are salty as fuck.

Welp. So much for that.

Tensions are as previous.

Nigga just fucking walk out of the treaty, we did this before with the UN we can do it again.

Hey OP I downloaded the game but I'm running into some issues. How can I take control of AI fleets during battles? I always end up commanding the cruisers and battleships, but not the destroyers, not to mention sometimes I end up splintering the fleet away from the flagship and they go under AI control without letting me do anything.

wew lad

TIME FOR BATTLECRUISERS

I assume you're on rear admirals mode (check preferences). Right click the red flags of a division, uncheck AI control. If a division does not have sight to the flagship, it will revert to AI control.

Shift+right click changes course easily.

this is great right? They are a lot closer to us technologically right?

Time to go all in on our CAs

I've downloaded some sketchy shit, but this is almost breaking the limit. That being said, its pretty funny someone else used VirusTotal to scan it in the past 9 hours.

So current ships aren't affected? At least any new developments will be on par with ours.

What kind of new ships are we interested in building after the treaty? Here is a somewhat heavier version of our earlier CA.

Correct.

seems gud

We should focus on hard hitting CA and CLs rather than try and go all out on BBs

Is this a reasonable CL?

Looks gud.

Sorry for the delay. The S.A.G Mk2 is designed, and fighting breaks out in the Balkans.

While it will take a while, we've also begun to build the next generation of our fleet.

Get rid of the deck armor and the secondary guns. Put as many 6 inchers as possible. Our light cruisers aren't going to be engaging at ranges where plunging fire hits are a possibility. Let's give them as much close-range firepower as possible.

is OP rip? did the russians finally get him?

It's probably the Russians running around in the Balkans.

They didn't appreciate that.

Is it time for round 2?

You know it.

NIPPON STRONK

RUSSIA CYKA BLYET

Russia needs to be teached a lesson.

Our future designs can now incorporate cross deck fire. This let's us have heavy wing turrets that may fire on either side, essentially giving us improved broadsides while maintaining a wide engagement angle.

Oh, and Russia is pissed.

is it time to take Port Arthur?

Shall we?

Maybe we should incorporate this feature into our ships, new or old.

We had better take out 3 in this engagement, otherwise we would never be able to beat the Russians in a gun duel.

Accept. We can hold them off.

fug

Let's go.

tora tora tora

In the dead of night, our fleet forms up and moves as one into range. Already, our original submarine, the shinobi of the sea, is watching.

high impact naval violence

didn't we make that one of our training focusi?

Things are going much better. As with our first war, DD Nami is the first to launch her torpedoes to a hit.

Many more follow.

I'm starting to notice a trend that whenever Holla Forums plays a war game as the Japanese, be it HoI, this, or Nobunaga's ambition, Night Attacks always happen and are 99% successful against overwhelming odds.

is that game any good?

Our destroyer runs continue. As the Russians were not prepared, most of their ships are not active and make easy targets for our torpedomen.

As we fire our last torpedoes the Russian ships begin to move, their crews responding. Do we duke it out or cut and run?

yes.

We had a thread about it a while ago in the same style as this one. It ended up becoming Zeon versus Japan. Fun times.

Pretty fun honestly, played it with Read much like this thread with Holla Forums quite a few months ago and we had our fun with it. It's heavily romanticized Warring States age but it has a surprising amount of options available with fluctuating depth between them. Only real negative I can attach to it is the price if you care to buy it and how much of a pain in the ass it is to mod in Commanders.

Good times. Tempted to bring it back from the grave one of these days but I'm almost sure it would die in its infancy nowadays.

Their torpedoes are probably just as good as ours. If dawn is close, then I say we should engage them in a spirited gun duel in the morning. If not, then we should retreat in order to avoid unnecessary risk to our ships.

use the main ships to attack directly. The light cruisers should use hit and run tactics.

I'm loving this thread

Considering the position of our ships, wouldn't cut and run just entail heavy losses to us? I'm no naval expert but I figured the Ruskies will get plenty of free shots until we manage to realign ourselfs.

Looks like we're already tied up with them
not sure if we can cut and run

The Russian gun crews are likely inexperienced, it's night and they are currently stationary, In all likelihood we could break vision before they land any damaging hits/

Sounds fun but I would be more interested as playing buddhist extremists arrahu akbaring the shogun

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Then that means there is a fighting chance, crush the Ruskies.

How badly wounded are their BB's then? That's the biggest issue in this fight. If we could realistically take out at least half of them, I'd say it would be worth duking it out. If not, retreat and prepare another ambush for the Cheekies. No doubt their spirit will be high when they see us run.

Religion plays a rather insignificant role in all of it I'm afraid.

Those Russian destroyers will be moving soon, their torpedoes armed and their crews alert. I vote for a retreat.

If our larger ships linger for too long, they're going to catch some torpedoes.

Let's teach them to never cross the japanese.

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We really can't afford to take losses like Ivan can

God wills it

It's worth mentioning that the Russians have a pair of coastal batteries. In the spirit of moderation, we'll engage at the edges, in hopes of doing more damage without exposing ourselves to undue risk.

How much of the fighting is done automatically and how much are you able to control?

PANIC

Shit, can we blow-up the coastal batteries? if not let's get as away from the coast as possible.

The player is able to set courses for divisions, but individual ships will decide which targets to engage and with what weapon.

Let's get out ships out of there once the Russians are really awake.

As we make our final pass before retreating, CL Hispeed takes a torpedo. The DD Nozake engines take a hit from an escort. The fleet turns to retreat, but as we leave our losses, Nozake manages to restart her engines.

Do we turn back to support her escape?

It looks like she's surrounded. How close are our forces?

do we even have anything close enough to scare off that CA and destroyer pack?

send the two closest ships.

I WARNED YOU

We leave no ship behind OP. If one Nihonnese falls, then all of them shall fall alongside in battle. Glory to the Emperor.

RIDF pls

Shut your dirty fucking mouth you fucking nippo-Emperor traitor.

not worth risking anymore ships

The fleet moves back in and our DD is able to disengage. CL Hispeed is less fortunate and sinks. With the Russian fleet active, we retreat.

But at the end of the day, we've managed a massive victory.

A good victory overall. Shame about HIJMS Hispeed. The crew will be revered as kami in their home towns!

I mean that's a massive victory but those things are still going to be an issue.

NIPPON STRONG

Combat logs of the enemy ships lost.

Final update of the night. Continue Y/N?

N O I C E

Yes, we must teach the Russians to back down.

Every night until the white piggus are thrown from Asia

Y

Of course.

Y, but you'll probably need a new thread, this one's on autosage.

Y. I'm sore that I only just caught up for the last post.