Rule the Wa/v/es: Round 2

Seconded

We don't need torps on a battleship

3DPD

Hirohito's chin chin

Benis

heh

No, right?

no

We're just getting started

Y/N?

DESTROY

those BBs have eight 12" guns apiece, right?

N

It's worth mentioning that those estimates are not for sure what will take place in the battle, just what is generally in the area. For example one of their B's might be in port restocking coal, or a destroyer division might be out on patrol elsewhere.

Tie-breaker pls.

Y

Just don't dive into a 5 BB battlegroup head on

Pussies.

On the other hand, DFS will get to hunt.

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I almost feel bad almost

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That ship kind of looks better than ours. We have bigger guns, but he has twice as many, plus torpedos. Probably faster too.

The weather turns bad as night falls and the CL gives us the slip.

In lighter news, we finally figure out 12" guns.

Actually, not so much. 3" are basically only useful against unarmored ships.

With a displacement of 6300? I doubt he's faster. Also to note is he may have more guns, but they're only 3 inch guns, the likes of which would probably tickle our CA.

KILL HIM. EASY PREY.

Lets gut 'em
What's an AMC?

it's fucking time lads

our DDs have 2 torpedo tubes each? let's go for it

And AMC I think is an Auxiliary Mine Clearer? They're basically merchant ships with guns slapped on em, which means they're usually unarmoured.

They're effective raiders because they "sneak" up to the merchant boats thinking that he's one of them then they get a rude surprise.

Armed Merchant Cruiser

slight delay on update

Is the installer not working for anyone else? I get to the screen where you enter the license key but it won't let me continue.

Did you put the key in? It's in the name of the exe.

Slightly off topic
but are there any similar games for WW2 naval battles?

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It would appear to be a pair of Russian battleships with a light destroyer escort. We have 4 CAs and 6 DDs armed with torpedo tubes.

fuck em up

Let 'er rip
Slavs fear the samurai

I know, I entered the key, but the next button is still greyed out.

Did you fill in the business and name fields?

We start to take hits, although we do land some in return. Another 3 ships are spotted on the horizon, although we are unable to determine what they are yet. They do seem to be keeping their distance though.

I tried again and it worked this time. I was pretty sure I had the key right last time though.

We sink a destroyer that gets too confident. The enemy fleet is approaching rapidly, should we pick up the crew?

what can we do with them if we do?

I'm actually not entirely sure, although I know they do award Victory Points.

We should concentrate our ships on the things that are still trying to kill us.

lets pick em up then

Seems risky wot with the BB's potentially moving within range.

Then again it's only a gamble with one DD.

I'm not helpful.

Leave them to their fate, we're gonna need all the DDs we have to do a torpedo run on the Bs.

Can't afford to have one as a sitting duck trying to grab a negligible amount of extra points.

It gives you points after the battle is finished.

no mercy

oh just points? and not alot? we should jsut leave em then

Agreed fuck em if they're not valuable.
I was thinking they could be some sort of leverage or something.

The early hit that SAG took gets worse. We've managed to lose the enemy battlegroup and night is approaching. It may be possible to sneak in and destroy our bombardment target under the cover of darkness. Or we can withdraw, taking the 1 for 1 exchange.

I say we get out

pull out

go in

Go in for the kill, you pansies.

RIDF pls go

Why does she have a bandolier full of ammo for a gun she doesn't have, and no extra ammo for the gun she does have?

We go for a middle ground option, advancing cautiously while using DD to scout out the wings. No enemy ships are spotted and we begin to approach the target.

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And yet this faggot wanted to run. Hit the target then stroll out the front door.

what happened to the enemy battlegroup?

Didn't we recently get the 'cross deck fire' technology?
Is it too late to put our secondary guns in turrets to take advantage of that?

For the ships in commission, yes. We can always make new ones, though.

To

Is correct, we cannot install entirely different fire mounts to existing ships, we would have to make a new design.

Cruiser actions are small engagements, usually only a division or two.

Can't we retrofit them with new main guns that can into crossfire?

Here's an example of a late game ship that utilizes cross deck fire.

No, that would take mechanisms that only came into being in the mid 1930s.

go for it

let's put that torpedo advantage to work

God damn Russians are a bunch of pussy ass motherfu…

Uh oh.

Admiralanon! Admiral user!

How is it possible to make a good rebuild design? Every time I finish mine and try to give the order to rebuild a ship, it says there are no design available even after I just finished a redesign. Are there some elements I cannot change in ships?

Nay skip that shit.

no

Hold on. BB is the US classification code for post-1920s style battleship designs. It wasn't even the 1910s last thread, how has Russia got ships this modern out on the field?

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We had a small time of peace after we BTFO the russians, in peacetimes time goes faster to the point several years can pass in just a few turns.

This looks a little better. Y/N?

crush them

banzai

Let's do it.

Fuck em up

Do you guys want me to accept/decline uncertain automatically battles so we don't have to do a round of voting only for Russia to pussy out?

Use your discretion as to what is 'uncertain' and a likely autodecline by Russia, but keep us posted on them, obviously.

ye

Remember that our CA have the same calibre as our B ships so that battle would be closer to 6v4 Battleships than 2v4

We outnumber them immensely in Cruisers. DO IT!

Russia declines again, but accepts the next.

Our cruisers spot a lone Russian CL, but is it simply the scout for a larger force?

wherever we go we must also rape

Likely a scout. I suggest a cautious approach, don't rush straight at them, wheel closer with their T crossed. It's no great loss if they rejoin the main formation, since light cruisers seem to be terribly unuseful as anything other than convoy raiders by design and won't affect a line battle or kiting gun duel.

While we can't move our destroyers in, our CAs are fast enough to keep pace and whittle the CL down with 10" rounds. After a hit, the CL begins slowing down, likely having suffered a hit to its engine rooms. So far no other enemy ships have been spotted.

Anyone else having to enter CAPTCHA every other post?

As dusk falls, the enemy ship begins to take ever mounting damage and is reduced to 5kts. Our destroyers wait, hoping they'll get a chance to launch torpedoes, but we'll probably just use the CA to keep range from the wounded vessel.

Despite a full torpedo run from the Smug Anime Girls, the CL avoids them all, but sinks soon after.

We now enter a "Destroyer Action", a type of battle I've yet to actually see. At our command is two divisions of Smug Anime Girls. Our opponent seems to have brought alot to the party.

here we go

give em the big 3 inch

We outnumber them by a ship, but how do we compare qualitatively? Do we have the guns, torps, or armor to set up a line battle, or do we need to try something tricky and wait for a night attack,driving into the midst of them?

I'm going to suggest we retreat on this one. These are our first generation DDs, and are fairly under-gunned compared to the Russian models.

let's bounce then

run like the wind

We've broken LoS. It is possible we could come back in a few hours in hopes of a night raid on Port Arthur. Or we could retreat.

Decision?

Stage a lightning night raid. Only go in long and deep enough to sling torpedoes at everything in sight and then get straight out. Don't get tied up for anything.

Would it be a wise choice to scrap our first generation Smug Anime Girls to make way for a more modern one? Or is the upkeep minimal?

let's risk it

ship construction is slow and expensive

Keep them. Obsolete ships can always be relegated to convoy escorts and anti-sub patrols.

We try, don't find anything.

Gotta go for the night, will take a shower then check the thread. Make any requests for information now, I'll answer before going to sleep.

How do I git gud at fleet combat? Currently playing as Italy, already a decade in. I got in a war with France, won some minor territories, then lost those territories in a war with Britain, and now I managed to piss off Germany while the majority of my Battleships are from the beginning of the game. I feel destroyers have more use than AI support that just follows my main group, but attempts to micro to torpedo range usually just ends in pain.

Enemy ships will generally veer away from destroyer lines, fearing torpedoes. You can use this to force them to adjust course, perhaps allowing slower ships to close the distance. As Italy, you can make most of your ships short range, which can let you improve firepower, armor of speed above nations that have colonial obligations.

How are our techs? Where are we deficient, where ought we prioritize? Are we getting to the point where we might be able to theoertically field true battlecruisers able to run-and-gun Russia's BBs with par or better guns & torpedoes, or are they going to be too fragile to risk that kind of action

I got a question Admiral user!

Why the fuck haven't you destroyed the Russian Fleet yet you dishonorable little shit. Russians disengaging is no fucking excuse.

For some reason, the Arms Limitation treaty seems to have abruptly abandoned. Would we like to build a new, heavily armed Dreadnought? By building in Italian harbors, we can build up to 25,000, and they'll even let us use their secondhand 13" calibre guns.

I know this probably doesn't tell you alot, but here is our research progress.

P-please don't bully me! It's all those Smug Anime Girls fault, they keep missing with their torpedoes!

hell fuckin yes we would

Surprisingly high machinery development, that.

As long as we can make it reasonably fast and proof it against Russian guns, absolutely. Maybe see how cross-deck fire works on the design, furthermore. I don't imagine we'll have much of any luck against plunging fire, but has their gunnery so far been particularly encouraging?

I should also add the thought that the way gun turret compatibility works, those thirteen inch guns arbitrarily can't be swapped out, so while this ship will get a little obsolete in the long run, it looks like it might make for a pretty decently armed if a bit too thin-skinned battlecruiser further down the line. Once it gets to be too light for engagement in its own weight class, it'll still be a murderous major convoy escort, furthermore. Go for it, Admiral user.

Spend some money on building docks so we can bring our shipbuilding capacity up to par with other nations. Every ship built in foreign dockyards is a disgrace and an insult to the potential and capabilities of the superior Japanese race.

Admiral user is back

We have an issue we need to face, our rising costs. Our current monthly expenses are at a 5,000,000 shekel negative, quickly eating into the large lump sum we were gifted several months ago. The easiest way to lower expenses is to delay construction efforts, or to mothball active ships.

What, if any, of our currently constructing ships should we put on hold? Note that we have been at war with Russia again for 9 months so far.

tfw you hit post, leave for 15 minutes to let replies build up, then come back to a captcha request

Just delay construction until it lines up for us to complete a bunch of ships just before our savings deplete

Do we fight, and if so how ballsy do we play it?

This game is the tits. Why does it not have more marketing? I've pretty much only seen it in your thread (which is why I got it).

Just look at the presentation, user. The devs don't care about marketing or making money. They just want to make good video games.

It seems that we have more firepower than the Russians with our abundance of CA's. I say we use this advantage to engage the enemy in pitched battle and sweep him from the field. The skills our sailors and their fighting spirit shall overcome any technological or caliber difference between us and them.

Nice dubs

It would seem in this engagement we've got them outnumbered.

But I care about the year or so I could have been playing this shit (and their other similar games). A little bit of profile-raising doesn't have to hurt the quality of the game or eat into the budget.

Current battle situation. Does the Admiralty have any input?

Also, since you seem to know what you're doing:

Is the CSA on very large a good place to start or should I go smaller/different nation?

Surely we have the speed advantage so their battleships cannot escape? Fuck them up.

For my first game I went Italy/Medium. I'd recommend either that or CSA/Medium.

Will try that. Many thanks user.

Our Gen 2 Smug Anime Girls turn ahead of their battle line, intending to force the enemy fleet to either advance into torpedo fire or turn away, thus giving our battle line a short term fire advantage.

That might have been a bad move. We have forced them to react but now we are forced to react in turn. Since this battle is before 1910, our chances of hitting a ship veering away is very low, so the only logical maneuver is to give chase.

Wouldn't they just leave a bunch of mines for us to get bombed by?

Naval games are super niche and inhabited by the most autistic of people

I blanked and forgot to take any meaningful screenshots lately. Our fleets break from one another, finally spotting each other at sunset. While in daylight they would be within gun range, at night we lose sight of them. Should we attempt a close range duel, perhaps with risky torpedo running?

Despite a number of close encounters, the battle ends with only one ship sunk, a Gen 1 SAG.

We accept a Cruiser Action, encountering the enemy as dawn begins to fall.

Siphon funds from the Kwantung, those lazy fucks aren't doing any real work anyway.

Our CAs succeed in destroying the enemy ship, a lone CL. However, under the cover of night it manages to launch a torpedo and hit Dub Folded Steel. She survives, but will be out of action for a few months.

Lets go Ruskies, eat some nippon naval cocks.

It's only going to get better, the Devs have a WW2 expansion in the works it seems (and, from present indications, it's going to be free).

But this lack of marketing?
To them, it's a labor of love, not profit.
They seem to not want to explode their customer base. They are notably active with their base on their forums and seem to enjoy the small environment that they have going.

Basically, this is how games should be made.
Word of mouth (like this thread) is their marketing.
When it's a good enough game, it will be made known.

EZ PZ

I assume the updates posted to their website work with that Russian download version's serial key?

Yeah, I just did that.

Interestingly, this is a "Fleet Battle", but Russia did not have any Bs in the area. Despite this, they accepted the fight.

Also, I notice that the "play" is moving pretty slow as more people begin to play the game for themselves. Want me to end this and just have the thread be a general discussion?

What year are you at now? If it's close to the end, at least wait it out and post updates like you basically are doing now.

Ivans are used to starvation. We must press attacks harder. BANZAI

keep going, we can do both

We encounter a lone CL and bag it. Unusually the scenario doesn't end. As we head home in the night, we run directly into the entire Russian fleet.

Orders?

If they really don't have any Bs in the area, this will be a fine turkey shoot. Use our DDs to their full torpedo slinging capacity, keep distance with our CAs and push our Bs into close range.

Looks like it's going to be a good stompin'.

Naw, I think they have Bs.

sheeeeeit

let's stick it out until it starts going south

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

Fug. I'd say kill the Bs that are closest and then get the fuck out.

Abort mission.

oh tovarisch

let's try to kill that closest battleship and then exit left

This is why I'm Admiral and you're not.

Just kidding, one of the Battleships hit a mine while engaging our CAs, the other one was brought down by a torpedo by Namikaze. The rest of the Russian fleet turned tail and ran into the night.

pls surrender

Russia requests peace and soothing cream for their shattered ass.

press the baka gaijin for hard terms!

I say we press them, damn Rooskies will have no choice but to agree.

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Hard terms

Baka gaijin scared of Emperors big anime cock, give 'em the full mast or don't go.

Holy shit. Link to this news?

We need to go to war with someone who has something to give us. I say we pick a fight with the Americunts, Krauts or Frogs now.

We should bully Italy.

It seems war must go on.

Chinpoko nearly destroys the enemy raider, but catches a torpedo. It's a fairly minor hit, but she is forced to break off the chase to stop the flooding.

Not yet

We still need to kick the russkies ass.

Quick update on our fleet, as well as our kill list so far.

Anyways, I've got to call it for the night.

For anons with more experience.

How the fuck do you end a battle? I'm on 504/500 mins and this last fucking destroyer is just doing doughnuts and is next to impossible to even hit.

Assuming there's a way to end a battle early will it still count as a loss for me even though I've sunk more?

Can you break LoS? If so do that and it will end if it's past the time limit.

Luckily I just caught the fucker against the coast and set him on fire. Dirty French coward.

Thanks for the explanation though.

I don't suppose you know how to make your ships fire torpedoes? Google says 'sail straight' but that seems to get me torped rather than them.

gn thanks for posting op

good thread, night OP

Sail straight and you have to be ahead on them somewhat, scenario A generally won't launch, B should. If the enemy ship is stationary, they should launch in either scenario. Remember to check the division target, torpedo range and where on the ship they are located.

Thanks again user. I shall remove the baguettes with this new knowledge.

what key is that user, my interest in this is piqued and I don't want to spend 35$ without having tried the game at the very least

It's in the OP you faggot:
>rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=69883534#69883534

Scroll down, the download link is in the list. It installs the game, then you can use the serial key with it to get patches. It doesn't look safe, but a few people here have tried it and it's okay.

I read through the rest of the thread like a dumbass. Thanks user.

34 dolarydoos for this game?
Isn't that a bit much?