No idea if anyone still cares about our Japanese campaign...

How do our naval guns compare in size and quality to other nations?

Doctrine might have been the wrong word. Rather, new technology allows us to place weapons in different arrangements, which can allow us to utilize different tactics. For example, by taking advantage of cross deck fire, we can lay down powerful broadsides without sacrificing "advancing" firepower. Later on we may be able to mount superimposed Fore guns, which are great.

Here's a BC design, do we like it? Changes? Name?

While we're not obsolete as far as I know, we are a bit behind, simple because we've a smaller budget than the European powers. But the difference is much less significant than what we went into during the First Russo-Japanese War.

Jesus Christ, that's a big ship.
I like it, it'd be nice to have a little more deck armour and belt armour though but it is a BC.

Can someone post a DL link? I don't mean some obscure Russian site. Repackage it and make a proper download or a torrent.

Just get it from the Russian site. It's perfectly safe.

By sacrificing a bit of firepower and range, we can add that much.

UUUU

A pair of Russian destroyers are sunk in a small engagement, but more importantly…

If we demand overseas territory, we will have to station ships there.

Liaotung for sure
Not sure whether we really need Kamchatka

Liaotung seems like the best choice, it's right next to the rest of our territory anyway.

There is no reason not to take it. We can take any combination that adds up to 10 points or less.

Liaotung and Kamchatka then

We just finish our war, and shit starts again.

peace
we need to upgrade and expand before we pick on the US

Let them be but let's do more spying ourselves.

Our primary cost is in building our Benis Class BB, but it should be completed quite soon, which will balance the budget.

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Good luck with your Benis Class BB. Don't even know what it is.

benis be blessed

This game actually manages to impress me with the little details like ships failing or exceeding design specifications, and foreign built ships giving insights to other nations tech.

We should pump more cash into research if possible. We need to catch up to the american piggus if we're going to pearl harbor them.

Interesting.

We're actually spending the absolute max we can.

tell them to get fucked

Befriend the bongs, they're the strongest naval power and we don't want to piss them off.

pitch in, if it doesn't cost too much

that tension is a little spooky considering how badly we'd get fucked if they came over here

Are we going to remove pizza?

Do they have anything good to take?

Might as well keep kissing up to Britain.

Do it. It's Canada day so may as well help them get actual independence.

Italy doesn't have anything other than east africa and a shit tier navy to protect them I believe.

Can someone repost the link?

A shitty colony in Ethiopia.

And their pride, I guess.

Don't fight unless there's some clay you can get out of it.

The Benis and a set of new DDs enter our navy, but they might be forced to fight a foe equipped with even greater weapons.

seems like a bad idea fam

how much stronker are the americunts?

Ha, no, let's take our time.

Earlier on it sounded like "lots".

probably not the time to get ballsy then

Just dropping by to say I've ben working to much to post in these threads lately but I'm still reading them religiously.

...

Oh you know.

Pretty strong.

jesus

For those wondering why we're so fucked in terms of power, here's the budgets. Worth mentioning that we started out with something like 80k per year starting.

And after all this optimism, this happens.

Make your choice.

back down and commit sudoku

is the panama canal built yet?

Should have gotten a math PhD

Back down.

Do we happen to know the range that their ships are designed for?

Sorry, 80M.

They have bases in the Philippines, so I think they can resupply out of there. Honestly I'm not sure.

The Panama Canal is built in 1914. It's December 1913,

Back down from what? What the fuck did we do to them?

No, I'm sorry, I was memeing
any job I want

This is basically my question, what does backing down even entail?
Either way I don't see the point of going head to head with them now.

There were a couple minor events that raised tensions unilaterally or selectively. In addition, tension can be raised without your actions, as a result of other government branches and whatnot.

Double minus on prestige. Unsure if anything else such as territory, but I doubt it.

What does our prestige even do?

Don't be scared by numbers, consider the following;
1) US CA's have puny 6 inch guns, ours have 10 inches and are basically battleships
2) Minus Ca's, US is similar in B, BB and BC
3) We wrecked Russia's shit last time

Go for it, Nippon stronk

so we have eight months before the canal opens, most of their ships are on the east coast, and they have to sail around the tip of south america to get to us until that happens.

let's give it a try why not

*US is similar to Russia

the US has double our budget tho

If it gets too low, we lose our position and get a game over. Otherwise, as far as I can tell it just works as a "score".

Votes for Nippon Stronk:

Votes for Continued Peace:

I'll wait until 2100 PST (10 minutes) for the final vote tally.

Also, note we won't get a significant "surprise attack" because the US maintains no naval bases in NE Asia

I vote to fight.

Also, we should build some really big-gun CA's like pic related, if the budget allows.

Surprise attacks are what gave us the real advantage over Russia. I'd say no to war.

I say go to war. You have better fleet concentration.

Final Vote:

WAR:

PEACE:

Time to flip a coin.

War

I'm sure the only reason the Nips have genitalia censor laws was because the the US. I don't no for sure

Heavenly trips
GOD IS WITH US

See you guys tomorrow?

desu vult

Most certainly friend, I've been on Holla Forums all day waiting for the next stage of our naval conquest

I'll be working but I'll nip in when I can

I'll get you little shits for this

BENIS WILL RULE THE WAVES

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Damnit, OP, I thought you died or something :c

Also there's a feature you've missed out on - you can generate a custom side image of the boat. I'm requesting you go through the whole fleet and show us your autistic side by making those ships beautiful.

Bump

I want to play this game but I have no idea how to design good ships. What do I need to keep in mind when making them?

Holy fuckin shit user, Thanks
I thought you had to cut those together manually.

Holy fuckin shit user, Thanks
I thought you had to cut those together manually.

What roles you wan't a ship to fulfill is the most important decision.
Never make a Jack of all Trades, aside from that most designs come down to personal taste.

As general rule of thumb I always make sure to have the best fire control possible, the most FC positions and make sure to have atleast 120 rounds per gun though I try to aim for something around 150-160.
In the early game I use submerged torpedos to finish of badly damaged enemies but I never but them on my Battleship, because I consider the risk of getting torped yourself to high, later on I only use torpedos on DDs and CLs.

A reliable engine and long or extreme range are useless for a ship only in homewaters, for raiders or other ships in foreign seas they might be useful so it's less likely/takes longer for them to be interned or scuttled.

Cramped accomodations and short range make tonnage only count as 70% when it comes to foreign station requirements, colonial service counts as 150%, so you don't want to mix them nor use the first two for colonial ships.

There are compatible calibres, 11 and 15 in., 12 and 15 or 16 in., 8 in and 10 in., 6 in and 8 in., there seem to be more.
When rebuilding a ship you can exchange one turret with a higher calibre and lower guns amount or vice versa.
As example 12 in. triple turret to 16 in. dual turret.

A low freeboard lowers weight but also gives RoF penalties in heavy seas, casemates have a RoF penalty in heavy seas too so don't mix them if you can.

Short range means you can't move a ship from area to area in wartime if you have no colonies, or ships you only want to stay in one area, there's no reason not to take it.

France, Germany and Russia share their build area with Great Britain, making somewhat likely to be blockaded by them, so you might want to think twice about using cramped accomodations.

Building ships in foreign ports not only gives you their dockspace but also teir technology, your scientists might even make some advancements from foreign build ships.
Becareful not to raise tension to high with the building nation or even go to war with them or your ship will get impounded.

Remember lower displacement means lower cost and lower cost means more ships.
Wether you're blockaded depends on wether or not depends on amount and class of ships.
You don't have to go for the biggest and baddest in town. Admittedly I tend to do it most of the time.

Forgot to bump

I think I like single, decisive battles far more than drawn out campaigns.

Advantage of one decisive battle os that they decline all further battles.

Minor battles just make it take a bit longer.

Aaand we're back.

Let's go over the good and the bad.

The Good:

The Bad

We have had to dedicate the entirety of our MS fleet, as well as all of our dated SAGs to coastal patrol. A new set of cheap MS are being built, but for now our destroyer fleet is somewhat understaffed. In addition, the B Dreamcrusher is being refit with improved fire control.

Is there any information or instructions that need to be relayed now, before we begin the process of war?

Unfortunately, I'm don't think I undated the game after I installed it, I'm only on 1.21, I think that feature was added in 1.23.

Not sure if I 100% agree. You certainly can't make a ship that's good at everything, but even ships I want to focus on capitals carry a decent set of 5in or lower to fend off destroyers.

I should think it wise to rush to a fleet combat action against whatever Pacific elements we can before the Atlantic fleet arrives. We need to bleed them and press for peace, SEA colonies be damned.

On the point of five-inch guns for anti-destroyer duties, why not go for a middle road of general purpose eight-inch secondary guns? It would range destroyers just fine while providing a far more effective by-shot deterrent, while still being threatening to the various obsolete capitals. The only loss would be in rate of fire, which might not matter with our fire control focus.

Decent point, although I seem to remember the host of a Let's Play of this mentioning that anything over 7in received an aim penalty against destroyers.

Speaking of ship design, Yea/Nay?

Yea. Drop the eight-inchers to seven at your discretion, definitely if you can confirm the accuracy penalty. I've got a thing for pocket ships, so I rather gravitate towards larger guns in smaller packages.

It's beautiful

What have we done…

We need to do precisely the opposite. We'll never win if we try to "bleed them dry" because a war of attrition is a war Japan will lose. We need one massive, decisive battle where we can outmaneuver them and ultimately break the advantage.

This means we have to either go all-in without raiding or convoy protection, falling away from the S.E.A. seas, or push our entire fleet to try and catch them on the hilt of South America/Western America.

Maybe lower the deck armor to 1 and up armor our belt possibly adding ammo/tertiaries, or if you're feeling like we're ok for firepower, give it longer range or reliability to make it a long distance raider. Other than that the design itself (turret layout) looks phenomenal.

The 9 calibres?

Also, name for it?

Baka Basher

Yeah, Lower the 9 inchers to 7 or 6, we'll rely on the 10 inchers to actually fuck enemy CAs/Bs up, while the 6/7s do volume work on little guys.

If you're planning on lowering the secondaries, remove the tertiaries and add a fuckload of ammo.

oh also, see if we can lower the speed to 28 knots and subsequently lower the displacement. We're working with pennies here, we can always refit it with improved engines later.

We can't wait for their Atlantic fleet to come around, we need to burn them in their docks now and THEN burn them at the hilt of the Americas. A decisive battle is impossible if they gain a numbers advantage, we can't wait for 'decisive' action, we have to make it. A piercing attack on the West Coast before we twist the knife.

Pardon, the 9 calibers. That's if the destroyer accuracy penalties are something you're worrying about, mind. Though, if they'll fit, why not just merge the 4-inch tertiary battery into an expanded 7-inch secondary battery & ammo supply? They seem a bit superfluous. And how about 'Moeshit Victorious?'

Managed some more ammo and armor, although we had to drop down to single turrets for the secondaries due to low tech.

Fuck. Wing Main Batteries can't be doubles if under 16,000, so it has to go back up to 16 even. What should we spend the weight on?

my apologies, we're on the same page, I just read your post of "bleeding" as trying to draw out the war, when infact you meant simply hurt them enough that they don't want to fight anymore.

I like it. Shame we don't have superimposed turrets yet though.

Moar Daka. Lower the Secondaries to 4 inches of armour and add as many as you can. Blot the sky out with shells.

We now have 12 7" secondaries.

Nothing to worry about. Honestly, single turrets sounds like an upgrade over casemates for firing on approach, although the gun depression is assuredly worse. Either add another secondary gun turret or thicken up the armor if we're below average or not far enough above it for the class.

No problem, it was easy to read that way.

The Atlantic Fleet has remained on the Easter Seaboard. What more, the Pacific Fleet has moved to SE Asia, probably to resupply or to stage an invasion of Formosa. The Western US Seaboard is almost entirely undefended.

Orders?

I'm not 100% sure how invasions work, I had it happen once when I had overwhelming dominance in the Caribbean as CSA and the Marines we able to take an enemy colony. Anyone else know for sure?

You know what to do.

Deploy against the US Pacific Fleet. Full fleet action, in which the defense of Formosa is a bonus. An action on the West Coast can follow if the US fleet is not forthcoming.

I'm starting to second think here… Maybe I went too overboard with the daka and too conservative with the speed. The main advantage to any Cruiser/sea raider is being able to control the initiative in a fight. Speed is the key to fleeing a losing battle, and I'd rather not have our most expensive CA not have the ability to run away when it needs to. I just don't know anymore. :c

Perhaps we should drive them out of S.E.A.? If we can get the decisive battle we need to push for peace, we'd better get to it!

this.

Smash the invasion fleet.

pls gib money navy

Tell the army to go fuck themselves.

It's not like our budget can be meaningfully affected either way in a war-winning sense, so let's gamble.

Tell them to eat shit.

We deny them the money, but give them an opening.

Moeship and a trio of Gen 2 destroyers are now conducting a raid on the Washington coast.

That might be one of the best ways to get a quick vp advantage. I'd say we should do it.

So our MSs can't even do what they're designed to do? Deny SS's Surface capability…

NIPPON TAKES CLAY

This is actually a major victory, as we now have a base to operate our fleet out of.

And we're doing another coastal raid.

I think it was one of the light MS, basically designed to meet the CP requirement at minimum cost. That would explain how it got rekt.

Well, I'm a bit gobsmacked, honestly. How are we on victory points now?

Our raiders spot a trio of American destroyers. While they don't have much choice, should we pursue them, focus on moving towards likely merchant shipping, or leave?

Chase them if we have a chance of catching them.

Focus on destruction of the enemy's combat assets. Their guns are awful, but those torpedoes are plenty threatening. Merchant shipping can come after the enemy is destroyed or disengages beyond our ability to pursue.

Surrender to them immediately and return home

Go for the Merchants, We'll never catch the DDs.

Don't let them carrot on a string us out of the Merchants.

We sink two merchant ships. I have absolutly no idea what happened to the third. All I know is that I got a random message that the crew was abandoning ship, then I came across it drifting in the ocean before it sunk.

Dub Folded Steel is now engaging in a Cruiser Action off the Aleutian Islands.

DFS sinks a CL.

US accepts battle off the Alaskan coast.

Go for it.

Trounce them!

Don't even see a single enemy ship.

On the other hand, we might have gotten to see our first Dreadnought battle, but the 3DPD didn't show up for battle.

so i downloaded this so i could "play along" with the thread i used to do that for Kaleun's Silent Hunter 3 threads too and have a question. just one:

is it possible to orchestrate a war of our own, outside of just constantly pissing off nations? I want to take north korea but can't seem to find an option to open diplomacy with them to bully or kiss up to them, and would really like a way to make that end of things happen

You're just the guy in charge of the navy, not the whole country. You don't really get to declare war or do diplomacy, but you make descisions that will raise tensions and make war more likely.

This is embarrassing America.

We had silent hunter threads? I haven't seen any on 8/v/ but I did enjoy the game from the copy I got out of the share thread, although I didn't put crazy amounts of realism settings on.

Link to Russian site?

This link

How's things along the West Coast?

After a few minor battles I didn't even bother capping, we get a peace request.

Fine, it's just that America refuses to meet us in any significant battle. Everything has just been lone CAs or small divisions of DDs raiding. They even refuse to move their forces in the East coast westward, which makes me suspect they're at war with another power and I just can't see it. The only real issue is that Dutch Harbor isn't large enough to accommodate our fleet, so I'm probably going to have to rotate ships out.

Honestly, this war with the US is incredibly disappointing.

Press for hard terms?

Time to end it then. Did we even lose any ships?

If we have to rotate our ships out for basing, then that's something of a problem for confronting the US, more later than now if we take anything outside Asia, but still a problem in the present. What do you think, Admiral user? Should we take the Philippines and turn our attentions back to Russia?

One little MS.

rip lil MS ;__;7

Yes

how did I miss that?

what about a land invasion of hawaii

Does anyone know if there's a way to see other countries diplomacy status?

That's actually the pregenerated name, people stopped giving me names.

Well, you stopped asking, to be fair.

Moeship was "intercepted" in the same fashion that your mom intercepts my cock.

Eh, fair enough, but we're always building ships.

Here's our Navy. Anything that wasn't already named by an user, feel free to name.

In fact, we're running a remarkable good surplus. Should we build another BB or BC? New design or another previous design?

How many more years do we have in the game? Do we have enough time to start another line of battleships?

It's 1915, we have 10 years. Or 35 if we go to the absolute limit, but the dev says the game basically stops making real sense around the 30's-40's since the combat is designed for 1900-1920's ships.

Maybe we should start refitting our old CAs with new engines and perhaps more ammo/better guns then.

We should make a couple more 3DPDs if we can afford it.

If we drop a pair of 4" secondaries, we can improve the 10" quality, add 20 rounds apiece and improve the fire control.

Worth mentioning we can now build 14" guns, if a new design appeals to anyone.

Names

Abe's Foreign Policy

White piggu destroyer

Arino's Fist

"Cuckold Surprise"

Does the phrase "Just try to fuck with this" have a Japanese translation?

Will add.

Gotta end here, will check design suggestions before going to bed.

That's just embarrassing. Don't we have oil yet?

Try to make it 12 inches, at least. Drop down the armor on the secondaries if you have to.

I guess 来いよ would do

someone more learned pls school me

We're japan, we don't start with any oil and historically we are only supplied by America, which we are waging a war against right now.

Belt armor increased to 12". Secondary armor down to 2.5"

From a historical simulation standpoint, that makes sense.
But from a gameplay standpoint, is there any reason to put a hard cap on game length, aside from the inevitability of each nation filling out the tech tree, possibly leading to stagnation and stalemate?

Final ship for the night.

Problems/suggestions?

I think it's mostly just for that reason, that it would diverge too rapidly from historical naval combat.

Give it at least 2 4/5 inch guns. Remove the double torpedo mount if you have to. 6 torpedoes are enough for any destroyer.

Looks good.

4 inch guns are outstanding for destroyers because it allows you to engage early light cruisers. Not necessarily kill them, but they're enough to deter them in close quarters.

BTW thanks for posting this game OP, I'd have never found it without you. Good night.

Bump

Admiral user is back. As a opening, here's our research and our losses so far.

Notice any oddities in the losses screen?

Thanks user.

N-nippon strong?

S-8, WHYYY?!

You know when you get a new toy, bring it over to show a friend and they've got "TOY: DELUXE EDITION"? Yeah. The Kentucky class isn't finished yet, but it presents a threat if America ever makes it off the East coast.

Speaking of submarines, our fleet is pretty thin. Should we build more?

Jesus Christ

Yeah, more submarines.

Hold on, are those superimposed in the sense of vertically raised rear turrets, or superimposed in the sense of stacking 8-inch guns on 12-inch guns in the same turret?

Good lord. The only good thing is that it's got middling caliber secondaries, but it's got so many of them, so I'm still not so sure about a torpedo run.

Superimposed are like the fore guns you see in

and

Oh, and there's a small cruiser engagement, only noteworthy as being 3DPDs first action.

Good, good. I was worried for a minute there that we'd start doing some awful Virginia-class nonsense. Any luck figuring out who the Americans are fighting on the east coast?

Army wants more money.

is it possible to keep playing past 1925?

this game is fucking amazing, i wanna buy it but wanna keep playing past 1925

They can have more money once they occupy Seattle.

Only the IJN and our SNLF can give us tangible results, the army's a joke man.

Jesus christ, I just lost three hours with happily just mentally masturbating to ship designs, inventions and simple international politics, budget management and decision making.

This game is way more fun than it has any right to be. I mean, jesus christ 99% of the time you're playing as a glorified mix of a bureaucrat, politician, marine-engineer, and a naval warfare theorist. That's not supposed to be as fun or addicting as it is. I haven't even gotten to my first battle yet.

Hah.

Gamble on the Army, since the Atlantic fleet keeps pussyfooting.

Yes, it's possible, but not recommended as the game doesn't model aircraft in anyway, and the tech doesn't really go past 1925 levels.

Can we afford to lose the money? I'd say no, mostly because I don't think we can afford to gamble.

apparently a new patch lets you go past 25 upto 50, but the game becomes very unstable past 1925.

I wonder if the devs know people are playing it here.

We could make a risky play and run the defensive screens around this merchant convoy, is it worth the risk?

Go for it.

We can't afford to lose any ships on runs like that. If they are generally inferior or outmatched in a quick engagement, sink the near escorts instead, then reassess the convoy. All effort must go to destroying America's fleet capabilities, even if it means acting less efficiently VP wise.

Mistakes were made.

We've now got a cruiser action just outside of Manila.

The best thing is when you get to battle and realize the massive flaws in your designs that you missed.

Shit

Well let's get revenge.

rip brave smug anime grils ;___;7

Interesting turn.

What originally looked like a minor destroyer conflict, with a division of destroyers coming to reinforce our starter three, when we get this icon. Either we've got a big set of reinforcements coming, or things are going to get ugly very soon.

How's this for a 1905 dreadnought design? I'm sure I could get more guns on there.

Also, how do I make those side images like in
I can't seem to find a button for it.

Time to get out. Not worth risking all those boatsluts for two potential destroyer kills.

Welp, nevermind. I actually forget what increased elevation does, I think it just increases range?

Can you put the secondaries in twin mounts? Also, you could increase the displacement. Maybe add a set of small guns to fend off destroyers?

Nah, nobody has the tech for that yet. Still, I added a bunch of 3" guns and I'm pretty happy with it now.

I think it effects RoF for turrets above single.

Fuck.

I swear to god this torpedo was fired from at least 7,500m away. I thought the chances of torpedoes was practically nil. I'm sorry.

shamefur dispray.

That which blossoms
falls, the way of all flesh
in this world of flowers.

AAAAAAA

Pretty sure it allows for plunging fire

How's our fleet looking?

WE ARE LEAVING

...

They…they're faster than us. Waifu Crusher's engines are giving her trouble.

Get your F keys ready.

Just like WW2 innit?

Why did we go at war with America again?

Because we were given an ultimatum for uncertain probably-tension-related reasons, and didn't want to suffer any territorial setbacks.

Okay boys, time for the attempt at a power play. Shall our DD attempt a desperate torpedo run, likely getting shredded, but possibly landing a critical hit? Dusk is 2 1/2 hours away, we might be able to slip away if she can buy us some time.

That is not my thumbnail.

Do it.

While the BBs were forced to veer off course, our torpedo misses. Waifu Crusher and the DFS classes are still within range.

...

Things are looking grim.

Turn one CA around, that's the best chance you have I think, unless night is soon.

I have nothing to say.

Well shit.

...

Heh.

Divert resources for social programmes.

Honestly, I don't know if it's necessary. Unrest is only at 2 out of 10.

That's a nice opinion.

strike a balance I'd say, we can somewhat afford to lose this particular war, but if there's a revolution we lose the game, right?

Even as we take mounting losses, our submarines and raiders take their toll. We've already taken small amounts of clay, should we call it quits here?

War is lost but game goes on, you lose a lot if a revolution wins.

Dont over extend, if you can make a win now take it and cut your losses.

Well then, apparently Russia didn't work out for him.

Give him safe passage.

They had their chance. Fuck them up.

Safe passage then dock your ships.

Get that hot head outa here, send him to the USA.

Y/N?

Y

Y

Do it.

Some more bad news. I was forced to decline several hopeless battles, Japan is upset.

Anyways, Y/N?

US declines battle.

I guess we have to.

?

also, Y

Opening up, the Illinois class wants more blood. The BB Benis should be able to stand roughly toe to toe with it, at a slight disadvantage. However, it looks as though we might have a larger supporting fleet.

Fuck em up

Is Stealth Hunter any good?

Looking for a fun naval game that isnt too hard.

dear god, our CA is caught out PULL HER BACK!

What? What is Stealth Hunter? Do you mean Silent Hunter? if so, Yes. They're good games.

Well holy shit. We manage to surround the Illinois, landing dozens of hits upon her, but she dishes it out as well as she can take it. Persistence and bravery on the part of our destroyer and CL crews manage to land torpedo hits, and the beast is sunk. BB Benis and her fleet manages to limp away into the night, having struck back at the American fleet for our recent defeat.

...

Jesus nice, looks like you might need to upgun your ships to compete though.

That much power in one ship…good thing South America's in the way.

Good result.

Interesting news all around.

And some good stuff. While we're not outright winning just yet, things seem to be slowly coming back around.

Fuck yeah.

Surely they're going to want out soon.
Sub game strong.

Wow. Much sake for those crew!

We're once again forced into a fight we don't want. A pair of Smug Anime Girls turn to attempt a suicidal torpedo run to buy the Baka Basher time to escape. The original SAG nearly hits the Saratoga, missing just barely. Despite the lack of hits, both the Baka Basher and a SAG manage to escape as night falls.

Jesus Christ

Looks like the catch is the lack of decent sized side guns, probably very weak torpedo armour as well.

What is the state of the war? Can we win?

...

This Memphis class actually managed to put up a good fight, score several good hits on Moeship and the Baka Basher.

It's iffy, but if things drag on hopeful. We've got a new line of modern destroyers built, our bases in Alaska has been upgraded enough to sustain our fleet and we've got three Capitals being built, the largest of which houses 10 16" guns from France. America is full of riots and protests about the war, but four separate peace negotiations have failed.

And this was all from one turn. So improve those odds a bit.

WELL FUCK YOU TOO FRANCE, YOU BAGUETTE EATING CUNTS

Why is this not an automatic shitstorm? Is the Japanese government going to do anything? Or is the only option to wait it out until the navy overcomes France's own and go to war?

FRANCE DESERVED WW1

If we cool things off can we get the ship back, or is gone gone?

We're at war with the French?

Oh boy, a cruiser action gone south. The Saratoga appeared, landing a damaging first shot hit on Moeship. Smug Anime Girl attempted a torpedo run, but got torn apart before she could launch. As Moeship got ran down, taking more and more critical hits and eventually slowing to a crawl, all seemed lost.

But then, on the horizon came an unfamiliar, yet welcome sight.

The Fist is under AI control, I have no ability to command it.

Basically, France has refused to continue to allow us to build in their docks.

Honestly, I don't know.

As of now, no.

Does someone want to give a TL:DR on how to play this game? Or is it a case of Read the Fine Manual?

You are the grand admiral of one of several nations before WW1 during the great arms race, you gotta build your navy via research, building ships and light espionage and have honorable naval combat with column upon column of glorious old ships.

Game is surprisingly easy to get into, but is very short on 1.0.

Does the patches work with the ru download up the thread?

We lose both Moeship and the original Smug Anime Girl, but Arino manages to damage the enemy BC. The game considers it a victory, oddly enough.

Peace now?

I'd say watch a video or two of a Let's Play, then jump in and let yourself figure it out. That's what I did.

Peace. Try to get the Philippines.

help

Not much you can do now, take as many enemy ships down as you can and keep your subs hitting supply ships.

Sounds like the Jews are preparing for a new world order, and Japan is the first victim. You know what must happen now.

...

Time to purge the Army.

Clay for blood. Baka Basher sinks an American CA raider.

So this is the way it ends…

Yep, the key and patch works to update the game, wew.

Gotta admit the Army's putting in work. Still, they might be getting greedy.

Here's our kill board for this war, and Baka Basher sinks a lone CL.

After 73 months at war, Japan emerges victorious. We may now claim ship(s?) for ourselves.

Take the Kentucky class ships.

And finally, what clay will we take?

panama

Panama.

Maine.

Are we at risk spreading our fleet too thin by taking Panama? If so I'd say go for Hawaii or Alaska.

How you gonna get there without Panama?

Panama if it doesn't spread us too thin, Hawaii otherwise.

Sailing, I imagine.

Our new Kentucky class moves to overwatch Panama. We're gonna have to rotate some ships into the reserve fleet or mothball them, we're running a 9M defecite, although a majority of that is in Capital construction.

Even as we put down our weapons, new conflicts start to brew.

Gonna end it here today, our victory makes a decent finale for the night.

Are you aware of the operational range of ships from this era? Also they don't "sail" they "steam".

Night OP.

Can you name it BrothermanBill?

Gnight. Hail Victory.

Answer the damn question.

You don't "have sex", you "masturbate" (^:

How's their navy?

oh uhhhh, I don't think we should be scared of Germany…

Tell them to fuckoff or we'll be forced to use our new Kentucky's against them.

Can we push for an international force and then not contribute to it?

That is as factually correct as my post. The fact that you thought I would find this embarrassing shows that you should probably fuck off back to reddit.

Do these fuckers know who we are?

Talk about over reacting to the truth, geez!

Thats called Wilhelm being Wilhelm m8

M-maybe tensions are high in Europe.

Maybe.

A whole lot of nothing in western Europe though. I hope they aren't confident enough to put the whole fleet out.

Is that Russian download fucked for anybody else?

No it works, try another browser.

Okay, I swear this is the last update tonight.

Choices.

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Tested this on a sandbox VM and it worked. Download at your own risk.

Bring tensions down with Britain.

With tensions so high, I doubt you'd be able to make an agreement with any nation you actually want to (Germany, Britain, USA) nor do we want to make an agreement with our bully victim Russia, and Italy would probably not be much help, though they don't have colonies or a navy that threaten us…

I'd say just go for a broad tension reduction, we need to lick our wounds a bit.

Britain would be wise. They have 17-inch guns, after all, one short of the Yamato's 18 inchers. We need to figure out a design incorporating them to maximal effectiveness.

I started with cutesey names and ended up with plants. I'm too tired to be naming ships.

(You)
If you don't have the button you might have to update to 1.31
Donwload it either from
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Update works on all game versions.

why does every game with potential have to be ruined by abysmal fucking AI or straight up stupid mechanics like starting your destroyer force outside the command range of your flagship, starting in a spread out formation 50 minutes before night, and an evergrowing list of other stupid shit.

still wrecking russias ships left and right with torpedoes though, you should get some 6+ torpedo tube destroyers with 28-30+ speed OP, they're awesome. when they fire, that is.

ranting aside, i have some legitimate questions as well:

how are you supposed to get forward facing submerged torps to fire?

why would you ever build TRs? manual says nothing of this.

and what the hell is
-the XX class? it looks like some sort of submarine with those two bulges.
-the LT class? it looks completely broken on the ship preview, pic related.
-the AV class? a search tells me this means seaplane tender, does this mean having these helps raiding/counter raiding by spotting?

Have you tried reading the fucking manual?

If they really wanted full historical accuracy it would be even worse. Imagine if your armored cruisers didn't fire during a fight because the commander of the group never received an explicit order to fire and assumed there must be a good reason for that, or if your destroyer screen decided not to report that they were fighting anything and just died silently under the guns of an entire fleet without you ever knowing, or if you got removed from your post without warning halfway through a war because one of your shithead officers decided to play politics.

"Abysmal fucking AI" is a pretty kind way to describe the British naval officer corps in WW1, is what I'm getting at.

Manual doesn't say anything about Submarine design.

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Admiral user is back, but because my usual audience is probably not here I'll wait to start what'll probably be the final thread.

TRs can not be build.
AMCs are useful as raiders because they are cheap and quick to build.
LT apparently means landtarget.
XX might stand fo some kind of submersible but is most likely some kind of development left over. Same for the AV I suppose considering planes are not calculated.

Why

the game breaks after the 20s and early 30s because no planes

8ch.net/v/res/9938641.html

XX is an unused "miscellaneous" class. Whatever it used to be used for probably had a non-standard hull shape, which is why it breaks the editor.

AV used to work, but was patched out a long time ago due to issues with the aircraft mechanics. They used to have a random chance every turn to spot/identify enemy vessels.

I got pretty pissy after savescumming a battle (3 dd vs 1 LC) about 5 times because my DDs NEVER fucking fired a single torpedo despite have them sailing in a straight line very close to the enemy LC. I read around a bit and it seems like in the early game torpedoes very, very rarely fire but later on they get really good.