19 Rule The Waves 3 Japan 1890 Rise Of The Dragon

[@pterrok5495]

Wow! Time was just flying by--and you were just picking up techs left and right! Which is the one thing I for sure would have done differently than you: I would have made a Naga II as you had quite a lot of techs to be applied to the CL, even if you didn't change the thing at all with saved tonnage. Newer armor, and I think the Elevated guns. Oddly, for you, since you scrap whole swathes of ships, you wouldn't run into MY problem when I DO want to upgrade and have BASE, and II and III floating around! ;-p (Since a Naga III would be much, MUCH better even since when I would have made the Naga II! But yeah, carriers first!) ~~~ Here is the breakdown on my spying--not nearly as good as I first thought since I had ALSO noted when I was sure tech had been stolen FROM me! ;-p i.e. only half as many steals--ugh! SEP 1905 7" Quality 0 guns! (Stolen from Italy) MAR 1906 10" Quality 0 guns! (Stolen from AH) MAR 1906 3" Quality 1 guns (Stolen from Russia) DEC 1912 Stole Lighter Than Air Airships from France! JAN 1915 Stole triple torpedo tubes from Germany! MAR 1915 Improved diesel engines--sub 5% more reliability (stolen from Germany) MAR 1919 9" guns at Quality 0!--Stolen from Spain JUL 1924 Improved pressure Hull--(stolen from the US) FEB 1925 11" Quality 1 guns!--(stolen from the Japanese) MAY 1929 17" Quality -1 guns! (Stolen from the US) OCT 1934 17" guns Quality 0! (Stolen from the US) SEP 1939 16" Quality 1 guns!!! (Stolen from Japan!) DEC 1939 5" Quality 1 guns!!! (Stolen from Germany) FEB 1944 We stole anechoic plating from Russia--increase in sub effectiveness JAN 1947 9" Quality 1 guns! (Stolen from Germany) AUG 1950 Stole Rod fragmentation from USA! Increases AA and SAM hit chances! APR 1952 Stole 2" guns Quality 1 from USA! (MAYBE 2" guns are for AA??? Never used them, ever. ;-p) AUG 1955 Stole some sub tech from Germany--??? JUL 1958 DDs of 3800 tons! (Stolen from the US!) Or per country: 1 Italy 1 Austria Hungary 2 Russia 1 France 5 Germany 1 Spain 6 USA 2 Japan So yeah, as a major nation I probably will NOT spy on minors past the start where I know they have the better 3" gun, for example. As a minor, I still will spy on everyone, but, I just noticed: TEN of the stolen things were gun quality techs??? Hmmm, THAT is concerning! (And interesting.) (but again, disclaimer: I had good research rates as GB, so maybe just could never steal anything with them BUT the guns since I already knew them.)

[@TinyDragonLair]

Oh dang you keep good track of your stuff. :D I just tend to react to what happens as it goes down lol. We'll get some new cruisers soon enough! We've had some good techs for them recently, but you'll see why any new CL class is delayed in the next episode or two. :)

[@pterrok5495]

@@TinyDragonLair That was the 1st--maybe only time--I kept a war diary of every turn. I'll look over it again and see if it's worth it next time I play. WHICH, if I do AH, may very well be worthwhile just to see if spying works out better. You guys putting the episodes up can always, in theory, go back and find all this stuff again, if need be! ;-)

[@TinyDragonLair]

@@pterrok5495 That's true! Everything in this campaign has been documented so far. :D