Rule the Waves 3 - 1890s Germany - 02 - Playing Chicken with France

[@weaselre1701]

I may or may not demand an episode of this once a day

[@TortugaPower]

Uh oh...

[@mrmunchkin2181]

ohno (I too would love this, though doubt it's feasibility)

[@doctoronishispsychosislab1474]

@@mrmunchkin2181 Depending on TP's life style he could just play for 10 hours on a sunday and get 20 episodes. Lets plays are the easiest videos to make. Some people like to voice over them after the play though = more time per video :)

[@nomar5spaulding]

Captain's Mode 😂😂😂 I recall a forum thread about trying to get ships to fire torpedoes and one guy was like, "Just use Captain's Mode" and one of the NWS guys was like, "Shout out to my favorite habitual abuser of Captain's Mode: TortugaPower."

[@GuardsmanGary_Ch]

It really is the only way to play without tearing your hair out from frustration.

[@nomar5spaulding]

@GuardsmanGary I've only ever done Rear Admiral.

[@deeznoots6241]

@@GuardsmanGary_Chtbh as annoyed as I sometimes get at the AI messing up captains mode is way too much micromanagement.

[@GuardsmanGary_Ch]

@@deeznoots6241 There's only as much micro-management as you're willing to do; you can leave as many divisions on AI control as there are in admirals mode. The only difference is being able to choose when to take control yourself rather than being completely at the whims of the AI.

[@deeznoots6241]

@@GuardsmanGary_Ch even so its just a bit too easy when you can micromanage decisive moments. And its very rare for me when the game actually does fuck up with AI and that is usually only during night battles when the game spawns fleets too close together, in which case sometimes the AI will do stupid things like run my battleships into enemy destroyers and get them sunk by torpedoes.

[@direnightfury2038]

Looking forward to seeing how the war with France is going to go. Also, the second treaty you were thinking of was the London Naval Treaty

[@joshstreet6819]

Before the first London Naval treaty there was the Geneva Naval Conference which lead to the first London Treaty. If it wasn't for several powers skirting the first London Treaty the 2nd London Treaty wouldn't have happen.

[@direnightfury2038]

*cough* Ryujo *cough*

[@peterdavies6660]

We’re ready for them! (Narrator: but he was not ready for them)

[@nm7358]

It's not even close from being a fleet-in-being, but a fleet-in-ICU.

[@peterdavies6660]

@@nm7358 🤣🤣🤣

[@TortugaPower]

I can only read this in Ron Howard's voice (Arrested Development)

[@Tyr1001]

DaTactic is starting a series as well. its a good time to be a warship enthusiast

[@Cdre_Satori]

Man waving fist at a cloud. "Darn you, Tortuga! Why must your spreadsheet games leave me hanging for more so much" :D

[@sebastianucero7535]

Hi, german navy nomenclature varies a lot. There was a K class of light cruisers that have cities namesonly with the letter K, like Köningsberg, Koln or Karlsruhe. Then you have the famous generals or admirals of the past like Hindenburg or Graf von Spee. Using cities names is for shure way to get germanic names. Or River names. German Rivers: Wesser, Elbe, Rhein, Saale, Jade, Main, Neckar, Lahn, Ruhr, Mosel, Inn, Iser

[@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078]

Small hint, it's Weser and Isar ;)

[@keithcollins448]

I like the idea that in 1891 they allready new about the future Dreadnought by offering to build pre-dreadnoughts 😂 looking forward to all the battles to come

[@Owktree]

I watch videos from a naval historian (Clarke) who really dislikes the use of "pre-dreadnought" for that reason. He prefers the term "steam battleships" and then (IIRC) "Majestics" for that period with the RN Majestic-class indicating the period before Dreadnought where the battleships tended to the 2x12" guns on each end and the bundle of 6" secondary guns.

[@keithcollins448]

I dont mind the term, its just funny in a future tense

[@TortugaPower]

I somehow didn't catch this, but lol

[@marxel4444]

Its like calling piston engine planes "Pre-Jetplanes"

[@Silamon2]

@@marxel4444 I think the difference is that when jet planes started to get introduced they did not completely revolutionize aviation. There were still things piston engines were better at, and jet engines had enough flaws to create 2 different schools of thought where some would opt to go for the more reliable piston engines and some would go for the more powerful jet. Jets were clearly better, but they had a lot of flaws. Compare that to dreadnoughts vs pre dreadnoughts. When Dreadnoughts became a reality, all previous battleships were basically invalidated. Dreadnoughts were just straight up better right out the gate. So while piston engines continued to be relevant for a while after jets became a thing Dreadnoughts completely changed the playing field and revolutionized warship development. I think that's why there is a pre-dreadnought term but not a pre-jet term in common use.

[@xt6wagon]

Small slow battleships are often purpose built as costal or port defense ships. They lasted as long as a "viable" ship idea as long as battleships did. Its bad at power projection, but they make a good defense for smaller nations as they can maul enemy ships in their waters. Shallow draft is often a feature making them able to move and hide places larger ships can't. So if can often be a case of the enemy has to fight them with relatively equal tonnage cruisers which is not a good idea.

[@Panzerless_SG]

Shout-out to the Dutch who adored the Coastal Defense Battleship idea. And then proceded to make the Zeven Provinciën-Class. In my opinion it's actually quite a cool ship, it has better then average armor, bit worse armemant then usuall for the time, but with the speed of a Armored Cruiser

[@SkorjOlafsen]

Wow, the division editor is such a great improvement. I'm just hoping it works the way it looks, and I can actually control escort assignment.

[@Silamon2]

The division editor is one of the biggest things that convinced me to buy RTW3. Honestly don't really care about going for more modern era or for older era because ww1-2 is my favorite time period, but division editor has me sold on the new game almost by itself. I do like the nicer sprite designs too.

[@SicilianSSFR]

How realistic would be for you to make 1 hour long episodes? Thanks for the video, i'm really looking forward to getting rtw3.

[@TortugaPower]

Sure, I can extend the lengths more.

[@tonofashman]

​@@TortugaPowerplease do

[@beefstew6512]

@@TortugaPower Length is always important

[@bohba13]

​@@TortugaPower warning, algorasmus suppresses videos over a certain length.

[@dubielahmonarchyenjoyer9107]

Let the french come! We defeated them in 1870 with barely any navy and so we will again!

[@TortugaPower]

If only our army mattered in RtW

[@Cevorus315]

My favorite part of your fleet is the CL Undine having a displacement higher than the B Wettin.

[@kotori87gaming89]

Hooray, another great episode! I can't wait until the game comes out and I can start my own playthrough.

[@chrisscott6254]

Brink of War November of 1891 ???? From what I could remember, it was a long, tense year. Every day brought the everpresent reminder of what my father had said that night in October - that "_something_ was not a peace - that it was an armistice for 20 years." As the days crawled onwards, it grew less and less like the rant of an angry man, and more like the words of a mad prophet. Being the child I was, I did not quite see it as the rather tense situation it was. However, I could still see how the tension between my father and brother grew- not many words were spoken, but that much was clear. As the month followed, I saw my father less and less - he came home more rarely, more exhausted than he seemingly ever had been- It was a simple explanation for a child, that he was not "Preparing for a possible war" and instead "Undergoing training to protect the ship he was on." It was silly - but it made things easier to understand. Yet two months later an incident occurred - What became a calculated decision to desperately attempt to gain funding to challenge the French, by provoking the _Royal Navy_ and an Italian spy being captured . . . became a simple game of teasing between countries and playing tag. Of all the things that _Could_ have brought war to Europe; Bringing devastation to thousands, if not millions of people, whether on land or overseas- A small colonial gunboat under the name of the August Pieper steaming into the Agadir after an incident in Morroco . . . was decidedly not one of them. Looking at the old newspapers all these years later makes it somewhat funny - as funny as the great game between powers could be. However, it also gave me a window into how grim things were back then- the desperate, but slow commissioning and designing of new vessels, every month was crucial for survival. Commissioning of new British Battleships, rumours in France of going to war with us . . . if that was not clear enough already. The Building of a new coastal battery in the Baltics. . . and the designing of our own, proper Battleships - a step forward from where we once were, but not _quite_ a true detachment from the "Coastal Battleship" philosophy. Yet surprisingly it did not cause that much of an incident in France - Was it arrogance? We would probably never know their true feelings about our new battleships, but things continued- a little more stirred in the pot, so to speak. Feelings in Germany were quite a bit different - Euphoria- the revival of the national pride - just a bit. Just enough for a Private Shipyard to offer to build another of the rather ironically, confusingly named- Schildkröte class protected cruisers. It was never quite figured out exactly _Why_ it was named the "Turtle" - Was it the Armament? Heavy Armament Turtle? Definitely not speed- considering the class itself was a Merger of the Cheapness of the Niobe class and the high engine power of the rather confused broad general class of Undines, Hamburgs, Arcona, and the Frauenlob. . . .but whatever the reason, It was also enough to allow one of our arms manufacturers into a technology sharing agreement in Italy - the same Italy that had sent a Spy into our country. Another showing of the flag was a gunnery competition - an idea of the Kaiser's - which lasted quite a while- as the proverbial dust settled it was the _Arcona_ which had apparently won the cup. The people were in such a good mood - the tech agreement and cooperation with the Italians still fresh in mind, that it was rather understandable that there were not a lot of papers on the occupation of Albania - by Italy. Whatever the reason - A pair of battleships were put into building, under the class designation of the again, oddly named Schweitzer. As the clocks grew closer - so did the amount of money from taxation, seemingly things were _starting_ to settle down and seemingly a break from constant militarisation was in order- thus the recommendation for Railways across Germany were to be built. Thus - nearly a year after the new training programs began, in October of 1871 did I start to see my father again . . . the new coastal battery in Eastern Germany was completed . . . But the Russians? The Russians got friendly. Perhaps they needed cash? Perhaps they wanted to fund opposition to France? and create a counterweight? Whatever the reason, they had offered us a leap forward- The designs, and knowledge in order to build the next step in warship production. Designs for the rudimentary building of 12-inch Naval Guns. It would be the straw that broke the Camels back - the kettle that started to whistle- We would perhaps never know what exactly caused it- But- The French sent an Ultimatum - Germany made light of it, thought it was a bluff. . . surely they had learned since the last time? The answer, nary a few days later was - "FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY!" The World was changed - and I would always remember these two things; A distant stare from my father, and his words all those months ago - "That was not a Peace- it was an Armistice for 20 years."

[@Slahinki]

Bit odd that the game doesn't consider East Prussia as home territory of the German Empire.

[@bstahl52]

Sure its the ancestral home of Prussia, but they really didn't hold it long after unification and its not the greatest land anyways.

[@MrBlueBurd0451]

The Washington Naval Treaty was followed by the London and Second London Naval Treaties.

[@TortugaPower]

Thanks!

[@fizzyb00t]

It was the London naval treaty after Washington.

[@jacobktan]

Looking forward to the rest of the series.

[@Impireal_Captain]

4:51 The better part of a decade after the Washington naval treaty there was a similar conference in London.

[@nomar5spaulding]

I've been playing RTW2 as Germany recently and I've gone to war with Italy and so far there have only been 2 real battles, both in the Red Sea. One was my 6,000 ton protected cruiser against a convoy escorted by 3 Bs and 8DDs. I kited the Bs, suppressed the DDs with my 6" fire, and broke into the center of the convoy of 13 ships and sank 9 before fleeing with light damage. Then last night I took 3 of my own Bs, a CA and the same CL as before plus 1x DD against another Italian convoy of 15 TRs with an escort of the same 3Bs and 4DDs. My CL found the Italian fleet and my Bs went after their Bs. I then sent my CA and CL into the convoy and slaughtered it. While that went on, my Bs were beating theirs up and one started to get pretty damaged, so I brought in my CA which successfully hit it with 2 torpedoes (which was amazing since it only has 1 submerged tube per side). I kept chasing the Italian Bs and beat another one to death with 11" gunfire. The 3rd and final B took medium damage and escaped because my Bs ran out of ammo. I also managed to sink 1 Italian DD, med damaged one, light damaged the other. My CL took light damage and one B took light damage XD That one CL has been really active want kicking ass. It also went on a coastal bombardment mission and there were almost no ships to stop it so I just parked point blank onto the bombardment target and went to fast speed until the land target was gone. Then we sailed home. RIP Italy lol.

[@katrinapaton5283]

Had an interesting battle today between my colonial cruiser, HMS Leander, armed with a dozen 4" guns and the French protected cruiser, Sfax armed with eight 7" guns, faster and half as heavy again as the 4000 ton British vessel. The fight went exactly as expected with the Sfax barely being damaged while Leander got ripped to bits, flooding, on fire, down to six knots. Her opponent clearly thought she was doomed and turned and sail off. Ive never seen the AI do that before. Somehow Leander put out the fires, stopped the flooding and made it to port.

[@nomar5spaulding]

@Katrina Paton I had one last night again as Germany but this time against France. I had 3 of my 4 Dreadnoughts (none super good, but ok... about 22-24k tons, 21knots, 11.5-12" belt, 2x ships with 5x2 13" -1Q guns laid out like KMS Kaiser, last one with 4x2 14" -1Q guns in AQXY layout). French had 1 Dreadnought (again, Kaiser layout of 5x2 13" guns) but low armor, plus like 6 pre-dreads. They also had like 4 CLs and a bunch of DDs. I had all 4 of my CAs, 2CLs and like 8 DDs. I had my battleships just hammering on the enemy dreadnought. My CAs trying to suppress the pre-dreads while my CLs and DDs kept their light forces at bay. I ended up pummeling the French Dread until I thought it was sinking for sure, so switched to trying to kill their pre-dreads. I got one pre-dread dead in the water and my DDs torpedoed the everliving out of it and it sank, but while I shifted my Dreads onto their pre-dreads, the French Dread got himself back underway and escaped with heavy damage. I was irritated.

[@robomonkey1018]

Heres a story. When I joined the US navy between bootcamp and my job specific "A" school I had att (advanced technical training) at great lakes naval station. While I was there the barracks I resided in was named after the USS Wisconsin. Sometimes we marched in formation. When we encountered other "ships" we gave them a full broadside. Becuase we were the only battleship. We would halt face the other formation and yell 9 16 inch guns. Then we scream boom at the top of our lungs three times.

[@patricklioneljonson2747]

Ideen für Schiffsnamen: Fluch von Frankreich kein U-Boot Germanischer Geist Schnitzer Volldampf voraus Wasserfuchs zu klein

[@chrisscott6254]

Check out the description- he has a Ship name form you can fill out.

[@Blxz]

Another top episode.

[@TortugaPower]

Another top comment

[@Strato5]

Could you take a look at the Turret Era option, I'm not sure the impact on the ship, but I can see it having weight and armour effects.

[@davepumphouse1378]

it does nothing, it just changes the look

[@Razzmacgazz69420]

1 episode a day keeps the dark thoughts away.

[@unionid4937]

I enjoyed the end of the video, perfect timing :)

[@hazzard5292]

One thing I would very much like to see and I hope is implemented (if it isn't already), is being able to move ships by division. So instead of having to click on half a dozen ships to move them to a different region, you can just move the First Heavy Cruiser Division which will drag the entire division there with one click.

[@greywhizzadventurer8535]

Pretty crazy idea to scrap the existing Battleships just to avoid Fleet Action :P I do wonder if it'll work, could leave to hilarious outcome where the French Battleships just sit in port the whole war twiddling their thumb while the Armored Cruisers duked it out

[@Sipsy301]

Love the casual Mussolini reference with the trains running on time

[@AssassinAgent]

I can't wait for the launch of rtw3. Seems like there is multiple QoL updates and more content available

[@absurdides]

Can't wait for the great sea baguette wars to kick off. ;)

[@katrinapaton5283]

German bricks vs French floating hotels

[@LightningDragon79]

War, war never changes.

[@kapman44]

My name I submitted is on a crappy pre-dreadnought! YES! I will take it!

[@seanhall8686]

Good call regarding Albania. I adopted this strategy for my RTW2 playthrough (as Germany) and that paid large dividends, especially when two of my opponents adopted Fascism, thus allowing me to keep blockading and invading their colonies ad nauseum.

[@MutantGuppyFromHell]

Being outnumbered just means it's a target rich environment and you've got them right where you want them!

[@davepumphouse1378]

Lucky you didnt start as japan, the 1890 start wanted to give me Pre-Dreadnaughts at 3300 tonnes and 13 Knots with a 6000 dock size

[@TortugaPower]

lol... Japan would be painfully fun to play

[@davepumphouse1378]

@@TortugaPower I also got the news that somehow the british are building light cruisers with 9inch guns!

[@Trifler500]

Nothing wrong with cramped accommodations if you only use them to defend the home territory. :)

[@marxel4444]

The naval treaty after the Washington Naval Treaty was the London Naval Treaty! :)

[@stevenmccoy5103]

Avoid and sweep mines. "Runaway ", if necessary 😂

[@KublaKhan1797]

Extra! Extra! Read all about it. The Kaiser orders fleet to prepare for war! Army still nowhere to be seen.

[@billmuller6133]

How about „Ostsee“ and „Nordsee“ for ship names.

[@descriptiondescriptiondescript]

YESS! RtW 3 is finally here

[@nm7358]

Les Huns ne passeront pas! Each German battleship sunk brings us closer to the return of Alsace and Lorraine! Seriously, what are the titles of the two shanties you used as intro and outro in your previous videos? I need them, because they are worming themselves into my RtW3-deprived brain.

[@jacobktan]

'Anchors Away' and 'Blow the Man Down'

[@TortugaPower]

Jacob has the titles correct. YT might even post them in the video description for that video -- they are free use audio from the YT library.

[@nm7358]

@@TortugaPower Thanks! I look forward to you torturing me by naming your Dreadnoughts pair "Elsass" and "Lothringen" as revenge for your inevitable defeat to the French. *shakes fist* 😝

[@MutantGuppyFromHell]

@@nm7358 "On to Paris" would be a good name.... :p

[@daytonagaming6861]

I can`t wait to see the first Batch of German Merchant Cruiser and that the Allies are fearing them again like in the 1st and 2nd World War. ^^ Btw. Tortuga, when are you Renaming the Officers ? :D sry if my English is bad or not good to read i`m from Germany and have my issues with the rigth writing of English words ^^"

[@apyllyon]

washington naval treaty was followed by 2 london naval treatiese, germany was rather unique on the matter as germany was allowed to built a navy in the 1930´s after signing the anglo-german naval treaty bringin them to somewhat standards of the washington and 1st london treaty as a compromise.

[@dennissvitak148]

London Naval Conference, 1930, which provided for the 5-5-3 tonnage limitations.

[@richardprivate5568]

ship name.... Drachenfeuer. means dragon fire would you consider that name ?? great series so far :)

[@chrisscott6254]

If you go into the description he has a ship name form you can fill out.

[@TortugaPower]

It's a fine name; submit it!

[@tahzib1451]

pretty sure that type of battleship hull is available in UAD as Battleship I for germany

[@diegokevin3824]

to distiguish the capes, just think of this: cape horn looks like a horn that mekes up the tip of south america as for your question on submarines the first double hulled engine propelled submarine did trials in 1861 (Ictíneo I) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ict%C3%ADneo_I the first militaryly useful submarine with an underwater torpedo launcher and the first perisocope was trialed in 1889 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_submarine_Peral

[@clubardi]

to add to this, the first submarine was invented in 1620 by Cornelius Drebbel, this submarine was powered by oars and could stay underwater for several hours at a time, and it was even reported that King James IV and I (same person different crowns) was onboard for one of the tests

[@Trifler500]

I'm really curious to see what other types of coal powered steam engines are available now.

[@depth386]

Re: “final form of rule the waves” Argentina, Chile, and Brazil’s early dreadnought navies would like to have a word.

[@TK_FHW]

Can anyone tell me how to have the ship sprite update when you convert a ship into a carrier? It urks the hell out of me

[@EllenbergW]

After the Washington treaty came the London treaty.

[@Gruoldfar]

Second episode without a war...wait. No, its war! 😆

[@bstahl52]

Is it possible to get a Stahl class of heavier ship? Means steel in German.

[@tommeyer9391]

"more bang for you buck using HE." lol

[@awordabout...3061]

RTW3! I can't believe YT didn't show me the first episode. BOOTS!

[@ADobbin1]

The problem I found while playing the old one is that by the time you are finished designing and building battleships they are already obsolete. Cruisers are nearly as bad. I ended up focusing on a core of over gunned cruisers with a bunch of light cruisers for protection and a horde of suicide destroyers with 50 million torpedos.

[@mikefischer8576]

That is kind of something you have to expect. Hence you build the best bb you think you can and then hope for the best.

[@TortugaPower]

I think that is one of the cool things about the game (designed ships are already obsolete), so there is a balancing act of when to build

[@xt6wagon]

Eh, cruisers I found never really go obsolete if you design them right. By right, I mean 4x 8", then as many 6" and 5" guns as you can. It's really gamey, and wouldn't work in real life anywhere near as well. The smaller guns are there to crit seek as accuracy is too low with the 8". So you poke holes in funnels and crit engine rooms. Speed drops, then the 8" goes to work. Fires too. It sadly won't let you make modern main gun layouts with heavy secondary guns in rtw2. But your old ancient design will still be viable in a pure combat setup as 20 6" secondaries is still a lovely thing vs a 9 6" gun modern light cruiser.

[@mikefischer8576]

@@xt6wagon the issue with that us you have now made a floating bomb if hit. Gun farms actally are a bad design once long range fire snd aircraft start as they have a greater chance to expload.

[@ADobbin1]

@xt6wagon this is true. You can still use the older cruiser as convoy raiders if nothing else, even if they are too far gone for straight up combat. They are certainly gonna wreck light cruisers and destroyers for a long time.

[@shuttheheckupkarl6153]

@TortugaPower do you know if you can/have you tried to rename the ship captains and commanders?

[@TortugaPower]

Karl! I vaguely remember trying, but let me check again.

[@shuttheheckupkarl6153]

@@TortugaPower I found a guy who's learned how to edit the commander names kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5a8YXiIrNiFrZI at 1:24

[@doomhippie6673]

Kapitaen zur See is the highest naval rank beneath the admiral titles.

[@Vergil462]

I just now realized the AI could easily take my name by accident do I'm going to change that now.

[@wow-roblox8370]

Don’t change yourself, make the AI change around you!

[@TortugaPower]

Don't worry, all new ships will be renamed (regardless of what the auto-name generates)

[@Vennwanderer]

Would like to see a certain scheme in the ships names. E.g. German cities for CLs like Karlsruhe, Emden, Braunschweg or maybe another class named after sea birds like Albatross, Seeadler, Pinguin, next class with predators like Tiger, Löwe, Gepard and so on. Snaller vessels like DDs are traditional more often only getting the dockyards first letter and a number like V-22 (Vulkan-Werft) B-33 (Blohm und Voss). Biger units like CAs and BB may get their names from Prussian Generals of the Napoleonic Wars, From houses of the German kingdoms, or names of the German states.

[@arildboes]

very exciting!

[@zozol356]

For dd i would go with standard german Z-XX Zerstörer numbering.

[@garychisholm2174]

It won't let you scrap capital ships if you only have 7 or less.

[@michaelsmart1577]

Question: what does that colonial service option do/mean when you were designing a ship?

[@randomcanuck6823]

I can't say for sure with RTW3, but how Colonial Service works in RTW2 is that it adds a 1.25 multiplier to any ships tonnage when put on foreign station (FS). For example, if I put a 4000t CL that has the colonial service option on FS it will then count as 5000 tons against the tonnage requirement.

[@Davidletter3]

I've just realised the name I submitted is basically already taken by one of the starting CA's you have. Mine's a bit different, but very similar. Hope that's okay.

[@PerfectDeath4]

yeah, social programmes are like -1 unrest, no point getting those when at 0 unrest. xD

[@darrellhartanto4428]

With the amount of showing the game, I think it would be better to extend the episode to an hour or so because 36 mins of video, probably half of that, is just talking about features. That to be said, it's a nice thing that RtW3 shows more potential than RtW2.

[@andrewnlarsen]

How did you record this.

[@Gaca-rl9ze]

It's just 1891 and Germans are already talking about "secret weapons" xD

[@stevejones5824]

London Naval Treaty (1930 & 2nd in 1935/6) came after Washington (1922)

[@MravacKid]

OK, so Boaty McBoatface is right out, then how about Schiffinger? :)

[@erichammer2751]

Your new CLs have "Victorian" turret design, not "Dreadnought." However, I have no idea what that implies in game terms.

[@FrostyThundertrod]

Has the ai knowing about your torpedos thing been fixed?

[@lastresort1plays]

Ship Name: De Last der Resorts

[@josepetersen7112]

*London. It was the London naval treaty.

[@ColonelCharisma]

Why does this game use a modern world map in 1890?

[@Caratacus1]

Is there any point to colonies yet? Never used to bother because they were just a drain on your fleet to defend and gave nothing in return.

[@bluecatdk]

is sardinia an italian homeland in this game?

[@searleski]

Hopefully you won't be too far away from getting BCs

[@carljohanrydberg357]

DoW the UK, that will get rid of those 'battleships' in a hurry!

[@Baron-Ortega]

Ship name KMS Prince August or KMS Graf Zu Askanien

[@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078]

5:18 Close enough, your pronunciation is not too bad :) Edit: 6:54 Pretty much on point, minus the accent!

[@ARCtrooper8248]

I believe the two naval treaties were, first the London naval, and then Washington naval. I might be wrong though

[@TortugaPower]

Correct treaties, but didn't London come second?

[@javelin2811]

Am I allowed to talk about my beta experiences yet?

[@PillowWillow007]

Meow!

[@explosion8245]

Can‘t wait to get RTW3 bc i can make a carrier Fleet as Germany,greetings from Germany (also youre getting bettet at pronouncing german names)

[@katrinapaton5283]

You know Germany can build carriers in RTW 2, right?

[@explosion8245]

@@katrinapaton5283 yes i know but i Dont want to get RTW2 before its sequel releases

[@katrinapaton5283]

@@explosion8245 Ah, I misunderstood.

[@Madmax-yh7ek]

Krankewagen

[@jaywerner8415]

I JUST Realized you don't have any Destroyers, only Corvettes. Oh nos.... unless we have to research those? Their are also Officers/Captains/Commanders (Kommandants?) Now, which is a neat little addition. The last tab on Right, Might want to check that one and see who is who and their Skill levels.

[@xt6wagon]

Its a bit before modern destroyers are a thing. Quick Google says 1894 for the first one. His corvettes aren't bad other than a bit slow.

[@jaywerner8415]

@@xt6wagon I figured as such. Wasn't sure though.

[@frederiknielsen6038]

Why do you care so much about getting 2" deck armour? It's the 1890s, engagement ranges are going to be so short that it's a non issue. And by the time guns improve enough to actually score deck hits, these ships should be scrapped already.

[@TortugaPower]

Deck hits have increased chance when your gun is firing beyond half its maximum range. Since gun range is poor, I guess we may get deck hits.

[@frederiknielsen6038]

@@TortugaPower Okay, so it's a gameplay thing. Realistically fighting ranges in the 1890s were so short that shells would very rarely come in at an angle where deck pen was possible.

[@karlitohomes]

​@@frederiknielsen6038 in RTW2 at least, the poor accuracy of early guns does indeed mean deck hits were pretty unlikely early on, at least in my own experience.

[@frederiknielsen6038]

@@karlitohomes Thats my experience from RtW2 as well. Not having to worry about deck armour at least until the forst dreadnaughts are launched. And it always seemed resonable to me. Can't imagine deck hits being more common in the 1890s, where range is even shorter