Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts - US Super Battleship

[@foresthamilton2243]

Wow!! Love the cinematic intro!! It was lovely!!

[@Stealth17Gaming]

Thanks! Thought I'd try something new

[@evil4zerggin972]

29:39: Torpedo belts *can* prevent flash fires. When you get hit by a torpedo, it calculates an effective penetration value proportional to the damage the torpedo dealt after torpedo damage reduction. If that penetration is greater than your effective turret armor thickness, then the game rolls for a flash fire. On the other hand, if the penetration is less than the effective armor thickness, there is *zero* chance of flash fire. So the combination of torpedo damage reduction + turret armor will make you immune to flash fires from torpedoes below a certain threshold of damage. Turret armor > penetration also works against flash fires from shell hits. This is why I always put at least 30" turret armor on late-game BBs.

[@derrickubay-ubay9503]

30 inches!? JESUS

[@evil4zerggin972]

@@derrickubay-ubay9503 What can I say, turret armor is overpowered. If you have enough turret armor, you can run around with no barbette, no citadel, Super Heavy shells with extra ammo, electric traverse, Lyddite explosives, etc. and still have zero chance of getting flash fired because the turret armor blocks the flash fire roll from happening in the first place. Meanwhile you can do everything else to reduce flash fire chance, but if you don't have enough turret armor you can still get that unlucky flash fire roll.

[@evil4zerggin972]

The devs dropped new news today about the next patch, including: "Torpedo Protection now contributes slightly to the Hull Resistance, making it useful not only against torpedoes." If the other stats stay the same, this will make torpedo belts yet more attractive. It's also likely the campaign will make keeping costs under control more of a factor than it is now, which could also help torpedo belts: they may be heavy, but they're relatively cheap.

[@OrangeCream2002]

Whoa you should definitely do more intros like that, that was super good and amazing.

[@cyberclawterror950]

This intro alone proves we need more naval warfare in cinema

[@АлександрКузьмин-в7ю]

The towers are usually are anarmored, except, sure, the parts with secondary barbets and conning tower. If you armot it up, ship is just going to roll too much and do an owerkiel once. It was firstly shown on triple deckers when someone tried to put heavy guns onto upper decks.

[@acoolnamehere1100]

Something: dies Stealth: yes yes very sad, anyways

[@decivillain9216]

23:30 42 Knots is faster than most destroyer, the AI is on something, again.

[@BattleshipOrion]

Late but here's my definition: Any battleship larger than 80,000 tons displacement capable of surface combat, and shore bombardment with speeds in excess of 30 knots. Typically requires the ship to have proven in simulation to sink any one of 5 classes of battleship based on size relative to actual historical battleships, such as the South Dakota's, Iowa's, Yamato's, Bismarck's, King George V's. Some examples of super-battleships are the Montana's, and various H-type battleships.

[@kineuhansen8629]

í think the will have that in the campaign one thing i would love to see in dreadnought is damage that will stay with your ship in next battle and you need to replace the funnel turrets superstructure engines

[@georgeheld1901]

Well definitely, it will probably be similar to Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail’s campaign

[@georgeheld1901]

17:10 I’d rather them have bad communication and be working on it than be hyping it up and not really adding anything

[@decivillain9216]

Yandere simulator.

[@Sakacarottes]

nice that the ai decided to also do ridiculous secondary loadouts

[@loler1565v2]

Maybe i am miss remembering things but when u are fighting a lot of smaller ships is it not better to mix up the single, double and triples for secondaries so that that can shoot at more targets at ones and not just have them all fire on a single ship?

[@TR-xp9yj]

The triangle: armour firepower mobility

[@khangnguyenduongbao6126]

That 1st match when you realized about Lyddie was just pure comedy gold lmao XD. And as for my ideal super battleship, then it should be hurling 18inch rounds (or go bigger, 'cause bigger is better) towards its opponents. Secondary wise I would had go for much more uniform setup if I were you, just to increase the amount of shells that can decimate light vessels at the same time. Main belt must be 16inch at minimum in order to bounce things, and speed is not really important. Anyway thanks for the great vid Stealth!

[@grassulus158]

I like the intro, and good choice of music as well!

[@captain_crunch_time1925]

Ngl that intro music makes the ship look so intense

[@juancruztocco523]

Very nice introduction and a Hell of a Intro!! Keep it up

[@boydgrandy5769]

The Tillman battleship designs were monstrously large. Tillman Version IV-2 was presented with 15 18" guns in 5 triple turrets, 16 inch armor belt, 1000' long, 110' beam, a propulsion plant to drive it at 25+ knots and would have weighed in at 80,000 tons. These were designs demanded by Senator Tillman in WWI, where he wanted the Navy to request to build the "ultimate battleship" rather than the incremental modifications that went into the "standard" US battleship program.

[@jibrilito7593]

Have you heard of the tillman battleship designs? Unless I’m mistaken those are the biggest American designs.

[@josephdedrick9337]

they were essentially one guy telling naval designers are you sure thats the biggest design you can think of. At least thats what it seemed like based on the dracinfel video.

[@Railman1225]

Man, I gotta tell ya Stealth, one thing's for sure; when you forget to change the propellant from Lyddite II, chances are you'll be surprised by a good fireworks show!!

[@mrswimmytanker7422]

Love how you say before it lays eggs

[@chronus4421]

Hey Stealth, I liked the intro today.

[@shubzilla755]

If all I knew of WWII was UA:D, I'd think that flash fires popping turrets off was a routine cause of a ship's destruction.

[@seppiya7470]

If you want the "real" no-compromises US Super Battleship look at BB65-8 (BB65 scheme 8). 12 16-inch guns, with a 15.75" armour belt and the same 33-knot speed as the Iowa class. To achieve this the design had to be 320 metres long with 320,000 shp steam engines (more power than a modern nuclear-powered supercarrier). That's where the problem emerges; the cost not only of such massive ships but also the infrastructure needed to build and operate them.

[@Chaos_Legend]

The game:"What do you want on your ship?" * Stealth who is making a super battleship *:"ALL OF IT!!"

[@shablya]

That intro. That battleship. Look out.

[@davidgray3061]

We are a Battleship, Let's act like it. ALL AHEAD FLANK SPEED.

[@ToastGamingNCrew]

All I can think of is, Torpedo Battleship. Nothing but 5 in guns and torpedo batteries across every square inch of deck space i can squeeze em

[@khoipham8303]

25:03 New Mexico lookin' higher than Snoop Dogg at 3AM

[@evilreddog]

if i were to design a US super battleship close to reality here are the changes i would have done to your ship 1: 18 inch guns 3x3 or 4x3 2: 34kts 3: 22" main belt, reduced belt extended by half (it uses all or nothing armor scheme on the modern ships so extended does not do much for the overall protection of the ship), main deck 10", conning tower 12", 20" main turret. 6" secondary 4: Super heavy shells. The US almost exlusivly used super heavy shells as they where superior for plunging fire to penetrate deck armor, but for the brawling purpous of your vessel, light shells would probably have been better, with flatter trajectory and better close in penetration 5: 5" secondaries galore, US loved their 5" multi purpos guns

[@ulrichkalber9039]

a super-something always is something that is better in most respects than any something that has come before. best example would be the dreadnought, in her time it was better than any battleship before her, making her a super-battleship of her time. the yamato was larger and better armed than any ship before her, in the game you can build 125k+ ton craft, if those are adequately armored and armed that would make them SBs of their time. if the game would be defining the bodys and guns for an ongoing battleship arms race we might have larger ships in later times, with larger guns and better aiming range etc. every generation would redefine what a SB would look like. in the old times the size of a first rate has slowly increased, always redefining what a first rate would be. any cathegory of ship would tend to grow over time. had the armsrace gone on we might have 40" guns on 1000 meter long ships, controlled by computers, firing intelligent(excalibur-) rounds that are rocket assisted to reach 150 Km of range, hitting a target in sub meter accuracy, possibly carrying 100 Megaton warheads. also such vessels might be nuclear driven to reach like 50 knots of speed. at least that would be the possibilities of technology. the limit is not technology, it is affordability.

[@WhiteTemplar01]

For ideas on US super battle ships looking at the Tillman Maximum Battleship designs is a good place to start.

[@shadowfox8748]

Definitely a great vid opener

[@mariebcfhs9491]

"she might not have a whole lot of firepower but damn she's thicc"

[@sho-vc2pr]

Now there were a blueprint and 1914 American had a Superdrug Battleship with had Port Insurance of 20in and quadruple 16 inches and 20 in guns

[@Tk-541]

Dakka 10/10, Lady Liberty is very pleased

[@DwarfKing-nz4bb]

In my point of view of how the USA doctrine was coming out of the WW2 is a supreme balance of all 3, minus speed when it had to apply, a modest secondary armament, strong main guns to punish those who thought that it was weak but not, and speed to control the fight as it pleased to keep the firepower going. I dont know how many will agree with this but looking from the North Carolina, South Dakota, Iowa, and Montana class BB they all are just about the same in firepower from main guns to secondary firepower and speed was increased quite a bit as well, so that is my thoughts on this matter.

[@kayakenter]

I like that ship design

[@jerryf1415]

This looks like what navyfield used to do on ship loadouts. This looks interesting

[@crazywarriorscatfan9061]

The wave/round thing is a good idea!

[@NotThatGuyJD]

Definitely not the first but fully agree; the intro was amazing, well done man. Why does it look like it's stuttering like crazy.

[@admDanRyan]

The Furst Bismark is the best looking convoy raider I've probably seen

[@stratagama]

I think you've nailed the American super battleship. American battleships should be able to be jacks of all trades by masters of none because they need to be equally able to handle fighting the doctrine of any and every other Navy, I don't need to be the best at it but if not true shear force of numbers it needs to be able to deal with it

[@kennethbedwell5188]

Excellent intro.

[@matthewclark7885]

"just a lot of guns" *laughs in tillman 4* (or whichever one it was that had sextuple turrets) also, to me a super battleship is just a battleship scaled up enough to the point there is no having to sacrifice one thing for another (speed for armor etc) a floating fortress with enough of everything to take on the world and win (this is, of course, completely impractical so I'll accept your interpretation as a comparatively sensible one)

[@darthimperious8661]

Lovely intro

[@Mathias-dj6hn]

very nice ship! i might have added a torp or two, but that's just me.

[@madisondines7441]

A super BB? Well, let's see. A super BB seems to be meant to be able to (with screening) defeat all capital ships with armor defeating rounds at range. So 18 inch minimum. It should have very good accuracy, and a lot of big, devastating rounds, including the ammunition to back it up. Its armor needs to be able to defeat everything except super BB rounds at a specified range window (either long range, or short-mid range), keeping in mind that it may be possible to balance a build to some degree. It also needs to have a solid heavy cruiser strapped to each side of the ship, in terms of secondaries. It does not need to have sonar 3, unless its turning rate is so bad that it demands it, and a general rule of thumb is DDs and CLs shouldn't be let inside 12 km. Inside that range, angle away (but not so much the front guns can't fire at something) and retreat until it's well and truly dead. It also doesn't need to be particularly fast. 28 knots is fine. Engines should trend towards reliability, and the builder should try to minimize weight as much as is reasonable. Cost cannot be a concern. Give it the best of everything (within weight limits), and play it at the ranges which best use your chosen armor schema, until guns that can pen you are all silenced. In a lot of ways, the right way to play it seems similar to how the Yamato class was intended. Though at least 12 guns, increased ammunition, tube powder, and superheavy shells are all probably implied. But in a lot of ways, the right way to play a super BB is probably the most boring way to play one.

[@commandershepard1457]

Think you don't quite understand the turning circle. As I see it, it's the turning circle a ship has while at full speed and full rudder - if you change course normally, it doesn't use full rudder.

[@Sunshrine2]

10v10 multiplayer mode would be supercool.

[@unluckyirish2763]

Alright. When did the AI get its grubby little hands on Raeders Zed plan?

[@Leonidas1210vc]

Big Guns, Lotsa Armor, Tons of Displacement. that to me is a Super BB to me...but im also kinda simple so do what you will wuth that.

[@SMoCOcoa]

I'm sure it was a bit of work, but the intro was cool

[@samuelchurchill6458]

Or at least let us come back to the selection screen to add more enemy ships. and keep the ship after we decide that that our opponent was too easy.

[@SYSSMouse]

You might want to make a habit of reviewing all components in the video before launching

[@thebuonocore9818]

Has there been a video of a unlimited super battleship verse a couple enemy battleships, heavy, and light cruisers? No smaller vessels that bring a heavy torpedo threat.

[@Stealth17Gaming]

Max ships is 100, or when your CPU melts down

[@thebuonocore9818]

@@Stealth17Gaming An unlimited super battleship meaning one battleship with everything unlocked and maximum tonnage. A slugfest and brawl where torps don't play a role. Sorry for my confusing wordage.

[@lauriea2971]

The enemy’s DDs are turning into subs

[@barny4586]

Can you play more of ICBM?

[@Stealth17Gaming]

No sorry

[@walterengler5709]

LOL -- first run was ... entertaining

[@USS_Grey_Ghost]

Battleship to me would have quad 17 inch gun turrets and four of them and all 5” triples for secondary’s no 8”

[@subjectc7505]

Don't they have a save ship design? If not I would love and have them in a shipyard like in the builder, or sitting in the water. With the Status and if the ship sanked. It'll have a mourning and tells the date it sank, the cause, how many was killed and rescue and it's history. Probably sounds like a big feature but it would be cool. Because I like to have stories for my creations.

[@Stealth17Gaming]

Not yet

[@brandonphilipparagas8070]

If you see this because I think that the vermont battleship was the heaviest

[@TylerS1327]

i think they should add carriers in just so you can follow it from the start of the battleship with the iron clads all the way too the death of the battleship

[@masonborden5594]

Thing about the death of the battleship, is that it fit this odd time where dive bombers were all the rage. Now with smart bombs and deep pen bombs, a battleship with a heavy armored deck and less belt armor would be the best move. Missiles are mid grade at best for damaging battleships, especially with a low superstructure build. A lot of our modern systems have basically made the return of the battleship not only viable but smart. The department of the navy has been working through designs and parameters for a modern battleship, with focus on air targets and being able to take deck hits from ordnance. We may not see it in our lifetimes, but as warfare evolves we return to the battleship. Its almost funny, the idea of the battleship crops up over and again in history. Someone makes a brawler ship with a lot of offense ability and incredible defense, a new technology makes it virtually obsolete, that tech evolves and a new battleship crops up that relies on countering that tech. From catapults vs lowships, to cannons vs galleons, to artillery cannons vs ironclads, to planes vs battleships. I eagerly await the next iteration. Looking at history, the battleship cannot be killed. It only evolves to the next era. Like crabs. Evolution hit peak optimization, now it just needs to modernize some and its once again ready to go another 100 years of dominance

[@TylerS1327]

@@masonborden5594 you’ll never see the return of the battleship and tbh you are meg to see the death of carriers soon with hypersonic weapons there’s a reason most navies have only destroyers and frigates because they are harder to target, slow moving large ships are a thing of the past

[@aminathabdulrahman1856]

when the game is realesed will it be free

[@TheHexxxler]

how can i play the aplha? thx

[@juancruztocco523]

The problem with the "wave" mode is that you are limited with your ammo

[@kenm4678]

It gets repetitious to hear US ships have so many guns. Look at the layout through history, the only place they become abundant is WW 2 in the Pacific. There they delt with the other major world carrier fleet beyond allies. What country other than the US and Britain need to deal with such, or the US early experience with suicide tactics?

[@seppiya7470]

By the end of WW2 everbody was covering their ships with whatever AA guns would fit. Just look at all the 127 mm and 25 mm guns on Yamato by the time she was sunk. The trend didn't survive after the war because surface-to-air missiles replaced them.

[@GroinsItchin]

Beautiful ship, but heavy or super heavy shells would have been awesome

[@ianskinner1619]

love your content, but I find it hard to be interested given the state of development in the game.. or lack thereof. Seems like my energies would be better spent on something in beta that is actively being developed .

[@Stealth17Gaming]

I totally get it. Sometimes I'm really struggling to come up with good content ideas for it. We desperately need the campaign.

[@sylvainprigent6234]

Don't have too Big of an expectation for this game. This is not a AAA developpement studios

[@johnvollan4669]

You know us so well hahaha

[@halfsoulkaneki1995]

what they meant is steam wise the game isnt available

[@lightningwingdragon]

Tried to buy it. It didn't work. Purchase never went through. Tried different cards too

[@lonewolf2809]

Hey Stealth!

[@antilarge7860]

20inch guns would of been really cool tho :(

[@walterengler5709]

Can a ricochet damage another ship? I know in some games bounced shells can hit "X" and do "y' damage which can be very funny

[@evil4zerggin972]

If two ships are close together, a shell aimed at one ship might hit the other instead. AFAICT there are no true ricochets though.

[@thegeneralissimo470]

My brain is very irritated that you decided to put both 7's and 8's on the ship. I hope the devs add in a penalty for close together calibers (within 2 or 3 steps after 5 inch so basically 5,6,7,8 inch guns) with a weight or cost penalty for the added problems of different ammunition hoists and magazines. Granted you did change it to 5's

[@scarredmoon5907]

The germans almost out America the Americans

[@daaaaanzzz]

Man 31kn is still pretty fast tho

[@Mars_the_Pepega]

Murica = More guns

[@lauriea2971]

Hi My BB would be the some has the BB that u designed in this video

[@EllenbergW]

Ah, I see you took a page out of Wolpack's "Intros for naval wargames" book :)

[@Stealth17Gaming]

Never watch his stuff

[@EllenbergW]

@@Stealth17Gaming Check out his War on the Sea series - even if only for one or two of his intros.

[@kurumachikuroe442]

USS Second Amendment, the return

[@awhahoo]

Uss second secomd amendment amendment

[@enricohunter]

All time i hope german wins😆😁

[@phamchau4320]

hi

[@dwwolf4636]

Not good enough ..lol. 8 and 5"ers murder DDs.

[@mariuskroll829]

I‘m 3 seconds into the video Pleeease make these intros a more common thing

[@Stealth17Gaming]

That good?

[@khantaung5442]

hewwwwwweooooo

[@thenugget171]

US battle ships are very weak