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A Penguin Plays RULE THE WAVES

@bluepencil, France... had ideas for ships during the late 1800s to early 1900s. All sorts of designs that were tried and quite a few of them had... problems, at sea.
The Jeune École had the right idea a few decades too early, picturing the torpedo in uses that would only become workable with the missile.

And then there was this:

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The Jeune École had the right idea a few decades too early, picturing the torpedo in uses that would only become workable with the missile.

And then there was this:

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Wots an Ork kruuza doin' ere?

Needs moar teef.
 
The Jeune École had the right idea a few decades too early, picturing the torpedo in uses that would only become workable with the missile.
True, but then again that was one of those 'threw shit at the wall and found out about something that would be standard decades/centuries later' instances.
And then there was this:

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... and she was -from my recollection- crap as a sea boat.
Wots an Ork kruuza doin' ere?

Needs moar teef.
Some of the French designs are pretty Orky to say the least...
 
27.2 March-April 1902
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Do not speak to me of bottoming. Not right now.

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That's fine. No need to strain yourselves.

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So we've got better High Explosives inside shells behind the armor-piercing cap.

That's more than fine. Keep it up.

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Wait, if Linois is actually a word, does IL-LINOIS actually mean something?

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Like IL-LEGAL or IL-LOGICAL?

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Like, Illinois people are the NotLinois crowd? Fascinating.



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Tension levels are still high.

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Let's see if next month will allow us to calm people down.


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Wait, so why is "ILLUSTRIOUS" an intensification of "Lustrious" instead of meaning "not-lustrious"?

Ugh, this is going to bug me so much before being able to sleep...




... There's "ILLUSTRATE" but "Lustrate" actually means "purge, purify, or ritually cleanse" and so the creation of art onto blank media sufficiently reverses the meaning.

Uggh!
 
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28.1 May-June 1902
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I just remembered, we can build submarines now.

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It's nice that they're all a nice flat 100k to build.
Easy to keep track of.

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So, what, five of them?

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Ohohoho no. Too expensive.

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Three. Three of them will do for now.

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Fabulosa> Sisters! We are all together now!

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Good, good.

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France, cease yon dickery this instant.

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Oh wow, tensions have actually lowered for no readily identifiable reason.

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It's like they don't want to have anything to do with what France is bringing.

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What a penetrating conclusion.
 
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28.2 May-June 1902
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You know what else we could do?

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We could take these...

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And all of these too...

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And move them into the Mediterranean, because they're useless in the North Atlantic as we're allied with the British and peaceful with the French.

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Or rather, we have no desire whatsoever to start anything with the French.


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I JUST DID THAT MAN ARE YOU BLIND?!

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Oh! Well that's concerning.

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Pay no attention to the gross tons of warmaking metal we just shoved down into the Med, okay?

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Ahahahaha. Of course.
 
29.0 July 1902
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WHOBOY, no. We are not ready for this just yet.

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Wait until our Battleships finish building, so we can reliably outgun the Austria-Hungarians.

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Nothing significant here for us.
We only need to pay attention to Austria-Hungary laying down new ships.

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Oh nooo.

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And they have the gall to be angry at us for that?!

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Or maybe tension is an existence of possible conflict between two powers - it need not be from the other side, but our own people's desires as well.

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We will have JUSTICE!

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Ten more months. That's most of a year!

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A lot can happen in ten months.

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But just hang in there.
Have patience.

We can match them right now if they dare to declare war, but it's better when we can be sure of beating them.
 
30.0 August 1902
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What idiocy is it to release good blackmail for free?

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Austria-Hungary gets another Destroyer in roughly six months.
Do we have enough anti-Destroyer hulls?

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So what is the critical state? 12?

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Tensions with the USA is 4, France at 6, and Italy at 5.
CSA at 3, and the UK at 1. All perfectly manageable.

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Let's roll next month and see what happens.
 
31.0 September 1902
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Interesting. Let's have it.

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I seriously have no idea what this ship is supposed to accomplish.

On one hand at 6" belt it seems to be some sort of 'Super-Cruiser" but at 19 knots it's too slow for that. Single-gun 9" turrets aren't going to help much at beating down Cruisers fast enough, there's enough tonnage in there to have paired turrets.

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16 7" guns sounds like a lot, except that I know the British have the tech for dual-gun secondary turrets, and even if the problem is accuracy penalty, casemate guns have poor firing angles.
That's just eight broadside guns on each facing. This is like a throwback to the first ironclads.

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Heck, for all I know this thing is even equipped with a ram bow!

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GO GO POWER RAMMERS!

Theey've got - a powder and a force like you've never seen before~
Theey've got - the ability to leverage and even out the score~
Nooo~ one~ can ever keep them down,
The powder's on their si- ay~ ay~ iiide!

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GO GO POWER RAMMERS.

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[headbanging intensifies]

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Seriously, what do you need this ship for, Britain?


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Tensions with the CSA have lowered AGAIN, without prompting!

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What are we doing that they admire so much?
 
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32.1 October-November 1902
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WHY YOU NO GIVE ME FACE?

(slappity slap slap)

YOU COURT DEATH!

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NO ZUO NO DIE!

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Excellent. Now our gunners can aim towards the broadside of a barn and only miss just about.

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But Stukas are far from being invented, surely?

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Diving planes are a submarine thing. Like inclined planes.

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Oh. Right. Hohynymns.

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That's homonyms! Those are intelligent horses!

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... What even are you talking about? Do you even English?

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... You are messing with me, aren't you?

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Everyone needs a good lot of edjamacation, that's what I think!
 
32.2 October-November 1902
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...

Everybody was too drunk on the day of the race.

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Who did we even beat?

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...

The Italians.

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Of course!

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What do Minesweeper ships even do?
It's not like we can actually build minelaying ships.

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Is there a point to bringing Minesweeper ships on a squadron?
Can they reduce the chances of hitting mines in coastal waters?

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They're MS...

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... brb, making one and naming it Gundam.

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Nice. Very nice.
That's what the international situation ought to look like.

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But it looks like we'll be out of money in about three and a half months!

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At this point, Accelerating Construction isn't going to give us very tangible benefits anymore.

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Now with that out of the way we're mostly solvent again.


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Things seem to be going a little too suspiciously well...
 
Does peace usually last this long in Rules the Waves?
 
Does peace usually last this long in Rules the Waves?
In my experience, it can... but conflict is heavily dependent on various factors and tensions is simply one aspect of that. Wars, as they say, need two to tango. ;)
 
In the current savegame I am actually at war with... someone. So don't worry about it. You'll have your action soon enough.
 
33.1 December 1902
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We're good with the Italians for now, but since we're going to be focusing on the Mediterranean and will need to go past them to hit Austria-Hungary...

It's best to check out a potential future opponent.

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That is quite decent actually.

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A good alternative arrangement to our Adobo-class with its 4x 8" but only 8x 6" and 6x 3".

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This would be useful if it didn't take 25% much longer to build ships on our undeveloped shipyards compared to everybody else.

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Didn't you already do this?

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... Power Rammers ZEO?

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Wait, what?
 
33.2 December 1902
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Let's do it!

Stronger than before
Go, Zeo!
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Go, Zeo!
Rammers at the core
ZEO POWER RAMMERS~!
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I am going to run out of Power Rangers seasons to reference at some point.

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Actually wasn't there another Mighty Morphin' season before this?

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Huh.

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...

Go Go (Undocumented) Alien Rangers?

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What's a Troude?

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Oh thank god it's not another penis ship.
 
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Well, a "trou" is a hole and "de" means of, so Troude would be a word whose elements translate into "Hole of". Hole of what, however, will be left as an exercise for the reader. As for Amable Gilles Troude, he did like to make holes in enemy ships.
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It's a plug.

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Why do you put these mental images into my braaain?!
 
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