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A Penguin Plays RULE THE WAVES

33.a December 1902
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But let us digress for a bit.

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The Troude actually follows what seems to be a standard Light Cruiser template.

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It is functionally identical, differing mainly in armor thickness, to the British Conquest or the US Baltimore-class Light Cruisers.

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Now for comparison's sake, our Furiosa is still the smallest and fastest Light Cruiser in existence.

But we're NOT the only ones with playing around with unconventional designs.

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The Italians have an interesting light and fast design with a heavier than usual main gun.

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And then there's the British Canada-class, which I can only refer to as The Dakkaboat.

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Imitated in inferior qualities by the CS Shenandoah -

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And the Italian Taranto-class.

Also, interestingly, the CSA continue to follow the pattern of focusing on more armor than anyone else at the expense of gun size. While we focus on having the smallest most capable ships possible.


But of course we can't forget the Austria-Hungarians:

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ALL their Light Cruisers are 5100 tons.
Seriously, they're not building them any smaller or faster, not following the standard Light Cruiser template everybody else is using.

Their Light Cruisers are unconscionably heavy.

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They do however possess more heavier guns than everyone else's Light Cruisers, and makes me think that their use of massed 6" guns is designed to defeat... the Italians.

They have a lot of Light Cruisers - nine right now, and two more building. Meanwhile, the Austria-Hungarians have five.

The Italians also have four battleships.


... I kinda pity the Austria-Hungarians right now. They're gearing up to fight their next-door neighbor, as would be logical, then get suckerpunched with Suddenly, Reconquista.



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So let's click next and see what happens.
 
34.0 January-February 1903
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Ohhh.

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Crap.
For all my talk about picking a fight with Austria-Hungary, I'm doing everything to avoid getting into a war with Austria-Hungary.

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I probably have a reputation for excessive caution or even borderline cowardice with the voting public by now.

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Well, there are hawks and doves in any government.
Most taxpayers generally don't like war wasting their country's wealth.

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No one seems to want to herald this new year with any impressive new builds.

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That lowered tensions a bit. We were at Orange Alert.

Should I build some more Destroyers? We can build Destroyers of up to 700 tons now.

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Hm. Maybe not yet. That would drop us to 600k.
Let's save up to get around a million of reserve funding.


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Since there doesn't seem to be anything interest going on right now, let's roll to the next month.

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Oh now you all decide to spend!

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Just a little while longer...

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By the way, look at our Unrest level. Our people are peaceful and happy and prosperous.

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I am pretty sure this is completely historically inaccurate.
 
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34.1 March 1903
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All right, since we're twiddling thumbs anyway waiting and building up our logistics waiting for the war to start, let's see if we can do something productive with our time.

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As you may recall, the Lechon class is our bread and butter Light Cruiser for those purposes. Unfortunately it is... unexceptional as far as those things go.

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It's not as fast and cheap as the Furiosa to mangle Destroyers, while its 4-inch popguns are hardly a threat to anything with any armor, vis-a-vis: other Light Cruisers.
So what can we do about that issue?




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So since we have the Furiosa as a superlight Light Cruiser, how about we supply a superheavy Light Cruiser to deal with other Light Cruiser raiders and take out merchants from range?

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... Battle light cruiser? Assault Cruiser? Medium Cruiser?

What are we looking at here?

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Tch. Fine.

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All right. So.
We still have paper for armor, but it looks more like a proper Cruiser now.

Is this better?

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FINE.

If you're just going to keep whining about it, maybe we won't have any at all and just save up for more proper Cruisers later!


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What? Again?

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Fine. Whatever, go knock yerself out.

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Wait, we're backing whom against whom?
Are we picking a fight with the US again?

[1898 Never Again.]


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Shite.
 
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34.2 March 1903
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Fascinating.

Italy and Austria-Hungary didn't like that.


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I mean, even the other countries who actually have territories in the Americas don't care about what I do there.

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It occurs to me that Minesweepers are the only ships we don't have and the only ones we can actually afford, so we might as well rectify that.


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Hmm. I wonder if the time savings are worth it to get this built elsewhere.


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Nah, two months off isn't enough.

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It's a catch-22 situation isn't it?

My shipyards are whining at me that I don't order from them because they can't build anything fast enough -
But because I don't order anything from them, they can't actually grow with demand to be able to build things fast enough.
 
34.3 March 1903
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Why yes of course! GIVE IT TO ME.

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The Dreadnought had main gun wing turrets after all.


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Cross deck fire is also the budget way to get the effect of superfiring main guns, but it didn't pan out in practice.

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If you recall, Cross Deck Fire is our nation's bonus technology.

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It would be a waste not to try it out at some point.

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...

If we didn't have battleships building already.

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... If we had the budget for that, yes.


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Awesome.

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Even more awesome!

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What is this, my birthday?!
 
Nah, if it was your birthday, you'd get a DoW from UK, US and a Franco-German alliance simultaneously.
Now, I know what that is likely to mean, but I'm just gonna say that after EA killed off Relic, that's not likely to happen anymore. :p
 
Now, I know what that is likely to mean, but I'm just gonna say that after EA killed off Relic, that's not likely to happen anymore. :p
Eh, DoW3 was a game that was supposed to get the new team to get the experience required but we all know where that went...

Also, Rule the Waves 2 is out. ;)
 
Eh, DoW3 was a game that was supposed to get the new team to get the experience required but we all know where that went...

Also, Rule the Waves 2 is out. ;)
Is there a way to import RTW1 saves?

B-pen haz no spare monies for that yet, but eventually we might see if Spain Can Into Fleet Carriers.
 
Is there a way to import RTW1 saves?

B-pen haz no spare monies for that yet, but eventually we might see if Spain Can Into Fleet Carriers.
From what I've heard? No... and I visit their forums constantly.

Although in this case, the basic 'max date' is 1950 before nuke subs and what not start popping up. Personally, I would go as far as the 1960s, as early missiles weren't that effective.
 
From what I've heard? No... and I visit their forums constantly.

Although in this case, the basic 'max date' is 1950 before nuke subs and what not start popping up. Personally, I would go as far as the 1960s, as early missiles weren't that effective.
I see.

So I basically have to start over, though I suppose it would be better off to test out obscene amounts of torpedoes first before trying out a torpedo fighter-bomber gangbang.
 
35 April 1903
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Dammit, England!
We were willing to spend more having you build our shite because we thought your yards wouldn't pull this shite.

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Should I have gotten the French to build my ships?

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I probably should have, to be honest. Similar production rates, and they're closer, and they have a presence in the Mediterranean.

But we're already allied with the Brits, so eh.

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On that note, I'm reminded that we haven't actually seen our new ships just yet, so let's fix that.


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We have the bare hull and no superstructure. How do we make it look so uniquely ours?

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Fast and FURIOSA!

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DESTOROYAH!

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KING GHIDO-

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I mean, uh...

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Furiosa's Little Sister!


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Just a few souls turns more!
 
36.1 May 1903
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AHAHAHAHAHAHA YES.

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Okay, since our shipyards are limited to 12,000 tons anyway - can we manage to sabotage everyone else's navies and battlewagons under construction?

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Not this day. Pity.

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Nothing else really noteworthy this month.

Let's see how our new ship looks.

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Oh. Oh myyy.

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Hang on, let's get some other vessels in here.

(Furiosa) What?

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(squish)

(Furiosa) What even am I looking at?!
(Barquillo) Hola!
(Adobo) This... this should be illegal.

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Who's such a squat little fatbote! Is that you? Is that you?! EEE ADORABLE!

(Barquillo) *angry pocket battleship noises*
 
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36.2 May 1903
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Hmm. I wonder if we can get even more experimental about this?

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Nah, that's a bit expensive for us right now.

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We can afford to build a few more Furiosas though, so let's get some more hulls in the water.

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Wait.

Hang on a second.

Is that really...


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Really, CSA, really?!

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I'm not even doing anything. What are you doing?

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The only way you could possibly like me any more is if you were actually openly in non platonic love with me and serenading me at night under yon window mine.


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And Italy's there too, for some reason.

I'm surprised Cyrano de Bergerac isn't making an appearance in this farce.

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...

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You know what, [fine]. Capitalism ho.

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No not the Linois class. Don't show me that!

You bunch of degenerates.

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Only slightly less distressing - Austria-Hungary laid down another Armored Cruiser.

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[SHIPPING BETWEEN ROMANCE LANGUAGE COUNTRIES INTENSIFIES]

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STOPPP ITTT!!!
 
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37.1 July- August 1903
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They better not have been caught with their pants down.

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We don't want any more entanglements in this dustercluck.

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Yes thank you.
At least we're seeing something productive out of all this.

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Not much new stuff this month apparently.

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Oh well that's interesting.
CSA's dander got up a little out of that.

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Are you perhaps... jealous?

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Seriously, don't.
Don't... anything.

[NOTICE ME SEMPAI INTENSIFIES]

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Hellooo squatbote!

(Barquillo) STOP ITTT!!!
 
37.2 July- August 1903
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What does that do?

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OH! That IS quite useful.

THANK YOU.

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Is this a good thing?
Do we need more minesweepers? Do minesweepers do anything?

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Oh, okay. Minesweepers seem important.
Other nations are building them.

There's a lot of tonnage being laid down this month.

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Hmm. We have the advantage in capital ships, but can we achieve parity in cruiser action?

(Our budget and local party politics are also doing quite fine, for some reason)

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They have a lot of those oversized Light Cruisers. This isn't good. They'll be able to chase away our Furiosas.

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They also have A LOT of Destroyers.

And...

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That is an oddly potent MineSweeper they have there. More powerful than their DDs.
Is there any advantage to imitating that?
 
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37.3 July- August 1903
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So a MineSweeper is just a Destroyer without any Torpedoes, then?
That seems feasible.

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Or... not. Ouch at that Rate Of Fire penalty.

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Suddenly I'm a lot less worried about shenanigans with Austria-Hungary's MS and Destroyer fleet and their ability to deal with our Furiosa raiding parties.


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But on that note... can we do something with the MS hull instead of the Light Cruiser hull? It seems a bit cheaper than the Destroyer platform.

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Ah, I see. Considering that I know Destroyers can be the fastest things afloat, 24 knots for a gunboat is a serious limit. It's fine for now, but a Furiosa can already achieve that top speed and can pack enough armor to bounce 5" shells.

Still, knowing that it can go over 1000 tons when we're not allowed to build Destroyers heavier than 600 tons has potential.

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So what can we do under those constraints?

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At a little over double the price of a Destroyer at more than double the tons, (600 tons vs 1700 tons), that sounds cheap enough for six 5" guns.

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Except that the Furiosa is 2100 tons and cheaper than that.


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I guess the advantage is that a Destroyer or MS-based platform can be built in half the time.
13 months vs 20 months.

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Do we have enough light hulls to achieve Destroyer parity?
I don't know how dangerous torpedoes are going to be against our battleship line.


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I guess we'll find out soon.
 
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Torpedoes are pretty crappy in the early game. Too slow, too short-ranged, too few tubes available on warships. At your stage of the game, they are coup de grâce weapons, the kind used to finish off a larger ship that was incapacitated yet is not sinking fast enough.
 
Torpedoes are pretty crappy in the early game. Too slow, too short-ranged, too few tubes available on warships. At your stage of the game, they are coup de grâce weapons, the kind used to finish off a larger ship that was incapacitated yet is not sinking fast enough.
When do they start becoming useful?
 
When do they start becoming useful?
I'd say when you get around 1,000 tonnes destroyers or more and have centerline torpedo tubes with dual or ideally triple launchers capable of carrying fishes that go further than a potato thrown by the cook. Destroyers and their torpedoes are the ancestor or the naval bomber: to become an actual threat, you need to see improvements on both the craft and its weapon. Cue the French mistake of the Jeune École, correctly perceiving numerous small crafts with powerful weapons as the future, but at a time when technology didn't allow them to make it work.
 
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I just bought this from the Americans, and lemme tell ya, you're better off with triple turrets or or midline or superfiring guns.
This is a dead end research.

Trust me, this is for your own good, friend.

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Are you telling me that our Submarines DON'T SINK?

ARE YOU SERIOUS?!

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You are serious.

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Really? Really, United States?

What great secrets in ship design could we possibly have to offer you?

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All right, granted, the Furiosa is pretty nice but that's because it's a razor-thin margin budget design that the UK has already stolen and put to production in superior form.

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On that note, Cortes, when do we get our naval budget?

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We are bleeding money, but our battleship is nearly done and three destroyers soon after.

After these ships are built, could we afford another one?

(runs the numbers)

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= 2,140,000
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Heck, we can afford to build two!

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Dangitall, reward me for my fiscal prudence by increasing my budget already!


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That word you are using, I am not sure you know what it means.
 
39.1 September-November 1903
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Hm. If I remember correctly, the Carlo Alberto class is quite the decent Armored Cruiser.

(checks)

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Right. 8000 tons. Two single-gun 10 inch turrets. Our Adobo-class has 4 8-inch guns instead at 9500 tons.

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I take it back, it's not decent. It's daring. Not well-mannered. Not well-mannered at all. The Italians are being even more experimental with their builds than we are.

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Things are fine. We are fine.
Everything's doing just fine.

How are you?

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If there's nothing more pressing, let's roll on to the next month.

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Heh.

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What? It's true. Who's dumb enough to want to involve themselves in that dumpsterfire?

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Good enough.
I like it.

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Hm. Everyone else seems to really want to beef up their light escort craft rolls.

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Let's follow along.

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There we go.

Since our battleship will be done the next turn, we should be able to afford this very easily.

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For some reason, both CSA and Italy were (mildly) annoyed by my crack about the Balkans.
Why not Austria-Hungary? Which is, if I remember correctly, right at the Balkans.
 
40.0 December 1903
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Good. Good. The French are quite generous patrons, it seems.

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And yet we are tied to the hips of perfidious Albion anyway. Ah, well. C'est la vie.

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Oh! Fascinating A BB!
That's a right and proper battleship, innit?

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You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

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B's are pre-dreadnought battleships. But BB's came into popular use because Americans use double letters for their ship designations. BBs for battleships, FF for Fridates, DD for Destroyers, CA for Cruisers, CV for Carriers, and so on.


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I see.

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Also the fact that British 9" guns are better than ours, which doesn't matter since it is to be expected and we're stuck using even numbered guns anyway.
12", 8", 6", 4" ... I'm making an exception for 5" because it adds up to a nice even ten.

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Numerology isn't supposed to be something to base your military production around.

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Odd numbered caliber guns expressed in metric are for navies that lose wars!

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Wait, it's not done?!

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Did we have this issue with the Barquillo? Why aren't the giving us our cute squishy fatbote! How dare they!

Although our expenditures dropped a little bit, so this isn't too bad.


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Well, Merry Christmas anyway. Let's roll on to the New Year, everybody!
 
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