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47.9 WAR! - Fleet Battle off Linosa - May 1904
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So you're saying you're not just a pointless warhull.

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You're just a shitbote in general.

(CL Ladron) If online message boards existed, I would be banned in my first ten posts - tops!

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Considering from whence you spawned, I don't disbelieve it.

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(B Baraco) I have to say, my command crew are really not appreciating how little armor plating they have.

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They can suck it up, Light Cruisers go with three inches of belt armor. Destroyers go with none.

(B Baraco) Well it's one thing to say that the crew of light ships need to be braver than fleet capital ships...
(B Baraco) But are they more effective?

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You say that with a name like that.

(B Baraco) It's not even a Spanish term! It's Batangueño!

(B Barquillo) It means strong coffee.

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I guess that might explain why you're constantly neurotic about things...


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Barbarella where are you going?

(B Barbarella) Hold on, I'm just going to turn right here and - COCKS!
(B Barbarella) HOW?!

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That's what I was saying!

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Barbarella, how's the damage?

(B Barbarella) Minimal. But how in the leche does a six-inch shell get through nine inches of belt armor right into the deliberately designed to be the most protected part of a ship?

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Don't ask me.

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(B Barbarella) Turning at speed is a bit slow.

(CA Adobo) Don't worry about it. We can handle this.

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(CA Adobo) JESUS CHRIST WHY.
 
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>that explains why you are constantly neurotic.

Christ my sides.

Also, how long do these battles last? You've like done quite a few chapters with this battle.
 
>that explains why you are constantly neurotic.

Christ my sides.

Also, how long do these battles last? You've like done quite a few chapters with this battle.

Real battles take hours.

This one would probably go faster if anyone could actually hit anything. With everybody's shitty guns isn't a wonder anyone's getting damaged at all.
 
47.10 WAR! - Fleet Battle off Linosa - May 1904
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All right. That's fine.
We have some minor flotation damage, but so far Adobo has taken only three medium hits.
This is fine.

(CA Adobo) My captain's hair is on fire!

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THIS IS FINE.

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(CA Adobo) Shutter those ammunition bins.
(CA Adobo) Good thing it's just fires to our 5-inch secondaries. The ammunition comes in sealed cartridges.
(CA Adobo) Instead of powder bag charges for our main guns.

(B Barbarella) There was another battleship still hanging about down south, wasn't there?

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Hey, we can do 20 knots instead of 16 knots now. What gives?

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Wahey! The rain...

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Okay it's still raining, but it's Light Rain.

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Visibility has almost doubled... even though it was just 2000 yards before...
But there's still a strong West-North-West wind throwing off our shellfire.

(CA Adobo) *grits teeth*
(CA Adobo) I'm ESE of the enemy. So the wind is helping their shots while my shells are bleeding velocity.

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(CA Adobo) Giving chase.


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Are we damaging it at all?
Though to be exact, six-inch shells are doing a heck more damage to us than nine-inch shells.

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THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST!

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Baraco and Barquillo, you deal with that Battleship.

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Adobo, just get that Szigetvar.

(CA Adobo) Maneuvering to broadside-
(CA Adobo) OHSHI- !

(B Barbarella) ARE YOU DRUNK OR SUICIDAL?!
 
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47.11 WAR! - Fleet Battle off Linosa - May 1904
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(CA Adobo) *metallic screeching noises*
(CA Adobo) Whew okay just barely avoided that one.

(CL Ladron) Your aft, your narrow narrow aft.
(CL Ladron) Check it out.

(CA Adobo) I don't know if I should be insulted by that.

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(B Barbarella) C'mere ya pipsqueak.

(CL Ladron) What? No!

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(B Barbarella) What, YES.

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More DDs down south.


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We keep misidentifying Cruisers as DDs, which makes me wonder -

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ARE THERE EVEN AUSTRIA-HUNGARIAN DESTROYERS IN THIS FIGHT?!

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Surely, they didn't bring just CL and Bs into this looking for some decisive fleet battle in the middle of a goldang sea storm?!
What sort of fleet doesn't have a whole bunch of Destroyers for screening and scouting?

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(CA Adobo) *grits teeth*
(CA Adobo) Prayer cleanses the soul-

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(CA Adobo) PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY!

*blagam!*

*blagam!*

*blagam!*


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Wait, isn't that-?

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(CA Adobo) RAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHH!!!

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...

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(DD Destructor 2) Oh ships! Oh ships!
(DD Destructor) We found the other Battleshiiiip!
 
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47.12 WAR! - Fleet Battle off Linosa - May 1904
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Hmm. The DDs have some heavy damage but surprisingly little flooding.
Even more surprisingly, they still have torpedoes.

Should I risk them going on another torpedo run?

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(B Baraco) THE TRUE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP IS BEING ABLE TO COUNT ON HAVING THREE OF YOUR BEST MATES WITH YOU BEATING UP ON SOMEONE YOU DON'T LIKE!

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...

That is quite possibly true the JRPGs told me so.

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(CA Adobo) Rassem frassem lost sight of the enemy in the rain again.

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Well, the Szgetzvar are 22 knots to your 21 knots. Don't worry about it.

(CA Adobo) I'm angry about it.

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The Franz Ferdinand's fleeing alone into the drink now, the escorting Aspern Light Cruiser has also vanished.
Barbarella's max range shots aren't hitting, but at least it's great that my ships can now strike from beyond 3000 yards.

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Maximum penetration qualities are up to 5000 yards though.


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(B Barquillo) *12-inch slam*
(B Barquillo) TASTE THE REAL THING!

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So you're both really just into caffeine, huh?

(B Barquillo) I will break the knees of the next one who make a crack about the suitability of BEER!

(CL Ladron) ... Because it's the only part of the body you can reach?

(B Barquillo) I will dig a hole and throw you into it.


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We know DesDiv Six are the Destructors, so that would make DesDiv 2... the Dorados?

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Yep, they are.
If the Franz Ferdinand is dodging into them, we might try for another torpedo run.

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Meanwhile down below Barbarella's tangling with the Habsburg.
One on one she has the advantage.

This is fine.

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We're doing fine.

We can win this.

We should win this.

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Let's set Adobo to escort Barbarella to reduce the chances of something going wrong.
 
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47.13 WAR! - Fleet Battle off Linosa - May 1904
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Barbarella, what are you doing?!

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(B Barbarella) What? Sorry, I got lost in the road of life there for a moment.

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We have barely moved from our starting point!

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That's Adobo!

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(B Barbarella) Don't worry about it!
(B Barbarella) I'm handling it!

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(B Barbarella) Woops I lost the handle.

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Is this the reason why Kantai Collection's Musashi wears glasses?

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Oh look, those other Light Cruisers just cowering there.
Our Destroyers get damaged but at least they're doing their jobs as a screening force.

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This is a shameful display.
 
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47.14 WAR! - Fleet Battle off Linosa - May 1904
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Crapbaskets I can't switch out from AI Control for some reason.

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It's getting awaaay.

(B Barbarella) I can't see anything!

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(CL Ladron) I just... don't understand!
(CL Ladron) Maybe if you spoke backwards!

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And the rain's gaining power again, wonderful.

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Fine, whatever.
As long as you keep on beating up on that battleship, I'll be satisfied.

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This would all be worth it as long as we sink their battleship.

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(Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand) [SCREAMING PANIC INTENSIFIES]
 
47.15 WAR! - Fleet Battle off Linosa - May 1904
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(B Barbarella) We lost sight of the battleship in the rain.

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AAARGH.

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Where is it?! WHERE IS IT?!

Keep on your present heading, we might still catch it.

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Craaaap. Going full speed constantly was bad.
Break from the formation and head towards the shoreline.

(DD Destructor) Don't wait for me!
(DD Destructor) Go on and do~ dee~ do~ your duty!

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(DD Destructor) Carry on... without me...

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Okay.

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(salute)

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Continue on course!

(DD Destructor) ...
 
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47.16 WAR! - Fleet Battle off Linosa - May 1904
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Oh noooo.


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Okay. This is fine. Land is like, over there.
Right over there. They can swim for it if they have to.

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We're still (mostly) fine.


(CL Ladron) Not under this heavy rain!
(CL Ladron) They'll get lost and drown before that!


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Stop it with that voice!


(CL Ladron) I caaaaan't.



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The rain has stopped.

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The enemy is nowhere in sight.

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Dammit. Dammit!




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Should we just go back towards where Destructor sunk to pick up survivors?

It's not like she sank in combat, the sailors had plenty of time to prepare for abandon ship.

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And again, land is RIGHT THERE. OVER THERE.



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Aaand it's night time.


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(DD Destructor) You guys... are just... assholes.

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BATTLE OVER.
 
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Well, hopefully the various squadrons that went under AI control are still alright. If perhaps lowish on fuel? As I lack hands-on experience with the game do you get announcements for things happening to ships that have left your direct control due sight/comms issues?
 
47.17 AAR - Fleet Battle off Linosa - May 1904
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TEN DDS? What?

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WHAT!

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We didn't see a hide or hair of ANY of their Destroyers!




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Ugh. Minor Victory.

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The only reason they have any points to their side is from how one of our ships sank outside of battle.
It was our own inept damcon that was our greatest enemy in this fight.


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I am not going to do hour by hour because were going around in circles for quite a while there.

But apparently:

At 8:00 we made contact, almost crashong onto each other. Thereafter, was a confused tangle of combat that lasted until around 11:00.

From 8:00 - 10:00 was the bulk of the fighting.

Until 11:30 was the last chase for the Habsburg, then contact was lost in the rain.

At 14:00, DD Destructor sunk off the coast of Sicily.


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If that separate blue track off to the West were the DDs of the Austria-Hungary fleet, they were behind us.

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Ten DDs and their torpedo runs would have been such a bother. A flanking attack from the side while their main fleet held us up would have broken through.
Just more targets would have changed the balance of battle.

Instead they just apparently never found the battle and mucked around until the Light Cruisers made contact with them and told them to stay away.


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I... I can't tell just who was more incompetent in this battle.

This was my first ever fleet battle and even what I have done wasn't quite so... borderline treasonous?

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Baraco and Adobo will have to be in the yards for one month.
Other than the loss of Destructor, we took almost no real damage.

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For their contributions to the battle, the crew of CA Adobo are recognized as Elite.

... And CL Ladron too, we suppose, for the miracle that it keeps surviving things it has no business being in.



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So ends our fleet battle against Austria-Hungary, under the storm and rain, full of fury, signifying nothing.







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And that's done. Whew.

From the perspective of the Austria-Hungarians, who might not know they accidentally lucked into sinking a ship to equalize the damage counters, maybe they consider it a crushing defeat morale-wise. The Spanish juggernaut shrugged off their best fire and were utterly reckless with their lives. I might make a little omake of that, but if anyone wants to make a writeup from their perspective, feel free.
 
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48.1 WAR - May 1904
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Hello again, my peeps!
Enough relaxing. It's time to get back to running this Navy.


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All right. First, a little recap. This is how we stand after that fleet battle.
B Baraco, CA Adobo, and D Dorado 3 need to spend time in the yards.

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In exchange, we sank none of their ships, but heavily damaged their battleships. We lost a Destroyer.

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We strike from our new colonial possessions in Albania, which is a country directly south of Austria-Hungary and we can easily block their access to the Mediterranean from the Adriatic.

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Why we were fighting in the storm south of Sicily instead, I don't know.

We have thrice as many Victory Points as our enemies, but I don't know how many we need to accumulate in order to consider this war won.


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All right. New idea.
You two, get on Active Fleet and come here to the Med.

CA Antagal> I can be there by next month.
CA Andale> But I'll have to travel through the Indian Ocean, then East Africa, then West Africa.
CA Andale> It's going to take months.

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Wow your names just mean the opposite of what you can do.

CA Andale> Geography is a harsh mistress!

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And you two go on Foreign Station. Maybe you'll repel some raiders.

CL Ladron> With our guns?!

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With your general existence.
 
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48.2 WAR vs Austria-Hungary! - May 1904
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Meanwhile, let's just keep on training our men so that they become slightly less humiliating to behold.

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Yes this is money always well spent.

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Here are our ships under building.
We're going to drop four Delfin-class next month.

Soon enough we'll be able to relieve some Destroyers off patrol duty and put them into the Active Fleet.

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Lechon Kawali is almost a Pocket Cruiser, but we might need to start thinking of some new build real Battleships soon.

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No offense to Barbacoa and Barbarella, but they're Short ranged vessels that we can't often use for strategic maneuvers.

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It would be significantly cheaper to just build the Barquillo class at home, but by the time they're done all they would be able to do is to huff and puff and try to catch up to enemy Cruisers.
Almost three years is a long time for Battleship technology to advance.

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(*Angry future smolboat noises*)

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We can improve the deficiencies in the original Barquillo line though. They can be dedicated Cruiser hunters and mobile ablative armor screening force for our mainline battleships.

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If six inch guns MAGICALLY get through nine inches of belt armor, we're just going to spam 10" shells at them then!

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I really wanted to make it 9"/6"/3" to be even.
Getting 12"/6"/3" would have been nice too, but that limited me to 3 main guns, 4 secondaries, in order to keep the same level of armor protection.

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Maybe 4 main/ 6 secondary / 8 tertiary? But that would just be an Adobo with 8"/6"/4".

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Please stop with the numerology.
 
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48.2 WAR vs Austria-Hungary! - May 1904
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Let's continue with the state of the Empire.

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Our submarines are still building.
Isaac Peral's work actually gives us quite decent underwater boats for the era.

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Meanwhile, here's the balance of powers in the Mediterranean.
Austria-Hungary still outnumbers us, but let's see what that might entail.


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So we have two active battleships to Austria-Hungary's one.

Italy's got quite a potent navy.

France doesn't seem to have much presence in the Med, but that might just be a failure in seduction intelligence.


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But first, let us remember those who have fallen due to their own incompetence in glory for the sake of our beloved nation.

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Press F to pay respects.


DD Destructor> Um. You guys know you could just resummon me in a new hull, right?


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And with that said, let's roll on to the next month and see what happens.


DD Destructor> Helloooo.
DD Destructor> I know you can hear me, you tostados de mamon.
DD Destructor> I miss ice cream... :(
 
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