Let's Play "Rule The Waves" w/ Steve's Custom Country "Cascadia"

[Steve]

You are aware what kind of designs will pop up if you let THIS crowd loose on Ultimate Admiral?

Aladeeeeeen!

*wipes off cob-webs*

Guess what game I bought with the Steam winter sale?

Granted, I'm currently playing UA: Age of Sail. Did the British campaign to learn the game and now playing the far harder American one, where reputation costs are more widespread and the missions are in theory more challenging.

While you get to craft some choices for your characterbackground they clearly modeled the UK and US admirals off Horatio Nelson and John Paul Jones, IMHO.

And UG: American Revolution is the same just with Washington and Howe.

But I have been tinkering with UA: D a bit (Tex of the Black Pants Legion just started a Spain playthrough and reminded me I did want to play with it), no abominations yet since I'm just doing the tutorials and getting a feel for things, but we'll see what silliness I do. Maybe a UA:D version of the CRS Warrior from this thread shall be possible...

[Eternal_Freedom]

If you do build a US version of CRS Warrior, I call dibs on a) commanding her and b) writing her inevitable eulogy

[Steve]

If you do build a US version of CRS Warrior, I call dibs on a) commanding her and b) writing her inevitable eulogy

Haven't been able to quite do that one yet due to how the game's design system works. This is the closest I can manage at my current point in my current first playthrough.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Urgh, cage masts. No thanks.

[Steve]

Urgh, cage masts. No thanks.

Alas.

Anyway, here she is against her usual foes from the prior game, the Kriegsmarine.

[Steve]

Urgh, cage masts. No thanks.

Not a fan but they give increased long range accuracy, which makes the big guns hit more often, so on they go.

Though I'm now into the 1910s and the first superdreadnoughts are coming online, with non-cage towers. Just laid North Dakota as my first 40kton super, four double 15" guns. And my Dauntless-class battlecruisers, 30ktons, 28 knots and three triple 12" turrets with several double 6" secondaries. (She is, after all, a battlecruiser, and I fully intend to use her to murderize cruisers).

(This game's a bit less forgiving about the weights, plus stuff like the towers and funnels and barbettes are items you have to put on and count towards tonnage too..)

Still beating Germany's face in, theirr fleet's mostly wrecked. Japan's gone, I took most of it while China got Kyushu and Britain has northern Hokkaid. China, France, and the UK are the powers above me, though China probably just from sheer quantity of light hulls and CAs. Mighht build a new generation of light cruisers with 4-5" guns exclusively to murderize their torpedo boat swarm.

[Eternal_Freedom]

A vast swarm of cruisers sounds like just the thing for your Dauntlesses to murderise.

[Steve]

So guess what I acquired?



That's right, I've got RTW3. Alas, custom country modding is much harder so a repeat of this LP is unlikely, unless I figure it out. But in the meantime, I'm in the 20s, it's time for carriers. And EF will be happy to hear that the Warrior lives once more and is living up to her namesake.

He'll be substantially less happy to hear that it's the Royal Navy that tends to wind up on the receiving end of her 12 and 10"ers. My current campaign has essentially turned the US into a member of the Central Powers, alliances with Germany and Austria and now two wars with Britain. Warrior and her sister Avenger have been the stars so far, with something like three BCs sunk in their careers. I'm considering converting them into CVs once the current war is over.

(Also as a note, Huron and her sisters were my last class of armored cruiser, so I picked them for conversion when I unlocked the initial conversions to CVLs).

[Eternal_Freedom]

I am delighted that Warrior lives. As predicted, I am also dismayed at her choice of targets. Booo!

[Steve]

I am delighted that Warrior lives. As predicted, I am also dismayed at her choice of targets. Booo!

She's not going to have the glorious death of her counterpart. Or maybe not.



Anyway, the game now tracks a ship's history. Copying-and-pasting from the in-game interface (which has a handy button for it).

Ship history for CV Warrior

May 1905 Laid down in USA as BC Warrior.


November 1907 Commissioned


November 1907 Captain Seligman takes command


November 1907 Captain Cutler takes command


March 1908 Took part in Battle of Folly Beach against British navy.

In action.

Heavy damage. Gunfire and torpedoes(BC Inconstant, DD Ness, ).

Scored 6 main battery hits on BC Inconstant, DD Ness,


July 1908 Took part in Battle of Long Island against British navy.

In action.

Light damage. Gunfire.(BC Queen Mary, DD Renard, DD Basilisk, ).

Scored 15 main battery hits on BC Queen Mary,


October 1908 Took part in Battle of Port Mouton against Italian navy.

In action.

Light damage. Gunfire.(DD Acorn, ).

Scored 10 main battery hits on CA Hampshire,


November 1908 Took part in Battle of Cape Spear against British navy.

In action.

Light damage. Gunfire.(CA Etruria, CA Amalfi, DD Afridi, DD Mosquito, DD Nubian, CL Champion, DD Scourge, ).

Scored 40 main battery hits on CA Etruria, CA Amalfi, TR Merchant 1, TR Merchant 8, TR Merchant 5, TR Merchant 11, TR Merchant 13, TR Merchant 9, TR Merchant 12, DD Hornet, CL Champion,


February 1909 Took part in Battle of Pear Rock against British navy.

In action.

Light damage. Gunfire.(BC Invincible, ).

Scored 36 main battery hits on BC Invincible, TR Merchant 2, TR Merchant 6, TR Merchant 8, DD Nemesis,


July 1909 Took part in Battle of Bay of Fundy against British navy.

In action.

Light damage. Gunfire.(B Swiftsure, B Implacable, BB Howe, ).

Scored 12 main battery hits on B Implacable, CA Carnarvon, BB Howe,


August 1909 Captain Cutler takes command


August 1909 Captain Kline takes command


January 1910 Moves to The Caribbean


October 1910 To Reserve fleet


January 1912 To dockyard for rebuild


July 1913 Rebuild completed


July 1913 To dockyard for rebuild


October 1913 Rebuild completed


November 1913 To Reserve fleet


July 1919 Captain Eder takes command


December 1919 Moves to North American East Coast


December 1919 To Active fleet


July 1920 Moves to The Caribbean


August 1920 Moves to North American West Coast


September 1920 Moves to Central Pacific


October 1920 Moves to Southeast Asia


September 1921 Took part in Battle of Nansan Island against Russian navy.

In action.

No damage.

Scored 6 main battery hits on Installation 8, Installation 9,


December 1921 Took part in Battle of Nauchou Island against Russian navy.

In action.

No damage.


January 1922 Took part in Battle of Mapur Island against British navy.

In action.

Light damage. Gunfire.(BC Furious, ).

Scored 23 main battery hits on BC Furious,


December 1922 Moves to Central Pacific


January 1923 Moves to North American West Coast


February 1923 Moves to The Caribbean


March 1923 Moves to Northern Europe


April 1923 Moves to North American East Coast


May 1923 To Reserve fleet


November 1923 To dockyard for rebuild


November 1923 Reclassified as CV


January 1926 Rebuild completed


January 1926 To Reserve fleet


February 1930 Captain Hepburn takes command


March 1931 To Reserve fleet


April 1932 Moves to The Caribbean


May 1932 Moves to West Africa


September 1932 Moves to The Caribbean


October 1932 Moves to North American East Coast


November 1932 To Reserve fleet

[Eternal_Freedom]

HMS Invincible took 36 main battery hits...and didn't explode? Impressive.

[Esquire]

HMS Invincible took 36 main battery hits...and didn't explode? Impressive.

It seems there was nothing wrong with your bloody ships that day.

[Eternal_Freedom]

HMS Invincible took 36 main battery hits...and didn't explode? Impressive.

It seems there was nothing wrong with your bloody ships that day.

True. And in fairness, the real HMS Tiger took almost that many hits at Jutland and kept on fighting, but she did have much better armour and actually had safe ammo handling practices.

[Steve]

It's the 1950s, and the True Order is restored: the US and UK are allies against Fascist Germany. Just finished a war with a negotiated peace, Germany is now bereft of all her colonial holdings and the US is holding Norway.

Which is great for the next war when it comes because the British weren't using medium bombers and with no night fighters researched yet (ugh) I couldn't maintain night CAPs and took some hits from German land-based aviation in Norway. That said, I won all three major engagements, not much done in sinkings but wrecking the Germaan fleet repeatedly to maintain the blockade.