Play by Council Registration

[generalvikus]

If you'd like to the play - by - council game, please post below so I know who's actually in the game. If you'd like to register yourself for a specialist role, please also notify me below. Please keep general discussion of the game to the 'interest check' thread for now to avoid clutter. Currently, the available positions are: 

Commander, North Sea
- Fred Sanford

Commander, Mediterranean
- aeson 

Commander, East Asia (North / South)
- parrot

Commander, Foreign Station (rest of the world)
 - Fred Sanford

Member of the Design Board (need approximately three)
- garrisonchisholm
- endersminion
- boomboom

Member of the Board of Construction (need approximately three)
- dorn 
- oaktree
- fredsanford

Minister of Retirement and Entertainment
- oldpop


Role Descriptions;

Theatre Commander:

The role of the theatre commander will be to advise the admiralty on the kind of forces which should be deployed to their respective theatre, and to provide me with standing orders (make them as detailed as you like) for combat in their zone of operations. If we end up getting even more players, we might add more theatre commanders, but right now if we had a commander for every station, some of them would have far too little to do.

Design Board:

The role of this group will not be to design the ships - any player will be able to enter a design competition - or to choose the winners in competitions - that'll be down to the whole group - but to analyse the strategic situation and then set specifications for entries in design competitions. (For example: we need a new cruiser, approximately 6,000 tonnes, at least 24 knots, and specialised for colonial defence.)

Board of Construction:

Once again; study the strategic situation, and provide the Admiralty with different alternative plans for ship construction. Once again, this will go to the ballot and all players will have a say, but it'll be the job of this group to concern themselves particularly with drawing up plans for everyone to consider. Needs about 3 members.

Minister of Retirement and Entertainment:

Oldpop's job. What it actually entails is anybody's guess. Maybe once we retire our ships and put them in mothballs, he strips them down and converts them into trendy night clubs? Is that what kids are into these days? Who knows? Anyway, what matters is that he's living off an admiralty pension and it's eating into our maintenance budget.

[dorn]

I am certainly in. I would like to apply for Member of the Board of Construction.

I do not know if this is possible on this forum but I see that these could be quite huge, maybe to have completely one subforum for each commmander and Board could be desirable.

[Airy W]

Lord Jonathan Fowler is pleased to take up the post of chief of the Northern station. I believe that the needs of this station should already be familiar to my fellow admiralty members.

-The north sea station should have as many battleships as the total battleships of the French or German navies.
-At least one third of these battleships should have a speed of at least 20 knots.
-All of these battleships should have at least four guns larger in caliber then 10 inches and some of them should have 12 inch caliber guns.
-These battleships should have an armored belt of at least 8 inches of Krupp steel or 9.4 inches of Harvey armor.
-The north sea station should have a pair of armored cruisers with a speed of at least 23 knots.
-The north sea station should have a squadron of four protected cruisers with a speed of at least 23 knots.
-The north sea station should additionally have a squadron of four protected cruisers with a speed of at least 21 knots and at least two (preferably three) submerged torpedoes.
-The north sea station is still working to understand the implications of the new "torpedo boat destroyers" and wishes at least a nominal deployment for training an experimentation purposes.
-The north sea station should have approximately a dozen small auxiliary vessels assigned, at least 200 tons in displacement.

I will raise no strong objections if my fellow lords attempt to make a reasonable attempt at economy once these standards are met. For instance I believe that slightly smaller battleships may allow for a substantial cost-savings. Experimentation with 11 inch guns on battleships would not be objectionable. Experience seems to show that armor thicker then 9.5 inches of Harvey steel does not add substantial improvements in protection. Armored cruisers are a secondary role in the north sea so as long as they are adequate, they do not need to be excessively large.

[fredsanford]

I'd like to apply for Commander North Sea.

[generalvikus]

Jan 27, 2018 10:00:16 GMT -6 fredsanford said:

I'd like to apply for Commander North Sea.

Lord Jonathan Fowler is pleased to take up the post of chief of the Northern station. I believe that the needs of this station should already be familiar to my fellow admiralty members.



-The north sea station should have as many battleships as the total battleships of the French or German navies.

-At least one third of these battleships should have a speed of at least 20 knots.

-All of these battleships should have at least four guns larger in caliber then 10 inches and some of them should have 12 inch caliber guns.

-These battleships should have an armored belt of at least 8 inches of Krupp steel or 9.4 inches of Harvey armor.

-The north sea station should have a pair of armored cruisers with a speed of at least 23 knots.

-The north sea station should have a squadron of four protected cruisers with a speed of at least 23 knots.

-The north sea station should additionally have a squadron of four protected cruisers with a speed of at least 21 knots and at least two (preferably three) submerged torpedoes.

-The north sea station is still working to understand the implications of the new "torpedo boat destroyers" and wishes at least a nominal deployment for training an experimentation purposes.

-The north sea station should have approximately a dozen small auxiliary vessels assigned, at least 200 tons in displacement.



I will raise no strong objections if my fellow lords attempt to make a reasonable attempt at economy once these standards are met. For instance I believe that slightly smaller battleships may allow for a substantial cost-savings. Experimentation with 11 inch guns on battleships would not be objectionable. Experience seems to show that armor thicker then 9.5 inches of Harvey steel does not add substantial improvements in protection. Armored cruisers are a secondary role in the north sea so as long as they are adequate, they do not need to be excessively large.

I've pencilled in both John and Fred as joint - commanders of the North Sea Fleet, since I assume the job is big enough for both of you. If either one of you would prefer to have your own command - at the very least, I'd like to have the Mediterranean and East Asian fleets properly led.

[oldpop2000]

I'd like to be the Minister Of Retirement and Entertainment, if there is one. HeHeH HeH

[generalvikus]

Jan 27, 2018 10:11:18 GMT -6 oldpop2000 said:

I'd like to be the Minister Of Retirement and Entertainment, if there is one. HeHeH HeH

Role Descriptions;



Minister of Retirement and Entertainment:



Oldpop's job. What it actually entails is anybody's guess. Maybe once we retire our ships and put them in mothballs, he strips them down and converts them into trendy night clubs? Is that what kids are into these days? Who knows? Anyway, what matters is that he's living off an admiralty pension and it's eating into our maintenance budget.

Satisfied, my good man? 

[oldpop2000]

Jan 27, 2018 10:19:18 GMT -6 generalvikus said:

Jan 27, 2018 10:11:18 GMT -6 oldpop2000 said:

I'd like to be the Minister Of Retirement and Entertainment, if there is one. HeHeH HeH

Role Descriptions;



Minister of Retirement and Entertainment:



Oldpop's job. What it actually entails is anybody's guess. Maybe once we retire our ships and put them in mothballs, he strips them down and converts them into trendy night clubs? Is that what kids are into these days? Who knows? Anyway, what matters is that he's living off an admiralty pension and it's eating into our maintenance budget.

Satisfied, my good man? 

Well, thanks. My plan is to turn mothballed ships into cruise ships and use the proceeds to furnish retirement funding for veterans and their families. I think it is a plan whose time has come, can't fight in the Navy forever. We could even turn them into casinos for off the three mile limit operations, more proceeds for the retirees.... like me.

[fredsanford]

Since Joint Command has been shown historically to be less that desirable, I'll withdraw my name from North Sea Command consideration. I'll take Commander, Foreign Station (rest of world) instead. I believe that conflict with the upstart Americans is inevitable, so I'd like to be in charge of the critical North American East Coast and Caribbean theaters, and the subsidiary NA West Coast.

In peacetime, it won't generally be necessary to base more that the required minimum of tonnage in these regions. However, in order to be on a sound footing for eventual war with the USA, I recommend an extensive program of base expansion beginning at the very start. The goal should be the ability to base the entire battle fleet in the NA East Coast, or at least the portion required to dominate the US fleet and effectively blockade the region. The Caribbean should also have an extensive base expansion program with an eye toward dominating the region such that upon successful conclusion of a war with the USA, we can gain control of Panama so that we will control the canal under construction there. This will facilitate our overall global sea control greatly.

Given the rapid growth of the US economy, they will eventually outstrip us if we let them grow unhindered. I believe our strategy should prioritize the base expansion recommended above, with a goal of decisive engagement and destruction of the US Navy by around 1910-1915.

[generalvikus]

Jan 27, 2018 10:31:42 GMT -6 fredsanford said:

Since Joint Command has been shown historically to be less that desirable, I'll withdraw my name from North Sea Command consideration. I'll take Commander, Foreign Station (rest of world) instead. I believe that conflict with the upstart Americans is inevitable, so I'd like to be in charge of the critical North American East Coast and Caribbean theaters, and the subsidiary NA West Coast.

In peacetime, it won't generally be necessary to base more that the required minimum of tonnage in these regions. However, in order to be on a sound footing for eventual war with the USA, I recommend an extensive program of base expansion beginning at the very start. The goal should be the ability to base the entire battle fleet in the NA East Coast, or at least the portion required to dominate the US fleet and effectively blockade the region. The Caribbean should also have an extensive base expansion program with an eye toward dominating the region such that upon successful conclusion of a war with the USA, we can gain control of Panama so that we will control the canal under construction there. This will facilitate our overall global sea control greatly.

Given the rapid growth of the US economy, they will eventually outstrip us if we let them grow unhindered. I believe our strategy should prioritize the base expansion recommended above, with a goal of decisive engagement and destruction of the US Navy by around 1910-1915.

Keep those recommendations saved to place on the pre-game ballot. I may form an 'Americas' station as needed later on - possibly as soon as we face high tensions with the US, and if we end up at war I expect to create separate commands for the East Coast, West Coast and Carribean and siphon commanders from less important sectors. If that occurs, I assume you'll take the East Coast Station. 

[Enderminion]

eh, you could count me for design board, like Oldpop I will be doing as little as possible while still doing something

[garrisonchisholm]

I'll be in on the design board too, I should be counted on to check in at least once a day. You should come up with a protocol to proceed at a certain point regardless of who hasn't logged in, or to declare a discussion over if the participants have their lower teeth showing and are tossing crackers at one another.

[oaktree]

I will take a spot on either board (Design or Construction). Since this looks like a game as the UK I can then rail about the loss of naval tradition and attempting such modern trash such as putting officers' quarters forward.

(And then Oldpop can quote Churchill or Fisher at me about RN traditions.)

[boomboomf22]

I would like design board. However if those are all taken (which they might be, I cannot into math right now) I'll apply for board of construction

[dimovski]

I'd just like to apply for a seat in the front row with no authority or responsibility, if you don't mind