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Post by cleveland on Jan 26, 2014 13:45:33 GMT -6
Turn 18
It was time to make a show of force before the onset of winter. One battleship and three armored cruisers were sent to the western Baltic to show the flag. We sunk a transport as a bonus and chased a German light cruiser off.
Our reports indicate that the Germans were worried enough to emergency activate a task force. This would have been interesting had we run into them. The fact that they sent the Beowulf out to sea shows me that the Germans are scraping the bottom of the barrel. In the Russian navy a ship like the Beowulf would serve as the Tsar's yacht.
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Post by phoenix on Jan 27, 2014 2:21:32 GMT -6
Lol, Cleveland. Like the nice dry commentary. I'm also playing this. I'm on turn 14. When winter comes do you happen to know what happens? I mean are we iced in?
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Post by cleveland on Jan 27, 2014 6:52:32 GMT -6
Yes, iced in till 2nd week of February I think. No training allowed.
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Post by phoenix on Jan 27, 2014 14:32:36 GMT -6
Ah. And no ops, I guess? What week does that start?
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Post by cleveland on Jan 27, 2014 14:36:20 GMT -6
I don't remember when it starts (end of December maybe?), I'm not at home right now.
You get like 10 OPs per turn to save mainly, because subs are the only thing you can send out.
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Post by phoenix on Jan 28, 2014 3:02:24 GMT -6
Ok. Thanks.
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Post by fredsanford on Jan 30, 2014 12:50:23 GMT -6
I don't remember when it starts (end of December maybe?), I'm not at home right now. You get like 10 OPs per turn to save mainly, because subs are the only thing you can send out. But since the enemy is stuck in port also, the subs don't have much to do.
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Post by cleveland on Jan 31, 2014 15:50:32 GMT -6
Turn 37 - Bloody Nose in the BalticWell, another harsh winter has come and gone and our fleet is in desperate need of training and repair. The Germans are determined to gain an upper hand and since the end of winter have been running operations to that end. Our pathetic attempts to thwart them have been comical in nature. The still too short days along with heavy rains have forced our ships to abort every mission thus wasting valuable coal stocks. Once again we get word of a German operation and once again we have to make a decision on whether to meet yet another threat. It's decided that we sally. Our forces are laughable due to diminished resources so we can only put to sea the modern cruiser Rurik (flagship), two well drilled Pre-Dreadnought Battleships (Pavel, Pervozvanny), one light cruiser division and one destroyer division. If the enemy has even one Battle Cruiser or Dreadnought out there it could get bad. After sinking a transport we decide to head for home thinking once again that another German operation has went on without any opposition. It was just then that we caught sight of the Germans. Attachment Deleted
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Post by cleveland on Jan 31, 2014 15:55:25 GMT -6
We find ourselves in an advantageous position, practically crossing the "T" and the Pavel finds the range. Attachment Deleted
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Post by cleveland on Jan 31, 2014 15:58:21 GMT -6
While our guns can outrange the Wittelsbachs, we find ourselves unable to open the range even at full speed (a laughable 18 knots). The Germans respond. Attachment Deleted
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Post by cleveland on Jan 31, 2014 16:00:37 GMT -6
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Post by cleveland on Jan 31, 2014 16:03:31 GMT -6
It looks like the only way to get out of range of the German 9-inch guns is to reverse course and order a flotilla attack. Attachment Deleted
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Post by cleveland on Jan 31, 2014 16:06:42 GMT -6
Darkness will be coming very soon, any truly decisive result will have to come from our destroyers.
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Post by cleveland on Jan 31, 2014 16:10:46 GMT -6
The Germans are lined up, posing as easy targets for our deadly fish. Yet the Germans have one last maneuver in their salty, godless veins and order their Battleships to turn away as the torpedoes attempt to find their mark. Attachment Deleted
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Post by cleveland on Jan 31, 2014 16:16:02 GMT -6
No torpedoes find their home! The attack did allow our ships to get out of German gunnery range and we pepper them unmolested as darkness falls. No risks will be taken at night so we head home and find two more transports, ripe for our taking. As the results show, this has been a huge boost for our sailors morale. Only the onset of darkness prevented us from further damaging the Hun. Attachment Deleted
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