The Bumbling Idiot Series - Austria-Hungary

[bumblingidiot]

Introduction

I am a bumbling idiot when it comes to Rule the Waves. I have always used auto-design and I direct my fleet to go head-on into a battle before continuing to sail in a straight line. Legacy fleets are always used, medium fleet size is my dream and historical resources give me the tingles. Research and intelligence isn't much of a concern for me. I have no idea what ammo types to use and so just pick what sounds right. Rebuilds are a curse word. I haven't read the manual but I have watched tortugapower perform what I believe is witchcraft.

This AAR will serve to punish all of you and, maybe, for me to become less of a bumbling idiot. Probably not, though. I'm going to aim to provide an update every 5 years of game play with lots of screenshots so you can lose emotional control and cry yourself to sleep at my actions. Just like my parents.

So, without further ado, let's begin in 1900!

Post 1 - Jan 1900 to Jan 1905
Post 2 - Feb 1905 to Jan 1910
Post 3 - Feb 1910 to Jan 1915
Post 4 - Feb 1915 to Jan 1920
Post 5 - Feb 1920 to Jan 1926
Post 6 - Feb 1926 to Jan 1930

[bumblingidiot]

1900
January 1900 - I set my training and doctrines as follows:
BB, B, BC
armoured cruiser
light cruiser

I also designed my first corvette! Here it is: Klein-Class
Corvette

Feburary 1900
Ordered a Klein-Class Corvette, named KE -1.

March 1900
Scientists discover Fleet Tactics! That won't be required.

April 1900
Scientists are baffled by Pressure Hulls. Me too, bud, aren't we all under pressure?

Construction delays on KE - 1. They're probably baffled by my design choices.

June 1900
Turned down the British's offer for 12 inch guns of -1 quality for 1,782. Why? Because I'm poor, that's why.

July 1900
A silly cruiser, because I have none has ran aground whilst performing an illicit illegal operation that I must definitely didn't order. Unless I did. Who knows. Either way, I send a strong squadron to sort them out and maybe blow up some of their drones before they capture an allied tanker.

September 1900
Boom times! A tax windfall! Who needs healthcare when I can strengthen the Navy!

December 1900
Training has been applied!

KE - 1 is now operational. The champagne almost punctured the hull but we covered it up with some tissue paper. This resulted in scientists having trouble with active mine warfare.

1901
January 1901
B Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand has been commissioned. I celebrated my new Battleship by sending a strong force to safeguard some interests in China following an uprising.

February 1901
With my budget now Battleship construction free, I ordered another 6 Klein-Class Corvettes. Why? Because trade protection! That's why.

July 1901
A regional war is imminent in the Balkans. Even I know that this is an opportunity to sell lots of arms.

September 1901

A major arms firm wants to sell to the South Americans. More budget? Absolutely! 

The expanded KE fleet is facing some more delays. Probably because the engineers are also bumbling idiots. Apart from those working on KE - 3. That'll be my flagship, probably.

October 1901

KE - 3 is commissioned.

November 1901

The rest of my KE fleet is commissioned. Now what to do with the budget? Hmmm, let's try designing a CL! 

I introduce to you, the Mittel-Class Cruiser!

1902
January 1902
The Kaiser asks if I can beat Russia. Of course I can beat Russia! My researchers also agree and figured out the coincidence rangefinder.

Here's how things look in 1902: Look at those KEs

February 1902
Unexpected advances in Light Forces and torpedo warfare! Perfect for my KE fleet. They try to convince me to reconsider my KEs in favour of DDs with 600T displacement. I scoff at their advances. I order a Mittle-Class Cruiser, CL - 01, along with another two Klein-Class Corvettes.

March 1902
Hydraulic recoils have been researched and torpedoes have been improved with hydrostatic valves. Whatever that means. Probably related to pressure hulls being improved for the submarines that we don't have.

April 1902
The Kaiser makes an ill-considered comment about Germany. I agree with him, their hats are silly. To prepare for the inevitable war, scientists figure out how to condense surfaces. I think that means to make things smaller with a pneumatic press? We'll improve the naval budget by making a youtube channel squishing things.

July 1902

New riveting techniques! How exciting.

August 1902

My Spy-Spys have found that the French have stolen technology from us! Those jerks. I wrote them a mean letter back and used the thesaurus to write it.

September 1902

We discovered a spy from Great Britain because he didn't use his thumb to count. What an idiot. We post about it on our social media page, aka the village news board, and grumble loudly about their actions.

October 1902

The Government is concerned about tensions. I really like bratwursts so we become friends with Germany. Our scientists take inspiration from this to make some advances in ship design; now we can build heavy secondary batteries. Gotta love me some 7 inches.

November 1902

KE - 9 joins the fleet! Also some improvements in AP which will be good, because obviously I use mainly AP rounds.

December 1902

KE - 8 rolls out, all clean and awesome looking. I got drunk and bought Machinery Development - Cockburn safety valve for 1,665. Apparently my scientists got a "good grasp" on cockburns. I'm beginning to question their abilities.

1903
January 1903

Another spy from Britain. We punish them by pouring their tea into the ocean and grumbling about it again. To make myself better, I decide to design a new destroyer.

Ladies and Jellyspoon, the Schütze-class Destroyer!

February 1903
There's an opportunity to embarrass Great Britain. I take it. Suck it, UK. 

Four Schutze-Class Destroyers are ordered to further embarrass them.

May 1903
Upheaval in the Virgin Islands! France wants to send a force there so we sent an ultimatum because I love tension. France doesn't though so they take over the Virgin Islands. A bunch of Virgins dislike that and are rebelling. Probably because I called them Virgins instead of Virgin Islanders.

June 1903
After my previous comments, scientists make unexpected advances in subdivsion and, most importantly, damage control. They don't really help though because the improvement is called "double bottom". Oh, and we get Lyddite bursting charges. I hope those are AP.

August 1903
The Virginers are still rebelling.

September 1903
CL - 1 rolls out of the dry dock and into the ocean. Huzzah!

October 1903
The Virginists continue to rebel.

November 1903
Three Destroyers have been commissioned and we bought some Explosive shells - Safe fuze arming devices for 1,260. I decide that this means it's time to design a Battleship. 

The Schwer-class Battleship

December 1903
The Virginers continue to revolt against their French overlords. Meanwhile, we returned to China to buy some china for our strong force.

1904
January 1904
Navel UnIntelligence suggested that we move some arms to the Islanders of the Virgin, so we did and the French got a bit annoyed.

February 1904
Germany wants some ice but they didn't invite us to the land of it, so we gave them an ultimatum. They backed down but we won't be invited to the cabin near Danzig.

We started our first Schwer-class, B -1, and decided to build another Schutze-class Destroyer so it'd have a friend.

March 1904
The British want us to become poor. I told them where to go in Naval terms by shouting "yarr she blows" as the Ambassador's wife walked by. As a result, we raised our rangefinders by 6ft. Our sailors are dwarfed by it.

April 1904
Improved industrialization gives us more natural resources.

The Islanders lose in overtime, whilst the Virgin Islanders continue their protest against their Step-Dad.

May 1904
The Virgins have overthrown the French!

June 1904
We bought some drums to annoy the Kaiser. Thanks Germany! Enjoy our 1,215! We love our side-drums! There must be connected somehow because we also figured out how to float underwater in a tube. 

Two coastal submarines were started.

July 1904
What goes with drums? Power rammers! Only 1,305 and the Kaiser will love us. Our music inspires the researchers to improve our torpedoes, perfect for our coastal submarines.

August 1904
The Americans try to show off their new cruiser but it is nothing compared to the great Mittel-Class Cruiser.

September 1904
I did a press interview and said pasta is the best food, so obviously Italy is threat to my cholesterol. Although instead of cholesterol, I said Inner-Navy because that's what I call my blood serum. The Italians were maaaad.

October 1904
The Pizza guy was still mad so the Kaiser tried to tip him more than 1% (my usual tip). I was quite firm on not tipping more and he seemed to enjoy my stubbornness. So much so that he brought me a pizza warmer for the Navy. At least, I think that's what a Preheater is.

November 1904
Sold more arms to the South Americans. Just Admiral things. I think we got some more exploding AP shells in return. 10/10 trade, would do again.

December 1904
Sent a Christmas card to the Germans, they sent back a book on Naval Advancements. Hmmmm.

1905
January 1905
New Year, same me. Found another Brit, sent him away by yelling loudly. Yawn.

DD - 5 is now useable, yay!

[bumblingidiot]

February 1905
Advances in armour have been made. By applying mud to the sailors facing, we get face hardening. Simple, right? Apparently not that simple. When trying to do it myself, I accidentally dropped some TNT in my bath tub and the Battleship Squeaky Clean blew up. I mentioned it to some of our nerds and they had a wonderful idea about defensive minefields.

March 1905
I got a report about a new research field being discovered - Actual Ship Warfare! Oh, that isn't what ASW means...

April 1905
Apparently you can mount 10" guns as secondary double turrets. I knew it!

I got excited and decided I would try a rebuild. The old Battleships would be perfect for some new turrets. Yet the rebuild page said they were already overweight and the machinery gave me a whopping 8T to play with. This is why rebuilds are bad, folks. Never rebuild. Only build new corvettes.

Anyway, I had a budget to play with so two new Schutze-Class Destroyers were ordered with 4 coastal submarines.

May 1905
The Balkan nations are fighting, probably because the Italians fed them raw pasta. We've also learnt how to recuperate our pneumatics, which I think is how pneumonia is is developed.

June 1905
Those spaghetti flingers have activated their ships. They're deemed heavy for reasons I can only assume are related to cuisine choices. Eager to test out our new ships, I tell my boys to get ready.

The French, not content with having lost the Virgin Islands, are trying to send a force to Samoa. I wouldn't mind a vacation spot with our German friends so aim for an International force (of us) to see to those frog eaters. They didn't care though and the French now have a place in the sun.

July 1905
The Kaiser seems like a nice bloke but he really doesn't want a war. I do! So I tell him it's time to up the budget and hike up those big boy pants. In return we get some high tensile steel. Yay.

August 1905
WAR WITH ITALY

First battle - Convoy Defense - CL - 1 with a 4 DD strong division acting as cheerleaders. 15 merchants not far outside of Zara. Enemy spotted 15nm SE of the convoy. Charge headfirst towards the enemy ship, a CA, until CL - 1 is within firing range. Keep CL - 1 between the merchants and the CA whilst the DD Division pretends they are ducks. My 6" scares the Italian away, leading me to into a pursuit. The Duck Division continues to misunderstand their orders, presumably because they are ducks. Almost have to kill them for deserting before they remembered they were imprinted upon me. The Italian CA runs to Pescara and gets there under the cover of darkness. Win for AH.

AH 771 : ITA 38

B - 1 is delayed but U - 1 and U - 2 are operational. Instantly throw them on unrestricted warfare. 5 Klein-Class Corvettes are placed on trade protection whilst CL - 1 gets a bandaid and raider status.

September 1905
2 enemy merchants sunk by CL - 1. 2 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. Germany aids 200VPs.

Second battle - Small engagement - I start with a CA and 4 DDs. Find 2 Italian Destroyers trying to 2:1 a battleship. Charge after them like Leroy Jenkins at max power. Almost run aground at Ancona because I'm writing this up, find a 5" coastal cannon just chilling. Lose the DDs at night and they run into port. No VP of anyone.

AH 991 : ITA 38

Almanac at the end of the turn

August 1905
1 enemy merchant sunk by CL - 1. 2 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. Germany sinks the Italian DD "Garibaldino". Probably played for AC Milan at some point.

Third battle - Cruiser action - Two CAs are mine to wreck havoc with. Enemy ship 5.5nm away, instantly hit the smash and aim for them. Only two DDs but they run away. Follow them to Taranto (the Italians misspelt Toronto apparently) and sail right under a 9" cannon emplacement like Hornblower reincarnated. Battle ends because I lose the DDs in the dark but I get some points for hitting one with a HE in the butt. Forgot to capture the after-battle screen. Win for Austria.

AH 1054 : ITA 38

September 1905
Kaiser wants peace with some border areas and colonies. Uh, we're winning so keep fighting!

3 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. 3 friendly merchants sunk by Italy. Germany adds 150VP to the mix.

Fourth battle - Coastal Bombardment - 2 CAs and 5 DDs vs bombardment target near Bari. Easy. Aim right for it, place both CAs broadside and slow them to 0 within 1.5nm of the target. DDs bugger off to harass the waves. Kill the target and decide to use a 9" coastal battery as target practice. Even the DDs join in when they aren't chasing their shadow. Run out of ammo, head to Cattaro.Win for Austria.

AH 2009 : ITA 251

November 1905
3 enemy merchants sunk by CL - 1. 2 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. 2 friendly merchants sunk by Italy.

Fifth battle - Fleet Battle - 2 Bs with 5 DDs, 1 CA with 4 DDs and 1 CA walk into a fleet battle. Spot the enemy, hit the gas and aim at their 4 Bs and some DDs. Try to isolate one B to hammer, end up isolating 1 DD and having the enemy surrounding my Bs. That means I can hit them with every gun! End up knocking a Marco-Polo Class Battleship apart. My DDs then swarmed around it like flies to, well, you know. The rest of their fleet runs away to Bari and I go to port with no main ammo left for my Bs.Win for Austria.

AH 3330 : ITA 447

December 1905
2 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. 5 friendly merchants sunk by Italy.

Sixth battle - Cruiser Battle - 2 CAs with 5 DDs vs 1 B with 2 DDs. Head-on at max speed as always. Separate the DDs from the B but couldn't sink anyone. Heavy damage to old CA. Italy win.

AH 3616 : ITA 854

1906
January 1906
2 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. 5 friendly merchants sunk by Italy. Italy is now blockaded by us. Started upgrading our dock size because the Kaiser doesn't want to.

Seventh battle - Coastal Bombardment - 1 CA and 5 DDs. Sat under the bombardment target for 600 turns until I realized that I probably was under a cliff or something. Moved out, destroyed the target, went home. Easy. Win for Austria.

AH 4344 : ITA 1150

February 1906
Kaiser wants a peace without border changes or reparations. Nope! Keep fighting!

2 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. 5 friendly merchants sunk by Italy.

Eighth battle - Princess Leia tries to escape - CA vs AMC. Ran straight at them, ran alongside them on my port side. They torpedoed us with their last breath. Win for Italy.

AH 4596 : ITA 2288

March 1906
2 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. 1 enemy submarine sunk! 1 friendly merchant sunk by Italy.

Ninth battle - Queen Amidala tries to escape - CA vs AMC again. Not this time, AMC! Full speed ahead, zig zag to stay on their stern. Boom, victory. Win for Austria

AH 4863 : ITA 2293

May 1906
2 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. Germany and Italy have a little tiff, Italy loses a DD and Germany loses a CA.

UnIntelligence wants to move a revolutionary over to Italian. Who are they, Gordon Ramsey? Lock him up and let him find the lamb sauce in prison! In a somehow related event, our submarines now have periscopes! How were they looking at things before hand..?

Tenth battle - Coastal Bombardment - CA and 4 Ducklings vs a target. Cruise at 20kts, slam the park brake on and set time to fast on this baby until completion. Only there was no completion. I ran out of main and secondary ammo by turn 1070 and gave it up.Win for Italy

AH 5001 : ITA 2539

June 1906
4 new coastal submarines come to join our unrestricted warfare. Research finds some improved subdivisions to help with our battle damage control. We've added gyroscopes to our torpedoes to help the tin can machines.

Guess what happens with more submarines? More merchants get sunk! 7 enemy merchants sunk by the 6 strong submarine team. Germany adds 90VP to our score.

Eleventh battle - Cruiser battle - One lone CA vs a battleship. Stick to it's stern, eat a torpedo and explode as the magazine goes up. Epic fail. No heavy cruisers for Austria now. Win for Italy

I felt sad so I spent the war budget surplus on a new Schwer-class Battleship.

AH 5342 : ITA 3727

July 1906
Scientists figure out central firing. How else were they firing? From the side? To avoid me asking more questions, they unveiled capped AP projectiles so we can actually destroy a ship in our next battle.

Meanwhile, in Italy, they're facing a food shortage from us destroying their merchant fleet. 7 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. 2 merchants are destroyed by CL - 1.

Twelfth battle - Fleet battle - Two Battleships and five ducks vs 2 Bs, 1 CA and 1 DD. Try to focus on the CA, end up just doing the tango with the Bs. Do decent damage to the DD but not enough to sink. My duck division is, once again, useless and only comes into to fire their puny 3" guns at the damaged DD for zero damage. Italy runs to port, battle sends and one of my Bs sinks. Great.Win for Italy

AH 5728 : ITA 5162

August 1906
6 enemy merchants sunk by the submarine team. 4 enemy merchants are sunk by CL - 1. 1 friendly merchant sunk by an Italian submarine.

Thirteenth battle - Coastal Bombardment - 2 DDs vs a bombardment target. Doesn't end well with a 8" gun right behind it. Small merchant heaves to at the mere sight of us. Lose a DD and run out of ammo for the other DD. Get chased by an Italian DD back to port.Win for Italy

The Italians are now blockading us.

AH 5840 : ITA 5531

September 1906
A stroke of good luck! The Italian Prime Minister is executed and Italy is now communist. They accept harsh peace conditions. I opt to take Rhodes from Italy, Germany takes Eritrea.

BB - 1 is commissioned, just in time for the war to end. We also get 8" guns with a quality of 0.

Order a Mittel-Class Cruiser to aid in my raider fleet.

October 1906
Some research advances with Germany but nothing discovered.

December 1906
BB - 1 is now operational, hurrah! A regional war is imminent in the Balkans so, obviously, it's time to sell them some arms. And some legs. Maybe some guns too. As a result, we get steam turbines.

1907
January 1907
Almanac 1
Almanac 2

Our new docks are completed, now to 15000T, and we bought some explosive shells with better cream filling inside from the French for 1,800.

May 1907
Now we can make DDs up to 700T. I could make a new DD but opt not too, because the 600T are more than enough.

June 1907
The British, recognizing that I am amazing, offer us oil firing for 1,845. Obviously I'm grabbing that!

August 1907
The British want a naval rearmament program. The Government, unaware that I am a bumbling idiot, want to know what my opinion is. Obviously it's to condemn the British, build some new docks and get ready for a new type of Battleship when B - 2 is finished!

September 1907
The Russians come for a wee little visit and a journalist wants to know something. I just moan about rust buckets and how the Russians aren't Rusailors. People really love it. Because I'm so good at talking to people, the fleet gets some improved signalling.

November 1907
Improvements in industrial production means the Austrian people are getting ready for my oil firing battleship. They're so eager that it brings a wee tear to my eye.

December 1907
Told the French that the steam turbines are mine, mine, mine! Who's steam turbines? Mine, mine, mine! The Germans don't get the Scrubs reference and so our technology alliance comes to an end.

1908
January 1908
The French, inspired by my outrageous references that are 100 years too soon, offer us an alliance. I agree because those sneaky Italians are spying on us. Opt to out them and annoy the British at not being civilized.

February 1908
The Germans offer us a testing tank. Sounds like a big bathtub to me. Bought it for 1,350 and used it to have a wash.

March 1908
CL - 2 comes to join us in our endeavors. Supermarket sweeps have gotten explosive for the submarine fleet.

Designed a new Destroyer, called the Schnell-Class Destroyer.

April 1908
The British are spying on us again. We denounce them because, well, who wouldn't? Meanwhile my wife mentioned I should lose some weight. A scientist apparently had an idea and now our ships are on a diet. Also got some improved turret designs as a result.

Ordered 4 Schnell-Class Destroyers because oil firing 700T destroyers is what I live for.

May 1908
The Italians want to buy medium wing turrets for 1,700. I say no and counter with Sicily. For some reason, the Communist Italians say no.

Better diving planes are added to our submarines. Which reminded me that I should buy some more. But decided not to because it's almost time for some new battleships.

June 1908
CL - 2 is now fully operational. The British try to curb our future development of oil firing battleships. I tell them to stuff it.

July 1908
The Germans sell us these really tiny tubes for boilers for 1,400. Apparently it saves on weight, big woop. I'm more excited about the TNT bursting chargers that we also get.

August 1908
New docks are done! The Italians bring a new cruiser by to inspect it but they got a snarky comment that makes me feel better about myself.

Meanwhile, B - 2 is getting a firing control upgrade so that's delayed for a month and our scientists have developed Torpedo Protection I just in time for a battleship design contest.

Or a Battlecruiser. Our first one! Ladies and Ladies, the Rennfahrer-class Battlecruiser!

September 1908
Just to spite us, scientists figure out how to place three turrets on the centerline. Oh well. Maybe for a BB. They also improve our industrial production and to support that, our dock sizes are ordered to be made bigger.

October 1908
The security agreement with Germany has expired and the French wants to sell us a crosshair for the periscopes. 1,550 seems more than reasonable.

November 1908
B - 2 joins the fleet. Yay!

December 1908
Did you know that quality control didn't exist in the Navy before now? Well, now it does.

BC - 1 is ordered and we'll take a small deficit in the budget for a while. Not to worry, though, our new DDs will be completed soon.

1909
January 1909
Another spy from Britain. They really don't learn anything, do they?

February 1909
The French sell us 13" quality -1 guns for 1,638? Absolutely! Shame I can't put them on our new CL, the Raider-Class Cruiser

4 Schnell-Class Destroyers join the force.

April 1909
Bought 4" Quality 1 guns from ze Germans for 1,800. Awesome. Also ordered a Raider-Class Cruiser.

June 1909
The Kaiser wants to hold a sailing regatta. I'd rather have the cash. Because I'm such a good money man, we get the economizer to help reduce our weight.

July 1909
Triple turrets are now possible, shame it'll be a few years before we see them on our ships.

August 1909
To try and spur us to have triple turrets ships, the Americans offer us Longitudinal framing for 1,800. Obviously we take that.

September 1909
We used bakers to improve upon our shipbuilding steel. Lovely improved rolled shipbuilding steel is now ours. Apparently that also means that we get a range calculator.

October 1909
The Germans want to build our improved steel. Take a hike, Germany! Better improve our AP caps in case we have to face Germany in a war. Decided to upgrade our dock too.

November 1909
Now Russia wants our steel. Nooope. I think we should call ourselves "Austria-Hungary-Sheffield" because our steel is on fire.

1910
January 1910
Found a spy from Italy, attempting to steal our cookbooks. I'm sure you know what we did to him. We also got anti-submarine nets.


Current state of Austria
Austrian Technologies
Almanac

[ewaldvonkleist]

The Germans offer us a testing tank. Sounds like a big bathtub to me. Bought it for 1,350 and used it to have a wash

I once visited that installation at the Berlin University. I am not sure you want to have a bath in it, it is rarely cleaned. The wave machine is nice though.

[bumblingidiot]

Well, I am an idiot, sounds like it'd be the perfect place to "cleanse" in!

[bumblingidiot]

Unfortunately 1910-1912 was lost in an accidental refresh of the webpage. I have the screenshots to try and describe what happened.

For 1910-1911, tensions slowly developed between Great Britain and Italy. We signed a security and technology agreement with France in the mean time. Eventually go to war in January 1912.

First Battle - Victory for Austria, no losses.

Develop a new Destroyer when 900T DDs are discovered.

Second Battle - Major Victory for Great Britain, lose our BC and our Bs.

Third Battle - Victory for Great Britain. Rhodes is captured by the British Army.

Fourth Battle - Victory for Great Britain. Rhodes is captured by the British Army.

Fifth Battle - Victory for Great Britain. Lose a lot of AUXs.

At this point, Italy is struggling with food shortages from my submarines being on unrestricted warfare and having three CLs on raider status.

Sixth Battle - Victory for Great Britain.

Seventh Battle - Bore draw.

Eighth Battle - Victory for Great Britain.

Around here, Great Britain starts having food shortages.

Ninth Battle - Victory for Great Britain.

Tenth Battle - Bore draw.

Eleventh Battle - Bore draw.

Twelfth Battle - Bore draw.

1913
January 1913
Widespread and serious disturbances occurring in Great Britain as the British are starved of their tea and biscuits. DD - 14 joins the party and we get automatic range transmitters. Scientists have discovered that, yes, you can swim to shore from a boat and our hero, U - 10, has sunk the CL HMS Arethusa.

11 enemy merchants are sunk by the submarine crews. 3 enemy merchants are sunk by CL - 2. 1 friendly submarine sadly is sunk.

Thirteenth battle - Coastal Bombardment - Italy now faces my issue and can't muster up enough ships. Huzzah, our first win of the year!

February 1913
Italy continues to hate on war. DD - 13 has joined the party. The enemy wants peace, I say sure if it's not too bad. No common ground found. Shame but we also get 1100T Destroyers now. Also find out we can have airplanes on boats. U - 7 decides that DD HMS Swale should sink.

10 enemy merchants are sunk by the submarine crews. 3 enemy merchants are sunk by CL - 2. 2 friendly merchants are sunk.

Fourteenth battle - Cruiser action - Start in twilight with two British BCs in front of me. Try to edge them towards Pola but not successful. Night falls and decide to go balls to the war. Full throttle into where their formation was lost. Old DDs not fast enough to get ahead of the BCs, who just speed up and turn away. Take a few shots from some British DDs before returning to Pola to lick my wounds. It's a draw!

March 1913
U - 7 decides that the British DD Crusader looked at it funny and sinks it. Food and World Cups are scarce in Great Britain.

11 enemy merchants are sunk by the submarine crews. 4 enemy merchants are sunk by CL - 2.

AH 5677 : 18401 GB/ITA

April 1913
Brexit demonstrations are starting early because they're hungry. DD - 12 has decided to grace us with it's presence. A Russian spy is hung up on the wall. U - 6 decides that the Italian KE Ala deserves a swim.

12 enemy merchants are sunk by the submarine crews. 4 enemy merchants are sunk by CL - 2. 2 enemy submarines are sunk. France rejoins the war with 170VPs added.

Fifteenth battle - Small Engagement - Two DD vs two CAs and a DD. Lose a DD, the other guns it for Spalato like Han Solo guns it when confronted with an Imperial Star Destroyer. Victory for Great Britain

AH 5972 : 19055 GB/ITA

May 1913
Great Britain continues to yearn for Hob-Nobs and complains about the war.

10 enemy merchants are sunk by the submarine crews. 3 enemy merchants are sunk by CL - 2.

Sixteenth battle - Enemy coastal raid - Two DDs to ward off two CAs and some ducklings. Get a torpedo hit on a CA before both DDs sink to the bottom of the Med. End up sinking it but still lose the battle. Victory for Great Britain

AH 7103 : 20225 GB/ITA

June 1913
Strikes, food shortages and demonstrations occurring across Great Britain and Italy. Now our crews and citizens are grumbling about food and living conditions.

12 enemy merchants are sunk by the submarine crews. 1 enemy merchant is sunk by CL - 2. 1 friendly merchant is sunk by an enemy submarine.

Seventeenth battle - Fleet battle - Italy declines, we auto-win. Booya!

Eighteenth battle - Small engagement - France decides to join in. Start straight in a group of 3 CLs. Launch torpedoes, get two dud hits and a DD sinks. France was nowhere to be seen. Win for Italy

AH 7468 : 20462 GB/ITA

July 1913
Those Brits continue to strike, Italy has ran out of pasta, we mention that the Army sucks and get a bigger budget and develop superimposed X turret. X gonna get ya.

11 enemy merchants are sunk by the submarine crews. 2 enemy merchants are sunk by CL - 2. 1 enemy submarine is sunk.

Nineteenth battle - Cruiser Action - I cowardly ran away from the first sighting of a ship and docked. They say its a draw but we know the truth.

Our ship designers are ordered to draw up a new Battlecruiser: the Groß-class Battlecruiser

AH 7533 : 20872 GB/ITA

August 1913
The citizens are complaining about a lack of bread. Guess what, we got a lack of kills but you don't see me complaining, do you? Pathetic. I order some airships to make them talk about something else. Some mutinies occur within the fleet because they feel threatened.

11 enemy merchants are sunk by the submarine crews. 4 enemy merchants are sunk by CL - 2. 1 friendly merchant is sunk.

The British are having food issues themselves, as are the Italians. Wouldn't peace be useful, folks? The French lost a DD to say no.

Twentieth battle - Small engagement - Couldn't find the British at all. Bore draw.

AH 7608 : 21147 GB/ITA

August 1913
Great Britain, land of the undefeated at home in European games Ipswich Town FC, suffered serious internal disturbances. As a result, they accept a comprised peace. Their alliance with Italy collapses and a general peace occurs. We had a major let-off.

CL - 1 returns to the fleet, DD - 17 joins us. The rebuild starts now.

September 1913
Shiny new 12" guns join us at quality 0. Airship bases at Pola and Spalato are started.

November 1913
A man of my own tastes offers us his latest invention for 480. Sure!

December 1913
Airship bases are up and running now. BC - 2 is commissioned alongside two new destroyers and we get new hydraulic rammers to celebrate the occasion.

1914
January 1914
Start an airship base at Fiume.

March 1914
Bought an oak plotting table from the British for 1,650.

April 1914
Another airship base is done. Get an increased budget from some tax windfalls along with some quality steel for shells. No more pasta shells for us. Someone is inspired by a paper airplane and now we have naval aircraft. Immediately order proposals for a flying boat with focus on firepower and reliability.

May 1914
Because we won the war, we twinned a few towns with Sheffield and now we have improved steel quality.

June 1914
DD - 20 is commissioned. Krupp Cementit is developed and half of the Naval board is fired for laughing at that.

It's time to replace our corvette fleet, so here is the Angeln-class Corvette

July 1914
BC - 3 is up and running. Ordered 14 Angeln-Class Corvettes. We also scrap 8 Leopard-Class Destroyers. Our fleet is now made entirely of my own designs.

July 1914
Our security agreement with France expires and the Panama Canal is accessible. Bought improved diving gear for our submarines for 2,000 so they can go scuba diving on their downtime.

August 1914
Get better natural resources. Don't let them know that we'll be complaining about mines 100 years later. Bought a new hat for our shells from France for 1,700. They're dynamite.

October 1914
Our torpedoes now have horizontal turbines. Can't wait to see what the vertical ones do.

Flying boat prototypes are ready. We went with the Lohner 10. Also got an airship base underway in Cattaro.

1915
January 1915
Major arms company tries to sign a technology agreement with Italy. Tell them that Dominos delivers. Italy gets mad.

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Sunk ships

Fleet
Submarine Fleet
Construction
Fortifications

February 1915
Airship base is completed at . One of our ships hits a German ship. They may make decent ships but they sure can't steer them! Hope they are insured. In case we go to war, we get a mechanical fire control computer to use. Also get torpedo protection II, which I assume is a big stick to steer the torpedoes away.

March 1915
Better industrialization means better natural resources. Just need more of a budget for some more battleships. As if they were listening, the French sell us medium-range submarines for 1,500. Order two to begin replacing the older coastals.

April 1915
Internal torpedo storage for our submarines! Huzzah. Hope they weren't keeping them floating behind them like me on a lazy river with my beer cache. Also get scouting forces to use (poorly).

May 1915
Fourteen corvettes join the fleet, so the older -class Corvettes are scrapped. We beat Italy in a race, which was really easy. Bought the Phonix 14 fighter. Lohner 10 is ready.

Decide we need a new cruiser: the Kurz-Class Cruiser. Plan to use it as a fleet cruiser. Build an airship base at Zara.

June 1915
Put out a request for a new floatplane scout with focus on range and reliability.

July 1915
We gave our torpedoes some blankets to warm them up. Seems to improve them. Ordered a Kurz-Class Cruiser.

August 1915
Airship base is done.

September 1915
A political murder has occurred in the Balkans. There's been a murrrrdeeeeeeer, someone yells. We demand they're brought to justice. Meanwhile, pistols stick to water.

October 1915
Bought our ships some anxiety blankets. Get it? Cause they're now superheaters. I'm here all week folks! The Germans are richer by 1750 now. We also got small seaplane carriers.

November 1915
Expansion of our shipyards but some rich people, docks now at 28000. Phonix 14 is now up and operational.

December 1915
BC - 3 is torpedoed and damaged. Those little swines! Orders are sent out to sink any ship in our waters. Italy is really annoyed - probably them again.

1916
January 1916
The Kaiser makes an ill-considered comment about the tea drinkers. I agree - they do drink tea! Meanwhile the French steal torpedo technology from us prompting me to write an angry note before going to bed. I sent it anyway.

Floatplane scout proposals are up, opted for the Lohner 16.

February 1916
Bought light cruiser armour from the Americans for 1,950.

April 1916
The French are considering a rearmament programme. They were useless in the last war so seems apt. Condemn them for being useless and they got mad.

May 1916
The new Navy Secretary, unaware that I'm pending a BB design, wants 9 new submarines. Sure! Why not. Get 4 centerline turrets unlocked, so I guess the BB design can be thrown out. Order two Verdreifachen-Class Destroyers to make myself happy too.

June 1916
A spy from Germany is found! Grr, show how angry I am.

July 1916
New airship designs allow us to whip our tails back and forth, tails back and forth. Two new submarines join the U-Boat force.

October 1916
I revel in praise for building so many submarines. Our scientists are learning to shoot aircraft down with something other than a 14" gun.

December 1916
The French mobilize their heavy ships. We suggest peace and stability as our tension levels are high with Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia. France takes the note badly. We develop X-Lighters to light our cigarettes. We drop our cigarettes when France declares war.

First battle - Cruiser Battle - France declines the battle!
Second battle - Destroyer Raid - 3 DDs vs 3 DDs. Brawler battle at best. Knock on of their DDs out but not enough to win the battle. Disengage when we ran out of main ammo. Lost DD - 12 at the end of the battle. Win for France.

As always - unrestricted warfare, KEs on trade protection and CLs on raider status.

1917
January 1917
17 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 3 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 1 friendly submarine lost.

Third battle - Enemy Coastal Raid - Start at Cattaro, unable to find enemy. Day comes, airships go on recon and find nothing. Win for Austria

Order 4 of our new destroyers, the Gering-Class Destroyer.

We are blockaded.

February 1917
We got seaplane bases now, so got some of those ordered

14 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 6 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 2 friendly submarines lost.

Fourth battle - Destroyer Raid - 3 ducks go on a raid, come back with some prizes.Win for Austria

New CL designed and ordered, the [a href="https://i.imgur.com/yirVnSz.png"Erkunden-Class Cruiser[/a].

AH 1525 : 1629 FRA

March 1917
The French want peace with harsh terms. Uh, bud, we're winning here (not really). Suck a lemon. We get a circulator augmenter to help with our high cholesterol.

11 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 5 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 2 enemy submarines sunk.

Fifth battle - Fleet Battle - Slug it out with two French BCs at stupidly close ranges, thanks game. Get two torpedo hits but the French gunnery is far superior. End up disengaging and running away.Win for France.

April 1917
The Army wants money. I don't like the Army, I want airfields. I get airfields. Two are ordered. Food is now scarce in France. Excellent.

12 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 4 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 1 enemy submarines sunk. 2 friendly merchants sunk by the enemy.

Sixth battle - Battleship engagement (Invasion Battle) - Well boys, this was our glory moment. BC - 3, one of our glorious Battlecruisers, along with a few ducklings, sank the entire French invasion fleet. We lost two ducks and a corvette in return but a French dreadnought is drinking water. Major Win for Austria.

France abandons the invasion.

May 1917
Food is now scarce in France. An enemy submarine sinks CL - 4.

11 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 4 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs.

Seventh battle - Convoy attack - France declines the battle, huzzah!
Eighth battle - Cruiser battle - France declines the battle, huzzah!

AH 8015 : 9169 FRA

June 1917
The Army has carelessly used all of their artillery shells and so their offensive has been cancelled. An airbase is completed and we stock with 8 flying boats, 6 fighters and 6 floatplane scouts. The Kaiser wants peace but I want more death! The Lohner company develops an improved floatplane scout.

11 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 1 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 1 enemy submarine is sunk. 2 friendly merchants are sunk.

Ninth battle - Convoy attack - France stupidly accepts this battle. Start the battle in sight of some merchants. Full speed ahead, DDs into the mix and we destroy almost all of them. Victory for Austria.

AH 9147 : 9600 FRA

July 1917
We get CA-1 commissioned. Apparently we're in a "dire war situation" but I say keep fighting. Honestly, who decides these things? Q-ships are invented and hurt when put in your ear. Base fuzes are rad and are installed on our SAP ammo.

11 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 5 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 2 enemy submarines are sunk.

Tenth battle - Convoy attack - Move my two battlecruisers towards the merchant herd. Put my battlecruisers on the opposite side of the battlecruisers and close to the merchants. Rain down murder from my guns. My DDs and CL ward off the French battlecruisers every now and then before we move back towards Austria. Victory for Austria.

Ordered 4 new DDs to replace losses and a new airbase at Fiume.

August 1917
New airbase at Dalmatia. 4 new submarines join the Fleet. Superimposed B turrets on now unlocked, if only it was design time...

14 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 4 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 1 friendly merchant is sunk. 1 friendly submarine is sunk.

Eleventh battle - Convoy attack - Figured it'd be the same as the last battle. This time, the French rush with their BCs leading to a BC battle. We still get our merchants but they win based on damage. Victory for France.

September 1917
New airbase at Spalato.

23 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 5 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 1 enemy submarine is sunk. 1 friendly submarine is sunk.

Twelvth battle - Small engagement - France declines the battle, woohoo!
Thirteenth battle - Enemy coastal raid - French BC comes to raid. French BC raids us. Two DDs sink. Two tears are shed. Victory for France.

October 1917
Italy is extremely rude to us and declares war. U-18 sinks the French Corvette Quebec in a gun battle. Frogs legs don't exist in France due to merchant ships sinking. The Italian pasta industry is also suffering from merchants sinking.

21 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 10 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 1 enemy submarine is sunk. 1 friendly submarine is sunk.

Fourteenth battle - Destroyer raid - Two of our destroyers knock some more merchants down. Victory for Austria

Ordered 7 new corvettes for trade protection duties.

AH 13293 : 14238 FRA/ITA

November 1917
Receive a harsh peace offer, tell them where to go. Obviously we just have to starve them out. U-20 sinks the Italian CL Marsala. Pasta is a rarity.

23 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 5 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 1 enemy submarine is sunk.

Fifteenth battle - Convoy Defense - Run our CA in protection of a large convoy, end up finding through airship recon that the enemy is actually to the south. Full speed ahead, catch up to them, push them towards shore and continue to pound them until my CA has flooding issues. Victory for Austria

Ordered airbases at Cattaro and Zara.

AH 14453 : 14914 FRA/ITA

December 1917
Using their brains, our scientists realize that we can just strap more torpedo tubes to themselves. Triple tube mounts are now usable. KE-21 is sunk by an enemy submarine. Italy continues to starve.

20 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 7 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 1 friendly merchant is sunk. 1 enemy submarine is sunk.

Fifteenth battle - Destroyer Raid - Knock out a TR before the French DDs pop my lone DD down. Victory for France

1918
January 1918
Italy is forced into a defeat, we get Libya as a result. France continues to fight. The Army continues to want money, I say no because I want my new ships. We get target designators to designate our targets and reliable power training and elevation. 14" guns are improved to quality 0. KE-12 is sunk by a mine.

21 enemy merchants sunk by the submarines. 3 enemy merchants sunk by the CLs. 1 friendly merchant is sunk. 4 friendly submarines are sunk. 1 enemy submarine is sunk.

Sixteenth battle - Enemy raid on Coastal facilities - Urgh, another battlecruiser down. Attached CL and DD are off in la-la land the entire time. Other BC is holed up for repairs again. Victory for France

February 1918
We take the prestige lost and take a peace deal with no border changes. 3 DDs join the Fleet. Accept the budget hit to increase our fleet size.

March 1918
Airbases are completed and we get improved shell quality control.

April 1918
DD-27 joins the fleet.

May 1918
DD-26 and DD-28, quality control II comes in just in time to not affect the two new destroyers.

July 1918
We stupidly mention that German ships and crews are no match for the Navy. Got my prestige back to 45 after accepting the peace deal! Our scientists got their hull construction act together with some improved longitudinal framing. Heavy AA MGs are now available to be installed. Italy promptly steals it so we send a diplomatic note.

The Lloyd 21 is offered to us, which we accept to replace the Phonix 14.

August 1918
7 corvettes and DD-31 join the Fleet.

September 1918
2 destroyers join the Fleet.

October 1918
Heh heh, got extended double bottoms. Ordered an airbase at Tripoli.

November 1918
France offers us early air launched torpedoes for heavier than air. Damn right I want it. 1,700 later, I do. Ordered our new cruiser, the Rindfleisch Cruiser. It has AA guns. Rebellion in Trinidad against the British.

1919
January 1919
The Lloyd 21 is now operational for our air groups. Request proposals for new torpedo bombers with focus on range and reliability.

February 1919
The rebellion in Trinidad continues against the British.

March 1919
CL-5 has been completed. Germany sells us 12ft rangefinders for 1,700. Now our torpedoes have wet heaters too. Ordered an airbase at Benghazi.

June 1919
The British are struggling to maintain their Empire. I say we safeguard our interests and prepare to fight! Ordered two new Gering-Class Destroyers to celebrate our increased budget.

July 1919
Trindad has declared independence and our natural resources have increased. Get 5+ centerline turrets on ships. Torpedo bomber proposals are up, opt for the [a href="https://i.imgur.com/SwUiOJb.png"Phonix 22[/a].

September 1919
I am asked who we see as the most likely enemy. I go broad and say everyone.

October 1919
Germany offers us a hard face. I agree to it for 1,850. Turns out its about armour and not my face. Ordered an airbase at Tobruk.

November 1919
Now have minelaying rails on DDs and CLs.

December 1919
Germany offers us improved armour bracing for 1,650. We buy it. Great Britain steals technology from us again, tell them to stuff it.

1920
January 1920
Great Britain carelessly hits one of our ships. Tell them that their crews are awful. HE shells now have improved fuzes, our airships have better engines and the Phonix 22 is operational. Adjusted our airgroups to be 5 of: torpedo bombers, fighters, flying boats and floatplane scouts.

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I love this AAR. It's given me some genuine belly laughs. "Of course our submarines act without restrictions! "

[bumblingidiot]

In another annoying turn, I lost four years of AAR when my browser decided it wanted to upload an image here instead of be a text bank of my failures. So, as much as I can, here's another text rundown of what happened. We started in the following state:

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1921 to 1923 = A fair amount of research was done here. I purposely aimed to keep tension down without going drastic in losing prestige. After the last war, the Navy was in shambles and very low on fighting strength. Being the progressive leader that I am, I focused on developing airbases and aircraft to utilize instead of aiming for costly Dreadnaughts. Two older CLs were converted into CVLs. Some new submarines were commissioned to bolster the Underwater Gang. Some aircraft were upgraded and a few received some tweaks to their designs. New ship designs were as follows:

The Mittel-Class Light Aircraft Cruiser
The Zwerg-Class Battleship

The Zwerg-Class was developed as I had a large budget to spend without the ability to build anything larger, or the desire to build cruisers.

1924 - Jan 1926 = One of our ships was sunk by an unknown nation's torpedo. At the time, our tension was highest with Italy and they are really bad at Navying. So I blame them and we go to work.

First Battle - Convoy Battle - Italy declines the battle and we are hilariously amused by this. Win for Austria!
Second Battle - Coastal Bombardment - I love blowing up everything! Let's do this, I say. Italy wins.
Third Battle - Fleet Battle - Another battle that Italy declines. They probably knew that they'd get absolutely destroyed. Shame. It would have been glorious. Win for Austria!
Fourth Battle - Coastal Bombardment - Let's go destroy something along the shore, says they. Sure thing, say I. Destroy the target, I did. Win for Austria!
Fifth Battle - Convoy Attack - Italy declines again. Do they know something that I don't? I was going to enjoy sinking a bunch of ships. Win for Austria!
Sixth Battle - Convoy Defense - Italy thinks they can sink our convoy. Not a chance buddy. A CA takes a few hits but you know who didn't? The merchants. Win for Austria!
Seventh Battle - Cruiser battle -  Italy can't muster up the ships. Guess what else they can't muster up? Just ships.
Eighth Battle - Cruiser battle - Now they're declining again. Come on, Italy! Let's fight.
Ninth Battle - Enemy Coastal Raid - Aw yeah, let's do this. Only they are really skittish and nothing really happens. Win for Austria!
Tenth Battle - Italian Blockade Runner - Hey, you aren't allowed to escape! We sink them with our 4" guns instead of aircraft. Aircraft are kinda useless... Win for Austria!
Eleventh Battle - Convoy Defense - Another Convoy to protect. This one doesn't go to well for us. Not at all. Win for Italy!
Twelfth Battle - Fleet Battle - Ah right, lots of DDs! We're going to be awesome at this. No. No we won't. Why do destroyers consistently run away from the battle. Sigh.  Win for Italy.
Thirteenth Battle - Small Engagement - Where is the Italian Navy? In the dry docks, probably. If only we could pack a destroyer full of explosives and have Clarkson narrate the heroic tale. Win for Austria.
Fourteenth Battle - Coastal Bombardment - Let's go bomb Italy. Yeah! Bomb bomb bomb. Only they don't want to play. Very sad. Win for Austria.
Fifteenth Battle - Coastal Raid - This should be fun. Only it wasn't. Two DDs vs their battle fleet. Oh boy. We lose bad. Win for Italy
Sixteenth Battle - Coastal Bombardment - I love bombardments, said no-one. I love bombardments with just DDs, said no-one. Guess what happens. We didn't bomb the target. Win for Italy.
Seventeenth Battle - Small Engagement - Small is not the word for BC. Guess what we face? A BC. With two DDs. Do destroyers just forget about their torpedoes? Utter garbage. Win for Italy
Eighteenth Battle - Enemy Coastal Raid - Italy, sparing our feelings, declines the battle. Thanks brah.
Nineteenth Battle - Coastal Bombardment - Let's go blow Italy up and get some VPs. Nope. Doesn't happen. Ergh. That BC is really annoying. Win for Italy.
Twentieth Battle - Enemy Coastal Raid - Italy gets to land their troops in Dalmatia. Boo. Lame. Stupid BC scaring off more DDs. Win for Italy
Twenty First Battle - Enemy Coastal Raid - Can't find the merchant fleet. Bore draw.
Twenty Second Battle - Enemy Coastal Raid - can't find anyone, bore draw.
Twenty Third Battle - Small engagement - I'm slowly crying myself to sleep because I can't find anyone. Bore draw.
Twenty Fourth Battle - Cruiser action - WE FINALLY SANK AN ITALIAN SHIP AND IT QUACKED. Win for Austria .
Twenty Fifth Battle - Enemy coastal raid - Italy declines the battle because now we've got the taste of ragu. 
Twenty Sixth Battle - Small Engagement - We win because a torpedo got lucky. I'll take it.Win for Austria!
Twenty Seventh Battle - Coastal Bombardment - Who wants to destroy ground targets? The stupid Army, that's who. We go for the corvettes like champions. Kill two, lose a destroyer. Opps. Win for Italy
Twenty Eighty Battle - Battleship engagement - Little duck goes quack quack. Really with that BC would die.Win for Italy.
Twenty Ninth Battle - Cruiser Battle - WHY IS THEIR BC PRETENDING TO BE A CL. IT'S NOT A CL. We lose. Win for Italy.
Thirtieth Battle - Enemy raid on coastal targets - Italy declines because they know I'm annoyed.
Thirty First Battle - Fleet Battle - We sunk their battleship. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. We lose our B though. At least it wasn't our D... D. Win for Austria
Thirty Second Battle - Coastal Bombardment - They sink a destroyer, we sink a corvette. Fair trade?No.Win for Italy.
Thirty Third Battle - Cruiser battle - they decline, because they are lame. As established before.      
Thirty Fourth Battle - Cruiser Action - More dead destroyers. They're really lame, guys. Win for Italy.
Thirty Fifth Battle - Coastal Bombardment - Getting tired of only having destroyers to use for Coastal Bombardment. Knock some ships down, instead. Suck it, Italy. Win for Austria
Thirty Sixth Battle - Coastal Raid - Pew pew, Italian Corvettes. Pew Pew. Win for Austria!
Thirty Seventh Battle - Enemy declines the battle. That is so lame.
Thirty Eighth Battle - Cruiser Action - Can't find each other. Italy may have stealth ships. Draw.
Thirty Ninth Battle - We are completely unable to find any Italian ships and return home without any more casualties. 
Fortyth Battle - Italy is unable to muster the ships for combat. We might be starting to win here.
Fourth First Battle - Fleet Battle - Can't find them. Boo. Lame. 

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February 1926
Told those local builders to make our docks bigger. I got new plans, man, and where we’re going … we need big docks and I cannot lie, all you other Admiral’s can’t deny.

March 1926
The Army lost a big battle using corpses, apparently, as apparently there were “grave causalities”.

2 enemy merchants were sunk. 1 friendly merchant was sunk.

42nd battle – Small Engagement in support of land combat – A little diddy Italian pasta boat and a loose strand of spaghetti meet two of our destroyers. We win! We should just focus on small ships at this rate. Oh, wait, destroyers are useless. Win for Austria.

AH 21976:24250 ITA

April 1926
The government, those fools, try to seek peace because of “the dire war situation”. Do they not know that we almost completely dominate the sea? Fools. Keep fighting, sailors!

2 enemy merchants were sunk. 2 friendly merchants were sunk.

43rd battle – Coastal Raid – A few bombers come and, unsurprisingly, bomb the target. Only have two destroyers so we go hunting corvettes and merchants. Find a few. Sink a few. Fa-la-la la-la-la. U-10 goes AWOL though. Win for Austria.

AH 22399:24340 ITA

May 1926
This one time, I stuffed a turkey with way too much stuffing. I told a scientist about this and they tried doing the same with a HE shell. It worked surprisingly well.

1 enemy merchant was sunk. 1 friendly merchant was sunk.

44th battle – Small Engagement to support land battle – Two corvettes vs two corvettes. Some unlucky hits and then the mini-ducks scatter like the wind. Win for Italy.

AH 22484:24415 ITA

June 1926
The Kaiser wants peace. No, buddyo, no peace yet. Not until the entire Italian Navy is crushed. We now have better pea shooters.

1 friendly merchant is sunk.

July 1926
The Pasta Munchers have been defeated in Dalmatia and the Communists are revolting in Italy about the war. Take my awful peace deal, Italy!

1 enemy merchant was sunk. 1 friendly merchant was sunk.

46th Battle – Italy declines the fight! Losers.
47th Battle – Again with the declines. I think they’re done, don’t you?

August 1926
DD-38 joins the fleet. Italy, forgetting their invasion was defeated, they’re blockaded and have been starving, try to get peace with a bad deal. I tell them that the pigs aren’t flying in the sky just yet.

1 enemy merchant was sunk.

48th battle - Cruiser Battle - Play destroyer gun tag for a bit. Lose sight of them. They get the VPs for surviving merchants. Win for Italy.

Ordered 5 new medium-range submarines.

September 1926
We placed some armour against a wall and it slide down. We fired paper airplanes at it and nothing happened. Apparently that’s a sign, or something. France steals more of our technology so we wag our fingers at them in protest.

2 enemy merchant were sunk. 1 friendly submarine sank.

49th battle – Two destroyers vs two destroyers. We lose. Why? Because destroyers suck. Especially ours.

October 1926
The Kaiser is trying for peace without any changes. Nah, man, we’ve got them against the ropes. The Italian General agrees, saying no surrender. Our AP projectiles now have advanced penetration (heh heh). U-26 sinks an Italian KE.

1 friendly merchant is sunk.

50th battle – Cruiser battle - Another 2v2 that I lose. Stupid destroyers. Corvettes are so much better. Win for Italy.

November 1926
An Italian KE sinks after hitting a mine.

1 friendly submarine is sunk.

51st Battle – Fleet Battle – They decline the battle again. So annoying.
52nd Battle – Cruiser action – Sink 4 corvettes, lose because of surviving merchants and 1 damaged destroyer. Win for Italy.

December 1926
Italy refuses to give in and the Kaiser doesn’t acknowledge the fact that the Army is lame and we’re awesome. Wires are now placed on ships to cut cheese.

1 enemy merchant is sunk.

53rd battle – Coastal Raid – Float around, looking to kill whatever I could. Sink a DD and 2 KEs. Win for Austria.

AH 24512:26004 ITA

1927
January 1927
Widespread rioting in Italy. Yeah, surrender to us, Austria will prevail. Why? Because our blockade is awesome.

54th battle – Convoy Attack – Another decline, another failure for Italy.
55th battle – Fleet Battle – Again with Italy declining. It’s like a toddler is in charge. Wait… are they?
56th battle – Cruiser Action – Finally! Let’s destroy some Italian ships. We do, just one though. Because, and sing it with me, destroyers are lame. Win for Austria.

February 1927
Docks are now at 32,000 and we have gyro stabilizers to keep our gyros on our plates. U-21 sinks a KE.

57th battle – Coastal Bombardment – Now Italy can’t muster up the ships. They should just give up already.

March 1927
Again the Government says we’re in a dire situation. We’re really not. If we are, it’s the Army’s fault. Double reduction gears are now available to make everyone small like Ant-Man.

2 enemy merchants are sunk. 1 friendly merchant sinks.

58th battle – Coastal Bombardment – Nah, more like coastal raid. Another merchant bites the dust and some damage to destroyers and corvettes. Win for Italy, though.

April 1927
I knew the Army sucked! They get massive casualties. No, Kaiser, peace is not an option.

59th battle – Fleet Battle – Italy can’t muster anything up as usual.

May 1927
Dock sizes are invested in. B-5 is commissioned. Superimposed gun mounts on DD are now available. Battle turn away (what is that? Better ask the Italians) is now available.

3 enemy merchants are sunk. 1 friendly merchant is sunk.

60th battle – Fleet Battle – Declined again by Italy. Who gave them the option?!
61st battle – Fleet Battle – Declined. No dead Italian sailors today. Their mothers will be pleased.

June 1927
Maybe inspired by our war, we now have better 13” guns.

1 enemy submarine is sunk.

62nd battle – Convoy defense – Another Italian destroyer sinks in the Med. Come on, Italy, do the world a favour and give up. Win for Austria.

AH 28004:27591 ITA

July 1927
Big Boy-1 has entered the battlefield, along with AA Directors. 6” guns of quality 1 are now ours.

3 enemy merchants are sunk.

63rd battle – Small Engagement – Shoot some corvettes but don’t sink them. A submarine goes blub blub and we lose. Win for Italy.
64th battle – Fleet Battle – Italy runs straight to port and we just float around doing nothing. Italy wins for having merchants.

August 1927
1 enemy merchant is sunk. 1 friendly merchant is sunk.

65th battle – Coastal Bombardment – Italy can’t muster up the strength to fight.

September 1927
Italy has to deal with more riots and strikes. We don’t, because we’re awesome. New torpedo-bomber design is underway.

2 enemy merchants are sunk.

October 1927
3 enemy merchants are sunk. 1 friendly submarine is sunk.

66th battle – cruiser battle – Some might say that it is unfair to send a dreadnaught to kill merchants. I say it’s unfair that Mario continues to have to rescue Princess Peaches. Win for Austria

November 1927
4 new submarines are in our fleet. More peace talks (not now, Kaiser!). The Italian General Secretary, lovely fellow, agrees with me. Shame the blockade is making Italy hungry. U-29 sinks a KE.

2 enemy merchants are sunk.

67th battle – Coastal Bombardment – Italy can’t do anything.

December 1927
We’ve renamed a few ships to follow our naming conventions and designed a new corvette to fill up our corvette ranks.

1928
January 1928
The government of Italy collapses! We have victory! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! Bye bye communists. We take a useless corvette from them and Sardinia. Scientists reveal all or nothing armour and say it’s for anime females.

February 1928
Gitmo is now free from the Americans. Ha. New floatplane scout is selected, old torpedo bomber is retired and a new fighter proposal sent out.

April 1928
New docks are finished, expanding our available size to 38000T. We’ve signed a technology agreement with Germany because I want a BMW. More explosive filling is added to a cake in the shape of a HE shell. It was a dynamite party.

May 1928
3” and 4” guns are really useful for shooting aircraft. We figured that one out when we ran out of clay pigeons and used the old Italian Air Force instead.

July 1928
How can you make torpedoes better? Make them longer. I’m starting to think that we’re compensating for something. We’ll make up for it by sailing in formation together to avoid submarines.

August 1928
DD-40 is now part of our fleet and we buy some lightweight fillings for our teeth from the Americans for the low price of 1,400. All of our precious corvettes are scrapped for being old AF.

October 1928
DD-41 joins the race. A new fighter is chosen for the Naval Air Force.

November 1928
The Italians are stealing from us again. I think not, Luigi. Write a note using the taken corvettes crayon.

December 1928
Productivity is improved! There’s been a murder in the Balkans, the guilty shall be brought to justice! Large aircraft carriers are now possible, if only we had the budget…

1929
January 1929
We celebrated the New Year by commissioning two CVLs into the Fleet. Huzzah!

February 1929
More industrial improvements! Great Optimism more like! We also get this fancy gadget as a birthday present called the “stereoscopic rangefinder”. Sounds 3D! Also get better batteries for our submarine toys. Put out a tender for a new floatplane.

March 1929
The Kaiser hooked up with a French broad and thinks we should be friends with them. Dude, keep it in your pants. Somehow connected, we get partial welding.

April 1929
Bought 7” quality 1 guns from the Italians. Double upgrade, baby. Both CVLs are now floating airports and tourists are really confused.

May 1929
British Ironman sells us interlocked armour plates for 1,350. Doesn’t sell me Ms Potts though.

June 1929
Signed a treaty with the British because the Kaiser’s wife loves tea. I’m such a good Admiral. 16” quality 1 guns are figured out now.

August 1929
Our scientists know how much I love airships. Now we have aircraft carrying airships. Sardinia must be so proud to be the only ones. 3” and 4” DP guns can now be twin-mounts.

October 1929
Germany sells us HA geared sights for 2,000. Dunno what they are but I love spending the taxpayers money. Now we have triple bottoms, because we don’t go to the gym.

November 1929
Fascist Italy is now a thing. Could wars be bad for nation’s ideologies? Naaaahhh. Get reduction gears to reduce those thoughts down.

December 1929
France is probably scared of our carrier fleet and wants to reduce spending. No way, Jose. I want to have more carriers than Walt Disney.

1930
January 1930
Three corvettes are coming to play.