Post by sabratha on Sept 8, 2015 7:10:30 GMT -6
Well, for some reason I decided to play France (aka natural victims at sea). It was an interesting game, although I lost in the end (17 prestige).
I had won two wars in the early 1900s with Italy, which ended up taking away all colonies as well as sardinia from them. Sunk two of their battleships in a climatic last-ditch italian fleet offensive on my coast.
Then I had a long building race with Britain and Germany, sadly losing the race with both nations outbuilding me as far as BB and BCs went. I simply had no money to do it (I imagine they had bigger budgets), so I had to scrap some of my 1899 predreadnaughts, which later on hit me prestiger wise as my leaders started complaining that my battleship tonnage is too low.
Then iun late 1915 we had a naval treaty, which limited all ships to 18 000 tons and 12 inch max guns, with armor being apped at some more reasonable levels. I could hear all the admirals around the world howling, as each of us had some 3-4 battleships or BCs being built at the time with 15 inch guns. I think this was probably the most interesting thing in the whole campaign, as this treaty was prolonged two times and was actually still in place at the end of the game in 1925. Thius
So, each of us had the capacity to build 34 000+ ton ships with 15 inch guns, but "c'est la vie", we had to do what we could within the limits. Bad news was that Britain and Germany already owned one or two huge battlecrusiers (10x15 inch guns, 11 inch armor), while I owned one with just 6x15 inch guns). I had to keep telling the politicians that we are not ready for a war with the UK, which cost me prestige.
The treaty was a real game changer, as it entirely reshufffled the naval doctrines and strategy. Out of sheer desperation, I created the "imprtessionist painter class" aka the Monet BC class. I reached to history and came up with a 18 000 ton up-armored copy of the Nazi Deutschland "pocket battleship". Frankly the only reasonable design within the tonnage I could think of.
I also built a thong of submarines, I think I had 22, with most other navies having only 6-9.
Then I had a war with the USA, which not surprisingly given the treaty in place, turned out to be a commerce-war with my raiding BCs and subs forcing the US to accept a compromise peace. Having said that, they managed to invade Martinique and my army launched a counter-offensive that failed. So even despite my "tonnage-war victory", we still in fact lost the war and the US got to keep martinique.
Then in 1925 I got attacked by Germany and the end-game turn saved me from what was going to be an ignominous defeat, because the German BCs were simply better and they had far more ships of any given class than I had.
I had won two wars in the early 1900s with Italy, which ended up taking away all colonies as well as sardinia from them. Sunk two of their battleships in a climatic last-ditch italian fleet offensive on my coast.
Then I had a long building race with Britain and Germany, sadly losing the race with both nations outbuilding me as far as BB and BCs went. I simply had no money to do it (I imagine they had bigger budgets), so I had to scrap some of my 1899 predreadnaughts, which later on hit me prestiger wise as my leaders started complaining that my battleship tonnage is too low.
Then iun late 1915 we had a naval treaty, which limited all ships to 18 000 tons and 12 inch max guns, with armor being apped at some more reasonable levels. I could hear all the admirals around the world howling, as each of us had some 3-4 battleships or BCs being built at the time with 15 inch guns. I think this was probably the most interesting thing in the whole campaign, as this treaty was prolonged two times and was actually still in place at the end of the game in 1925. Thius
So, each of us had the capacity to build 34 000+ ton ships with 15 inch guns, but "c'est la vie", we had to do what we could within the limits. Bad news was that Britain and Germany already owned one or two huge battlecrusiers (10x15 inch guns, 11 inch armor), while I owned one with just 6x15 inch guns). I had to keep telling the politicians that we are not ready for a war with the UK, which cost me prestige.
The treaty was a real game changer, as it entirely reshufffled the naval doctrines and strategy. Out of sheer desperation, I created the "imprtessionist painter class" aka the Monet BC class. I reached to history and came up with a 18 000 ton up-armored copy of the Nazi Deutschland "pocket battleship". Frankly the only reasonable design within the tonnage I could think of.
I also built a thong of submarines, I think I had 22, with most other navies having only 6-9.
Then I had a war with the USA, which not surprisingly given the treaty in place, turned out to be a commerce-war with my raiding BCs and subs forcing the US to accept a compromise peace. Having said that, they managed to invade Martinique and my army launched a counter-offensive that failed. So even despite my "tonnage-war victory", we still in fact lost the war and the US got to keep martinique.
Then in 1925 I got attacked by Germany and the end-game turn saved me from what was going to be an ignominous defeat, because the German BCs were simply better and they had far more ships of any given class than I had.
