Ensign Irresistible: “Sir we have found an enemy convoy.” Captain Irresistible: Looks through binoculars “That’s not a convoy you idiot that’s the entire French home fleet!” Panic spreads
Captain of Desaix probably read about the accomplisments of SMS Yorck and thought: No sauerkrauty bosch will get such a glory alone! I must shine in glory too! :D
43:41: IMHO, I like watching the near side of the enemy ships because you get to see the damage appear, which is most impressive, and allows me to document better what happened to them.
So the St Charles did a Bismarck in that it pulled a sizeable chunk of the Royal Navy out of port. In this case, though, the French navy was waiting for their chance, and boy oh boy. Quite the battle there, indeed.
48:20: Obviously the shipwrights told the designers of the Republic Navy that there was a shortage of water tightness and they would have to pay a premium to add it to their ships.
43:06: As I'm writing this battle up I realize that the Serbian destroyer Janissaire is carrying only 480mm standard torpedoes and doesn't have the range from here.
Ooh. I was psyched to see all those new ships in the invasion fleet. It's like Christmas. :) And I agree with your skipping some of the CA/CL convoy battles, for whatever my opinion is worth. Revanche beating up on Revenge was particularly appropriate. :)
Another excellent episode brother. The opening battle was cool seeing all the ships . All the forward designs are awesome. One of the coolest fleets yet
Boom Goes the Channel Squadron, Part 2 Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 25 August 1945 Muddled Middle The British didn’t appreciate Touareg and Janissaire trying to sneak up on them from behind the burning oil slick that had been Attentive, and caught Touareg 104.5mm, 361.1mm, 423.8mm and 462.1mm shells. Which explains why the British Republic Navy is running in the red, with all these different calibers of shells to buy, store, and distribute. Touareg and Janissaire were ordered to launch torpedoes and withdraw. Janissaire was still carrying 480mm compressed air aided combustion torpedoes and wasn’t in range, but Touareg was using 610mm compress oxygen aided combustion torpedoes and she was. She launched four torpedoes before turning away. Though they took hits as they withdrew they were both well-built and survived. Revenge had fallen back, making the classic error of turning towards the enemy rather than away. This put her unbreached port side towards the French battle line. Vérité decided that Revenge would look good with piercings on both sides and punch a massive hole under her funnel. Revenge had lost four compartments amidships to complete flooding and two engines as well. Two more compartments further aft were filling. Her funnel was destroyed, one main gun turret was damaged, and she had nearly 330 reported casualties. Prince George was out alone with no support, and she came under fire, losing her forward 361.1mm turret and her aft 213.2mm turret. She had over 200 casualties and flooding coming in amidships. She turned to rejoin her squadron. The Vice-amiral d’escarde began to express optimism with the progression of the battle and guarded pleasure at his battleships’ station keeping. The Wake made the serious error of running forward to try and cover the retreat of Prince George. This just caught her stray shells meant for the battleship. Then she was targeted in earnest as 155mm secondary guns began to tear her apart. With flooding across the ship and all three engines disabled Wake sank with 165 of her 190 man crew. The battle line’s 400mm fire had remained on Prince George as she retired. She lost the aft 361.1mm turret and another 200 men, but was keeping the flooding isolated. She took another flooding hit under her secondary tower. The larger battlecruiser Indomitable chose to try and shelter Prince George by cruising past her exposed port side in a reciprocal course, bringing the two Prince Consort class battlecruisers Resistance and Zealous behind her. This just allowed the French battle line to plaster Indomitable, starting flooding across the ship and taking out a secondary gun and an engine along with 250 men. Listing badly to starboard, Indomitable turned to fall out of line, again to starboard and again closer to the French. Bad as the sudden damage to Indomitable was, Resistance got worse. She took a 400mm shell that penetrated to her 423.8mm powder magazine forward, setting it off and launching her A triple turret full of its crew into the sky twice the height of her main tower on a blast of yellow fire replaced by column of blue flame. Cont’d
Gambia Falls! Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 10 March 1945 The Corps Afrique has taken Banjul and the inland territories of Gambia. It’s just the river valley of the Gambia, and we closed in from all sides. Losses were high, over 60 thousand for the Corps Afrique and 50 thousand for the British Army.
Guatamala Liberated! Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 4 July 1945 The British occupied former Spanish colony of Guatemala, a province in Central America, has been liberated and its port of Champerico on the Pacific secured. Stations navale in the Eastern Pacific are a valuable piece of property. Losses in the Campaign were 46,300 for the Corps d'armée des Amériques and 38,500 for the British Army.
I think some of the island invasion in the past you can get a vindiagram effect going to speed take over. Lot of small island in eastern pacific to take 2
Upper Volta Falls! Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 12 May 1945 The landlocked province of Upper Volta has been taken by the Corps Afrique. Losses in this remote area were unsurprisingly high, with 53,400 casualties for the Corps Afrique and 51,400 casualties for the British Army. However the second prong of the offense against Morocco, from Algeria, has failed. Losses for the Corps Afrique were 47,200 men and for the British Army, 35,900 men. The Corps Afrique has regrouped in the Transvaal and begun the second campaign to take South Africa and begun a campaign to take the Gold Coast from their bases in Togoland.
Kenya Taken! Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 12 July 1945 The British East Africa protectorate, lately referred to as the Kenya colony, has been liberated from British rule. With its two key ports of Mombasa and Luma, it provides additional port capacity in the western Indian Ocean. Losses for the Corps Afrique to the British Army were 106,700 men. The British Army lost to the Corps Afrique 94,800 men. Losses to the indigenous unrest have not been reported.
Katana Rattling Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 7 August 1945 The Empire of Japan, seeing the Troisième République engaged in a world war with the Great Republic of the British Isles and Dominions, has decided now it the time to make threats and demands. This is no time to back down in the face of manufactured complaints. The government in Paris has crafted a carefully worded reply to the Emperor and Prime Minister and ordered all our forces in the Pacific to high alert.
can you build BC with speed of 40 knot please? i used to see your old italian campaign which only have 50 +- ship especially 40 knot bc u had on that campaign
Sierra Leone Falls! Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 12 February 1945 The British occupied province of Sierra Leone, lying on the coast of West Africa, has been liberated from British occupation. The Corps Afrique took 52,832 casualties in the campaign. British losses are reported to have been 46,263. Corps Afrique campaign against Morocco out of Southern Sahara has stalled, with losses of 43,623 to just 20,658 for the British Army. However operations out of Algiers continues. Operations in Africa are ongoing against South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, British East Africa (Kenya), Gambia, and Upper Volta.
British South American Colony Taken! Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 16 March 1945 The British territory on the north coast of South America, called British Guiana, and situated next to Guyana, has been taken by the Corps d'armée des Amériques with its capital and major port of Georgetown. Losses are uncomfortably hit, with over 70 thousand for the Corps d'armée des Amériques and 54 thousand for the British Army and local colonial yeomanry. The Corps d'armée des Amériques has begun their campaign to liberate Costa Rica.
Break off at Belize Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 7 April 1945 The Vengeur class Croiseur Cuirassés Desaix from the Balboa Station navale in Panama, the Porcupine class Croiseur Cuirassés Fulminant from the Puerto Cabello Station navale in Venezuela, the La Galissonnière class Croiseur Léger Mulhouse and the Cosmao class Croiseur Léger Amiral Cécille from the Port au Prince Station navale in French Antilles, and the Tricolore class Croiseur Léger Naïade from the Port de Paix Base navale principale in Haiti were patrolling close to the British colony of Belize when they encountered the Vengeance class battleship Revenge (seriously?), the Powerful class 1937 refitted heavy cruiser Amphitrite, and the Vivien class destroyer Wayfarer. This was not a fight that any of the French ships were prepared to attempt, and sighting the British at extreme range, they turned and broke off the engagement. Time would deal with Revenge.
Battle of Belize Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 13 May 1945 The Vengeur class Croiseur Cuirassés Desaix from the Balboa Station navale in Panama, the Porcupine class Croiseur Cuirassés Fulminant from the Puerto Cabello Station navale in Venezuela, the La Galissonnière class Croiseur Léger Mulhouse and the Cosmao class Croiseur Léger Amiral Cécille from the Port au Prince Station navale in French Antilles, and the Tricolore class Croiseur Léger Naïade from the Port de Paix Base navale principale in Haiti had succeeded in breaking away from the the Vengeance class battleship Revenge, the Powerful class 1937 refitted heavy cruiser Amphitrite, and the Vivien class destroyer Wayfarer. But they knew the ships were in pursuit. The first objective was to detach the slower Fulminant and Naïade. This they did at night, finding a fog bank, and then turning Desaix, Mulhouse, and Amiral Cécille to drive Amphitrite and Wayfarer back on Revenge. Once the two lighter British ships were back under the umbrella of Revenge’s guns, Desaix, Mulhouse, and Amiral Cécille turned back on course, confident the British would follow the obvious lure rather than seeking the slower ships they could overtake and destroy. It must have become obvious after daybreak when the last of the fog burned off the sea that the British had been hoodwinked. This only incited them to further efforts to catch the remaining ships and bring them to battle. But two days later Revenge was not in sight when the sun rose behind Desaix, Mulhouse, and Amiral Cécille, and they turned to face Amphitrite and Wayfarer alone. Mulhouse headed toward the British to sink Wayfarer while Desaix and Amiral Cécille formed up broadside to receive them.
Desaix and Amiral Cécille were firing at the edge of their range at Amphitrite while Amphitrite and Wayfarer were firing on Mulhouse closing under smoke. Mulhouse bounced a shell, then found the range on Wayfarer, putting four 155mm shells into her and disabling her #3 engine and rudder. One more hit with through Wayfarer’s main belt took out all her engineering spaces, and the destroyer sank with 163 of her 190 man crew. With Wayfarer gone Amphitrite knew she was vulnerable to being torpedoed, so she turned her stern to Mulhouse as the Croiseur Léger closed on her. Mulhouse was recalled to rejoin Desaix and Amiral Cécille, and perhaps to lure Amphitrite on to them. Which is what happened. Amphitrite slowly edged into range of Desaix and Amiral Cécille, trying to find where her 259.1mm guns were be accurate and her shells effective. With Desaix having 210mm guns, the advantage in hardware was with Amphitrite. But in war the advantage is often determined by the men manning those guns, and while Amphitrite has an experience crew, Desaix had veterans. It was 32 minutes into the battle before Amphitrite got her first hit. By then she was already badly battered. But 47 minutes in Desaix took a flooding hit forward and order her squadron to withdraw. As she turned Desaix got a flooding hit on Amphitrite. This let them break away clean. Desaix had 26 casualties. The other ships were untouched. The Republic Navy reported that Amphitrite took 226 casualties.
Boom Goes the Channel Squadron, Part 3 Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 25 August 1945 Taking Down Big Ships The British battle line was now Zealous and Prince George. Revenge was nearly sunk, Audacious damaged and flooding, Indomitable listing badly, and Resistance without a main battery. They had lost both light escorts. The French still had all five of their Cuirassés de 1er rang. Their escorts were damaged but still afloat. As this tale of woe was being tallied up Indomitable succumb to her flooding and sank with 2844 of her 3232 man crew, the second highest loss on any one ship the British had suffered after the 2951 men on the Caledonia in January. Zealous, the only undamaged British ship, suddenly wasn’t undamaged anymore. She was now square in the arc of the French battle line, and the new target. Damage began to happen slowly, as it will in battle, and seem minor, but the hull was already damaged aft. A more serious hit went in forward, threatening the 423.8mm magazines. Zealous began to burn and casualty reports came in. Zealous was turning away. Then she lost her forward turret. The fires had reached the powder magazine. Zealous was also out of the battle with flooding forward and no water tight hatches. Now Prince George was the only combat effective ship, and she had flooding amidships and aft, two engines out, turrets destroyed, and fires across the ship. She had 400 casualties reported. Resistance, down to her 218.2mm guns, was closing in to the French battle line. She was controlling the flooding forward but much of the ship was severely damaged. Fire from the French Cuirassés drove her back however. Zealous had tried to follow Resistance in but also broke off rather than close to effective range with her secondary guns. Her flooding was more serious. With the two Prince Consort class battlecruisers driven off the battle line turned their guns back on the battleship Prince George, who was now flooding aft. The Vice-amiral d’escarde was grimly determined to make the most of his apparent victory, and ordered the battle line to finish off the British capital ships, starting with the Revenge, which had lost all her engines and had six tenths of her compartments flooded. One more hit and she sank with 1532 of her 1633 man crew. When the order finally got through the battle line turned their guns on Prince George. Already flooded out in two compartments amidships and two aft, the additional hits breached more of the ship. Flood waters swept through the ship and Prince George sank with 1538 of her 1633 man crew. Audacious was fighting flooding in six compartments and had over 220 casualties reported when she came under fire again. The gunnery officers got the order this time. With more fire incoming more compartments began to flood and Audacious sank with 1594 of her 1633 man crew. Zealous came under fire next. Flooded fore and aft, she had lost her main battery magazine and was down to 218.2mm guns she could not fire because of the list she was suffering. She had 350 casualties reported. She went in and took fire so that Resistance could close and fire with her 218.2mm secondary. Zealous was sunk with 1082 of her 1319 man crew, those unneeded to sail the ship having been sent overboard before her distraction run. Still capable of 27 knots, Resistance was also flooded fore and aft but had managed to maintain her trim as she fired her starboard 218.2mm secondary guns. She however was doing little damage and was about to take much. She turned in as if to ram one of the Cuirassés but she couldn’t control her turn with her steering damaged. Resistance was being ripped apart and flooded out at the same time, and she couldn’t stop either. With three 400mm shells penetrating her starboard side Resistance sank with 1042 of her 1319 man crew as the sun set on the British Republic Navy. With the battle over it was time to tally up the cost. Courbet, the lead ship the whole battle, had taken 144 casualties. Revanche had taken 35, Danton 21, France 14, and Vérité 11. Touareg had taken 36 casualties. The Serbian Royal Navy had suffered 13 casualties on Janissaire. The British Republic Navy had lost three 2nd class battleships, three modern battlecruisers, a light cruiser and a destroyer. This was 332 thousand tons of warship displacement and about a ninth of their pre-war total. They had lost 10,734 officers and enlisted men killed or lost in the North Sea and 1290 captured.
Campaign Against South Africa Stops Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 19 March 1945 The Corps Afrique has called off the campaign to take South Africa for now. Plans are to regroup and rearm, then choose the best moment to strike again. Losses for the Corps Afrique were over 48 thousand. The British Army is believed to have taken 34 thousand. However this weakening of the British forces in the area has led the Boer populace of the Orange Free State to rise up in rebellion against the Great Republic of the British Isles and Dominions.
Boom Goes the Channel Squadron, Part 1 Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 25 August 1945 Opening Moves Four Cuirassés de 1er rang, the Jauréguiberry class Courbet, Vaisseau amiral of the Flotte de Brest, the Danton, lead of her class, the France, lead of her class, and the Vérité, lead of her class, all from the Brest Base navale principale in Finistère Department, were joined by Vérité’s sister ship Revanche, and the Tonkinois class Destroyer torpilleur Touareg from the Le Havre Station navale in Seine-Maritime Department on a mission to destroy the Republic Navy’s Channel Squadron. The carefully tailored rumors of unrest on Helgoland, necessitating the dispatch of the Saint Charles to quell it, worked as hope, and enticed the Channel Squadron to sortie (credit to @SalvaBarbus for the idea). The quiet sailing of Revanche and Touareg to lie off Saint Charles’ position until the Flotte de Brest could arrive, then pounce on the British, might have caused a few ulcers but eventually, it paid off. The Republic Navy sent out three Vengeance class battleships, the Audacious, Prince George, and Revenge. Not the biggest battleships in the British arsenal but the Britannia’s appear to have been posted to the West Indies after commissioning. Also in the Channel Squadron were three battlecruisers, two Prince Consort class, the Zealous and Resistance, and the Bellerophon class Indomitable. Large and well-armed, but not apparently well armored. For escorts they brought the Enterprise class 1940 refitted light cruiser Attentive and the Vivien class destroyer Wake. (Ominous that.) Spotting funnel smoke from a dozen ships coming up from the south-west, the Cuirassés formed on Courbet, with Danton, Vérité, France, and Revanche following. Touareg and Janissaire, a Serbian Royal Navy Hova class Destroyer torpilleur which tagged along for the game screened the battle line. Courbet turned west to give her division time to get into formation. Courbet and France sighted the enemy, and the battle line began to fire. The three British battleships were closing in line astern. The battlecruisers seemed to be behind them. The light ships were hiding under smoke. The Vice-amiral d’escarde was, at this point, only hopeful of damaging the Channel Squadron before he would have to break off. Then Courbet dropped a 400mm shell through the main deck of the lead battleship. With a second main deck penetration Courbet drove the lead battleship to fall back in division. Attentive tried to use the battle line’s concentration on the British battleships to sneak up under smoke, but she was spotted and fire switched to her. Battered by 400mm and 155mm shells, Attentive stood up and exploded, taking 937 of her 1065 man crew down with her wreck. The battle line turned their guns back on the British battleships, and Revenge now led the division. Revanche chose this moment to hit with three 400mm shells through Revenge’s main deck. Suddenly Revenge was flooding through half the ship and had lost her 56mm magazine. Cont’d
Battle of the Cayman Islands Le Républicain Provence, Marseille MCMXLV, 11 June 1945 The Vengeur class Croiseur Cuirassés Desaix, who was still short 25 men from last month’s battle, from the Balboa Station navale in Panama and the Jurien de la Graviére, lead of her Croiseur éclaireur class, from the La Ceiba Base navale régionale in Hondurus were escorting the badly damaged Hova class Serbian Royal Navy’s Destroyer torpilleur Mécanicien Principal Lestin near the Cayman Islands when they were attacked by the Powerful class heavy cruiser Nelson and the Enterprise class 1940 refitted light cruiser Edinburgh. Knowing the British were looking to punish the Serbian Royal Navy by sinking the Mécanicien Principal Lestin, Desaix and Jurien de la Graviére had to convince the British to give up the hope. Desaix prepared to engage Nelson while Jurien de la Graviére closed in under smoke to destroy Edinburgh. As Jurien de la Graviére came out of smoke she had already gotten two 155mm hits on Edinburgh, damaging her rudder. Seeing they had failed to get in range of Mécanicien Principal Lestin, both British cruisers were withdrawing. Jurien de la Graviére however kept on Edinburgh, getting more hits. Soon Edinburgh was flooded in three compartments aft, fighting the water in a fourth amidships, had lost her rudder and one engines, was burning and had 160 casualties reported. Edinburgh tried to drive Jurien de la Graviére off with a torpedo spread but the Croiseur éclaireurs simply adjusted her course slightly. Edinburgh’s situation was getting worse. Now flooded in four compartments aft she was fighting rising water in three under her main tower. She had controlled the fires but she still didn’t have steering or her third engine. Her casualties had risen over 180. She did finally get solid 178mm hits on Jurien de la Graviére, causing flooding fore and aft. Jurien de la Graviére launched her torpedoes, the most likely of which exploded in the water, and turned away. Edinburgh however was now taking 210mm hits from Desais along with the 80mm hits from Jurien de la Graviére. The flooding amidships had taken over and breached another engineering space, disabling a second engine. Edinburgh was on fire again and her casualties had climbed to 240. Edinburgh sank with 993 of her 1065 man crew. With Edinburgh sunk Desaix’ job of distracting Nelson was done. She broke off and joined Jurien de la Graviére in withdrawing from the battle. Desaix had 19 casualties. Jurien de la Graviére had 75. The Republic Navy reported that Nelson had 3 casualties and picked up 72 survivors from Edinburgh.
hola amigo. tengo problemas con el juego. el océano no se me ve así. se me ve todo liso el océano. no me veo el desplazamiento del agua nada .. está todo liso el océano.. que puede ser ? es problema de configuración?
¡Disculpas por una aplicación de traducción! El estado del mar cambia dependiendo del clima del juego. También podría ser un problema de configuración de gráficos, estoy ejecutando el juego al máximo. Si no es ninguna de esas alas, te sugiero que te pongas en contacto con los laboratorios de juegos en el foro de soporte técnico.
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The French moving in to take the Suez. Nothing can possibly go wrong. Guaranteed to be an unmitigated success.
(Pov.british sailor on deck) why is there 80 fireballs flying straight at us.
The French BB Revanche hit British BB Revenge (41:36)
The two British BC Resistance are in flash fire:
BC Resistance (46:20) and BC Zealous (47:46)
Ensign Irresistible: “Sir we have found an enemy convoy.”
Captain Irresistible: Looks through binoculars “That’s not a convoy you idiot that’s the entire French home fleet!”
Panic spreads
We have found the French. Task Failed Successfully.
The Abrest formation option finally has a great use with the all forward designs
(I guess it's decent for destroyers, but you'll lose a lot of them)
Captain of Desaix probably read about the accomplisments of SMS Yorck and thought: No sauerkrauty bosch will get such a glory alone! I must shine in glory too! :D
43:41: IMHO, I like watching the near side of the enemy ships because you get to see the damage appear, which is most impressive, and allows me to document better what happened to them.
I have to laugh because as I start to watch this episode the partial eclipse is hitting here.
So the St Charles did a Bismarck in that it pulled a sizeable chunk of the Royal Navy out of port. In this case, though, the French navy was waiting for their chance, and boy oh boy. Quite the battle there, indeed.
48:20: Obviously the shipwrights told the designers of the Republic Navy that there was a shortage of water tightness and they would have to pay a premium to add it to their ships.
11:34: Every time I see "Resilient Defense" I want to scream "Blockade Britain", but I understand why that might be a bad idea.
2:00 subtlety is for people who don't believe in the tactics of overwhelming firepower and overkill.
43:06: As I'm writing this battle up I realize that the Serbian destroyer Janissaire is carrying only 480mm standard torpedoes and doesn't have the range from here.
Ooh. I was psyched to see all those new ships in the invasion fleet. It's like Christmas. :) And I agree with your skipping some of the CA/CL convoy battles, for whatever my opinion is worth. Revanche beating up on Revenge was particularly appropriate. :)
2:02
Your fleet looking very impressive with the gun flashes against the storm clouds there!
Another excellent episode brother. The opening battle was cool seeing all the ships . All the forward designs are awesome. One of the coolest fleets yet
Boom Goes the Channel Squadron, Part 2
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 25 August 1945
Muddled Middle
The British didn’t appreciate Touareg and Janissaire trying to sneak up on them from behind the burning oil slick that had been Attentive, and caught Touareg 104.5mm, 361.1mm, 423.8mm and 462.1mm shells. Which explains why the British Republic Navy is running in the red, with all these different calibers of shells to buy, store, and distribute. Touareg and Janissaire were ordered to launch torpedoes and withdraw. Janissaire was still carrying 480mm compressed air aided combustion torpedoes and wasn’t in range, but Touareg was using 610mm compress oxygen aided combustion torpedoes and she was. She launched four torpedoes before turning away. Though they took hits as they withdrew they were both well-built and survived.
Revenge had fallen back, making the classic error of turning towards the enemy rather than away. This put her unbreached port side towards the French battle line. Vérité decided that Revenge would look good with piercings on both sides and punch a massive hole under her funnel. Revenge had lost four compartments amidships to complete flooding and two engines as well. Two more compartments further aft were filling. Her funnel was destroyed, one main gun turret was damaged, and she had nearly 330 reported casualties.
Prince George was out alone with no support, and she came under fire, losing her forward 361.1mm turret and her aft 213.2mm turret. She had over 200 casualties and flooding coming in amidships. She turned to rejoin her squadron. The Vice-amiral d’escarde began to express optimism with the progression of the battle and guarded pleasure at his battleships’ station keeping.
The Wake made the serious error of running forward to try and cover the retreat of Prince George. This just caught her stray shells meant for the battleship. Then she was targeted in earnest as 155mm secondary guns began to tear her apart. With flooding across the ship and all three engines disabled Wake sank with 165 of her 190 man crew.
The battle line’s 400mm fire had remained on Prince George as she retired. She lost the aft 361.1mm turret and another 200 men, but was keeping the flooding isolated. She took another flooding hit under her secondary tower. The larger battlecruiser Indomitable chose to try and shelter Prince George by cruising past her exposed port side in a reciprocal course, bringing the two Prince Consort class battlecruisers Resistance and Zealous behind her. This just allowed the French battle line to plaster Indomitable, starting flooding across the ship and taking out a secondary gun and an engine along with 250 men. Listing badly to starboard, Indomitable turned to fall out of line, again to starboard and again closer to the French.
Bad as the sudden damage to Indomitable was, Resistance got worse. She took a 400mm shell that penetrated to her 423.8mm powder magazine forward, setting it off and launching her A triple turret full of its crew into the sky twice the height of her main tower on a blast of yellow fire replaced by column of blue flame.
Cont’d
Gambia Falls!
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 10 March 1945
The Corps Afrique has taken Banjul and the inland territories of Gambia. It’s just the river valley of the Gambia, and we closed in from all sides. Losses were high, over 60 thousand for the Corps Afrique and 50 thousand for the British Army.
Guatamala Liberated!
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 4 July 1945
The British occupied former Spanish colony of Guatemala, a province in Central America, has been liberated and its port of Champerico on the Pacific secured. Stations navale in the Eastern Pacific are a valuable piece of property.
Losses in the Campaign were 46,300 for the Corps d'armée des Amériques and 38,500 for the British Army.
The post-capture Port Strike glitch has been fixed to only be a transport slaughter.
The next big ship must be named the obelix
I think some of the island invasion in the past you can get a vindiagram effect going to speed take over. Lot of small island in eastern pacific to take 2
36:15: Actually at that point the formation looks really good.
11:04:, Aw, we missed the sacking of Cunningham. How sad.
18:56: Damn, when they are good they are really good.
11:40: Uppity Boers, knew that was going to happen.
9:35 history wining side "that's a them problem"😮😅
Upper Volta Falls!
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 12 May 1945
The landlocked province of Upper Volta has been taken by the Corps Afrique. Losses in this remote area were unsurprisingly high, with 53,400 casualties for the Corps Afrique and 51,400 casualties for the British Army.
However the second prong of the offense against Morocco, from Algeria, has failed. Losses for the Corps Afrique were 47,200 men and for the British Army, 35,900 men.
The Corps Afrique has regrouped in the Transvaal and begun the second campaign to take South Africa and begun a campaign to take the Gold Coast from their bases in Togoland.
Kenya Taken!
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 12 July 1945
The British East Africa protectorate, lately referred to as the Kenya colony, has been liberated from British rule. With its two key ports of Mombasa and Luma, it provides additional port capacity in the western Indian Ocean.
Losses for the Corps Afrique to the British Army were 106,700 men. The British Army lost to the Corps Afrique 94,800 men. Losses to the indigenous unrest have not been reported.
Vi,va,la France our great captain continues to lay the smack down!!!
Katana Rattling
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 7 August 1945
The Empire of Japan, seeing the Troisième République engaged in a world war with the Great Republic of the British Isles and Dominions, has decided now it the time to make threats and demands. This is no time to back down in the face of manufactured complaints. The government in Paris has crafted a carefully worded reply to the Emperor and Prime Minister and ordered all our forces in the Pacific to high alert.
46:20 the path of least resistance. Kablam!🎉
Not sure whether to go with "HMS Resistible" or "HMS Irresponsible" so you get two puns for the price of one.
can you build BC with speed of 40 knot please? i used to see your old italian campaign which only have 50 +- ship especially 40 knot bc u had on that campaign
49:30: Yes, Coup d'Grace, very French.
Sierra Leone Falls!
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 12 February 1945
The British occupied province of Sierra Leone, lying on the coast of West Africa, has been liberated from British occupation. The Corps Afrique took 52,832 casualties in the campaign. British losses are reported to have been 46,263.
Corps Afrique campaign against Morocco out of Southern Sahara has stalled, with losses of 43,623 to just 20,658 for the British Army. However operations out of Algiers continues.
Operations in Africa are ongoing against South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, British East Africa (Kenya), Gambia, and Upper Volta.
British South American Colony Taken!
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 16 March 1945
The British territory on the north coast of South America, called British Guiana, and situated next to Guyana, has been taken by the Corps d'armée des Amériques with its capital and major port of Georgetown. Losses are uncomfortably hit, with over 70 thousand for the Corps d'armée des Amériques and 54 thousand for the British Army and local colonial yeomanry.
The Corps d'armée des Amériques has begun their campaign to liberate Costa Rica.
Break off at Belize
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 7 April 1945
The Vengeur class Croiseur Cuirassés Desaix from the Balboa Station navale in Panama, the Porcupine class Croiseur Cuirassés Fulminant from the Puerto Cabello Station navale in Venezuela, the La Galissonnière class Croiseur Léger Mulhouse and the Cosmao class Croiseur Léger Amiral Cécille from the Port au Prince Station navale in French Antilles, and the Tricolore class Croiseur Léger Naïade from the Port de Paix Base navale principale in Haiti were patrolling close to the British colony of Belize when they encountered the Vengeance class battleship Revenge (seriously?), the Powerful class 1937 refitted heavy cruiser Amphitrite, and the Vivien class destroyer Wayfarer.
This was not a fight that any of the French ships were prepared to attempt, and sighting the British at extreme range, they turned and broke off the engagement.
Time would deal with Revenge.
Battle of Belize
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 13 May 1945
The Vengeur class Croiseur Cuirassés Desaix from the Balboa Station navale in Panama, the Porcupine class Croiseur Cuirassés Fulminant from the Puerto Cabello Station navale in Venezuela, the La Galissonnière class Croiseur Léger Mulhouse and the Cosmao class Croiseur Léger Amiral Cécille from the Port au Prince Station navale in French Antilles, and the Tricolore class Croiseur Léger Naïade from the Port de Paix Base navale principale in Haiti had succeeded in breaking away from the the Vengeance class battleship Revenge, the Powerful class 1937 refitted heavy cruiser Amphitrite, and the Vivien class destroyer Wayfarer. But they knew the ships were in pursuit. The first objective was to detach the slower Fulminant and Naïade. This they did at night, finding a fog bank, and then turning Desaix, Mulhouse, and Amiral Cécille to drive Amphitrite and Wayfarer back on Revenge. Once the two lighter British ships were back under the umbrella of Revenge’s guns, Desaix, Mulhouse, and Amiral Cécille turned back on course, confident the British would follow the obvious lure rather than seeking the slower ships they could overtake and destroy.
It must have become obvious after daybreak when the last of the fog burned off the sea that the British had been hoodwinked. This only incited them to further efforts to catch the remaining ships and bring them to battle. But two days later Revenge was not in sight when the sun rose behind Desaix, Mulhouse, and Amiral Cécille, and they turned to face Amphitrite and Wayfarer alone. Mulhouse headed toward the British to sink Wayfarer while Desaix and Amiral Cécille formed up broadside to receive them.
Desaix and Amiral Cécille were firing at the edge of their range at Amphitrite while Amphitrite and Wayfarer were firing on Mulhouse closing under smoke. Mulhouse bounced a shell, then found the range on Wayfarer, putting four 155mm shells into her and disabling her #3 engine and rudder. One more hit with through Wayfarer’s main belt took out all her engineering spaces, and the destroyer sank with 163 of her 190 man crew.
With Wayfarer gone Amphitrite knew she was vulnerable to being torpedoed, so she turned her stern to Mulhouse as the Croiseur Léger closed on her. Mulhouse was recalled to rejoin Desaix and Amiral Cécille, and perhaps to lure Amphitrite on to them. Which is what happened. Amphitrite slowly edged into range of Desaix and Amiral Cécille, trying to find where her 259.1mm guns were be accurate and her shells effective. With Desaix having 210mm guns, the advantage in hardware was with Amphitrite.
But in war the advantage is often determined by the men manning those guns, and while Amphitrite has an experience crew, Desaix had veterans. It was 32 minutes into the battle before Amphitrite got her first hit. By then she was already badly battered. But 47 minutes in Desaix took a flooding hit forward and order her squadron to withdraw.
As she turned Desaix got a flooding hit on Amphitrite. This let them break away clean. Desaix had 26 casualties. The other ships were untouched. The Republic Navy reported that Amphitrite took 226 casualties.
Boom Goes the Channel Squadron, Part 3
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 25 August 1945
Taking Down Big Ships
The British battle line was now Zealous and Prince George. Revenge was nearly sunk, Audacious damaged and flooding, Indomitable listing badly, and Resistance without a main battery. They had lost both light escorts. The French still had all five of their Cuirassés de 1er rang. Their escorts were damaged but still afloat.
As this tale of woe was being tallied up Indomitable succumb to her flooding and sank with 2844 of her 3232 man crew, the second highest loss on any one ship the British had suffered after the 2951 men on the Caledonia in January.
Zealous, the only undamaged British ship, suddenly wasn’t undamaged anymore. She was now square in the arc of the French battle line, and the new target. Damage began to happen slowly, as it will in battle, and seem minor, but the hull was already damaged aft. A more serious hit went in forward, threatening the 423.8mm magazines. Zealous began to burn and casualty reports came in. Zealous was turning away. Then she lost her forward turret. The fires had reached the powder magazine. Zealous was also out of the battle with flooding forward and no water tight hatches.
Now Prince George was the only combat effective ship, and she had flooding amidships and aft, two engines out, turrets destroyed, and fires across the ship. She had 400 casualties reported.
Resistance, down to her 218.2mm guns, was closing in to the French battle line. She was controlling the flooding forward but much of the ship was severely damaged. Fire from the French Cuirassés drove her back however. Zealous had tried to follow Resistance in but also broke off rather than close to effective range with her secondary guns. Her flooding was more serious.
With the two Prince Consort class battlecruisers driven off the battle line turned their guns back on the battleship Prince George, who was now flooding aft. The Vice-amiral d’escarde was grimly determined to make the most of his apparent victory, and ordered the battle line to finish off the British capital ships, starting with the Revenge, which had lost all her engines and had six tenths of her compartments flooded. One more hit and she sank with 1532 of her 1633 man crew.
When the order finally got through the battle line turned their guns on Prince George. Already flooded out in two compartments amidships and two aft, the additional hits breached more of the ship. Flood waters swept through the ship and Prince George sank with 1538 of her 1633 man crew.
Audacious was fighting flooding in six compartments and had over 220 casualties reported when she came under fire again. The gunnery officers got the order this time. With more fire incoming more compartments began to flood and Audacious sank with 1594 of her 1633 man crew.
Zealous came under fire next. Flooded fore and aft, she had lost her main battery magazine and was down to 218.2mm guns she could not fire because of the list she was suffering. She had 350 casualties reported. She went in and took fire so that Resistance could close and fire with her 218.2mm secondary. Zealous was sunk with 1082 of her 1319 man crew, those unneeded to sail the ship having been sent overboard before her distraction run.
Still capable of 27 knots, Resistance was also flooded fore and aft but had managed to maintain her trim as she fired her starboard 218.2mm secondary guns. She however was doing little damage and was about to take much. She turned in as if to ram one of the Cuirassés but she couldn’t control her turn with her steering damaged. Resistance was being ripped apart and flooded out at the same time, and she couldn’t stop either. With three 400mm shells penetrating her starboard side Resistance sank with 1042 of her 1319 man crew as the sun set on the British Republic Navy.
With the battle over it was time to tally up the cost. Courbet, the lead ship the whole battle, had taken 144 casualties. Revanche had taken 35, Danton 21, France 14, and Vérité 11. Touareg had taken 36 casualties. The Serbian Royal Navy had suffered 13 casualties on Janissaire.
The British Republic Navy had lost three 2nd class battleships, three modern battlecruisers, a light cruiser and a destroyer. This was 332 thousand tons of warship displacement and about a ninth of their pre-war total. They had lost 10,734 officers and enlisted men killed or lost in the North Sea and 1290 captured.
Campaign Against South Africa Stops
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 19 March 1945
The Corps Afrique has called off the campaign to take South Africa for now. Plans are to regroup and rearm, then choose the best moment to strike again. Losses for the Corps Afrique were over 48 thousand. The British Army is believed to have taken 34 thousand.
However this weakening of the British forces in the area has led the Boer populace of the Orange Free State to rise up in rebellion against the Great Republic of the British Isles and Dominions.
Lmao Revenge in french cripples revenge 41:36
Boom Goes the Channel Squadron, Part 1
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 25 August 1945
Opening Moves
Four Cuirassés de 1er rang, the Jauréguiberry class Courbet, Vaisseau amiral of the Flotte de Brest, the Danton, lead of her class, the France, lead of her class, and the Vérité, lead of her class, all from the Brest Base navale principale in Finistère Department, were joined by Vérité’s sister ship Revanche, and the Tonkinois class Destroyer torpilleur Touareg from the Le Havre Station navale in Seine-Maritime Department on a mission to destroy the Republic Navy’s Channel Squadron.
The carefully tailored rumors of unrest on Helgoland, necessitating the dispatch of the Saint Charles to quell it, worked as hope, and enticed the Channel Squadron to sortie (credit to @SalvaBarbus for the idea). The quiet sailing of Revanche and Touareg to lie off Saint Charles’ position until the Flotte de Brest could arrive, then pounce on the British, might have caused a few ulcers but eventually, it paid off.
The Republic Navy sent out three Vengeance class battleships, the Audacious, Prince George, and Revenge. Not the biggest battleships in the British arsenal but the Britannia’s appear to have been posted to the West Indies after commissioning. Also in the Channel Squadron were three battlecruisers, two Prince Consort class, the Zealous and Resistance, and the Bellerophon class Indomitable. Large and well-armed, but not apparently well armored. For escorts they brought the Enterprise class 1940 refitted light cruiser Attentive and the Vivien class destroyer Wake. (Ominous that.)
Spotting funnel smoke from a dozen ships coming up from the south-west, the Cuirassés formed on Courbet, with Danton, Vérité, France, and Revanche following. Touareg and Janissaire, a Serbian Royal Navy Hova class Destroyer torpilleur which tagged along for the game screened the battle line. Courbet turned west to give her division time to get into formation.
Courbet and France sighted the enemy, and the battle line began to fire. The three British battleships were closing in line astern. The battlecruisers seemed to be behind them. The light ships were hiding under smoke. The Vice-amiral d’escarde was, at this point, only hopeful of damaging the Channel Squadron before he would have to break off. Then Courbet dropped a 400mm shell through the main deck of the lead battleship.
With a second main deck penetration Courbet drove the lead battleship to fall back in division. Attentive tried to use the battle line’s concentration on the British battleships to sneak up under smoke, but she was spotted and fire switched to her. Battered by 400mm and 155mm shells, Attentive stood up and exploded, taking 937 of her 1065 man crew down with her wreck.
The battle line turned their guns back on the British battleships, and Revenge now led the division. Revanche chose this moment to hit with three 400mm shells through Revenge’s main deck. Suddenly Revenge was flooding through half the ship and had lost her 56mm magazine.
Cont’d
53:47 France France France triple hit.😂❤
The most Francest of Frances.
11 to 1? I'd have turned tail, and run like a 3 year old girl! Screaming!
here is a ? does the ai have any ships or has they been like my campaign where they dont have anything bigger then a heavy cruiser
53:12: Poignant.
Battle of the Cayman Islands
Le Républicain Provence, Marseille
MCMXLV, 11 June 1945
The Vengeur class Croiseur Cuirassés Desaix, who was still short 25 men from last month’s battle, from the Balboa Station navale in Panama and the Jurien de la Graviére, lead of her Croiseur éclaireur class, from the La Ceiba Base navale régionale in Hondurus were escorting the badly damaged Hova class Serbian Royal Navy’s Destroyer torpilleur Mécanicien Principal Lestin near the Cayman Islands when they were attacked by the Powerful class heavy cruiser Nelson and the Enterprise class 1940 refitted light cruiser Edinburgh.
Knowing the British were looking to punish the Serbian Royal Navy by sinking the Mécanicien Principal Lestin, Desaix and Jurien de la Graviére had to convince the British to give up the hope. Desaix prepared to engage Nelson while Jurien de la Graviére closed in under smoke to destroy Edinburgh.
As Jurien de la Graviére came out of smoke she had already gotten two 155mm hits on Edinburgh, damaging her rudder. Seeing they had failed to get in range of Mécanicien Principal Lestin, both British cruisers were withdrawing. Jurien de la Graviére however kept on Edinburgh, getting more hits. Soon Edinburgh was flooded in three compartments aft, fighting the water in a fourth amidships, had lost her rudder and one engines, was burning and had 160 casualties reported. Edinburgh tried to drive Jurien de la Graviére off with a torpedo spread but the Croiseur éclaireurs simply adjusted her course slightly.
Edinburgh’s situation was getting worse. Now flooded in four compartments aft she was fighting rising water in three under her main tower. She had controlled the fires but she still didn’t have steering or her third engine. Her casualties had risen over 180. She did finally get solid 178mm hits on Jurien de la Graviére, causing flooding fore and aft. Jurien de la Graviére launched her torpedoes, the most likely of which exploded in the water, and turned away. Edinburgh however was now taking 210mm hits from Desais along with the 80mm hits from Jurien de la Graviére. The flooding amidships had taken over and breached another engineering space, disabling a second engine. Edinburgh was on fire again and her casualties had climbed to 240. Edinburgh sank with 993 of her 1065 man crew.
With Edinburgh sunk Desaix’ job of distracting Nelson was done. She broke off and joined Jurien de la Graviére in withdrawing from the battle. Desaix had 19 casualties. Jurien de la Graviére had 75. The Republic Navy reported that Nelson had 3 casualties and picked up 72 survivors from Edinburgh.
You can indeed get strikes against minor nation
holy austria
hola amigo. tengo problemas con el juego. el océano no se me ve así. se me ve todo liso el océano. no me veo el desplazamiento del agua nada .. está todo liso el océano.. que puede ser ? es problema de configuración?
¡Disculpas por una aplicación de traducción! El estado del mar cambia dependiendo del clima del juego. También podría ser un problema de configuración de gráficos, estoy ejecutando el juego al máximo. Si no es ninguna de esas alas, te sugiero que te pongas en contacto con los laboratorios de juegos en el foro de soporte técnico.
forum.game-labs.net/forum/182-game-technical-issues/ Enlace al foro :)
It's no longer Africa is France 2 or big France
man i never get any conquest with egypt
Do you ever put a fleet relatively close to Egypt?
@@cathyharrop3348 i dont think that work and in my current campaign i am allied wit egypt
This confuses me. I read nothing but negative reviews for this game yet content creators keep getting views with it. What gives?
The negative reviews are mostly about how the game is disappointing to play, and I kinda agree with a fair few of those that’s why I made a mod to fix (some of) my issues. But if you’re in that camp it’s a great game to watch someone else play because you don’t have to deal with the frustrations (and/or can laugh at the content creator getting annoyed)
@@BrotherMunro Oh no, I only have empathy when you get annoyed.