Ah, French predreadnoughts! Time for stealth to hurt drachnifel's sensibilities.

@barleysixseventwo6665

2 жыл бұрын

He can't hurt Drach any worse than the _actual_ French Predreadnaughts already did.

@antaresplays10

2 жыл бұрын

Revenge of the floating hotels

@SephirothRyu

2 жыл бұрын

@@barleysixseventwo6665 You underestimate the power of Ultimate Admiral.

@TheKancka

2 жыл бұрын

when hotels go to war...

@Arsenic71

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKancka That was EXACTLY my first thought 😋👍🤣

Range, according to the pop-up - increases operational usefulness, the chance of convoy raids and favourable naval missions, I would think that this would be well worth the loss of some tonnage.

@wolfhunter98

2 жыл бұрын

Which was pre task force. Not sure how it worked then, nor now. Wish it said in % chance or something other than "It's better". If it's only a 1% per "step" on the slider then it's not worth it. Sure it's bound to get some love when they add US / Japan.

@TalonAshlar

2 жыл бұрын

Range in Ultimate Admiral is more useful for smaller navies looking to raid or defend their trade lanes or hunt crippled capital ships that get separated from the main fleet. I've found however that Mohanian Decisive Battle is a perfectly viable strategy as well since ships traveling directly to their objective need very little fuel. Just remember that this is a high risk and high reward.

Petition: To be historically accurate, no two French battleships should look the same. And constant upgrades and tinkering should make them even less uniform over time. Gotta make use of all those French BB hull types! :D

@fanusobscurus4309

2 жыл бұрын

God, I remember Drachinfel's video on pre Dreadnought BBs. So much insanity...

@AsbestosMuffins

2 жыл бұрын

ya wth he should have made at least 6 classes of battleship and canceled half of them after laying them down

Fun fact: you can fit a 3rd main gun on the midship of the French ironclads hull if you separating the superstructures by a long distance and keep the funnels as close to the superstructures as possible.

@tiagodagostini

2 жыл бұрын

French hulls make nosense. The places where you expect guns will fit, do nto fit and the places where you did not expect.. they fit

@Trifler500

2 жыл бұрын

Even better, you can put a 3rd superimposed rear main turret (a V turret) on these French ships. :)

YES ULTIMATE ADMIRAL DREADNOUGHTS YES IT BACK THANKS STEALTH17

@jacobktan

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with your statement, but wholly condemn the use of all caps.

@orf2A

2 жыл бұрын

The caps kill it

@captainelebelge6142

2 жыл бұрын

glory hallelujah

@JtGorski00

2 жыл бұрын

The time off was for a period of memoriam for the late battlecruiser Regina. 😭😭

@jonastemme2837

2 жыл бұрын

@@JtGorski00 Yes the war finised with sadnes

Every number in the yellow: "This is fine." Well it's the French navy so yes.

Imma be real, I found your channel last night at around 2 when I was just watching random videos and I liked it so much that I tracked you down on my phone to sub to you and I’m now waiting to buy the game

@jBread28

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao the same for me. I found this game through this guy and I suck at it but its fun.

@thunderousavenger2382

Жыл бұрын

yeah no dont waste your money on uad. the publisher is screwing gamelabs over so much that they can never finish this game properly. let alone iron out alot of the remaining gameplay issues and annoyances. development for it will stop in a few months. iirc there is 2 months left.

1890’s France is certainly an amusing campaign 😂 Bonne chance amiral!

@shawa666

2 жыл бұрын

For extra fun, use metric steps for your cannons. 6-inchers? nope, 6.496 inch or you know, 165mm

for some reason available tech level is stored as part of a design , so when you copy a design the game /thinks/ the copy is still using the original's tech levels even though you have new unlocks ex: you build warship A with standard draft funnels. you later unlock induced draft. you then copy design A to make design B (not a refit), B will not have induced available because it was not available when design A was saved.

Friendly info for ya Stealth and anyone else playing. Citadel still is added to TBs and DDs. Which makes balancing them a royal pain. Just a heads up.

My favorite series has returned, Stealth17 you madlad I tip my hat to you for being an overall awesome guy by posting these videos almost daily.

Was playing as Italy in the 1.06 beta in 1928 the Austrian Hungarians somehow had 61 battleships, they had so many that the names of their new battleships where just numbers

@knechtor5648

2 жыл бұрын

yea atm the AI keeps building ships almost every turn to the point where they can't even field most of them and bankrupting themselves indefinitely, but it doesn't matter to the AI because if the Admiral gets replaces it has no drawbacks for them.

Range is supposedly used for much more than just how far your ship can go. It's also supposed to increase your chance to be on convoy attack missions, get battles more favorable for you, and help with power projection

@nucleargandhi3759

2 жыл бұрын

May be worth increasing this on some of your ships for the extra bonuses

An old campaign, nice!

absolutely love these pre-dreadnought battleship designs, and your commentary is perfect as always. the designer really needs a way to better visualize the weight distribution lol

Hotels going to war! Gotta put six different calibers on those boys! So glad to see some tumblehomes. Congrats on the birth of your new kid, feel free to keep us waiting as much as you need!

The Charles Martel... What a fitting name (aka the worst looking ship class ever) (Seven different gun calibers on one ship does not look good, with the tumblehome hull)

I really love these goofy French hull designs. They look kinda silly but also really cool

The barrel length and width really improves the accuracy even in 1890, 13.9" with 20% barrel length was sharpshooting torpedo boats at 2km lol

This game really needed this. Finally it makes sense to do many diffrent things, that weren't profitable in short campaigns. Great to see you trying it out. I'm just a little bit worried about the balance of this campaign in the later stages of the game.

Hey, Stealth17, as someone who is currently playing the campaign on the 1.06 beta, there is some major wierdness. The large number of ships on other countries might be a glitch. Could also just be the AI making a bajillion TBs. I had Austria-Hungary show as having ~100 BCs in the mid 1910s. Not possible, same port capacity glitch. In actuality, they had like 4. Something with the display of ships in other nations is wonky for now. Loving the campaign ideas as always!! Currently doing a British 1910s campaign myself.

@ScientistMan96

2 жыл бұрын

Eh, just chalk it up to some informant wildly overestimating ship capabilities and types because it's so early they haven't seen many ships of that size. How're they to know a small battleship from a large armored cruiser?

It would be interesting to keep an ironclad Battleship 2 around until 1950 and see what it would look like after multiple modernizations

@knechtor5648

2 жыл бұрын

theres a max modernization when it comes to towers and funnels, sure you can upgrade the engine and such but not the displacement. also sadly more modern turrets sometimes don't fit on the ships at all and newer turrets get automatically applied during refit. so no super modernized tumblehome BB :(

@johanlundstrom1561

2 жыл бұрын

I ran a 1914 British design all the way to 1950. What was an elite battleship in 1914 at 24 knots, with 8 12.9"/Long guns, 4 8.9"/Long, and a ton of 2.9"/Long guns worked more like a very slow heavy cruiser at the end, but radar, mark 5 guns, super-heavy shells with modern explosives and being absolutely dirt cheap made them solidly useful for blockade duties and the like.

With the price change when selecting the ship, the campaign has techs that reduce ship cost etc so i think it applies on that screen and not the original ship design screen

Can't wait for more of this campaign!

love your vids

"I am now a spanish galleon..." 🤣

Let’s see what stealth has in store

Love it

Since they’re French pre-dreads, they could be named the Marriott, Four Seasons, Hyatt, etc…Drachinifel fans understand

Cool, i tried an 1890 french campaign shortly after you showed the patch changes, i got to 1902 or so, doing very well, then i saved to come back to it. Came back to no save file as a minipatch killed my file =(

@artunkansu4461

2 жыл бұрын

Happened to me 2 times as France. Both at 1.06 beta, i wonder if it is about France itself.

@lebaznz

2 жыл бұрын

@@artunkansu4461 Had it happen multiple times to me with the British. It's something to do with the patches wiping campaign progress.

YAY ! French boat, love it !

the phantom bump now with CGI coming to soon to theaters near you

When balancing the most important factor is the citadel size, which is affected by the main gun and funnel placement (maybe more that I forgot). In the stats there is a crosssection of your ship and the red sections of the ship are where the citadel is

1940's Austrian Champaign when?

YES!!!!!!!! FINALLY STEALTH'S LONG CAMPAIGN?

Wel i think these ships are really beautiful and like them huge giant steampunk like monster machines i love em and these are the type of ships that got me in to warships especially the Charles Martel and the Russian borodino pre dreadnought battleships

5:45 - You can use 5" secondaries without restricting the main turret if you increase the draft of the ship slightly. I'm fuzzy on the exact number, but +0.6 sounds familiar.

WOOOO YEAH THE NEXT CAMPAIGN IS HERE!!!!

Awesome, I was hoping for a new early-period campaign.

Yesss, good, show us derpy old ships!

Historicaally, the armored barbettes and turret/gu n houses were at the fore and aft portions of the citadel itself. This was to save weight on armor for those items and to raise the main guns to clear firing arc to over the secondary turrets

I have a sneaking suspicion that some ships of the grand fleet are gonna go boom-boom quite quickly

Oh man, a suprising campaign but a welcomed one!

My eyes are burning!!!! I’m an amateur French Naval historian who specializes in pre-dreadnoughts. You have butchered a beautiful tumblehome pre-dreadnought

@Kr0noZ

2 жыл бұрын

oh, you mean like the french naval designers of the day? It's all good then I guess xD

French Pre-dreadnoughts, or when Hotels go to war. lol

@grahamstrouse1165

2 жыл бұрын

Lotta Drach fans here, I see…🙂

If you can take a campaign from 1890 to 1950 I'd love to see that. The 2-5 year campaigns just don't seem as much fun. If only the game devs could patch the game without corrupting the save files.

@kyleheins

2 жыл бұрын

If they made delaying patch updates an option, it would fix that issue ad well, since you could play straight through a campaign then update to the newest version.

You might try making a light cruiser with a tonnage of 2499. That shortens the hull length and drastically reduces the turning circle, making the ships far more maneuverable. In my experience, I've found this well worth the lower tonnage. It's also possible to put several more guns on than you did in this video. :) I get good use out of my light cruisers in combat.

The best campaign! More weird designs please!

It's nice to see Stealth get into Hotel Manager.

I think that french ship really wants a center mounted turret

Predread time is fun

You get a funding boost during wartime (overall GDP growth takes a hit but you get a larger % of it)

Pre-Dreads? Yay!

That's as fast as a panther with a busted hydraulics I need to do a hand crank maybe a panther f

I have a cool Legendary Encounters video you can make: IJN Shikishima vs USS Georgia . Successors to 2 very powerful battleships and they were never built .

awww i wanted a german 1890 campaign in the new update

French pre-dreads? Hell yeah, floating hotel time!

Ah there’s nothing like French floating hotels😂

blurb french empire ranges across the world, next up range not important, either a misunderstaniding or a game mechanic in need of work, also i did like the french approach to gun caliberes which one shall i use - all of them of course!

You should really be maxing the range for light cruisers if you want them to do convoy raids.

"When Hotels go to War."

35:44 is explained by San Francisco harbour right now

That life boat racks making me annoying too. 😁

THIS IS GANNA BE ONE HELL OF A CAMPAIGN 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Early in the campaign, sacrifice as little as possible on, but cut your training budget. Plan to run a manageable and shrinking deficit at first while your transport network grows to 200%. The growth to your GDP caused by raising the transport budget also raises your naval budget, because your naval budget is simply a % of your GDP. Training in the early game doesn't matter as much because you're at peace, and you aren't cutting your training budget by much. Generally in the early game you always change your training budget to make you go broke in one year. You will never actually go broke, because you will revise the budget every month, and your economy will be growing every month. Tech > Transport > Training.

Hi stealth. Brilliant video again squire, thank you. May i ask, i see when you place your torpedo tubes they are facing backwards. When building a top boat, wouldn't it "prudent'' seeing as they have a short life span to have the tubes built facing the other way round? (Sorry for the waffling lol) Keep up the great vids.

@craigmacintosh6230

2 жыл бұрын

...and a wee bit further he does it 😂 Just my luck lol

39:25 bratty turret doesn't want to fit 💢💢💢 adjustments needed 🗣

Think I'll like this campaign even more than your German campaign. The later years are fun because of the sheer amount of customizations, but at the same time all those customizations can at times be overwhelming. I think this campaign should be much simpler so far as the real time battles go, which is right up my alley.

9:33 I wonder if you moved everything in the upper deck forward, could you have a superfiring aft turret? T

Nice video love the content I do have a question tho so i currently dont have that many info tabs where I can change the barrel length ect Any idea why?

@Stealth17Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

You're not on the beta. In my patch log vid I explain how you can get it

@nlgames3321

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stealth17Gaming Ah Thank you!

In the words of Drach, "My eyes"

Two-inchers are fantastic - vastly better accuracy. 2.9" +10% guns are absolutely stellar, and are good much longer than regular old 2" guns which were quickly obsoleted. Never use 3" guns. 2", 8" and 12" are the magical calibers, with much better stats than ones around them.

@johanlundstrom1561

2 жыл бұрын

Bow underwater torpedo is a great way to balance the ship.

The main thing they need to fix is either making it so the ai doesn't continue to build 100s of ships or increasing the starting budget for the player only

the french pre-dreadnoughts could actually be useful. The enemy would laugh to death if they'd see these stupid looking ships

the number of ships in port is a bug, l reduced a antagonist to 5 DD, the port report still 3BB, 2BC, 11CA, 21CL, 52DD

I just realized something he can now do more accurate simulations you know how he's like ship had a slightly different caliber that he couldn't quite do now he actually can get the precise oh say 15.1 in guns for Bismarck he can now do that

I really want an age of sail game with customization like this

i hope they add a way thats let us choose who we want an alliance with any nation we will also there is a bug lets say enemy have 6 battle ships lets say germany and you sink 3 the game still say 6 but thats happend to me in my 1910 start

in the beginning, the main thing is the fight against flooding

Sooooo, they fix the points bugs and what not yet? If so then this should be a interesting series.

I know this is a bit silly, but on the battleship could you have put the rear main turret on a barbette in order to let it traverse over the 6" secondaries?

@kyleheins

2 жыл бұрын

You would first have to research barbetts, which aren't available in 1890.

youre gonna want antiflood ASAP because any penetrating hit on anything less than maximum bulkheads will sink the whole ship

The reason your balance gets awful on small ships is because gun and torpedo placement extend the citadel, and oddly TBs have some kind of citadel that messes up weights. I gave up on TBs.

You should do a video where you edit the save file and make guns longer than 20% or bigger than 20% and see how it goes

@Stealth17Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

Can't do that anymore. Save files are protected now as the devs prepare for ship sharing feature

"I am now a Spanish galleon" made me chuckle lol. Oh the French and there floating war hotels

After the French campaign you should do a British campaign

I started the German campaign, and now I am jealous that I don't get galley ships!

I found out that you have to spam the little funnels on the old ships. becauser they are much smaller for 10% less efficency

The floating Hotels of the French navy.

The Ai just spams TB´s in my campain i had multible battles versus 50+ enemies

15:46 wish they'd list or show the speed curve to get a better idea of how much is "too much" without playing with it for ages. And no idea why the slider lets you go so high if it's gonna be almost 5,000%. Not sure any amount of tech is gonna make that work. >.>

Bro got all the to 1893 without a war, meanwhile I started my first campaign and was fighting a fucking 2v3 by the midway point of 1891. Me as France and my ally the Brits vs fucking Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary.

It would be great to have such a game about the ships from the 1960s to like 2000. With guns, missiles and CIWS and additionally aircraft and their carriers and helicopters. Just not the way Wargame does it with its necessity to spam as many missiles as possilbe in order to sink something

@Stealth17Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

how do you access gun caliber, I've looked and I can't find it

@Stealth17Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

Update the beta.

OK maybe ill give campaign a 12th shot

Ho, the languedoc ! I born in this région

any good tips for lowing pitch and roll on a ship?

@Stealth17Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

Bring stuff closer to the center of mass. Side turrets increase roll. Turrets very far back or forward create more pitch.

Oui oui oui 🇫🇷👨‍🎨🥖

Can someone please tell me the difference between coincidence and stereoscopic rangefinders? Even while pausing and reading I cannot figure out what the difference between the two is. How do they work differently? Because even when trying to read on Wikipedia they seem exactly the same.

@Stealth17Gaming

2 жыл бұрын

In this game they give different bonuses. Coincidence gives higher base accuracy and faster time to aim (which is different from rotating the turrets). The stereoscopic gives long range bonuses. What exactly is considered long range I don't know.

Meanwhile in the US: Arthur Morgan runs his horse into a tree.