43:07 The range on those BCs is crazy😂

At long last, the dream of Emperor Charles II is realized, with the former holdings of Spanish Italy fully reclaimed and all of the Apennine Peninsula in the steady hands of the Spanish Empire! Truly, this is a most auspicious day!

The new battlecruisers look very promising for long distance commerce raiding and for escort duties besides being part of the second line that supports the main battle line. Would probably have been better to deploy at least one of them in Manila to support convoy missions there. I also agree with your take on the cruiser killer concept; 12 inch guns are pretty much battleship grade weapons even at this era (i.e. Scharnhorst class). 11 or even 10 inch guns will be more than enough for the job if you are gonna build a super cruiser, which means you can have the same armor layout of the Aguila and Ceres classes of the previous Spanish campaign, maybe more, but with a more practical gun system that could outshoot opposing cruisers.

@Cruellers4Life

Ай бұрын

I would also echo the 10 in gun choice, if the AI has decent success with them; then BM should be able to make a unstoppable killing machine

Next up the 'no peashooters' challenge - you have to use a secondary battery of at least 16 five inch guns on capital ships :D

Finally some 7-inch light cruisers. Shame you couldn't get torps on them, but I like them!

@BrotherMunro

Ай бұрын

Yeah I’m interested to see how they do, they’re certainly popular with the allies!

@dwwolf4636

Ай бұрын

​@@BrotherMunroCould've used 6.5" with superheavy ammo. Mk V vs. Mk IV isn't as big a jump as III vs IV...but still a worthwhile trade off IMHO.

Love how in my italian campaign its the complete opposite, i have a very strong navy and financial issues

Yes love 7inch cruiser to bad no torpedo tubes but nice

You can get broadly similar performance out of 6.5" guns with superheavy ammo vs. Stock 7". Especially if it's mark V vs. Mark IV.

@dwwolf4636

Ай бұрын

For s***** and giggles...... Experiment with 5.9" DDs and superheavy shells. Very hefty guns....but you are basically hitting like a 6" CL. RoF is a tad low...the booo000000oooom makes up for it

Not sure if you caught this but, the Almansa CL's missed a Sonar upgrade (Hydro III Currently). Also, I'm not sure how much you've tweaked Steam powerplants costs for DIP but, more recently, I noticed there is a Significant cost increase from Geared Steam to Double Geared Steam now... (like an additional 40% cost increase in Vanilla for VERY Modest weight & performance improvements). It's so much of a prohibitive cost increase factor that in my current USA Campaign, I've elected to not go w/ them (even though money is basically no object). I'm wondering if you've noticed these base changes??? Also, ❤💯 the changeup w/ featuring the 7in. CL's. Should hopefully give any would be CA Cruiser fights a rude awakening!

@BrotherMunro

Ай бұрын

I used different modifiers for the engine techs, the weight savings from the double geared turbines are usually well worth it

I love those new BC... Almost as good as the catilans....

Cortez still has next to no conning tower armour,,

IRL, the US autoloading 8" cruisers were scary. An autoloading 16" would be absolutely terrifying, especially if they loaded the project Kate atomic shells.

Now that you mentioned getting a look at the torpedoes, I'd like to suggest you also take a look at their weight. Admittedly, I am not an expert on WWII armaments, but the weight the torpedo launchers introduce to a ship always seemed kind of excessive to me.

@BrotherMunro

Ай бұрын

I did already, in DIP the launchers increase in weight linearly rather than exponentially like they do in vanilla!

@BrotherMunro

Ай бұрын

I did already, in DIP the launchers increase in weight linearly rather than exponentially like they do in vanilla!

@SalvaBarbus

Ай бұрын

@@BrotherMunro Ouch, that's bad! I mean, I realize it's not only the weight of the launcher, but also the torpedoes and so on, but it just feels so absurd!

Bulkheads Maximum on the CL? Originally, you always reduced the number of bulkheads to save weight. Has anything changed?

@BrotherMunro

Ай бұрын

Yeah the AI seems to be able to get magic flooding hits again, standard should be fine but really you want many or max 9 times out of 10

@StrategosXenophon

Ай бұрын

@@BrotherMunro Ah ok thx for the Info, that makes ship design a bit more tricky 🙂

You forgot to give the vincador semi auto loaders

@BrotherMunro

Ай бұрын

Darn, oh well they will need to come in for the mark V refit at some point I’ll be able to fix it then

BC 4x2....surely 3x3 is better ? Or 3 2 3.

@BrotherMunro

Ай бұрын

True but the hull has 4 turret slots. I could have gone for 4 triples of a smaller calibre instead I suppose, 14s perhaps?

@avancenajoseph1131

Ай бұрын

Perhaps, but 4x2 is good enough if you want to use them to support your main battle line and simplify logistics (in theory) as the caliber of your capital ships' main armament is standardized to 16 inches up to this point.

The Spanish BB Santa Escolástica is good design in Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts (49:30)

that tower is to big for that cruser hull and alots of stuff looks to big