Tex, near the end you say this was the peak of the Italian Navy, but personally I believe it's golden years was when the EXPORTO, first and eventually last of its class, took out an American fleet singlehandedly and went on to invade Main.

@Palora01

4 ай бұрын

The golden years of an empire are those when it's at peak expansion. The Exporto's stand was it's greatest hour.

@BobMcBobJr

3 ай бұрын

@@Palora01 Exporto da one true cuisine to de New World.

So true about naval tradition, Tex. In WW II, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Crete, the idea was floated to stop the opertion because Royal Navy was losing too many ships to Axis attacks. To which RN commander in the area replied: "Shipyards can build ships in three years. You need three hundred years to build a tradition. Evacuations will continue."

@egoalter1276

4 ай бұрын

well, no. Practical experience shows you need about 50.

@unfortunatesun

4 ай бұрын

@@egoalter1276 Well yes, but you have to account for the English tendency to masturbate to their traditions as a whole.

@andrewamann2821

4 ай бұрын

​@@egoalter1276I'm pretty sure the jist of the point stands, my dude.

@MrSpock526

4 ай бұрын

Cunningham was a beast

@jimdee5319

4 ай бұрын

​@@egoalter1276 It is a quote so it isn't something for you to autistically whine about. Be less annoying.

That Battleship Squadron taking on the Ottoman fleet was a glorious battle. They went out like true Italians. With a waterfall of swearing and curses.

@Benisjamminnn

4 ай бұрын

They're in a better place now. The pizzeria in the ski.

"the difference between a battleship and a submarine is not that the submarine can submerge but rather that it can come back up afterwards"

@bigweebtv6039

4 ай бұрын

Most of the time

@doomedwit1010

4 ай бұрын

And that isnwhy they shouldnbe called "unsubmersibles."

@MrSigmatico

4 ай бұрын

@@doomedwit1010What about remergibles?

@BobMcBobJr

3 ай бұрын

@@MrSigmatico reemergibles* I like ascentibles. Also wasn't there a case of a battleship managing to pump out it's flooding and reemerge after the entire thing was underwater? I swear I heard of that occurring exactly once.

Tex: Scraps highly effective battleship fleet to free up shipyard space for cruisers Also Tex: Drives shiny new cruiser fleet directly into German battleships, loses them all

@adaelion3772

4 ай бұрын

Granted, they were empty hulls, if that swiss cheese could be called such.

@DIEGhostfish

4 ай бұрын

Oh god, I don't think i can watch.

@scytheseven9173

4 ай бұрын

"they have excellent rangefinders" "oh wow, we actually outrange them" proceeds to charge into knife-fight distance against three battleships

@iller3

4 ай бұрын

doesn't sound like it would have ever gotten this lopsided if not for that Turkey situation where the game just gives BOSS FLEET status to a country that isn't even technically a real faction in the coding itself yet gets to buy unlimited units despite that.

@h.a.9880

4 ай бұрын

@@iller3I guess Tex could go back to the safegame right before the battle and instead of engaging that fleet use his range and speed to kite them. He could kill most of that fleet by a thousand cuts at minimal losses... but that'd be boring. It's more interesting to just go all in and see what happens. Gives us another playthrough with the Habsburgs (and potentially more comments about that nations history in best Tex fashion).

The Americans buy the Macaroni class, and in their internal designation its called the "Kraft Mac&Cheese class"

@Ozymandias2x

4 ай бұрын

They put a feather in their hat and called it Kraft Mac&Cheese.

@squatchhammer7215

4 ай бұрын

It would be called "Yankee Doodle"

@scottmacgregor3444

4 ай бұрын

You mean the mack and cheese c(k)raf.

@snake3419

4 ай бұрын

@@squatchhammer7215 Yankee Noodle

@MarkoDash

4 ай бұрын

@@snake3419 sounds like a masturbation euphemism

British Captain (v. Italian Navy): "Mayday! This is HMS Phoebe! We are sinking!" German Coast Guard: "Vhat are you sinking about?"

Mr. Train should feel bad for trying to interrupt the boat autism with train autism.

The Ottoman Empire should probably be a full power in this game-simply because, as a minor power, due to the sale system they simply accumulate massive fleets that never really do anything, and it's kind of ridiculous to have Ottoman ports with 300k tons of warships but the Ottomans can't actually participate in a war

@tomarmadiyer2698

4 ай бұрын

If you are the nation supplying them, you own the entire region. It's a fun bust.

@iller3

4 ай бұрын

So what you're saying is.... their tiny single Port that costs them nothing to maintain? ...was just hammer-space bullshit?

@scytheseven9173

4 ай бұрын

@@iller3 yes, their port is hammerspace bullshit you see it with a lot of minor nations, they'll somehow be able to accumulate more battleships than empires can afford-usually not as modern ones, but the fleets are massive

Tex at the start of this run: "We're going with a high-low strategy. Very high and very, very low." Tex at the end of the run: "ALL BATTLECRUISERS, ALL THE TIME!" And that's why it was the end of the run.

It is oddly peaceful to paint mechs and tanks while admiral tex alternates between extreme confidence and fear.

"Alright Phoebe, you're next. I'm gonna hit you with a HAMMER." Ok, I'm gonna admit that was not on my navy bingo card tonight.

Imagine the fucking tactical doctrine books that would come out of tex's return to the line of battle formation

Granfather! grandfather!, did you see the game ? - What game? Austria-Hungary. - Who did they play against?

Tex led me to UAD which kicked off a naval history feeding that started with Drach and has recently swelled to include lord hardthrasher and lazerpig. Our fear-overcoming leader is savvy with perun too? Bad ass. I'm thankful for all the new to me stuffs lately. The brain hunger has been well tickled.

@phillipmele8533

4 ай бұрын

Tex actually provided some expert contribution regarding Indian firearms for Perun’s video on India’s military.

@vendrax3239

4 ай бұрын

@@phillipmele8533 I look forward to Perun examining the military structure of the Van Zandt Militia in return. "As amusing as it may be, sometimes *more* Urbanmechs is not the ideal solution."

@DIEGhostfish

4 ай бұрын

Lazer's kinda a dumbass, Drach's great, Perun's focus is too modern (And thus depressing) for me. Never heard of Hardthrasher,

@AtholAnderson

4 ай бұрын

@@vendrax3239*sounds of muffled gunshots and angry shouting* "Others however, seem to disagree."

And so another campaign comes to a glorious end. This was a lot of fun to watch and I look forward to the shenanigans you get up to with the Austro-Hungarians. In my second campaign ever in this game I played as the USA after a "learning experience" playing as China. In an alternate universe that saw Spain get belligerent with every other world power right off the bat and have the expected consequences of such actions occur. In 1908 I said "Hey Britain. Please leave the Caribbean." Britain said "No." We proceeded to have a 10 year war fought almost entirely by navy and marines just in and around the Caribbean. It was like we had a gentleman's agreement that everywhere else was off limits. Anyway, Britain invested heavily into Cruisers and Torpedoes and I invested heavily into Battleships/Dreadnoughts and minelayers. By the end more then 300 warships of various classes had been sunk in and around those islands and the Good Lord knows how many transports, but the UK no longer held any portages in the America's. Later Scotland and Northern Ireland achieved independence from the UK.

That mention of Italian India at 1:58 fills the mind with such culinary horrors... Spaghetti tikka masala! Vindaloo-stuffed tortellini! When will the madness end?

@redrichmond8485

4 ай бұрын

I'd eat the shit out of naan pizza or curry ravioli though.

@SonsOfLorgar

4 ай бұрын

Frikadelli karai?

@GaldirEonai

4 ай бұрын

Curry pasta is pretty good, actually. When you've got some leftover curry and leftover pasta but no rice and it's 8PM on a saturday and you really don't want to trudge all the way to the gas station convenience store which is the only place that's open...

@corwinhyatt519

4 ай бұрын

Those sound rather delicious.

@MrDmitriRavenoff

4 ай бұрын

Ind-talian

The sinking of the Saint Istvan was the start of the Horus Heresy

@tomarmadiyer2698

4 ай бұрын

The Kaiserin and Koenigen Protecc

New patch gave us a map. Such a small quality of life improvement, what a huge gift for the player.

@JanJansen985

4 ай бұрын

The world is still not a globe

Nice to see the Royal Navy in game is carrying on the age old tradition of make the entire ship out of magazines, just like real life, huzzah!

"I'm just going to have to hope that England Fs off" is something a lot of people have experienced through the ages.

11:20 I love how the Ezherzog Friedrich gets stormtrooper-aimed by the entire fleet, and then like two salvos hit and she's sunk. Battleship fails to battleship. Go home Austria-Hungary, you're drunk.

The Italian navy came down with a case of Riga Mortis

I'm getting Van Zandt on the Mechwarrior 5 map and a DLC on it and the militia if it ends me.

@tomarmadiyer2698

4 ай бұрын

I'm picturing the Rogue tech flashpoint potential

@lonewolfandcub668

4 ай бұрын

​@@tomarmadiyer2698Official story DLC with Tex in Mercs, Van Zandt is already canon, just lol

Spaghetti Curry Westerns would be WILD.

On that note, I don't have screenshot proof of it, but I had 20,000-ish ton battleships operating alongside 100,000- ton modern ones... It's amazing what you can do if you just keep up with the refits and watch what your enemy is sending your way. Edit: I think it was the 30's before I started scrapping ships built before the turn of the century.

@DixonsCider

4 ай бұрын

I have a penchant for building tiny 'big ships'. It seems to be the only way to have armoured small ships. Because the game will let me build 30 K tonne 'battle cruisers' with 12" belt and decks and 6" for the rest, 12" citadel. Or, i can build 30 K tonne cruisers the game.wont let me give more than 8" and 4" very silly. And some hulls have REALLY cool peices.

@Deridus

4 ай бұрын

I tend to scrap any vessel older than 10 years and larger than a light cruiser. With my 100 tonners, I usually only have one at a time until it's the '50s because WOW, those things are expensive. If can't get at least 100% efficient engines, I tend not to build them. Either. Means lots of smaller or fewer super expensive ships, but the High/Low seems to really work for me. Who do you usually play as?

@aerricks9212

4 ай бұрын

@@DixonsCider As the wars go on, I end up favoring speed and firepower. And late-game, stability. I have a 100,000 ton Superbattleship hull in '58 that weighs as much as a Battleship I made a few years prior because of the beam and draught changes.

@aerricks9212

4 ай бұрын

@@Deridus I tend to make blended fleets. Lots of destroyers, 'cause they can occupy all the small ports I have around the world but I still have 40-ish capital ships of "current" weight, meaning as I lose my lower lower tonnage BB's and BC's I replace them with the heavier, newer ships. But until real late game, I make superbattleships and "regular" battleships.

@Deridus

4 ай бұрын

@@aerricks9212 When I started my latest playthrough, I accidentally put a 1890's BB in the South Pacific (Germany), and I used it to great effect as tonnage for invading those small ports while the main fleet held the western reaches. It's 1920 now, and still going strong against DD's but I have CL's with more tonnage now. Gotta love it!

WW1 in 1916 with Italy, France, USA on one side, Japan England and Germany on the other and Austria Hungary in a pile of states in the middle. Dang.

You sounded like Sideshow Bob with that laugh there Tex.

It's so hilarious how sad the music is as Tex gets destroyed by the Japanese built navy lol

@lenorevanalstine1219

4 ай бұрын

i think tex arguably got the better end of that exchange to an extent he went in with heavily damaged ships and sank more ships then he lost

@lonewolfandcub668

4 ай бұрын

​@@lenorevanalstine1219He did well. I miss Tex in comments

Only an hour into my shift and you tempt me with this video, Admiral Tex strike again

What new shenanigans will we see today? Forward the Italian Navy!

Bless you for continuing to make these, they're my guilty pleasure lately.

Tex, pause construction on orders until under the production limit. The game attempts to build all the boats all at once, this Jack's the production time to the moon. You can order the ships and then pause some until you have the production space. Still costs money but the delivery time stays down.

OMG, the collaboration we didn't know we needed...Bollywood influenced spaghetti westerns! Puts a whole new spin on cowboys and Indians!🤣🤣

Even constantly maxing out my dockyards with ships for Brazil (all of their ports were permanently over capacity as of 1916), I was still able to profit enough ship sales to turn a profit in peace time while eating the ship cost+construction time penalties on new fleets. I did deliberately design some absurdly expensive ships whenever possible though, just for allies to buy. And I was playing as the US with a central government that gave a large bonus to GDP. Some later Gas Turbine destroyers cost more than the battleships I used, and cost as much if not more in maintenance on their own than a few of my squadrons (learned the hard way that Gas Turbines are the way to bankruptcy).

@Deridus

4 ай бұрын

Diesel seems to be the most cost-effective, and maybe even lighter.

This series has been a delight. I'm always excited when I see a new episode come up. I really hope it continues with a new country once this one inevitably concludes.

I'm sad this series will end, but I look forward to the A/H campaign

@Deridus

4 ай бұрын

Cursed, but insaney funny?

It's funny you mention curry pasta. When we have barbecues, one of the sides we'll make is curry paste mixed with mayonnaise and then stirred in to cooked pasta. Not healthy but tasty.

Any actual Italian speakers feel free to correct, but that request goes something like: Cavalca verso la rovina. Una giornata dolorante! Una giornata rossa! Prima che sorga il sole.

"...massed off the coast of Portugal, much to annoyance of King Luís II. The probing attack was centered around the Ägir and Odin, two of Germany's newest and most modern dreadnoughts. Supporting them were the heavy cruisers Hertha and Hansa, light cruisers Augsburg, Frauenlob, V-15, and V-2, as well as destroyer V-35 and a torpedo boat going by S-11. Some serious name rationing in the Kaiserliche Marine, back then. Battle commenced at..." "...Italian fleet's frankly audacious maneuver left them charging into a wall of battleships steaming directly at them. The German captains had been expecting the traditional Italian line ahead formation and had to quickly alter their battle plans. The two dreadnoughts, originally planning to turn and trade long-range fire with the Italians, now found themselves front and center of a shooting gallery. But, the German officers knew their strengths. Their vessels bore cutting edge KCA armor, enough to reliably stop the Italian secondaries. In practice, it even gave the 14-in main guns of the Regia Marina a hard time. Engineering alone, however, would not..." "...shell after shell pounded the Ägir, reportedly bursting pipes in both engine compartments and knocking a lightbulb loose in the aft fire control. And yet, the armor was holding. The damage taken was more severe than planned for, yes, but the German officers were more than willing to trade one heavily damaged battleship for four or five once the torpedo attacks connected. A less favorable plan, but an acceptable situation. So far, the Germans..." "...at approximately 7:47 A.M., when the Italian battleship Benedetto Brin fired a full broadside salvo from her main guns. As then-Oberleutnant Klaus Rehn, a survivor of the battle, would later say in an interview, 'I was on the starboard bridge wing when I saw the Italians fire. I knew the shells would hit. They were all hitting. I counted down the seconds and cried out 'Impact!' just before, like I wasn't supposed to any more but still did. It all seemed to slow as the shells hit, I remember it clearly. I watched it come right over the deck, bending the guard rail. Then, the fire started.' In the span of one salvo, the Ägir was taken out of action as a 150ft column of fire sprouted from beneath her A turret." "It's difficult to say exactly what happened, as while the German ships were not perfect they were competently designed and well-built for their era. Examinations of the ship's blueprints, combined with accounts from survivors like Rehn's, reveal one possibility more likely than the rest. It's believed the shell came in nearly parallel to the deck, bypassing the armor belt entirely and penetrating the wooden deck where it detonated in A turret's magazine. A 1-in-a-million shot... which happened twice in just 30 minutes." -Excerpts from the Historigraph KZread video "Prelude to Massacre, the First Battle of Gibraltar"

I love my 5am wakeup call of Tex and the Italian Navy😂

I hope the Italian Navy has a good health plan, because being last in line behind all those boats rolling coal... Oof. Half of your casualties must be on the way back from the battle, where hundreds of spaghetti men asphyxiate on the soot in their lungs.

Really sad to see the Italian Navy run come to an end. Would have been great to see if you could turn it around. But you have us the heroic ship Exporto, the Atlantic Butcher, and that is something that will never be forgotten!

I love the concept of the Panzerschlife, kinda like how I love the idea of the Muscle-Car. Not an apples-to-apples comparison I know but I do like the idea of taking something of reasonable size and scale and fitting it with something that's totally unreasonable. Like a small-midsized family car fitted with the engine from a land-barge, so to do I enjoy a regular-sized cruiser fitted with 10+ inch guns. I've heard it said that Panzerschlife are basically 'Battlecruiser, but worse' and how the Deutschlands were obsolete before they left the slipway because the Dunkurques existed and could run a Deutschland class down, buuuut... a Battlecruiser is typically only superior to a Panzerschlife in Speed, and are also much more expensive. Sure your Battlecruiser can overhaul my Panzerschlife, but then you're just hurrying up to get into range of my guns and you've not got much more in armor than I do. How expensive is this trade gonna be for you?

"Buy my ships Tintin," made me laugh far more than it should have. Also nice to see an American who knows what Tintin is. Infact it's nice to see anybody who remembers Tintin.

This has been an interesting case study of the "good idea fairy" effect.

There can be no peace until Tex invents the Endless Breadsticks of Peace.

Sees intro: Are those japanese torpedoboats? Those who know, know.

@Deridus

4 ай бұрын

Do you see them?

@supsup335

4 ай бұрын

@@Deridus Do you?😉

@Deridus

4 ай бұрын

@@supsup335 (throws binoculars... again)

@supsup335

4 ай бұрын

@@DeridusWe don't have that many anymore. Be more mindful next time🤣

@georgezwick3717

4 ай бұрын

Angrily throws binoculars.

arivaderchi austrians! the pasta cannons have been loaded with the spicy meatballs!

I like to think that the end of the campaign signified the mad admiral that managed all these shenanigans retiring of his own volition after the cataclysmic battle against the krauts

Well, it has been awhile since we've had a good example of why Tex should not be allowed to drive.

Tex is truly following the Maxims of a maximally effective Mercenary: Maxim 32: Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water.

I was this many days old when I founded myself driving through Van Zandt. My wife was moderately confused when I asked her to keep an eye out for the militia

MOAR PASGHETTI-BOTES

ALL HAIL THE NOODLE NAVY

Full steam ahead gentlemen!!!! MAKE SMONK!!! 💨💨💨💨💨

Tex: next time im gonna play the Austro Hungarians. Tzent Istvan chuckle: im in danger

55:42 This entire battle is proof that 52 14-inch guns and all the metal in Italy will counter anything.

Starting off the week with a bang and some swearing in a foreign language

Well seeing what he did with Italy i expect Tex to burn the Duel Monarchy to the ground in about 6 hours.

I know Tex said he'd play Austria-Hungary next, but I personally would like to see China, I've been having a blast playing them and would love to see how Tex ruins history as China.

Imagine the historical debates the Italy-Ottoman Empire fight would create. Imagine if Admiral Tex had brought just a few more ships.

Give them the 20 inch MEATBALL!

This made a great start to my day

This is my favorite series so far. Tex is showing us the true power of being belligerent.

Tex, I absolutely LOVE your naval campaigns! Can you play as the US as soon as you get a chance? I would love to see how a TR backed Tex would establish a US battleship fleet. (South Carolina class in 1905, anyone?). Anyway, thank you for the entertainment, and keep banging!

never in my life I have heard something so cursed as "Italian Ukraine"

This series is so friggin great

I've loved this series, "Come for the battletech, stay for the ships" 😂

the men on those near crippled battleships sold their lives dearly and fought with a bravery and ferocity that shall be legend in that time line for generations

I am a military history buff. I even worked in the tabletop miniatures world war two gaming industry. Yet, I love watching your videos, because despite all the funny, I am learning so much about the naval side of things. Never been interested enough to dig deep, yet here he takes us incredibly deep while making it fun and funny. Thanks, very much appreciated.

“Oh I’m going to turn here and try to help my guys get away” he says, deliberately not pulling them out of division forcing the Aqua Volante to turn as well, ensuring that the distance between them and the enemy will never actually open up guaranteeing their doom. First time watching has actually been frustrating, which is both good and says a lot about the severity of the oversight.

You have no idea how hype I am when you post this series.

Regarding the Panzerotti: "That thing was too big to be called a cruiser. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron"

"Gonna seize Odessa" My head: grind it to a stop, eh?

I'm loving this series so far. Comment for the algorithm gods

Something is wrong with our bloody ships!

loving this series

the most enduringly funny thing about these series is tex always tries to create "austerity" ships that end up costing essentially the exact same as his old designs while being worse in every observable way, then he nearly goes bankrupt because he orders them like they're torpedo boats i genuinely wouldn't have it any other way, this is basically how real navies behaved

"thats not a good name for a princess....wilhelm."

You are so cruel, Tex! was about to go to bed for the night, and now I mist stay awake

The Japanese made Turkish navy (Jarky for short) was surprising to see so strong, I never knew they could kick so much ass. Guess they were sick of Italian Sea food 😂

@Deridus

4 ай бұрын

Ironic, really, because Turks are the one who happen to have Roman dishes.

I don't know how to word my interest to keep listening to this, but I want to share my experience: I'm at work, or the gym, one earbud has been in my ear too long and this video is playing at 2x speed from my pocket, so all I hear are warbling trumpets backing rapidfire explanation interspersed with historic ranting and Italy-based jokes, sometimes undercut by long periods of cannon fire. I will watch whatever's next as soon as KZread recommends it to me

This series makes me glad I have Italian heritage.

I get that sometimes certain countries do not need ships, but I single-handedly made Norway and Lithuania naval powers via 8 different classes of destroyer and a battleship or 8

Very sad to see the end of the mighty Italian Navy. I did not think things would turn so very quickly.

Who knew Tex had such a good Tarkin impression.

Yay, another installment of my favorite comedy long game playthrough!

Holy F that turk fleet though.

This was a fantastic playthrough ❤😂

The last stand of the ionian battlefleet was glorious, but it did half-cripple the italian fleet so uh, gabagool

@Deridus

4 ай бұрын

A Phyric victory, but a truly glorious ride. Watching a veritable WALL of red show up at once made me shiver, and I was hoping against hope that at least one got away. With such a talley against Italy, it's just as well the Turks are NPCs. Still wish we could play minor powers.

so glad this is just a game because I don't think WW2 would of gone so well if TEX ruled the Italian navy

1:37 For Tex laugh 💜

Welcome to Bombabaya! The heart of Italian India

Oh, its my weekly pasta navy fix! Rigatoni!

Egypt wants to by a Beefaroni hurt me on a physical level. I feel off the couch.

Every time Tex breaks out the Italian accent, I think of Inglorious Bastards...

i had a similar problem with Portugal in my current run as i wanted to take the Azores. I attacked it in 1910 and they turned up with 11 BBs and over 60 ships in total. They faced 2 BBs of mine and 50 TB/DDs, a lot of my small stuff went down, but they had only scraps after it.

Well I finally bought the game. Thanks TEX for the videos.

Wonderful! Nice to be here early!