PLEASE do a WW1 era competition like this! So much more variety in that era with all of the different type of dreadnoughts/super dreads and battlecruisers being built across the world. 11-16 inch guns, 4 to 14 guns (may be more, just going off the top of my head), different variations of turret lay out and armour layouts to name but a few reasons!

@GaryJones69420

2 жыл бұрын

You'll have to wait a bit, there is still 3 more divisions and 2 ships to go.

@toddwebb7521

11 ай бұрын

Well if you did a WWI one Drach's 4 categories of WWI battleships would be a basis 1st gen dreadnoughts 8 gun or less effective broadside 12 inch guns 2nd gen dreadnoughts 10 or more gun broadside 12 inch guns 1st gen super dreadnoughts 10 or less 14ish inch guns 2nd gen super dreadnoughts 12+ 14 inch or 8 larger than 14 inch

If this game has taught me anything, it's that with most of these division 4 ships using cordite/picric acid, as well as being fairly lightly armoured, there should be some spectacular explosions when they clash. Loving these builds with Drach

Exited for the big showdown honestly. Love you two, great team.

If you could double the length of the hull aft of the quarterdeck break, it’d be spot-on visually and probably properly balanced.

@antonhengst8667

2 жыл бұрын

you really really really really should have used dreadnought II hull. it's spot on for the Kongo's hull form

Interesting build, but a couple of Observations: - I think you would have been much better off using the Modernized Dreadnought III Hull, which has a lower minimum displacement and overall is much better at recreating the Kongō-class (longer, more Kongō style casemates, etc.) - This goes for most of the refits you have done, but i would recommend setting the Year of the Build to the Year of the reconstruction unless it prevents you from adding smth., that the ship historically would have had.

@gilveneli247

2 жыл бұрын

Haruna only has 8 6" casemates left during '44...but her 5" heavy AA increased..from 8 to 12

@midgester222

2 жыл бұрын

@@gilveneli247 You're right, i missed the 1943 refit... I'll remove it from the original comment.

Im am enjoying this wayyy to much, Especially for just build videos.

@lordhoth4443

2 жыл бұрын

Also insert tall pagoda towers meme here

this is such a cool series

Loved the video @Brother Monro! Can't wait for the next video man! The one thing that I hope comes out in a future update for "Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts" is the Availability of Aircraft Carriers after 1920 since you lose that of the Torpedo Boats at the same year. Other than that, The Haruna looks pretty decent though.

Man, can you imagine if you took this game back in time and showed it off to the Sea Lord in 1900?

Our little Haruna has put on some weight, now didn't she?

If you are realistic with Kongō having way behind the curve fire control it should be towards the bottom of the pack. If you give it unrealistically good fire control it would probably be better than renown because 8 guns that will have zero problem with it's armour.

@BrotherMunro

2 жыл бұрын

I can confirm from the battles Kongo fights in that she most certainly does not have unrealistically good fire control

@toddwebb7521

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know Bro

@wheelmanv

2 жыл бұрын

I recall drach saying something along the lines of assuming a 1945 config for each, to put them on more level field

@BrotherMunro

2 жыл бұрын

@@wheelmanv yes we are assuming all the ships survived to later in the war for our little competition

It's a big target, but I think this layout gives Kongo the edge in this bracket!

I would prefer using the modernized dreadnought 3 hull bc the front is actually perfect for the Kongo

Would you consider doing a Cruiser league after the battleship league is finished? I would love to see some of the designs be built and compared

Brother Munro's channel appears to be a little different from what I'm used to with Drach. Nobody has posted "Burning love!" yet.

You know, just for kicks, whichever ship wins this tournament should then do a 1 on 1 vs a Tillman, or maybe a Montana or A-150 if you want somthing a little more "down to earth". Actually, it'd be interesting to see if those could be created in UAD...

14:46 A little bit? That's around the weight of a reasonably heavy 15 inch shell lol; and 240kg heavier than the kongo's 14 inch shell

What was the logic of setting this in the 1940's? The vast majority of hulls in that decade have wildly higher displacements than most ships that were ever actually built; and meaning as you're doing a lot of revamped ww1 ships, a 1940 date is just inviting problems

@frederiknielsen6038

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing. An earlier date would have made a lot of the builds easier

@danhaas9730

2 жыл бұрын

It’ll make a lot more sense once they get to the other divisions, featuring ships like Iowa, Yamato, and Vanguard.

@tommeakin1732

2 жыл бұрын

@@danhaas9730 I'm pretty sure you could do Yamato at a much earlier date, and have access to smaller hulls as well

@BrotherMunro

2 жыл бұрын

An earlier date is possible - 1935 perhaps - but the main reason for 1940 is that the battles are assumed to be taking place late war, 1944/45 or so - and it made sense to keep the date the same all the way through as the ship saves are tied to the year

@tommeakin1732

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrotherMunro I appreciate the logic, but it kind of relies on the game following real life more than it does. The game is going for more of an alt history "what if there were no treaties" kind of thing - to the point where you sometimes can't even build realistic tonnage ships because the game thinks they're too puny lol

KONGO BONGO

@SephirothRyu

2 жыл бұрын

Donkey Kongo

How do you save the ships. please? Or do you have to rebuild them every time you load up the game?

@BrotherMunro

2 жыл бұрын

The game shaves ships automatically by class, year and date for custom battles (one of the reasons I kept the year at 1940)

Personally I wouldn't bother trying to stick to realistic tonnage figures and just build it to more accurate length.

@dougjb7848

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think you can set displacement and length separately-the only way to get a longer hull is to build a higher displacement.

One ship they should add for Russia is the Mikhail Kutuzov... Currently a museum ship...

👍

But didn’t the Kongos have a really long, narrow hull? The area aft of X turret is enormous.

@BrotherMunro

2 жыл бұрын

You are quite correct but there is no such hull in the game for us to use

why not use the unlock all hull option for these ships?

@BrotherMunro

2 жыл бұрын

Unlock all is tricky to use for the battles and makes keeping saves of the ships really awkward

i think it would have been better to do all these with the time set to when they were comissioned so the game shows the right parts

Can I ask why you're using 1940 date for all of these? It seems counter productive to replicating the ships as closely as possible to not use the date they were built/re-built.

@SephirothRyu

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. You CAN make different years fight each other in Custom Battle.