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 (More 3d graphics than the rest of the game put together) The seat of government. Room full of fat old men, lots of talking and sounds of rumination. Speaker “Gentlemen, Gentlemen! The next order of business is the state of the Navy” Various Posh booing and “Rhubarb Rhubarb.” Speaker “Now now, I have the new Admiral in charge of the navy outside, and he is here to address us. Show him in.” Stirring national anthem from nowhere, Admiral Grey Hunter enters backed by flunkies.  Speaker “Now Admiral Hunter. You are new to the post, but I hear you have big ideas on how we can improve our Navy.  “Yes your honour, you see, it is now the year 1900, and we are entering a brave new world of ship building, our current fleet is of course all ironclad vessels, but the pace of time will not stand still. We need to push forwards.We need to Rule the waves. Welcome to Rule the Waves 2.  It’s finally here! The sequel to the grog hit Rule the waves, its Rule the waves 2 - Carrier Bugallo! What’s changed? CARRIERS! The game now runs until 1975, instead of the 1925 limit of the previous game, and we will go from Pre Dreadnoughts through to carriers and fairly modern ships. For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, Rule the Waves is a game where you take control of a nation's navy, and steer it through decades of modernization and wars - you start with an old fleet of ships, and then have to play politics to get the money to build a new fleet. The problem is that the largest ships take years to build, and the rate of technological progress is rapid, so every ship is outdated by the time it comes off the slipway - your always racing to get as many modern ships out as possible. Then a war starts, and you get to control those ships in a 90’s tastic top down battle. This looks pants but is actually really engaging. How will this LP work? This is going to be a heavy user engagement LP. There will be several layers of play. Politician This is all of you. You will be able to vote on what our foreign policy is, what ship designs we adopt, and how many ships we build. Bureau of Ordinance. This is a single player role, they will be responsible for setting our R&D levels, and for picking what planes we have available. BUORD is in a prime place to screw with me. please indicate your interest now, the position will be put to the vote in the next session. Shipwright This is an option for those with the game - you will be competing to make the most money - how? By making the most winning designs that I will then be forced to purchase from you. I’ll give a copy of the most recent save out, so everyone will be designing from the same Once we have selected our nation, the next update will be a state of the nation. Non war updates will run for a year, with war updates running as long as they need to. We will then have a large number of votes to set the state of play, but this will be done through google polls to keep things a bit more civil, while the main focus in thread will be getting our navy going - there will be a randomly generated legacy fleet to deal with, and we will need to make some changes. Voting I intend to keep voting simple - anyone can propose a bill, and I’ll look through the thread for those that have the most support and organise them into votes that make sense - so all shipbuilding will go against each other, all diplomatic, ect. The Challenges. So, to make this more interesting, I’m going to run a few challenges - the first two are simple and for the Shipwrights - Most tonnage built and most ships built - simply whoever gets the thread to vote to build the most of their ships, or the most tonnage of their ships, will win that category - this is simply to get some friendly competition going. Greatest Ship is going to be more interesting - every ten years I’m going to put up a list of ships built in that timeframe, and you lot will vote for the best ship, at the end of the game, those 7 finalists will be run off against each other for best ship of the game. I will then try and make a 3D model of that ship. As you can see from the title, my skills are limited as I’m relearning, but I need a challenge. What makes the best ship then? Well, once a design has been built, it will (hopefully) get tested in battle - either as an onscreen fight or an offscreen raider. This should build up a nice history for each ship, and hopefully make them more real. To help this, I’m going to keep a document called Greys Fighting Ships, which we can use to document this history. It will be an open document, allowing anyone to add information and write ups. I’m hoping keeping track of these ships will become a side LP people can follow. Nation Choices Great Britain - Powerful, rich, with a slight tendency to explode. Britain is the largest sea power of the time, but also has the most area to cover. USA - The Great White fleet may be new, but with the industrial powerhouse of the USA behind it, America will be a growing power. Germany - The Kaiser wants Germany to have a fleet that challenges Great Britain, can German engineering and Krupp Steel win the day? Russia - Russia's navy has never been is strength, and with ports on opposite sides of the world, the Navy has always been split between the baltic sea and the pacific. Maybe in this timeline their navy can avoid a series of humiliating defeats. Japan - Newly industrialised and hungry to make their presence known on the world scene, Japan is not above using surprise attacks to win victories over richers, more developed foes. Italy - Dreaming of power, the Italians are confined to the mediterranean. But like all nations, dream of expanding their colonies. Austria-Hungary - Stop laughing back there - they had a few ships. Another land based power with hopes of projecting their power across the seas. Confederated States of America - want things to get a bit Turtledove? In this alt history option, the CSA survives the ACW and is now trying to establish themselves as a world power. So, who do we think will Rule the Waves? vote here! Finally - for some actual lets play content, here is me screwing up and getting the Royal Navy killed in a new campaign of the game in video form!  Yes I'm playing the Royal Navy. Yes, its about to go as well as you would expect. I have form to maintain. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 11:30 on May 17, 2019 |
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I’ll be picking this up as soon as it becomes available to us plebs, so I’m happy to be a shipwright.
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May 17, 2019 10:59
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Oh gently caress yes, getting in on the ground floor for this. I look forward to submitting overgunned light cruisers with no armour, that will inevitably be paved over to serve as jeep carriers, for the glory of *insert nation here*
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May 17, 2019 11:00
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I'll be BuOrd with a policy of ZEPPELIN SUPREMACY and we should go with Russia/Soviet Union.
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May 17, 2019 11:11
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Could you post a link to the game? Is it still really convoluted to get myself a copy? And it has to be the Royal Navy, for me
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May 17, 2019 11:11
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simplefish posted:Could you post a link to the game? Its not actually out yet, Grey has a reviewer copy (lol). However the demo is. http://nws-online.proboards.com/thread/2002/rtw2-demo-download-link-live
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May 17, 2019 11:13
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simplefish posted:Could you post a link to the game? It’s not out for most people yet, Grey has an advance copy because he’s a grog influencer.
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May 17, 2019 11:13
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quote:RTW2 blind LP as the game launches  Put me down as...  Bureau of
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May 17, 2019 11:15
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Saros posted:Its not actually out yet, Grey has a reviewer copy (lol). However the demo is. Pirate Radar posted:It’s not out for most people yet, Grey has an advance copy because he’s a grog influencer. Ah ok, just thought because of the Shipbuilder thing he expected some of us to have a copy already
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Pirate Radar posted:It’s not out for most people yet, Grey has an advance copy because he’s a grog influencer. Years of geeking finally payin off! simplefish posted:Ah ok, just thought because of the Shipbuilder thing he expected some of us to have a copy already Nah, its going to take a while to get votes and get the setup done, so it'll be out by then. oh yeah -vote here! Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 11:35 on May 17, 2019 |
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May 17, 2019 11:31
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Is France not in the game?
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May 17, 2019 13:02
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Aw yes, ground floor. This will be Ramming speed!  ...Is there ramming in this game? 
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May 17, 2019 13:13
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Mikl posted:...Is there ramming in this game? Only by accident and usually of your own ships.
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May 17, 2019 13:15
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I am excited for the next edition of Grey Hunter Destroys a Navy.
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May 17, 2019 13:28
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Fader Movitz posted:Is France not in the game? Night10194 posted:I am excited for the next edition of Grey Hunter Destroys a Navy. I'm just going to assume there's a relation here
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May 17, 2019 13:29
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France? Never heard of it.
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May 17, 2019 13:30
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France is hiding until they can reveal the majesty of Le Surcouf as final boss.
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May 17, 2019 13:32
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Actually, I left France off as that is what we did in the last LP. I've added them on now though.
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May 17, 2019 13:37
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I absolutely adored the first game. Part of me really wants to be BuOrd. I have big plans! Magnetic detonators on torpedoes! That circle back to their point or origin! Carried on cruisers with 40 torpedo launchers! Cruisers that are submarines. Aircraft carriers that fly. Twenty inch battleship guns to shoot down planes with. Planes that shoot other planes out to attack things. Atomic depth charges. Circular battleships. Abstract cubist camouflage paint schemes. I can see it now... It will be beautiful. ...In my defense, every example is something people actually did.
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May 17, 2019 13:49
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Hey, dazzle camo is beautiful, I wish we still did it as a matter of course
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May 17, 2019 13:56
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kommy5 posted:I absolutely adored the first game. Part of me really wants to be BuOrd. I have big plans! Magnetic detonators on torpedoes! That circle back to their point or origin! Carried on cruisers with 40 torpedo launchers! Cruisers that are submarines. Aircraft carriers that fly. Twenty inch battleship guns to shoot down planes with. Planes that shoot other planes out to attack things. Atomic depth charges. Circular battleships. Abstract cubist camouflage paint schemes. A boring rehash of things that already happened! Vote Saros for BuOrd for Zeppelin Supremacy. Also every ship will be built around the principles of Maximum Elan and will have free ice-cream and probably sails.
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May 17, 2019 14:00
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Cannot wait for goons to go all in on Zeppelins. Also the most hideous CV/BB mashup ships that you can build.
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Astroclassicist posted:Cannot wait for goons to go all in on Zeppelins. Catamaran aircraft carriers or nothing
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May 17, 2019 14:14
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overmind2000 posted:Catamaran aircraft carriers or nothing Holllyyy poo poo how did I not know about this, thank you for providing my new Manifesto Pledge.
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May 17, 2019 14:20
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Saros posted:Holllyyy poo poo how did I not know about this, thank you for providing my new Manifesto Pledge. It's not real, but I have faith that Grey can make it happen somehow
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May 17, 2019 14:22
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Astroclassicist posted:Cannot wait for goons to go all in on Zeppelins. Rebuilds are a thing. I rebuilt some old light cruisers into CVLs. It's a good use for an obsolite hull!
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May 17, 2019 14:22
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Grey Hunter posted:Rebuilds are a thing. I rebuilt some old light cruisers into CVLs. It's a good use for an obsolite hull! Oh no, I don't want sensible rebuilds. I want fresh off the slipway hybrids with 18 inch turrets and flight decks 
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May 17, 2019 14:45
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Astroclassicist posted:Oh no, I don't want sensible rebuilds. I want fresh off the slipway hybrids with 18 inch turrets and flight decks you can remove turrets individually, so this is totally doable.
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May 17, 2019 14:52
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Does this game have dirigible aircraft carriers ? Can we build dirigibles that carry smaller dirigibles?
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May 17, 2019 14:54
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Parasite fighters are a thing so yes.
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May 17, 2019 14:55
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Can't wait for the 1st Venetian zeppelin escuadrone to carry Entente liberation forces to sack Istanbul.
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May 17, 2019 16:23
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So hype for this. Gonna be a shipbuilding firm, and hoping we go with one of the UK, Japan, or USA to be on the leading edge of carrier goodness.
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May 17, 2019 16:34
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Italy! I will run the Vatican's subsidiary Holy Sea Shipbuilding Company.
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May 17, 2019 16:37
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If voting's a thing then I'll cast my ballot for Saros for BuOrd. He's competent enough to bring the necessary streak of malice to BuOrd's madness.
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May 17, 2019 17:26
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gently caress it, throwing my hat in the ring for Buord As a sample of what I will bring to our glorious nation of TBD, I present you the latest and greatest out the proving* grounds:  Gentleman, a 35" gun grossing a mere 2 tons, all up. With the devastating and portable firepower lent to us by this inflatable gun, we shall soon rule the skies as well as the seas, as soon as someone invents a dirigible anyway. Pharnakes fucked around with this message at 17:59 on May 17, 2019 |
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May 17, 2019 17:56
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Zeroisanumber posted:If voting's a thing then I'll cast my ballot for Saros for BuOrd. Voting will be part of a group of state stetting votes once the country has been selected. People should be nominating themselves now though!
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May 17, 2019 18:09
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Pharnakes posted:gently caress it, throwing my hat in the ring for Buord Oh Christ. It's so... sexy.
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May 17, 2019 18:23
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I'll be joining in as a Shipwright. I really want to get my hands on the full game ASAP, but I guess watching Grey's LP will scratch that itch until then.
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May 17, 2019 18:30
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Nothing's better than rebuild a Predreadnaught into an CVL.Shipyard manager posted:
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Does the CSA option imply that the United States no longer exists or that they would be operating as a rival regional power?
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