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Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I am excited for the next edition of Grey Hunter Destroys a Navy.

# ¿ May 17, 2019 13:28

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 11:02

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

France is hiding until they can reveal the majesty of Le Surcouf as final boss.

# ¿ May 17, 2019 13:32

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Wait, does the 3 Centerlines now immediately enable us to build BBs?

# ¿ Jun 9, 2019 04:59

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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with a bear.

Imperator Nicolai Veliki

Just think of how jealous Kaiser Wilhelm will be.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2019 13:54

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Why would we give the Tsar 6 fine 13 inch naval hunting rifles if not to defend his beloved people and hunt the actual most dangerous game: Battleships? He can mount their ship's wheels back at the palace as trophies!

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 14:35

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Bremen posted:

It's not big on micromanagement (and at game start you can even choose to shrink everyone's navy proportionately so you aren't dealing with hundreds of ships). It's grognardy reputation is almost entirely in the ship design, where you could spend a half hour fiddling with numbers or looking up what things like narrow armor belts and cross deck fire mean.

Though in a lot of ways, isn't that the entire fun of the game? Designing ships? Makes sense it'd be the biggest point of mechanical complexity.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2019 17:43

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Three cheers for our heroic Tsar!

# ¿ Jul 1, 2019 05:26

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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with a bear.

The Lone Badger posted:

He personally saved thousands of our finest! A true hero

And where is the Emperor of Japan, anyway? Hiding in his palace! Not like our true Russian monarch and his mighty cannon yacht.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2019 12:58

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Pershing posted:

Åsidosätta

Seconded

# ¿ Jul 8, 2019 13:10

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

And lo, falls the roundest boat to ever exist.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2019 15:17

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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sheep-dodger posted:

Efficient Rearmament Act

There shall be no gimmick ships of the BB, CA, B or BC classes until we have built at least five new ships of those classes or ten years have passed, whichever happens earlier

Seconded.

If we wanted to have the budget to build dumb poo poo and still overwhelm the enemy with an army of ship-corpses we'd have been America.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2019 02:24

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

OpenlyEvilJello posted:

Breaking my ancient custom of never voting on anything to give a hard Nyet to Totally Not Blackmail because it's petty bullshit.

Same here. Totally Not Blackmail: No.

C'mon, guys, play nice. We're not the IJA and IJN.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2019 19:08

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Those improved 5 inchers are going to be really nice for future secondaries and arming our next few waves of DDs.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2019 13:17

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I enjoy the small shot of how we have no money in the corner of the extremely expensive BC's design.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2019 03:57

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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with a bear.

Also you can't name something below 70,000-80,000 tons the Maximum Battleship. Unless we have to grease the sides so it can get through the Panama Canal it isn't a Maximum Battleship yet.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2019 05:21

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Guess I'll vote for Potemkin.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2019 20:27

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I think we can take France. Austria-Hunagry is never a threat.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2019 06:01

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Nay across the board

# ¿ Oct 2, 2019 16:43

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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with a bear.

The thing is airbases are actually very useful. They're definitely something to consider when we're not building 3 BBs.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2019 18:47

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Nearly losing to a CA with a BC is one of the most Austria-Hungary moves possible. Up there with having over 40 subs and not managing to sink a single merchant.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2019 13:14

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

That was my guess as well, but you've gotta admit, it's a pretty Austria-Hungarian move. Looking vaguely threatening on paper but then the details show they're all from the 1905s and completely worthless. This is the country that called '3 9 inch guns' a battleship armament.

They're probably all out puttering around the med, randomly exploding when someone aboard leaves the stove on.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2019 15:02

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Those triple turrets are going to be a godsend for future designs.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2019 19:33

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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with a bear.

Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

# ¿ Oct 7, 2019 05:25

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Huh, the Quads are Improved Quads immediately. That'll be nice.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2019 07:52

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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with a bear.

Though scrapping one that's only 6 months into being built and has been sitting on pause for ages is less of an issue, especially when you just made some huge advances while waiting for the money to free up to build it. Scrapping the one that's almost done would be a bad move, scrapping the one with 27 months left isn't necessarily bad.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2019 17:47

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Danann posted:

Potemkin's the one on 7 months, the Rimsky-Korsakov's the one that's being proposed for scrapping and she's the one that's on 23 months and more.

That's what I mean, Potemkin is almost done while Rimsky-Korsakov has only actually been building rather than on pause for like 6 months of its 30+ month construction time. We should finish Potemkin and I agree we should just scrap Rimsky-Korsakov.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2019 18:33

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

When I was playing with a friend for the first time, CLs were definitely some of our MVPs as far as winning a lot of smaller engagements while also being useful. Plus, we have double turrets for CLs which allows for some mean CLs. And CLs stay useful in fleet engagements because enemy Destroyers hate them.

The issue for us is that building multiple capital ships at a time is difficult. Very difficult. It's hard enough to do as someone like Germany. To be honest I'd be more down with canceling the Korsakov not so much to replace it with another BB, but rather to replace it with other kinds of ships.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2019 19:06

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Yea to scrapping the Rimsky-Korsakov and Annoy Austria Acts

Nay to all others

There's always time to dunk on Austria-Hungary.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2019 14:08

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

LCS Act-Yea

All Others-Nay

# ¿ Oct 11, 2019 13:23

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I like the idea on the gun arrangement on the Penguin.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2019 22:11

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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bewbies posted:

YES to

Blue Water Navy Act of 1929
Baltic Air Expansion Act of 1929

nay to all else

This

# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 15:46

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

What level of AI vs. player control of the fleet is Grey playing on again?

# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 20:37

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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Arcturas posted:

Can you refit ships with higher quality same-size guns? We just unlocked Q1 16� guns and all our battleships use 16� guns. If that�s a fast refit we might be able to sneak it in ahead of the war with Austria and I assume it�d give us an even bigger edge?

You can, but it's surprisingly and enormously expensive. It can be really worth it sometimes, though. Qual 1 16 inchers are a really good thing to have.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2019 14:31

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

16 inch Qual +1 guns are probably genuinely better for far less weight.

Not that this should stop us building 20 inch armed BBs or BCs once those come available, mind. Because it's a 20 inch cannon. You have to try to make that thing float and shoot.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2019 15:36

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

My god. Every time I look at that design, I see something new and horrifying. In a way, I admire its purity.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 01:20

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Did you ever consider if you combined these two pure creatures that live within your imagination, you would produce a mighty hybrid that could do all the things BBs do, instead of a pair of pure yet crippled Hapsburg-esque abominations choking on their own tongues.

(I love the Moskva and your Agincourt, But More idea)

# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 01:28

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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with a bear.

Servetus posted:

We have the lowest Naval Budget of the Great Powers! How did this happen? Austria has a bigger Naval budget than we do!

The Tsar is putting the gold on his bread.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2019 16:01

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Pingvin 2

# ¿ Nov 4, 2019 14:38

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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I just prefer to use the 5 inch guns if possible, especially as we have Qual +1 ones, so I thought the Pingvin was a better DD.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2019 01:07

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# ¿ May 18, 2024 11:02

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
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with a bear.

yea
nay

# ¿ Nov 6, 2019 15:23

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