General Social/Chatter Thread

Jefgte · November 18, 2021, 03:22:40 PM

QuoteQuick, everyone lets invade Parthia next week!

"Are you ready gunners ?
Torpedo boats, prepare torpedoes."

The Rock Doctor · November 18, 2021, 03:44:13 PM

YOU GUYS ARE TERRIBLE, INVADING PARTHIA IS WRONG, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE DOING THAT.

Kaiser Kirk · November 18, 2021, 07:34:20 PM

I'm touched that you all think it's a lovely time to come vacation in Parthia :)
Really....

Jefgte · November 19, 2021, 07:54:00 AM

QuoteI will be departing Friday for a week, off to visit relatives out East for Turkey Day.

I will take my laptop, but last time I was out there was extremely limited internet there.
So I may...or may not...chime in for a week after Friday.

I will take advantage of next week to finalize 1920 new Laid Down and make the 1920H1 report.

Jefgte · November 30, 2021, 12:35:36 AM

I work on a new "Where are they" & 1920H2 report.

With new high speed -29-32kts,
I 'm going to increase shipyards lengths 50m=>80m - 80m=>125m - 125m=>175m

80m or 100m (?)

The Rock Doctor · November 30, 2021, 06:48:11 AM

As I noted in my news report, my dock usage is somewhat distorted by insufficient small docks for MTBs, patrol boats and such. They're taking up space in my larger docks, too.

I'm going to increase the 50m docks to 60m so I can build two small fry at a time in each dock, rather than one. Then I'm probably going to play with a 1/21 report before I decide how much expansion I need to do on the larger docks.

Kaiser Kirk · December 01, 2021, 08:37:51 AM

The MTBs can be built 2 at a time in the 50m docks.
20m + 10m space + 20m = 50.

Parthia skimped on docks at the start, while she actually bought a larger starting navy, and near maxed the LP/DP.
So Dock space has been a constraint, but not so far a barrier.
I have to say though, Darman ploughed substantial funds into Iberian docks, and it's odd updating a position with such overabundance.

Of course, all the starting Docks were 'at home'. So I've been building 160m in the overseas territories and I am currently extending some docks to 190m.
That way if I have a damaged ship, I can fix it. But I need redundancy.

The Rock Doctor · December 01, 2021, 08:41:26 AM

Do the MTBs have an official size? I'd just gone looking for something historical with similar tonnage and extrapolated from there.

Kaiser Kirk · December 01, 2021, 08:41:53 AM

In other news,
I put my 'desired' 1920 new ships - lots of potential new classes - into excel.
I then worked out the average build/cost/HY for them for the numbers I want.
180 ships in ~4 HY...
Then I added in the LP/AP/DP/FP.

Looks like I only need 64 BP / HY.
Well, a little more as I did not budget my reconstructions.

So... my "desired" build plan just slightly exceeds my resources.

Kaiser Kirk · December 01, 2021, 08:42:40 AM

Quote from: The Rock Doctor on December 01, 2021, 08:41:26 AM
Do the MTBs have an official size? I'd just gone looking for something historical with similar tonnage and extrapolated from there.

Yes, 20m

That was something I talked to Snip about Pre-game as I was deciding on my Dock Lengths and I wanted to Double-Up.

The Rock Doctor · December 01, 2021, 09:04:12 AM

Good to know, maybe I'll re-think that decision to expand all of my 50m docks in 2/20.

So you gotta make just a few hard decisions about your build program, eh?

TacCovert4 · December 01, 2021, 09:14:11 AM

Well, darman was also producing a lot for export. He was basically supplying the entire RAN submarine force.

Jefgte · December 01, 2021, 09:21:56 AM

Happy to see you back aboard :)

Quote...I put my 'desired' 1920 new ships - lots of potential new classes - into excel.
I then worked out the average build/cost/HY for them for the numbers I want.
180 ships in ~4 HY...

124 ships for Byzantium in 4HY (1921-22)

116BP
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Rocky
I have noted in my Plan:
MTB => 20m then 10m space then another MTB
50m => 2MTB
75m => 2MTB
125m => 4MTB
175m => 6MTB

The Rock Doctor · December 01, 2021, 09:25:22 AM

Yeah, I was allocating 22m or something for a 40t boat, so it didn't quite work for me.

Now I guess it does. Huzzah!

Kaiser Kirk · December 01, 2021, 10:10:56 AM

Quote from: TacCovert4 on December 01, 2021, 09:14:11 AM
Well, darman was also producing a lot for export. He was basically supplying the entire RAN submarine force.

The curious thing was he didn't build subs for Iberia.
I did reserve space in Iberia's builds to do those last 3? subs for the RAN.

Anyhow, I have Iberia down to be building 1915 and 1920 subs.

I'm getting booked up already for next weekend, so it may be the following one when I can post the Norse/Iberia.
I mainly needed to know their in-service fleet size and military size, so that part is done.