General Social/Chatter Thread

[The Rock Doctor]

Back from a week-long road trip that was entirely unrelated to ships except for the book I bought on an aborted Lake Huron - Ottawa River canal proposal from a century or so back.  Gonna have to see how the route compares to map ownership in the N-verse.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Welcome back.
I've been eyeing the Caspian-Indian ocean canal ideas myself.
I wonder how much they would cost in Navalism terms,
but then I hit that time/energy/priority/laziness nexus and it stops.

[The Rock Doctor]

Out of curiosity, at what point are we bringing transom sterns into the equation?

[The Rock Doctor]

Out of curiosity, at what point are we bringing transom sterns into the equation?

...as he notes that his version of springsharp doesn't factor transom sterns into the math anyway, regardless of what is clicked.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Good question.

I really don't know what Snip was intending.

My version of SS does modify hull strength when I click transom off and on.
And I get different results with 'Large' and 'small'.

I believe one of my Battleship books mentions the first that had a transom, which might have been HMS Nelson.
but I don't know about cruisers and when it popped up there.

For now, lets just say no earlier than 1929... so folks can move on while we try to figure that one out.

[The Rock Doctor]

So we have "primitive DP" guns under the Capital Ship tech but nothing specified for other ship techs or the naval artillery tech.

Do I have to wait to finish the capital ship tech before I can design the guns, or can I have them ready to introduce on new ships as soon as the cap ship tech is done?

If we get around to a rules fix, there might be better tech spots to fit DP under.

[Kaiser Kirk]

The presumption I'm running under is that where things are called out in one tech tree - that's the 'unlock' tech for others.
So one must have that DP tech from the Capital ships before you can design such guns or introduce them on cruisers or elsewhere.

[The Rock Doctor]

That works for me.

[The Rock Doctor]

Mildly cool that we passed 100,000 total posts within the last few days, nice job folks.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Mildly cool that we passed 100,000 total posts within the last few days, nice job folks.

Hey you're 10% of those !
Get cranking so we can hit 200k !

[The Rock Doctor]

Stupid statistic of the day:

There are 1,015 vessels in service with the Vilnius Union as of 31/12/1927.  That includes auxiliaries.

They have a total light displacement of 1,269,666 t (counting auxiliaries at full displacement.

That means the average light displacement of a Union ship is 1,251 t.

[Kaiser Kirk]

That reminds me I haven't done the 'colony count' for a bit.
Just jammed for time.

But that was one of the things it reported- Warship and Aux tonnage per  Empire.

As of ..well 7/1/27... Comparable Parthian would be something like
1,493,665 total light tonnage
1206 vessels
1238/vessels

I have a nearly 200 Aux ships with over 250,000 tons that boost that.

[The Rock Doctor]

I should probably sort my spreadsheet and see what the mean tonnage is.  I suspect half my ships are under 500 tonnes. 

Kinda illustrates that even commanding a destroyer is a bit of a big deal for an officer.

[TacCovert4]

It's one thing I've tried to show with the sultanate after ironclad bay.  The loss of so many senior officers putting much more responsibility in the hands of a new generation.

[Kaiser Kirk]

I would bet my fleet is far more elderly than either of yours. I have a number of ships from the 1890s still in service.

It's one thing I've tried to show with the sultanate after ironclad bay.  The loss of so many senior officers putting much more responsibility in the hands of a new generation.

That could be a positive :)

I had intended to follow the commander of an elderly cruiser as she promoted through the ranks,
and that would be my avenue to expound on naval theory and building choices.
... no time. She got 1 story right in the beginning, that's all.

The Emperor was the infrastructure angle- competent long sighted administration,
while Vache was the land military side.
Shirin was to have some stories, but I thought it likely she'd be shipped off to Walter for him to direct.