It has been a little while.

[snip]

Hi everyone. Kinda going to ramble here for a little bit, and I've probly rewrote this enough its coherency is doubtful.

Over the last year and a half, I've been having a rough time in my personal life. Last winter, my wife had a major surgical procedure. It was a necessary, both for current quality of life and heading off some potential future problems. This procedure closed the door on us being able to have children together. Her decision to go through with this procedure is something I fully support and truly believee it was the correct choice.

Having kids is something that I know I've wanted in my future for a long time. We had talked about children before, and with some differences in details thought (at least I did) it was something we would do. Having the main way that could happen being shut off hurt, far more than I realized initially. It made me realize how much I do want to have a family and I pushed, too hard and too soon, for us to explore alternatives. I did not give her time to mentallyy recover and it exacerbated the little existing issues within our relationship. We ended up doing couples therapy for a while, which helped us talk to each other a little better. This led to us realizing that we were now at very opposite ends of wanting to grow our family and what that meant for the course our lives could take. After a lot of discussion, we came to the conclusion that with where we are, being so far apart on this major question about our future would render efforts to fix what is broken, both in our relationship and individually, would only hinder healing. We are currently in the process of amicably separating.

I have a lot of emotions throughout this. Disappointment and anger at myself are common, as is worry about the future. For a time I was really withdrawn, which is why I became inactive. I'm fortunate that my real life friends and family are supportive. That doesn't stop me from feeling like a bad person, a failure. I'm trying to combat this by taking more time to enjoy the outdoors and being involved in communities where I have activities I enjoy, friends, and a sense of belonging. That should include here, the community I've perhaps been involved with the longest, if intermittently.

Right now, only a couple things are fixed. I will be staying in Alaska, she is moving somewhere else. The dog is staying with me. Other than that, lots of moving parts that somehow seem to rely on other moving parts for a puzzle that won't start going together without something becoming fixed. Someday, things will settle out and I can start the process of healing and growing from this. I haven't been my best throughout this, hopefully I can avoid the same mistakes in the future.

What this means for Navalism is I'm going to make an effort to become more active again. Catching up will take time and I want to be conscious of not burning myself out trying to go too fast. If I get Rome back on its feet, I can get myself back on mine. I will try and be a little more open about what's going on, please feel free to tell me to stop if it's too much.

I hope all has been well for you and yours.
-Snip

[Jefgte]

Sorry to hear this news. Life sometimes brings challenges that are difficult to overcome. Time helps a lot.
Navalism will allow you to think about something else and go to a "parallel world".

Welcome back on board Roman Imperator.
To catch up, I suggest one report per year with a double budget obviously.

Jef

[The Rock Doctor]

I'm sorry that you're both going through this challenging time, but am relieved that you are able to do so amicably.

I'm glad to see you back and do hope that designing ridiculously oversized battleships will bring you some joy.

[The Rock Doctor]

Sixty second recap on Vilnius Union builds from 1926 on:

BB:

2 x Gadolin (1926, 1927):  8x400mm/45cal, 27 kts
2 x Ingenhousz (1931, 1932):  8x400mm/50cal, 27 kts

AC:

4 x Rajtar (1929, 1929, 1930, 1930):  8x250mm/50, 32 kts

CV:

2 x Centaury (1928, 1929):  35 or 30 A/C, 32 kts
1 x Hydry (1932):  48 or 40 A/C, 32 kts

Other:

-1 CL (8x150mm, 32 kts) and 4 DD every turn
-1 monitor with 1x450mm/45
-Lots of small patrol, subs, auxiliaries and that sort of thing
-A 500mm/45cal gun has been developed and is available for 1933 builds

In diplo news, the king died, his son took the throne, his second son married a Parthian noble and is pals with the Aztec crown prince.

[Kaiser Kirk]

Hey Snip, 
Welcome back.

Whoa, life has been really rough for you. That's a heck of a stretch to go through for both of you.  I'm glad the two of you worked through it with a therapist. Those decisions have to be wrenching, but I think it will help on the path forward that you worked through it and had an amicable split.  I hope the next years go much better for you.

We are of course happy to have you back, and take your time getting back up to speed.

Important - As of 1929 HY2, We introduced Enclaves, increasing the strategic value of a limited number of colonial territories...which apparently I have failed to move to RULES, so the thread is here :
https://www.navalism.org/index.php/topic,8016.msg102742.html#msg102742

Other - We have been discussing 'missing' 1930s techs and over the course of the weekend
between working on..work stuff, and doing chores, I was hoping to post a draft of the proposed 1930s techs. That is very much open for discussion and ideas. While I was hoping to have them 'Live' for 1933.0 (which normally would be July 4th weekend),  there is no reason we can't defer that to 1933.5 (1st weekend in August).

Take your time on 'catch up', enjoy tinkering with your ships, don't make it 'work' to catch up.

But Welcome back !!!!

[Kaiser Kirk]

Ok, the 1927-1932 summary of completions took MORE than 60 seconds, but gives you an idea what Parthia's been up to.

Diplomatically, the big event is the the recent marriage of the Aztec Crown Prince Ali and the Parthian Princess Shirin (4th in line, sister of Emperor Iskandar and Heir Vasche).  The augmented Parthian Expeditionary fleet
carried the Parthian royals to Azteca, excepting regent Vasche.  How close and how formally this brings the two nations hasn't been made out.

That storyline was co-mingled with the one that Rocky spoke of, where Lady Aspas of the Princely House of Surena got hitched into the Wilno line. House Surena is pretty much the 2nd House in Parthia, and has ruled chunks of India on occasion.

Not shown is Parthia has been extensively refitting/rebuilding older ships.
The fleet has received (mostly) both Fire control and AA upgrades.
The 6 older DNs have been re-armed with the new 333L43 guns the and kept in service.
Currently first 2 Tiamat class DNs are being upgraded.

#	Role	Class Name	Tons
2	DN	Wirozag	38000t	8 x 390	26kts
2	DN	Kalifern	38000t	16 x 365	20kts
2	AC	Dahae	24500t	8 x 333	29kts
1	CVL	Kam Baz	14500t	44 AC	29kts
3	FDC	Avio Aristabara Flight deck cruiser	14500t	8x230, 20AC	29kts
4	CVL	Bazdari fighter carrier	10500t	25 AC	26kts
1	CVT	Drayahendag training carrier	9000t	33 AC	26kts
2	CF	Pasbanendag Seaplane Cruiser	8000t	8x 180, 6 Seaplane	30kts
8	C	Royal Nisean	8000t	12x 180	30kts
4	GB	Sibari	3000t	6 x 165	23kts
2	GB	Hukar	1500t	3 x 165, 1 x 163	18kts
8	F	Sayidda Maritime Patrol Frigate	3000t	4 x 165	29kts
17	DD	Babr	1500t	5 x 120	32kts
22	DD	Vakharz	1132t	4 x 120	31kts
17	DE	Marban	500t	4 x 90	19kts
8	CPC	Sturgeon Coastal cutter	460t	4 x 90	16kts
4	ML	Sahog Fast Minelayer	1496t	4 x 120	32kts
55	MGB	Motor Gun Boat	60t	1 x 90	10kts
196	MTB	MTB F/G/I	40t
12	SS	1920-1925 SS	750t
28	SS	1920-1925 SS	500t
24	PS	Patrol Sloop v2	600t	aux
2	FNT	Deniz Sayadar Netlayer	6600t	aux
2	FAT	Avio Piarika Seaplane Tender	15000t	aux
4	FSV	Hakma Fleet Supply	15000t	aux
1	FSV	Hamberkastig Fleet Supply	14800t	aux
6	FSV	Deniz Ghoorbagheh	2800t	aux
1	M	Anahita Disaster Response	14500t	aux
17	PSG	Gnat A Gunboats	280t	aux
21	PSC	Gnat B Subchaser	280t	aux
21	PSM	Gnat C Minesweeper	280t	aux

[Jefgte]

Byzantium also rebuilt DDs, CLs, ACs & BBs. all these ships have 40 mm pompom.
102 QF, 120 QF are replaced by 102 DP & 114 DP on CLs, ACs & BBs. 133 DP are available.
All ACs & CLs have 27kts minimum speed.
Old PDNs started to be scrapped.
Colonial BBs have 24kts speed.

Since 1927


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Qty	Classe	type	Tonnage	Armament	Speed
2	Konia	BB	37000t	3T3x381	27
2	Koloni	CBB	18510t	2T3x381	24
4	Cakicihdeniz	CE1	7900t	18 aircrafts	27
2	Baydu	CV1	10000t	20 aircrafts	29
4	Karadeniz	CV2	15000t	40 aircrafts	29
2	Pusuldeniz	CV3	20940t	60 aircrafts	30
4	Azgar	SPT	5825t	8 floatplanes	24
6	Lamia	C11	8000t	6T2x191	30
10	Omatha	C13	8000t	6T2x191	30
6	Merka	C12	3000t	3T2x152	29
8	Nustha	C14	3000t	4x191	27
16	D12	DD	1600t	2T2x120+8TTx533	32
8	D13	DD	1700t	3T2x120+8TTx533	32
12	D14	DD	1500t	2T2x120+8TTx533	32
4	D15	DD	1900t	3T2x120+10TTx533	33
26	TGB500		500t	2x102+3TTx533	25
40	MTBH		80t		34
16	MTBK		120t		34
20	SS	Sub	750t
40		TUG	400t
4	Hospital ship		4600t

[snip]

Thanks everyone, appreciate the catchup notes.