Let's Play "Rule The Waves" w/ Steve's Custom Country "Cascadia"

[Steve]

You are aware what kind of designs will pop up if you let THIS crowd loose on Ultimate Admiral?

Aladeeeeeen!

*wipes off cob-webs*

Guess what game I bought with the Steam winter sale?

Granted, I'm currently playing UA: Age of Sail. Did the British campaign to learn the game and now playing the far harder American one, where reputation costs are more widespread and the missions are in theory more challenging.

While you get to craft some choices for your characterbackground they clearly modeled the UK and US admirals off Horatio Nelson and John Paul Jones, IMHO.

And UG: American Revolution is the same just with Washington and Howe.

But I have been tinkering with UA: D a bit (Tex of the Black Pants Legion just started a Spain playthrough and reminded me I did want to play with it), no abominations yet since I'm just doing the tutorials and getting a feel for things, but we'll see what silliness I do. Maybe a UA:D version of the CRS Warrior from this thread shall be possible...

[Eternal_Freedom]

If you do build a US version of CRS Warrior, I call dibs on a) commanding her and b) writing her inevitable eulogy

[Steve]

If you do build a US version of CRS Warrior, I call dibs on a) commanding her and b) writing her inevitable eulogy

Haven't been able to quite do that one yet due to how the game's design system works. This is the closest I can manage at my current point in my current first playthrough.

[Eternal_Freedom]

Urgh, cage masts. No thanks.

[Steve]

Urgh, cage masts. No thanks.

Alas.

Anyway, here she is against her usual foes from the prior game, the Kriegsmarine.

[Steve]

Urgh, cage masts. No thanks.

Not a fan but they give increased long range accuracy, which makes the big guns hit more often, so on they go.

Though I'm now into the 1910s and the first superdreadnoughts are coming online, with non-cage towers. Just laid North Dakota as my first 40kton super, four double 15" guns. And my Dauntless-class battlecruisers, 30ktons, 28 knots and three triple 12" turrets with several double 6" secondaries. (She is, after all, a battlecruiser, and I fully intend to use her to murderize cruisers).

(This game's a bit less forgiving about the weights, plus stuff like the towers and funnels and barbettes are items you have to put on and count towards tonnage too..)

Still beating Germany's face in, theirr fleet's mostly wrecked. Japan's gone, I took most of it while China got Kyushu and Britain has northern Hokkaid. China, France, and the UK are the powers above me, though China probably just from sheer quantity of light hulls and CAs. Mighht build a new generation of light cruisers with 4-5" guns exclusively to murderize their torpedo boat swarm.

[Eternal_Freedom]

A vast swarm of cruisers sounds like just the thing for your Dauntlesses to murderise.