Nichtsfürchten - Episode 9 - Legendary Good Guy Germany Great Game (5G) Campaign

Añadido: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Hello, brother Monroe here. Welcome back to Ultimate Avalonauts and to the uh legendary difficulty good guys Germany great game campaign, the 5G campaign.

[00:00:10]So, it's actually been a long bank holiday weekend. Um well, I'd say bank holiday weekend. It's weirdly not where I am, but I I had the kids home for 3 days anyway, so it's I'm going to have to re reorient myself. So, I know that uh we are at war with the Dutch, which is just a case of nabbing um the Dutch East Indies, I believe, off them. Uh I'd like to go for Sumatra, please. Yes. Good. Then we can we can try and take the Dutch East Indies. That's lots of oil and um money that uh clearly is being uh squandered over here. Um but best that we we take charge, I think. Um and the nymph has found an enemy convoy to take care of. We're also attempting to um sort out the weird excl Indonesian exclave of Luxembourg. Um uh but that's the army's job. I can't do anything about landlock provinces, I'm afraid.

[00:01:35]Has the game immediately crashed? That would be uh very strong of it.

[00:01:41]Oh dear. Welcome back. Um, crash fixed and we are on the hunt.

[00:01:51]Have found the convoy already, which is pretty helpful.

[00:02:01]Uh, yeah, pretty standard light cruiser by the looks of it. 5 in guns.

[00:02:07]Armor is not terrible and for that type of ship. Um, it's maybe getting a little bit out of date, but nothing too shocking. What's their torpedo range?

[00:02:18]Three. That's pretty good. Ours is a little bit over three, but I will have to be cautious.

[00:02:26]Uh, that's not a 900 m torpedo.

[00:02:33]Transports are unarmed. Okay.

[00:02:48]What is that thudding? I keep hearing a thud. Must be someone doing something outside.

[00:02:54]Um, of course they would pick uh when I'm recording to go thumping about like a bunch of headlamps.

[00:03:13]Yeah, we'll stay out of range of the cruiser for the most part.

[00:03:18]Off.

[00:03:22]Funny though, it is to fire a random torpedo.

[00:03:27]It uh did miss.

[00:03:40]Yeah, 3-in are working over the transports pretty well. They didn't actually finish that one off.

[00:03:48]It's irritating.

[00:04:02]Let's finish that transport off cuz it really doesn't need that much more to get rid of it.

[00:04:17]There we go.

[00:04:19]And now we can focus on the cruiser.

[00:04:25]Top away.

[00:04:34]Jesus. They find one at me.

[00:04:37]I'll just start it.

[00:04:40]Oh, stop.

[00:04:51]Yeah, we're good.

[00:04:53]Back to battle speed. What's their speed actually?

[00:04:58]Can slow down a little bit.

[00:05:05]Get ourselves set up for blasting.

[00:05:17]Oh, it's looking good.

[00:05:27]But it detonated early. Great.

[00:05:41]They're taking an awful lot of fire here. They're slowing down again.

[00:05:48]Just want to keep them pretty much where they are actually. I can hit them pretty effectively. And they can't really get me back with their torpedo.

[00:06:01]Oh, lovely.

[00:06:03]Continuing to low.

[00:06:47]Top door away might not even be needed.

[00:06:54]Uh, maybe it will.

[00:06:56]It was a dud.

[00:07:01]Of of course it was.

[00:07:04]Of of course it was.

[00:07:09]There we go. They decide to uh abandon ship. Wise decision, I would say.

[00:07:18]We'll uh pick up the survivors.

[00:07:25]Good stuff, right? Um ah yes, I was trying to balance my research to get all of the dreadnaugh text done around about the same time. Um yeah. Okay. Well, we can probably just end the turn then, can't we?

[00:07:47]See what happens.

[00:07:50]Uh, Portugal. Uh, I need to actually have a look at what Portugal. No, no.

[00:08:00]Japan and the Netherlands have gone to war as well. Everybody is at war with the Netherlands.

[00:08:05]The poor old Netherlands, which is really just Indonesia at the moment.

[00:08:11]Yeah, Portugal has one province.

[00:08:13]Uh, good grief.

[00:08:22]What did they do?

[00:08:27]Did I not tell it to launch an invasion of Sumatra?

[00:08:34]Oh, I did and then the game crashed and then it forgot about it. That's why I was like, why? Why did that not go through? Of course, it generates it there.

[00:08:49]Oh, we're at war with Spain.

[00:08:53]Okay. Um, that's a a bit different.

[00:09:00]Fortunately, I only have um like a couple of squadrons over here.

[00:09:07]Uh, but that does mean uh is everybody already on C control?

[00:09:15]Oh, they are. Fantastic. Right, the Spain. We're not particularly interested in Spain. We could attack them over here in the Caribbean. We don't really have any presence over there, though. Um, they do, of course, still control Western Spain.

[00:09:35]Uh, but they are at war with literally everybody. And as as soon as they go to war with, well, Britain and France, they'll absorb this. So, I don't think I need to do too much. I'll just uh let the Navy know that if they see a ship flying a Spanish flag, they are to attack it. Uh let's see if we can beat the French to the punch over here and Italians.

[00:10:00]Um and get an invasion of Sulowi on the go. Italy. Sure. Ally with Italy if they wish.

[00:10:09]What? We're all China as well. I had not even noticed that. H yeah, we'll be allies with uh France. Absolutely.

[00:10:18]Yeah. Here we go.

[00:10:26]Hello. Um Dutch Navy.

[00:10:29]Goodness me. Right. Okay. What have you got? An old battleship.

[00:10:34]Some old armored cruisers.

[00:10:37]Yeah, these are all 19th century ships.

[00:10:41]Um, okay.

[00:10:49]I guess they really, really want to attack us in Africa for some reason. Not sure that's the cleverest decision in the world.

[00:11:17]Uh yeah, we're just going to put you on follow for now.

[00:11:28]Well, we uh have a look for these uh interlopers.

[00:11:53]Uh hello. Ah, there we go.

[00:12:03]Looks like they're leading with their small ships. So, I'll get the uh protected cruisers out in front of the heavy ones.

[00:12:12]Our battleships. Remember, certainly these ones are more like armored cruisers than they are battleships.

[00:12:19]Just like extra tough armored cruisers.

[00:12:36]Good hit.

[00:12:40]Want to slow up to yeah like 80 knots just so that you don't the cruisers don't get too far ahead.

[00:13:19]destroyers don't have horribly long range torpedoes or anything, do they?

[00:13:22]No. I mean, they are okay. They're not the crazy short-ranged ones, but they are uh not going to be able to hit me from that distance.

[00:13:36]Oh, there is their battleship. Low fuel.

[00:13:39]Yeah, I'm not surprised.

[00:13:41]Oh, it's also beaten up. And why is this not on the barbarette? Neither of them are.

[00:13:49]Uh, yeah, this is like a half battered remnant.

[00:14:04]Not really what you're wanting. Oh dear.

[00:14:08]What was that? Yeah. Hilderbrand main belt pen. Straight into the machinery space.

[00:14:15]Well, that's their armored cruisers out of the fight.

[00:14:24]Can make a bit of a turn here.

[00:14:33]That was a good shot. Puma.

[00:14:48]What's up about gone?

[00:15:00]I appreciate the moxy chaps, but um firing high explosive at the battleship is not going to do anything.

[00:15:20]N they're not in torpedo range.

[00:15:29]and the side.

[00:15:40]Yeah, this is just this just clean up duty basically.

[00:15:52]This is like uh finding the Chinese fleet from uh a couple of episodes ago.

[00:15:59]Just no serious threat.

[00:16:05]Sailing straight into a gun line getting deleted.

[00:16:25]Oh yeah, those 9in guns absolutely rip through protected cruisers.

[00:16:36]But yeah, when they're already damaged or out of fuel.

[00:16:42]Yeah, it's just not work. Compound armor is uh definitely not cutting it anymore.

[00:17:05]These two ships are already mostly disabled. We're just uh encouraging them to surrender.

[00:17:17]Strongingly encouraging them to surrender.

[00:17:34]And there we go. The end of the Dutch Navy. a a sad end to former friends who just just not been having a good time there, have they?

[00:17:52]Oh dear. Oh dear.

[00:17:58]Yeah, that ain't going through.

[00:18:00]Um that is name invasion of Sula please.

[00:18:12]Thank you very much. And then we can take Java and then I think that'll um relegate them to only owning the Dutch antilis.

[00:18:27]Do I want do I want to attack the Caribbean? Do you know? I might um I could also take Ecuador potentially cuz we we own the Galapagus.

[00:18:44]Um h we'll have to see.

[00:18:49]Austrians.

[00:18:51]What?

[00:18:56]Oh, the Chinese Empire is Austrahungarian.

[00:19:03]So, China is actually just Leodong, Manuria, Mongolian, Tibet. Right. Cool. Okay. So, I really don't have to worry about all.

[00:19:18]Oh, dear me.

[00:19:24]Explain why they were insta blockaded.

[00:19:29]Uh, yes, we'll be allied with the British.

[00:19:33]More friends approved radio telegraphs. Excellent.

[00:19:44]Austria.

[00:19:47]Really? Austria?

[00:19:49]Really?

[00:19:51]Oh goodness.

[00:19:55]Oh, the Italians are going for Java.

[00:19:58]It's a little a little inconvenient, but not the end of the world.

[00:20:11]Absolutely. We will be allied with the United States.

[00:20:15]Oh, it's becoming a proper global United Nations.

[00:20:23]Uh, goodbye China.

[00:20:26]We get Sumatra. Excellent.

[00:20:31]Now, the question is, am I allowed to invade Java?

[00:20:36]No.

[00:20:39]And it looks like the Italians have the force to do it. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to send this squadron over to take Let's just Let's just eliminate the Dutch first. Head over to the Dutch and uh this should fall next turn and then we'll have the other squadron to send over to do something useful. Um because we don't actually have to worry about this part of the world anymore because the war with China is over.

[00:21:12]I will keep an eye just in case the Italians fail to take Java. No. No. I don't trust the Soviets.

[00:21:23]They um they talk a good game, but there's something off about them.

[00:21:30]It doesn't feel quite right. Not quite the right sort of, you know, democratic good guy freedoms that we used to. Right. The Africa Squadron can head to Cuba.

[00:21:48]Let's uh let's get the Caribbean sorted out.

[00:21:54]Yeah. Right. I'll um I'll be back when when I've finished all of this.

[00:22:01]Sad to say that the Netherlands are gone. Um it wasn't even us who did it.

[00:22:06]Um, it was in fact um the uh the Soviets of all people. I've also abandoned any plans to try and take stuff in the Caribbean. Everybody's jumping on the Spanish who are going to get taken out very quickly. But we did manage to pick up the Canary Islands, which is a very useful um little kind of staging, you know, refueling point. If we are sending ships down to our African holdings down here and we're not going through the Mediterranean, we can refuel over here. Of course, the French and the British would happily let us um refuel as well. Uh, Western Spain has been taken as expected.

[00:22:53]So, I think it's a case of sending the ships home, honestly. Uh, cuz I don't think the war is going to continue or at least not properly. Um, so I'm going to send all the ships home. I'm going to sort the finances out. I'm going to sort the research out because I think we have most of the ticks that we need.

[00:23:21]Yes, we're just waiting on this. So, literally one month. Okay, that's easy enough.

[00:23:30]Yes.

[00:23:32]Okay.

[00:23:35]Okay. So, with I should probably put a ship there, shouldn't I? Um, oh, uh, it's I'll wait for them to fix the port.

[00:23:54]That's what I'll do. I'll wait for them to fix the port. So, we now have all the technologies I think we need in order to get into some serious firepower for um deterren's sake. Of course, we do have the small dreadnaugh, but I'm going to go straight to the big one.

[00:24:20]I don't think there's a reason I should go with the small one.

[00:24:25]Um, okay. They could do 21 knots. In theory, 21 knots is okay for a for a big battleship like this. Uh, should we go for 22,000 tons? pretty large for a first generation dreadnaugh, but um make it smaller later. Advanced Vic towers, seven base accuracy. Well, these towers are not amazing, but they look okay. Uh now, guns. What do we have the options for? 12elves or 13s?

[00:25:15]Hm.

[00:25:16]13s could be interesting.

[00:25:20]Let's go 13s. I don't often use a 13-inch gun, so this is a potentially inesting uh option.

[00:25:34]Yeah, advanced reck tower.

[00:25:39]They look enormous on this hole.

[00:25:42]We'll just have to see. Right. Uh yes, but it won't fit.

[00:25:53]Stand's a bit tall.

[00:26:04]Kind of want to use this one, which means I'm going to do something that I almost never do. And Increase the beam just enough.

[00:26:22]Yeah, there we go.

[00:26:27]Uh, right. This can actually sit further forward. It can sit there.

[00:26:38]Oh, I like that.

[00:26:41]Yes. Okay.

[00:26:43]And then okay, so far so good.

[00:26:55]funnels. Uh, yes, we will need at least one funnel.

[00:27:00]Now, we do have the access to steam turbines. So, go induced.

[00:27:08]Yeah, we don't actually get too much benefit out of the turbines. cuz I'm not going fast enough, I'm assuming.

[00:27:21]Does that mean we can squeeze an extra amount of speed out of this thing?

[00:27:26]Yeah, it's sitting right on the edge, but it's only 3%.

[00:27:44]I'd love to be able to go 23 knots.

[00:27:48]I am pushing the engines a fair bit though to do 23 knots.

[00:27:54]Um, this makes far less sense that way around. So, have to find a bar bit that just fits in there.

[00:28:14]Medium four.

[00:28:18]Yes.

[00:28:22]Maybe uh how about a medium one?

[00:28:40]You are too big.

[00:28:47]I'm not sure that's a huge improvement.

[00:28:53]small rect.

[00:28:55]It's not like meaningful change in the stats.

[00:29:01]Maybe I can use the four now just cuz it looks a little bit a little bit better.

[00:29:10]Okay, that's a lot of firepower.

[00:29:15]eight 13-in guns, all center line. So, we have an eight gun broadside.

[00:29:23]Um, and then casemates.

[00:29:32]Uh, h, I'll come back to them.

[00:29:44]No crop armor yet.

[00:29:48]That's slightly disappointing.

[00:29:58]I think we'll stick with TNT 2.

[00:30:06]Fancy pants.

[00:30:08]Right.

[00:30:10]So, the 13s with the high explosive, they're not great at blowing up a destroyer cuz a destroyer can have up to like 1 and 1/2 in 1 in of armor.

[00:30:24]Um, so we're not quite there for auto deletions. So, I need to make sure I'm building mostly for A with these.

[00:30:36]So, it's really looking at the AP values.

[00:30:40]It could go all the way down to a 4 in.

[00:30:42]They feel a bit weedy though because yeah, the 6 in become interesting because at 3.4 4 in of armor. They're going to be able to go through the extended armor on a lot of enemy ships.

[00:31:00]Obviously, the sevens and the eights are also interesting, but I think they're just going to be too heavy. I mean, how heavy are we talking? Bearing in mind, this ship has no armor.

[00:31:15]Yeah. No, eight's too heavy.

[00:31:18]And I think sevens will be as well, but maybe a 6 in gun, especially as we can fit a couple of extra ones up there.

[00:31:29]Yeah, let's try and use 6in guns.

[00:31:36]Try. This might not work.

[00:31:40]Okay. Uh, four and a half belt. So, do we want to protect against a 6-in gun? I think that's probably an idea, but it's going to be tricky.

[00:31:59]That means a 4 in four after and on the super structure deck armor.

[00:32:06]Uh let's say two on the main deck and like half an inch on the extended decks should keep out most things.

[00:32:20]Tower. Yes.

[00:32:23]Uh in a deck what? Half. See, I've already run out of armor displacement.

[00:32:36]Uh main belts for 13in guns. We're going to need somewhere between 14 and 16 in.

[00:32:49]Go for 14 for now.

[00:32:52]Uh but 16 on the turrets.

[00:33:00]casemates four and.5 and I'm 115% overweight by a fair old margin fuel etc. Bye-bye. Right. 108% 22 knots 106 21 gives me 103 uh turbines are still better.

[00:33:41]I don't really want to go lower than 21 knots.

[00:33:44]uh means downgrading something else.

[00:33:55]What's the rate of fire on these? 8 N 12's are one round a minute. I might I might wimp out and go for twelves. I think I think um we're just the ship is not big enough for a 13-in arament like this.

[00:34:25]So if I want to keep this layout, we should go for something like this instead. Wow, that saved an awful lot of displacement. Oh, the other thing people keep telling me is we are Germany. Um, and given that it is a new era, we're going to switch to metric. Now, I know some people said centimeters, but centimeters are an awful unit, and I do not agree with it. So, no thank you. Uh, millimeters, like proper engineers.

[00:35:03]So, uh, we're going to trim these to 100 mm.

[00:35:10]Seems pretty reasonable.

[00:35:14]Uh, this at 50.

[00:35:17]Let's go for 15. Need to get a little bit extra.

[00:35:22]355.

[00:35:24]Uh let's go for 360.

[00:35:30]Uh inner uh belt. No, that's deck 15.

[00:35:38]Inner belt 100.

[00:35:43]Ah, that's why it's so light. Turret armor's gone way way down. Um, yeah, I'm going to go for 400.

[00:35:59]Uh, 60 on the top and 360 on the barbette.

[00:36:08]Casemates, 115.

[00:36:15]There we go. Okay, that's a little bit more sensible.

[00:36:25]Uh, pretty well protected, I would say.

[00:36:30]Um, I will I will go back to it. Uh, the default. There we go.

[00:36:40]Uh so that's why those numbers look a bit odd. It is because I am doing them in metric.

[00:36:48]Uh I like it. I think this is a solid this is a solid ship. First generation Dreadnaugh. Uh should be ready around the right time. Um compared to the actual Dreadnaugh.

[00:37:06]Yes, I think I think this works.

[00:37:11]I think this works quite well actually.

[00:37:17]Well, uh the proof is in the pudding of course, but we will save that ship and we will head back to the dockyard.

[00:37:30]Now, we need to think numbers. Now, these are vastly superior to our existing battleships, but the Helgolins aren't really battleships. They're just really thick, heavy cruisers. So, I don't feel any need to get rid of these ships just yet, even though the game will punish me for doing that. I if I could round down rate them to uh CAS, I would. So, really, this is our first proper battleship.

[00:37:59]How many should we have? So, let's have a look at our economy. We are currently sitting at 80.

[00:38:08]Um, the closest to us, we're actually the smallest of the major powers. That's interesting.

[00:38:19]Is uh Oh, democratic left-wing Russia.

[00:38:23]Oh my goodness. Yes, we'll ally with you. Um uh they have four.

[00:38:35]Four would put us on an equal well slightly superior footing to the Austrahungarians, slightly less than the French, slightly less than the Americans, and significantly less than the British. So I think four is a good target to build these And we will build them in uh kill.

[00:39:13]Uh so that will give us four actual battleships and that will be very very handy. Uh, the war with Spain will probably end quite soon. So, I'm about to go into a period of peace and tranquility, and I'm sure no major issues will uh crop up whatsoever for good old peaceful Germany. Um, and we can just look forward to to some some new uh some new ship builds. Uh maybe some, you know, you know, some some minor stuff going on somewhere, but I'm sure it'll all be fine. Anyway, that will all be in the next episode. Thank you very much for watching, and I'll see you again soon for some more Ultimate Hal Dreadnots.

[00:39:58]Bye for now.