Town Class Part 1 of 7: Cruisers

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Town Class Live: big impact with a light footprint

Town Class Long Patrol:

Silent Moive

Tsingtao 1939:
Patron Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...courtesy of @DanielFreedman - what if the Tsingtao Incident "goes hot" and WWII begins in the Pacific in early 1939?
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patron Video 4 ... the overview & introduction
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patron Video 4 .... the first scenario (it's in two parts) looking at how war could have started and if just the minimum nations get involved
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patron Video 4 .... the first scenario (it's in two parts) looking at how war could have started and if just the minimum nations get involved
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patron Video 4... USA joins the war on the side of the Allies against Japan
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patron Video 4... The Fascist Nations join the grand alliance...
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patron Video 4... The Fascist Nations attack the alliance
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patron Video 4... The Fascist Nations attack the alliance
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patron Video 4... The Fascist Nations attack the alliance
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patron Video 4... thanks to Alien Space Bats USA joins war on side of Japan
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6b Introduction to Patron Video 4... thanks to Alien Space Bats USA joins war on side of Japan
Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patron Video 4... thanks to Alien Space Bats USA joins war on side of Japan

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afterva painful day after tooth removal im glad to have this to chear me up

kylehardman
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Part one worthwhile. Heading to part two now.

WildBillCox
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Visited HMS Belfast for the first time today, fabulous trip, well worth it but you need most of the day! 🤩

dh
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Your online presentation is getting better young Clarke. regards

johnhargreaves
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Was a great introduction to the “1/4” staff of the RN doctor, I hope you're having a great day & I have left ... A suggestion / instructions to help remedy the vent situation on discord . Take care, best wishes to you & the whole family as always doctor

Stevgar
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"Why are they special?"
Well, they're the Town Class and the largest still extant WWII RN warship!

andrewcox
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Cruisers control the sea, but cannot take ports (at least ones which are fortified ). That is when you have to send in the battleships, which are also the best counter against enemy battleship/ships of the line.

karlvongazenberg
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In the discussion of cruiser numbers required for war with Japan (72) and the war the RN actually got (96), do those numbers include ships needed for duties such as escorting carriers or other priority ships? Ships like Curacoa?

marcharkness
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The only way they could have improved the design was to launch the might Blackburn Blackburn from them. Alas for takeoff weight and lack of floats.

Austin-cnvh
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ADM 1/27412 - 1921
was it possible the RN were trying to let the politicians think that they actually influenced what the RN did?

andrewcox
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Even at the time, in the 1930s, "war plan red" was understood as a mere paper exercise. Ottawa and Washington were already getting on well by then.
You must visit Ottawa some day. It will give you an accurate and interesting perspective on North America. To my thinking the most prominent universities in Ottawa is U. of O., because it is truly bi-lingual. There's a nice war museum there. It has (or at least had...) a Centurion tank on display! We were allowed to play on it.
Ah, Childhood memories...

QuizmasterLaw
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I must be mistaken or have misunderstood you; I have never considered Britain as taking up a commerce raiding strategy. Blockades, yes, but hunting enemy commerce at sea, especially as a primary strategy, doesn't seem to me to be the way Britain waged its wars. Instead, to me, it looks like Britain tried to target the enemy war-fleet, not its merchant marine. Of course, destroying or even better capturing defenceless merchantment would be a nice side hustle. But wasn't the main target of the royal navy the enemy war fleet?

QuizmasterLaw
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Spain and Argentina though overtly and covertly fascist did not join the war so yeah Italy might not have. Though, everyone expected a world war but were trying to manage that for their own benefit.

QuizmasterLaw
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RN was ready for WWII. The UK Atlantic-Mediterranean US Pacific split was sensible.
RN did not expect France to collapse and prudently dispatched French ships.
RN probably did not expect Italy to join Germany.
Britain (and the Commonwealth) against Italy Germany and Japan would win. Eventually. Maybe 10 years instead of five but genocidal slaver regimes suffer from related leadership and governance problems. Germany could never present itself as "liberating" the USSR. Japan likewise could not credibly claim to be "liberating" India. So they never could have won, not even with nuclear weapons.
Britain had already defeated the German AND Italian surface fleets before the U.S. joined, and the U-Boats were largely tamed before the U.S. could intervene in force. A neutral USA would mean after finishing off Italy and Germany Britain would then do what happened. Submarines and island hopping. Longer, bloodier but the same result.
Season with nuclear weapons, stir until done.

QuizmasterLaw
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I hate missing the livestreams, but both those and this are great for explaining what people are thinking and why, which are too often ignored when people look at major historic events in isolation.

juicysushi