Rule the Waves | Let's Play Italy - 02 - A Volatile Start

Let's Play Italy's Regia Marina in Rule the Waves, an early 1900s naval management simulation, with tactical fleet combat and a strategic level with budget control and ship design. Playing on version 1.34 beta 1.
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► Summary: Budget issues are instantly a concern that not even war can resolve.

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"Patria e Onore" (Country and Honor)

Italian Ship Names! (Italian-themed)

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Rule the Waves places you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' during the early years of the 20th Century. You manage the naval affairs of your chosen nation while navigating between the desires and demands of your own government, the efforts of potential adversaries, and the affairs of your potential allies.

The battle resolution mechanics are based upon our successful Steam and Iron (SAI) system for combat but technichal, economic and foreign policy decisions will also be necessary as the player guides their navy's design, construction, deployment and operations during a period of great technological innovation and political tensions.

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[TortugaPower]

Link to the Italian Ship Name list (remember, keep them Italian-themed!):

[GeneralJackRipper]

The accelerate build bug was fixed in patch v 1.33:

*_Fixed a calculating error with the monthly build cost in the build ship screen._*

[Inferno-MT]

Good to see RTW back here, i personally love these kinds of series.
edit: Funny Italy is the longest i've played this game, retiring in 1944.
the next longest game i am still playing is Japan, currently at 1928

[beejebes]

I don't even think you're Russia or Austria play throughs were this wild

[drunksailor]

19:08 "What? I built two more!!!" No you don't, they are on hold. The request says clearly "Must have 2 B, BB or BC building" and you have put yours on hold, so they are not building the moment the game checked if you fulfilled the requirement.
Btw the lowest possible prestige you can go is 15, at 14 you are fired and the game ends.
25:20 Stop accelerating the ships, or at least more than 1-2. Causes shortages in steel which adds months in the construction. That's why this B was still to 27 months, that's why you had to scrap the CL's. Also if you halt a ship while it is accelerated, still you are going to experience steel shortages.

[Blxz]

That (in)famous Tortuga luck has been hitting you hard with all those events.

[Plotatothewondercat]

Britain says "I'm going to restore order to my colonies."
You and the others say "Nae, you will leave them to their present chaos, or t'will be war."
Britain says "...Okay?"

[sovietPlays]

I swear the Prime Minister is ether trolling him super hard, or he has the worst case of ADD ever and constantly forgets what he asks the chief of Navy to do not two months ago

[kalinmir]

Austria should have franz joseph land colony which gives them polar bear boarding squads technology

[aussiemilitant]

The Prime Minister event for the cruisers was indeed 'cancelled' when asked to build more battleships. Also the ships have to be being built and not halted for them to be counted i have found. The trick with building extra ships and accelerating their construction and then halting it is better done with Battleships as they cost so much more, then that cost will make you go positive, its a cheap bug yes but it has saved me a few times. So i would have built 8 battleships and accelerated and halted the construction of 6 of them, probably 2 months before the event check was going to fire. I did a really scummy game as AH and found myself at 900 million once doing the battleship halt and accelerate trick, i think i was building about 16 battleships with really only 4 being built the rest was to game the system, i needed to do it as i was already in a war with UK and Italy then I somehow got in a war with France also which cancelled all the war score i had i was being blockaded so badly i had to build so many ships to 'clear' out the Mediterranean or i would have lost an already 4 year war.

[rblinson]

It appears the cheese has gotten moldy. Need to throw it out.
This is quite the rocky start, Admiral. Best of luck to you.
o7

[GeneralJackRipper]

Constantly halting and accelerating construction leads to enormous shortages, especially in countries without a strong industry. If you weren't trying so hard to break the game, your ships would have come along at a normal pace.

[yt-yqhh]

Hi make the Italy fleet strongest navy ok