Rule the Waves 3 - 1890s Germany - 01 - What Some Call a 'Battleship'

Let's preview Rule the Waves 3, the upcoming naval wargame from Naval Warfare Simulations (NWS) that is now partnered with Matrix Games (and Slitherine). Join Admiral von Torturpitz as head of the 1890s Imperial German Navy!
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RULE THE WAVES III

Build Your Navy, from pre-Dreadnoughts to Aircraft Carriers and Missile Cruisers!

Rule the Waves III is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970. It will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age.

Rule the Waves III will let you design and build the ships of your navy, and lead them into battle when war erupts. You will guide your navy's deployment, construction and operations during a period of great technological innovation and political tensions. While the game derives much of its technology and events from 'actual' history, you will find that you forge your own new history each and every time you play!

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[direnightfury]

Not even one episode in as Germany and your already provoking France. Classic

[diegokevin]

KptzS = Kapitan zur See [high sea captain]
FKpt = Fregatten Kapitan [Frigate captain]

the commanding officer ranks in the imperial german navy were in order from lowest to highest

Kapitänleutnant - Captain Lieutenant (lieutenant with a command, genarlly smaller units like TBs, KEs and subs; the shortened version "Kaleun" is famous because of the silent hunter games)
Korvettenkapitän - Korvette Captain (in command of smaller units and DDs)
Fregattenkapitän - Frigate Captain (in command of bigger ships CLs, some CAs, and DD flotillas)
Kapitän zur See - High seas Captain (in command of capital ships, bigger CAs, BCs, BBs, any kind of aviation carrier, except maybe AVs)

[Tribute]

Diary of Karl Zietsler
March 27th 1890
My boyhood days are officially behind me as of now. Though my father had to force me to go, I have completed my basic training for the Kaiser's navy. These last months have taught me valuable lessons in resourcefulness and honor. My mother laments the fact it will be some time before I can visit in my uniform and celebrate this occasion. And mother is not the only woman known to me that appreciates a man in uniform. I have been assigned to a ship as well. The KMS Delphe, a Corvette. While her size and guns may not be the most imposing, we have been assured our role in protecting the fatherland is vital. Hopefully, when construction is finished we will be assigned a station in a far-flung land of mystery and adventure. Though I will not hold my breath.
Karl Zietsler

[chrisscott]

(AN: Might be retconned by future episodes, events, battles, and the like . . . but-)
September 1890
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My earliest memories were surrounded by the lake- My older brother, me and my father- a canoe out on the lake during the crack of dawn . . . It was a truly majestic sight, and I would always remember it - we brought Tackles and bait- a small fishing trip, it was supposed to be.

For most of the trip- it was. We caught a few fish- I even caught a rather big one myself, nearly having fallen out of the boat in an attempt to hold onto the line. I would always remember how the encouraging words quickly turned to panic- We had a good laugh on the way back at the silliness of it all.

I remembered the slightly warmer air as we pulled into the dock- I remembered my fathers promise to prepare a nice hot water bath for us - That our mother would make a wonderful dinner from the fish we had caught.

We pulled the canoe to the boat house - our muscles ached heavily, but we still bore grins on our face . . .

Then we got home. Was it any surprise, then, that I would remember the crying face of my mother- the furrowed brows of my father, the conflicted look in my brothers eyes, and the confused face of my younger sister, to young to understand why everyone was so distressed?

I remembered staying up late, stupidly being disappointed at the lack of a warm bath and a hot dinner, hearing my father angrily pacing across the living room downstairs ranting about how “That (something I couldn’t remember) was not a Peace. It was an Armistice for twenty years.”

I didn’t know that I _used_ to have an uncle - He didn’t talk about him much.

I didn’t know then that my father and my uncle had a falling out. Uncle enlisted in the Army when the war came- He had called father a “coward” for enlisting in the navy.

They never got the chance to apologize to each other.

It seemed obvious something was going to happen in hindsight - the rise of a French Revanchism over Alsace Lorraine - the, at the time, rather exaggerated fears over the recent laying down of a new trio of German “Panzerschiffes” - Yet even after a moderate expansion of armoured corvettes things did not really seem to get worse.

Some Events in the Balkan didn’t help much, and the selling of weapons in order to help _pay_ for the cruisers only served to stew the pot a bit.

Yet the tipping point appeared when the announcement of a new design of fast, protected gun cruisers came to light? Their seemed to be only one purpose in the eyes of the French . . .

To either break a possible blockade - or . . . bypass it entirely to raid the very critical supply lines that kept vital resources flowing into France.
Revanchism and fear mongering over the cruisers filled the halls of discussion - anyone who _remembered_ or who were veterans speaking up about the disaster of the 1870’s? Were shunned for cowardice or accused of being traitors.

So It was that day, I remembered, as being the days of uncertainty- would there be a war? Would my brother get called to fight? Would my father be drafted back into the navy?

Being young, I was not the most observant - yet even I could tell the underlying tension that now existed between my father and brother.

All I could feel back then, curling up in bed, was a selfish unhappiness, wondering why we didn’t have fish that night.

Uncertainty about what would happen next never quite crossed my mind as I fell asleep that night.

[jacopomangini]

It's funny to see how under the same looking interface you can already spot the new features they introduced. Can't wait to see more, especially battles and AI designs going forwards.
Also love the added details for the ships.

[Brusselpicker]

Kapitan Zur See is the Z you were looking for, the equivalent of captain in other navies.

[nomarspaulding]

I'm super happy to see the AI Wars mod basically into the vanilla game. That mod was good, but it did not work well for me recently. It would just bug out and stop working, especially when i tried using it with your RTW2 autoresolve mod in the same game.

[FinnishJager]

Love it! This will be an epic series.

Also really happy with the thumbnail. Hope it catches people's eyes in their subscription feeds.

[Jamiebill]

14:03 if you right click on the specific mount (port side if you have the asymmetric secondary mounts de-selected) you can change the position and rest angle of all the guns, this goes for the main guns, tertiary guns, missiles, torpedoes and floatplane catapults. It means you can make the pre dread's look super scary with all the guns pointing out lol

[deeznoots]

Shipyard capacity being in the game is amazing to see, the more limits the game puts on the player the more creative you can get with ship designs

[snappycow]

Unfortunately RtW will be a game series I will never pick up to play for myself, but I do enjoy watching people who are good at it and who have a lot of fun play it (although if I'm being honest, Tortuga is the only person I watch who plays it). Looking forward to how this campaign develops!

[boskinght]

Been counting seconds since the rtw3 fourm went up CANT WAIT

[Zhuikin]

Now that the game has actual officers modeled, it will be interesting to see it the "we need no coning tower" doctrine still holds up.

[kotorigaming]

Off to a great start, I see. I know you don't often mess around with the ammo types, but it makes a big difference in early game. Throw a bunch of HE at the ships you cannot penetrate, and you'll light fires instead. It worked very well for the Japanese at Tsushima. Once armor penetration gets better you can shift back to the original loadouts and priorities, but until then load HE.

[nm]

As promised - and as a Frenchie lover too - I express my utmost displeasure by liking this video in support of the French people facing the Hun aggression. Officially jealous as hell, now. May 18th cannot come fast enough.

[ilenastarbreeze]

i rarely feel excitement, i feel excitement finding this is coming out so soon, ive been wanting to play rule the waves again!

[darthbob]

Cant' wait for more of this series!

[blackbokis]

So glad to see another Rule the Waves game AND another series of you playing it!

[OTOss]

Shoot, I'm glad I found this channel. I just bought this game and I haven't even started it up yet. I've been reading the manual and planning to start as Germany so this is great. I can ape your first few turns to get myself a decent start and see what mayhem unfolds from there. The games you play are right up my alley. The algorithm has been good to me this day.

[tonytavary]

Been thinking about this game, been playing RTW2 a lot lately and wanting to see what RTW3 would look like. Thanks for getting this series started.