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- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:40:58Agincourt proposals and an 18-inch Washington Treaty limitQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live56:58K2, K3 and the scale of the designs before NelsonQ&A
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?49:38The unresolved design of the proposed sixth Queen ElizabethNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?1:11:46Keeping Agincourt within the fast Queen Elizabeth designNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?36:55Successor construction and pressure for 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?53:23Could 18-inch battleships leave room for 12-inch cruisers?Notable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:05:59What follows G3, N3 and No. 13?Notable Point
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:34:52Limits of closer German-Japanese naval cooperationQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:08:35M3 and N3 under a 50,000-ton treaty limitQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 242:20Would an 18-inch gun make a useful anti-submarine mortar?Q&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 243:46Would larger ASW rounds improve reliability or depth performance?Q&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:35Hypothetical 28-knot battleships with 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:24:03Britain's projected 18-inch and 21-inch capital shipsChapter
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:28:11Why some gun calibres offer a poor compromiseNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:29G3 guns and completion dates in a no-treaty scenarioQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:26An 18-inch alternative to the Montana designQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:06British studies for 18-inch and 22-inch naval gunsQ&A
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:36:16Reconstructing the sixth Queen Elizabeth-class battleshipNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:19:20Victory at sea unlocks L3 battleships and dockyardsNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:29:07Number 13 and L3 designs against American standard battleshipsNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:32:00Possible gun calibres without Washington restrictionsNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:38:12G3 and N3 armament without the treaty settlementNotable Point
- Bruships0:00The narrow case for 18-inch naval gunsNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?32:52Furious's experimental decks leave lasting compromisesNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?46:24The proposed Agincourt's armament remains disputedNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:44Why an N3 follow-on would not simply add twelve 16.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:19How four Admirals could change the purpose of G3Notable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?14:29Fast battleships force Britain to adopt new machineryNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?16:54Italy and France could avoid the largest battleship-gun raceNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order35:24Yamato's maximum range versus effective rangeQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun27:24G3 battlecruisers with 16.5-inch guns before the Washington TreatyNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle16:13Germany's paper response to British 18-inch capital shipsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon4:00:14Warspite with Thunderer's speed and 18-inch gunsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:46:49Scaling the Queen Elizabeth class for 18-inch gunsQ&A
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?59:44Center Force matches the Americans only on paperChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut46:23Three 500,000-ton super-ships appear in JapanQ&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P354:44An 80,000-ton American Pacific battleshipChapter
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:32:52Why consider 18-inch guns for the unbuilt Agincourt?Notable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:13Would 18-inch Iowa variants be retained after the war?Q&A
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?42:26K3 and L3 combined nine 18-inch guns with different speed prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:20Would 16.5-inch British guns push America to 18 inches?Q&A
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction52:12G3 and N3 designs fit imperial dockyards and treaty expectationsChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?29:03Private firms kept alternative heavy-gun programs aliveChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?39:37The case for an Agincourt with six 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?41:13Could Agincourt have carried three triple 15-inch turrets?Q&A
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?1:54:32The Number 13 class could have forced a British answerChapter
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?38:07Plan Z could not freeze the Royal Navy in 1938Chapter
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:21Elswick's postwar 18-inch railway howitzers remain a contract questionQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:09If 1980s Iowa-class battleships appeared in 1908Q&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:07How an 18-inch-gunned Furious could reshape naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...51:08Would the proposed Agincourt have carried 18-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:46What would Yamato look like in an 18-inch treaty world?Q&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:17:01If four game-designed Fundras replaced the King George V classQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued35:47Montana armament: twelve 16-inch or fewer 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:07Competing interpretations of Agincourt's proposed armamentNotable Point
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:12Where battleship gun caliber reaches diminishing returnsQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:30Secret British or American 18-inch battleshipsQ&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?2:12:44Jellicoe and the compounding capital-ship raceNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?2:51:39Would very heavy shells stop the race towards bigger guns?Q&A
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!23:03Reconstructing an unbuilt Queen Elizabeth-class battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:07:21The uncertain paper trail for a French 18-inch-gun battleshipQ&A
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit47:05Improved heavy batteries and the jump to 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:09:23Would Hood's 18-inch guns make the US 16-inch/45 obsolete?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/45:10:56How closely can UAD reproduce a Tillman battleship?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/45:16:51An 18-inch-gun super-battleship and the armor penaltyChapter
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/434:32Triple 15-inch or 18-inch guns for an unfinished British design?Notable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:18:23How quickly might the Royal Navy reach 18-inch battleships?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:25:0118-inch gun blast and close-range AA placementQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:28:33How large a nine-turret 18-inch battleship becomesQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:13:03Would a lower forward turret rescue the nine-turret design?Q&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:18:23Why the Lion class would not simply mount larger gunsQ&A
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!14:25A Helgoland force on Germany's doorstepNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!1:09:17German armour drives British gun developmentChapter
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:55:04A multi-power gun-calibre raceNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:14:48A delayed First World War and the Entente's larger capital shipsNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:06:06A fortified network from Gibraltar to SingaporeChapter
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:06:33Coastal artillery as an industrial and operational reserveNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:18:40Heavy guns at Gibraltar and the problem of emplacementNotable Point
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...40:37A Yamato-class Type 3 shell made a brief wall of fireNotable Point
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!34:14Why 17-inch guns offered little over 18-inch weaponsQ&A
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier45:19Germany: Plan Z's quality-quantity trapChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier57:20United States: industrial scale changes the carrier raceChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:27:45British responses to very large guns and imperial logisticsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:14What HMS Furious reveals about 18-inch-gun limitsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:49Can the Royal Navy's 18-inch-gun tests be documented?Q&A
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:37:08British and American battleship caliber stepsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:45:3718-inch guns and a Washington Treaty counterfactualChapter
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:21:28Rodney-class gun, armor, and speed compromiseNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:11:57Yamato's 18-inch guns as a deterrent design analogyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:57:34A complementary 18-inch-gun battleshipNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!11:39Huge battleships as a blockade problemNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:11:07British gun calibre choices and nine-gun salvosQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends33:29An eighteen-inch-gun naval treaty worldQ&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World14:24British 18-inch battleships would change Washington's bargainingNotable Point
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!1:08:34Naval races contribute to war scares but do not cause wars aloneNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:10:09Why an eighteen-inch gun has no clean development priceQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:33:46Italy's deterrence logic for giant capital shipsQ&A
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:13:28A Fisher-class fast-battleship memorialNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...2:09:28The postwar legacy of an 18-inch-gun fleetChapter
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:05:04Completing Renown and Repulse as Revenge-class battleshipsChapter
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:13:30Reconstructing Agincourt's design and possible completionNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:23:40The circumstantial case for a different AgincourtNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:29:43Jutland reinforces an 18-inch fast-battleship Admiral classNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:15:58Completing the Admiral class without repeated redesignNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:50:25How 18-inch fast battleships would reshape naval treatiesNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:55:20Why a fifth turret complicates a fast battleshipNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:12:09What follows if the N3 and G3 designs are built?Q&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:22:34Would 16.5-inch battleships still appear after an 18-inch Agincourt?Q&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built37:22Why spare 15-inch turrets defined HMS VanguardQ&A
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers12:15Furious resists a neat battlecruiser labelNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?5:17:49Could Britain build a 12-gun 18-inch fast battleship in 1918?Q&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:12:29Could a fast Agincourt have displaced the battlecruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books35:28Replacing six 18-inch guns with triple 15-inch turretsQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!6:01Big-gun competition beyond GermanyNotable Point
- The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)2:55:48Britain would need a faster, heavier answer to Tillman IIINotable Point
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution3:32Fisher's two-gun battlecruiser design problemChapter
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution14:49The 1917 flying-off deck and its mixed air groupChapter
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:05:45Coastal superguns could become a naval-treaty loopholeQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:22:53K2 and K3 were formidable designs rather than a final practical limitQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:40:05A fourth Yamato turret drives the ship toward 80,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:46:56A Ford-sized battleship could carry twelve 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI1:38:01Why the battleship race jumps to 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:55:53What might have followed the Lion classQ&A
- If not Pearl Harbour?2:18:02Would the United States answer with 18-inch guns?Q&A
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response0:39How Tillman IV-2 fits fifteen 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out28:22Shrinking L3 and K3 ideas into a treaty battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out30:51L3 and K3 shared armament but required very different powerNotable Point
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:17:17Renown's turrets inform the debate over the proposed AgincourtNotable Point
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response29:51What a no-treaty battlecruiser generation might have becomeQ&A
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response27:29G3 and N3 designs posed a fleet-distribution dilemmaQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:38:08Why the 15-inch gun remained the practical choiceQ&A
- Building A British Super Battleship!3:06A British super-battleship takes shapeChapter
- Building A British Super Battleship!15:28Why the main battery drops to 16.5 inchesNotable Point
- Building A British Super Battleship!38:33Armageddon: rebuilding from the heaviest requirementsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1134:10Introducing Eagle's heavily armored capital-ship designChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1137:59Trialing Eagle against an obsolete isolated cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:10:09An extreme battleship uses salvo rhythm to offset slow gunsQ&A
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:20:46Why a Yamato-like answer becomes less attractiveChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...3:31Why bigger naval guns were not automatically betterNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...9:40Germany's L20 and the appeal of 16.5-inch gunsNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...38:55G3 and N3 at opposite ends of the capital-ship spectrumChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...44:07When more armour can make a shell more destructiveNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:03:43Japan's Eight-Eight fleet meets yard capacityChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:04:02Why Britain's post-G3 plans remain uncertainNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:24:09Plan Z and the limits of German rearmamentChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:31:03Yamato and the ultimate-weapon trapNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:34:23Fast battleships after a different JutlandNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits20:21Queen Elizabeths and the Argincourt counterfactualNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits23:26Design clues behind the proposed ArgincourtNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits33:22Argincourt simulation: range, firepower, and fleet contextNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits33:22Reconstructing Argincourt from archives and simulation limitsNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits41:15Could battlecruisers replace the battleship benchmark?Notable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built28:45Could HMS Vanguard have carried 18-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built35:50Why HMS Furious carried a shortened 18-inch gunNotable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built2:16:38K3 and L3 designs as treaty pressureQ&A
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion20:07British 16.5-inch and 18-inch work was more credible than a 20-inch leapChapter
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion36:10Gun-building capability narrows sharply above 14 inchesNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:51:10Choosing 16.5-inch guns for fast capital shipsChapter
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 712:54Why six enormous guns can lose the ranging contestNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 616:43Number 13's 18-inch, 50-calibre striking powerNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 618:42Calibre, rate of fire, and turret handlingNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 633:09Speed, range control, and South Dakota's twelve gunsNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 637:28Shell volume can outweigh larger calibreNotable Point
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?29:20Tillman IV-2 turns fifteen 18-inch guns into a design problemChapter
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?51:43An 18-inch Tillman design meets the stability limitChapter
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 21:21:05Volume of fire over an 18-inch gunNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD2:02Gun elevation changes Yamato's practical rangeNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD14:57A British response to Yamato would be a fleet problemChapter
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD20:28Salvo volume and ammunition endurance decide the Yamato trialNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?10:47Building Yamato as the armoured test targetChapter
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?20:32Range control is the decisive tactical advantageNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?44:24A 14-inch advantage only lasts while rivals lagNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:54:02Why the larger autoloading gun still mattersQ&A
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs40:08Why speed cannot offset a heavy-gun range deficitNotable Point
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs45:53Why dreadnoughts should not close like pre-dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:56:53British 18-inch-gun work gave later designers a head startNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!40:47A nine-gun American 18-inch battleshipQ&A
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 826:49Tillman IV pushes the Bureau of Ordnance toward 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?1:40:04Yamato's protection and secondary batteryNotable Point
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:59:39Scaling the forward-gun idea into an 18-inch battleshipChapter
- Building a NelRod County Class...2:26:34Testing a rebuilt Bismarck against an 18-inch designNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 519:37Number 13's 30-knot, 18-inch-gun designNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 526:28Number 13 as a bridge toward YamatoNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done17:46What a modernised Bismarck would demandNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done23:15Why 18-inch guns need much larger turretsNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done34:51Why a capital ship should preserve its range advantageNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done43:56K3 as an enlarged Renown designNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done46:20Why a complete magazine explosion ends the shipNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 310:24Why G3 and N3 would disrupt rival battlefleetsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 321:25K3 as the fast nine-gun eighteen-inch extremeChapter
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 322:21The armour problem created by eighteen-inch gunsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 325:47A single K3 could make an old fleet too costly to retainNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 326:36A K3 counterfactual: treaty limits and rival responsesNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 328:50Yamato-level firepower, not Yamato-level protectionNotable Point
- The full quick gun calibre guide (10-18in) to Dreadnought style ships1:10HMS Furious and Yamato in the 18-inch comparisonChapter
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 99:50Extreme gun calibres demanded stronger hullsNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...42:59What a 10-inch treaty cruiser would changeQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...2:07:03Designing an 18-inch super-battleshipNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...2:28:58The super-battleship's layers of gun rangeNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...2:43:47Why an outranged battleship force may need to close earlyNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:39:49Why overpenetration does not make an 18-inch hit harmlessNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:16:36Mixed-calibre armament creates a logistics burdenNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:27:19How an 18-inch Argincourt could reshape naval treatiesNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:45:37Designing Conqueror as a twelve-gun 18-inch fast battleshipChapter
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...58:06Setting up an alternate Denmark Strait battleChapter
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:05:22Close range erases a battlecruiser's choicesNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...2:05:43What would a 45,000-ton treaty battleship demand?Notable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.2:56:34Could Admiral-class successors carry 16.5-inch or 18-inch guns?Q&A
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:52How might the United States answer an 18-inch Agincourt?Q&A
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?34:12Broadside weight versus the danger of an 18-inch hitChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?35:33Furious and the British 18-inch gun assumptionNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?50:19Would Hood keep 15-inch guns beside Agincourt?Notable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:25:07Scaling Hood around 18-inch gunsChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:37:43A battlecruiser's strength is controlling the rangeChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?2:32:47Testing twelve 18-inch guns on an N3/G3-derived hullChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?2:52:38The design cost of an 18-inch treaty maximumChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?3:07:39Imagining a world where 18-inch guns become the limitChapter
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books39:19The component evidence behind an 18-inch Agincourt hypothesisNotable Point
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you5:24Turret selection as a whole-ship design problemChapter
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you9:35Why two all-forward quadruple turrets concentrate riskNotable Point
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you12:11Why maximum turret redundancy becomes a very large shipChapter
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you18:59The systems needed to make a huge battery usefulNotable Point
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you22:31Magazine separation versus a concentrated batteryNotable Point
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you25:30The maintenance cost of concentrating guns in one turretNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas58:43The trade-off between 16.5-inch and 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:11:49HMS Furious exposes the game's 18-inch-gun gapNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:27:12Scaling armour for an 18-inch AgincourtChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:49:43The narrow range window favoring the Bismarck-like shipNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:01:48Trading shell weight for interwar gun rangeNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:08:39An 18-inch Agincourt against a Bismarck-like opponentNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:13:46How an 18-inch prewar flagship could reshape the naval raceNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:14:55Reconstructing Yamato for the comparisonChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:31:12Four twin turrets or three triples?Notable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:36:47Range advantage cannot remove magazine riskNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response8:21Why small-tube boilers and geared turbines belong togetherQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response9:28Six 18-inch guns, twelve 15-inch guns, and the spare-turret evidenceQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response56:30What the third turret gave Renown's gunnersQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:23:24Agincourt and the qualitative arms-race gambleQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:27:20Could America answer Agincourt at two ships a year?Q&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:29:07Would eight American 18-inch guns outweigh Agincourt's speed?Q&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:53:21Which hull length is used in the Agincourt reconstruction?Q&A
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas20:11Elswick gun orders and hidden calibersNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:25:12Quadruple 18-inch Armageddon designNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:10:47How might the United States answer Queen Elizabeth Maximus?Notable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...29:16Estimating an 18-inch gun's rate of fireQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...31:13Eighteen-inch guns drive armor and industry upwardQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...39:31Eighteen-inch protection means a much heavier beltQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response7:51Why mixed main batteries fail at rangeQ&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:25:56How much hull change would six 18-inch guns require?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:41:29Would an 18-inch Agincourt restart the naval race?Q&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?1:12:04The post-battle choice between heavier guns and fighting rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:06:36Treaty loopholes and a giant pre-dreadnoughtQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History56:00Yamato could not deter an enemy kept ignorant of itNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:22:01How fleets evolve if World War I is delayedQ&A
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193914:24Using the Yamato class as strategic disclosureChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193937:04How Yamato disclosure could reshape German ambitionsNotable Point
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books17:08Sizing an Italian 18-inch-gun battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books58:39The unresolved evidence for the N3's 18-inch gunQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:16:42Why smaller battleship shells do not deliver cruiser-like fire ratesQ&A
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)14:48Why the counterfactual keeps a 16-inch gun ceilingNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature19:38The G3 is a battlecruiser when judged beside the N3Chapter
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature42:33Furious may have inherited rather than originated the 18-inch gunQ&A
- County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)23:18Graf Spee and the calibre ceilingNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)2:44A 42,000-ton capital-ship ceilingNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:23:42What determines the Lion class's successor batteryQ&A
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)16:41Could Yamato have been a more effective deterrent?Q&A
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)40:08Yamato fits the doctrine but arrives too late for 1939Notable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?49:34How would early Yamatos change Allied battleship design?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:49:04Could Britain field 18-inch guns by 1942?Q&A
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)23:47Speed, armour, and turret layout in an alternate designNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:43:00Why quadruple 16-inch turrets create punishing design tradeoffsQ&A
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)22:48Why the first simulation cannot isolate gun layoutNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)32:03N3 and G3 as a fleet systemChapter
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)35:27Battlecruiser armour cannot answer every heavier gunNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament23:41The 16-inch ceiling and why Hood could be retainedNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament41:18How would a modernised N3 compare with Yamato?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament47:40Turning the bow into the fighting positionNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:01:37The scale of Britain's 18-inch gun programmeNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:47:16How mobility damage exposed Bismarck's stern in a simulationNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:52:34How British 18-inch ships could have changed treaty naval competitionNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:56:13How 18-inch guns would change Agincourt and HoodNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:58:45Completed 18-inch ships would change treaty bargainingNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament3:01:24Larger guns, larger docks, and the cost of slow fireNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament3:02:21What an 18-inch British flagship could mean at JutlandNotable Point
- Some Sunday Naval Books29:54The dreadnought race was wider than Britain and GermanyNotable Point
- Some Sunday Naval Books34:54An unconstrained capital-ship technology raceNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"1:58:49How Fisher might react to future battleship plans in 1913Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:21:00How Britain might use a rediscovered set of 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)29:43How one 18-inch battleship could start an arms raceQ&A
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises7:01An 18-inch-gun Hood as a strategic spectacleNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep1/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 915:45Lord Clive class and the logic of monitor accuracyNotable Point
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design2:53N3's 18-inch gun and the Agincourt design hypothesisNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:51:48Clues behind the hypothetical 18-inch AgincourtNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…59:18HMS Agincourt as a proposed 18-inch-gun battleshipNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:13:55How earlier 18-inch battleships might alter YamatoQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:18:35Why 18 inches approaches the practical limit for battleship gunsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...57:07An 18-inch Argencourt built from Queen Elizabeth logicChapter
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:10:36Why an 18-inch ship could escalate the capital-ship raceNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:13:53Why the Argencourt concept uses 18-inch/45 gunsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:17:14Agincourt versus Kii changes the design raceQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:19:22Why wartime Britain kept the 15-inch production lineQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:21:02Why Britain might accept a lighter 18-inch shellQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:24:13Why 20-inch naval guns run into hard limitsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:28:30Seven Bayerns would provoke a larger British replyQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:29:08Why six main guns can still support accurate gunneryQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:30:32An 18-inch production line could rearm the G3Q&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:32:26Why the United States could prefer many 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:52:22Agincourt could redirect the Revenge classQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)39:40Hood and the possibility of 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)56:56What the short 18-inch gun on Furious may implyNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:44:38Eighteen-inch guns, Furious, and hypothetical modern armorQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:41:34When 18-inch guns make speed more valuableNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:03:39The speculative 18-inch HMS AgincourtNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:24:05How the United States might answer an 18-inch British shipQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19151:34Triple mounts and the 18-inch-gun questionNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19153:20Wartime components reveal pre-existing programmesNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191511:37Agincourt’s programme logic and technical complexityNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191519:18Postwar capital ships extended the technology raceNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191418:20Why an 18-inch British capital ship was plausibleNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191421:43A six-gun 18-inch capital-ship alternativeNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191213:23Queen Elizabeth raises the calibre stakesChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-71:01Could the dreadnought revolution have waited until after 1945?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:48:14The size and gun limits of an 18-inch battleshipQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1311:24Prince Eugene's rapid build and delayed 18-inch gunNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1332:53Prince Rupert shows the proposed wider 18-inch rearmamentNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1338:29Labour delays General Wolfe's 18-inch conversionChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1339:50General Wolfe sets an 18-inch combat-range recordChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-91:32Lord Clive-class design and armamentChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-912:56Lord Clive's BL 18-inch Mark I gun and retained 12-inch turretNotable Point
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response25:46Why an unrestricted gun race might revive mixed batteriesQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction23:34HMS Furious turns a large light cruiser into an early carrierChapter
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy2:07:59Why the 15-inch gun was more practical than the 18-inchQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A30:15Courageous was officially a large light cruiserQ&A