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- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?23:01Holtzendorff's case for diesel capital shipsNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?28:28Selecting how many diesel engines drive each shaftNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:24:27Dutch game battleships and industrial logisticsQ&A
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:12Two new battleships in exchange for four older shipsChapter
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?2:52National tonnage quotas and fleets of 35,000-ton shipsChapter
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?4:24Why 35,000 tons excludes the emerging postwar generationChapter
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?27:19A seven-to-ten Japanese ratio and small capital shipsNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:13:38A 1927 treaty based on construction quotasChapter
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:16:25Twenty ships on paper do not mean twenty availableNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:41:25How a naval treaty delayed until 1927 could change fleet limitsQ&A
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live1:46:00What capital ship might South Africa have received?Q&A
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?58:40More Atlantic capital ships against German raidersChapter
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?1:01:36Fast ships find the fight and heavy ships close inNotable Point
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?1:11:55Which capital ships could reinforce the Far East in late 1941?Notable Point
- Why Can't Modern Russia Build Destroyers?7:56Why a Lider-class destroyer would be more than an escortNotable Point
- Why Can't Modern Russia Build Destroyers?39:34The destroyer label masks a capital-ship roleNotable Point
- Why Can't Modern Russia Build Destroyers?49:51A future status force in an uncrewed eraNotable Point
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:26Wave-motion weapons change an Imperial fleet matchupQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:09BattleTech warships expose armour and mission-design problemsQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:27The Pentastar Alignment should consolidate before expandingQ&A
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...35:01Plan Z escorts were a missed small-cruiser opportunityChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...38:18Project J was fast enough for the capital ships it would escortNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:15:02Britain's balanced force for holding sea areasChapter
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:18How extra signatories could break naval treaty negotiationsQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:45Treaty battlecruisers grow into fast battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:28Larger torpedoes before a delayed First World WarQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:19Turbo-electric capital ships into the 1940sQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:14:46Canada may receive a capital ship, but not build battlecruisersQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:27:22Capital-ship transfers as imperial infrastructure policyNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:37:47Would dockyard capacity limit the larger battleships?Q&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:39Which imperial territories planned docks for Hood, G3, and N3?Q&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:00Imperial dry docks for Hood, G3, and N3-size shipsQ&A
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?34:23Standard displacement hides Tiger's full-load scaleNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?54:24Treaty tonnage could produce three or four F3-style capital shipsChapter
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?58:57Two battle lines give Britain worldwide task-group depthNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?1:05:23A 24-knot fast force raises the carrier speed requirementNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI11:15Industrial specialization constrains French destroyer growthNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI16:11Flotilla defence still requires a balanced fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:45The cost argument against a 16.5-inch Colorado reboreQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:04Where a treaty-free battleship gun race would plateauQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:03:32An American Hood and the Washington treaty ceilingQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:04:50Continuous construction replaces older capital shipsNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:07:33Australian capital ships create a Pacific security dilemmaNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:35:40The IJN retains an Eight-Eight fleet structureQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:48:41HMS Hood would transform Australian naval capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:24Repair yards, fitting-out yards, and construction slipwaysQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:34Gun barrels as a display of naval powerNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?1:18:31An earlier victory could delay naval treatiesChapter
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?1:19:47A successful carrier raid still leaves a role for capital shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:04France's bargaining position at WashingtonQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:33:29Dutch ownership of German capital ships after World War IQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:10A larger treaty allowance for Nelsons, F3s and WashingtonNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:16Building Number 13 battlecruisers instead of YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:31A French fleet built against Jeune École ideasQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:30:06Would navies trade battleships for 35,000-ton carriers in 1922?Q&A
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:08:40Why Tsushima's light forces faded from memoryNotable Point
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:21Historic warships as models for Space Battleship YamatoQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order29:46Prestige guns versus practical battleship firepowerNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...49:42Why Monarch's exact construction cost is uncertainNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:42Why a capital ship does not have to be a battleshipNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...50:17Kantai Kessen concludes Japan's attrition campaignNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:58:56A united Scandinavia enters capital-ship limitationQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:02:48The ambiguity in Fisher's proposed fast capital shipQ&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...47:28The 1909 naval panic and a twelve-ship imperial orderNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...2:17:31Why speed alone could not confer capital-ship prestigeNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...2:31:49Could the Washington treaty disappear?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers35:18Lexington-class ships split across capital-ship rolesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers37:00Machinery density shifts the battlecruiser spectrumNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers43:57Chatfield's treaty strategy favored many small carriersChapter
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers48:13Treaties could not erase knowledge of larger warshipsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle19:18What if Britain rejected the Washington Naval Treaty?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle7:21:45Tiger versus Hood as the best battlecruiserQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle8:45:32Length-to-beam ratio, hull form, and capital-ship resistanceQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle8:48:26Could Hood plane at high speed?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle8:53:27Battlecruiser armour, speed, and strategic tradeoffsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:06:36What if the 5.25-inch gun achieved 12 rounds per minute in 1930?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:10:00What an early naval-treaty escalator clause changesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:15:04Japan's desired 70 percent treaty ratioNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:47:31How an Allied Ottoman Empire complicates naval arms controlChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:51:27More treaty participants mean more arguments over naval rankQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:16:01How a 1929 war could break the naval treaty systemQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:32How American shipbuilding could recover from a lost 1941 fleetQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War4:39:31Why German torpedo boats remained smaller than desiredNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:10:26How far an equitable capital-ship treaty might expandQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:19:03What the naval treaties allowed shipbuilders to exportQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:01:29What makes a fast battleship rather than a battlecruiserQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:16:01Why a 20-inch/54 naval gun never became practicalQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:49:40Armour coverage versus subdivision in capital-ship protectionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:27:56Large rockets as an alternative to early torpedoesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:53:08A Dutch G3 battlecruiser before the Washington conferenceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I2:03:23Why Ambassador is an odd name for a capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:37Congress funds capital ships but neglects escortsQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:15Would heavy 1918 losses produce N3 battleships?Q&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:37:11The R class in Britain's prewar fleet-renewal planNotable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:42Why Greece might accept an available German capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:35How Dominion flagships could consume budgets or build a naval workforceNotable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:37Could surplus treaty ships remain useful abroad?Q&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:42Carrier shortages and the capital-ship gapNotable Point
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:00:38An intact fleet breaks the historical 5:5:3 ratioChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:06:25G3s, N3s, and Lexingtons before a delayed treatyChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:11:18A different London naval treaty in 1925Chapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:15:20The unknown 1923 capital-ship generationNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:53:49How giant imperial dry docks change interwar capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:42A German capital-ship windfall before the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:41:31How the Caracciolo class could upset Washington treaty arithmeticQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:46A Dutch G3 battlecruiser enters service in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:25:45Why a twenty-ship tonnage allowance could support more hullsQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:07Six Nelsons under a twenty-capital-ship treatyQ&A
- If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?2:48:24Why T-class submarines carried a ten-torpedo bow salvoNotable Point
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?24:26Could 4.5-inch guns replace the 5.25-inch battery?Chapter
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:02A larger Royal Navy reshapes WashingtonQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:40:37Why Renown was too old to rebuild beside VanguardQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:55Warship sales remained legal under naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:03:02Durand-Viel's heavier-gunned battlecruiser compromiseNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:16Why Scharnhorst avoided slower battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:48How the Washington Treaty treated existing shipsQ&A
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:45:58Gorshkov's small ships did not make his fleet Jeune ÉcoleQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 12: Not Pocket Battleships, No Guadalcanal and a load of Submarine Signals?0:11Why the Deutschland class were cruisers, not capital shipsQ&A
- 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 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:56:36Instant ship replication rewards very large Royal Navy designsQ&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?34:37Mark VIII mountings spread medium AA down the fleetNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:53:38Would Dominion capital ships survive into World War II?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:10:26What would later naval treaties regulate?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:16:21Could treaties give battlecruisers their own category?Q&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:54Capital ships were often more valuable covering a towQ&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:59:26L'Orient's loss consumed a young capital assetNotable Point
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:08How a 9.2- to 10-inch cruiser limit reshapes treaty fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:47:49Why equal post-Jutland fleets would fail at WashingtonQ&A
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?49:13Russia concentrates its first rates at VyborgNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...9:22Mapping Second World War ships onto the sailing-navy rating systemQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:56Did the Scharnhorst class change history more than other capital ships?Q&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:03If naval officers had led the 1930 London treaty talksQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:19When beaching capital ships for repairs stopped workingQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:57How Britain might answer two extra German capital-ship yards in 1933Q&A
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:44:28Royal Navy doctrine massed every available gunNotable Point
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?21:41The traditional wartime battleship missionNotable Point
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?36:37Where a modern battleship might be strategically viableChapter
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...16:33F3 versus G3 for Royal Navy serviceQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:39:04Gneisenau as a candidate for the most important blockshipQ&A
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition17:50Reliable capital ships as conventional deterrenceNotable Point
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live10:27Define a modern battleship by mission, not turret countChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live16:04Battleships turn naval presence into diplomatic leverageChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live30:50A battleship mission is broader than its main batteryChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live34:22Large guns make naval power visible before they fireNotable Point
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live37:47Battlefleet power combines escorts with a flagship staffChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live2:25:46Capital ships once let regional powers police their own watersChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?54:58A negotiated answer to Churchill's construction pausesChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?1:35:24Jacky Fisher's Renown and Repulse set a wartime procurement precedentNotable Point
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees40:59Why large warships retained an adaptation advantageNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!1:06:28Which warship designs aged worse than their contemporaries?Q&A
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?54:12Archive evidence sets limits on the tender counterfactualNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:31:32Tōgō as elder statesman and cruiser advocateChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:29:46Why peacetime ship limits favor larger warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II38:46Would Britain have preferred a 16.5-inch treaty limit?Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II54:12K3 battlecruiser: a faster and heavier alternative to G3Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II55:51When capital ships outgrew armour against their own gunsQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:02:49British capital ships with two forward turrets and one amidshipsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:58:53A 10:10:7 Washington Treaty fleet ratioQ&A
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?6:40The Washington treaty permitted two British capital ships without requiring 16-inch gunsChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…26:40Convoys, political reassurance, and ChurchillChapter
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:08:22A larger Hawkins class rewrites treaty categoriesQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:38:21Cherry trees refers to Japanese ships cut down by WashingtonQ&A
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War27:23Kountouriotis treats risk as the price of naval usefulnessChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...6:04The Washington treaty sets the British design boxChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...58:45Which books explain Royal Navy capital ships?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:56:19A London treaty bargain permits new battleshipsChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:58:53Japan's 10:7 demand changes the treaty fleet balanceNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?1:40:42Why the hunt for Bismarck became possibleQ&A
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 333:26Capital-ship economics can make starfighters rationalChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...21:29Libyan oil and the limits of Italian fleet expansionQ&A
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings29:11Where Kongō sits between battlecruiser and fast battleshipNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings32:07Machinery power density turns speed into a protection choiceNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:43:04Essay scenario: an equitable treaty and rolling constructionChapter
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:08:07Why a 16-inch-gun landing ship would breach treaty logicQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/44:44:38Why cruiser growth stops at the fleet's support capacityQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/431:52An Allied Japan would preserve mixed carrier and capital-ship fleetsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:00:49Henderson might keep capital-ship construction moving in 1939Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:39:00Why the Royal Navy avoids politically loaded capital-ship namesQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:24:46Italian-style Iron Duke refits were possible but unnecessaryQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:41:40Revolution constrained Russian capital-ship modernisationQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 714:43What separates a battlecruiser from a fast battleshipQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 718:38Cruiser-line speed sets the fast-battleship thresholdNotable Point
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 721:49Vanguard's mixed battlecruiser and battleship qualitiesNotable Point
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 723:45Lexington, Iowa, and the capital-ship spectrumQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast10:05Did naval treaties delay warship technology?Q&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast1:45:19Why a naval-treaty roleplay needs historical incentivesQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:48:15World War I warship profiles are aesthetic rather than functional in spaceQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:50:29How each navy spends an 80,000-ton Space Battleship allowanceQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:54:45Eight fast British capital ships rewrite the treaty systemQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!4:24:00Tillman-style nuclear missile cruisers could trigger allied counterbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:19:18Why networks and missiles do not eliminate capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:58:03Only globally oriented medium powers need a new battleship-scale combatantQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song52:04Escorting capital ships depends on the mission and sea roomQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.57:31A 10:10:7:4:4 Washington treaty ratioQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:44:16More durable displacement limits for naval arms controlQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:16:15German 25,000-ton ships alarm every treaty navyQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:53:12Exporting capital-ship parts tests treaty wordingQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:37:26A treaty system allowing slow capital-ship constructionQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!14:26Why 10-inch guns sit awkwardly between cruiser and capital-ship rolesQ&A
- 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
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!36:35Why 12-inch guns usually displaced 11-inch weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!57:07Coastal 15-inch guns would not make Spanish battleships straightforwardQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:03:44German capital-ship capacity depended on more than slipwaysQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 4: A Wide Variety of Comments13:23Armour coverage and subdivision help identify capital-ship typeNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 4: A Wide Variety of Comments15:46Battle cruiser and battlecruiser as different strategic rolesQ&A
- Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:42:46Could a harsher naval treaty have broken the challengers?Chapter
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign51:55How a submarine-focused Germany changes Royal Navy strategyQ&A
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign54:27How a German submarine focus changes Matapan and TarantoNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 38:35A delayed carrier force and Force ZNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:18:17Canadian Tigers at the Washington conferenceQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:31:14A 1940 South African fleetQ&A
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 56:13Shipborne overwatch and repeated patrolNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:36:04Australia outside British Washington Treaty tonnageQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:44:34Why old British capital ships could build Dominion naviesQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:54:20Distributing British capital ships among the DominionsQ&A
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice2:36:33If Scharnhorst and Gneisenau entered the MediterraneanQ&A
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:17:43German losses could release British capital ships for the MediterraneanNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign43:24Science-fiction carriers demand consistent technologyNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion8:16Gun range, cost and the carrier's capital-ship roleChapter
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion49:09Carrier reconnaissance enables battle-line gunneryNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion1:18:34Carrier battle groups combine aviation and escort capabilitiesNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:21:42G3 or N3: the greater threat to the US NavyQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:22:42G3 belt and deck armor figuresQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:23:38Disputed accounts of G3's intended gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:30:25Is a six-gun 18-inch broadside too small?Q&A
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:25:50A light-carrier category invites wider changes to treaty limitsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!52:34Capital ships as static Far East deterrenceNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:12:30US amphibious carriers occupy a supporting tierNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems57:20Anglo-American shipbuilding follows qualitative competitionNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:10:13When 105 mm guns suffice against destroyersQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:40:52Cruiser screens and destroyer attack groupsNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:14:27Capital ships and tonnage for a three-fleet Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:27:21Treaty tonnage for a Royal Navy three-fleet systemQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built4:44:57The Royal Navy's unofficial capital-ship requirementQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:46:57What 'twenty years ahead' misses about the G3 and N3 designsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:57:31How large might capital ships have grown without treaties?Q&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:16:18Why super-dreadnought development was inevitableQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 60:00The treaty uncertainty behind a forgotten battleship generationChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?18:51What John Fisher might make of a Star DestroyerQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?27:28Turning 1938 naval design cultures into Star DestroyersChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?44:18Royal Navy logic: modernize a proven carrier-battleshipChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:11:20Treaty escalation and interrupted British capital-ship constructionNotable Point
- 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
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:58:54Why wartime aircrews often attacked the target they could reachNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign25:39A twelve-gun Queen Elizabeth counterfactualNotable Point
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 510:35Capital-ship appearance as a form of deterrenceChapter
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...18:02Why space fleets may still organize around carriersNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction35:53Does an Imperial Star Destroyer count as a carrier?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:19:59The Imperial fleet is too heavy in capital shipsNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:26:13Can small fighters kill a massive space carrier?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:45:30Farscape's command carrier closes the rangeChapter
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered1:50:00How to classify the Swiftsure-class capital shipsQ&A
- Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History47:11G3 construction raises the treaty ceilingChapter
- Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History49:57Ship-by-ship limits replace fleet ratiosChapter
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:58:40A qualitative arms race would reveal practical capital-ship limitsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:16:39British infrastructure would keep moving with a capital-ship raceQ&A
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:18:50American cruisers scout for the battle fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI1:28:04A treaty based on ship size rather than fleet totalsQ&A
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI2:10:02Britain's 1930s fleet without the historical treaty pauseChapter
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign30:22Could a campaign work without capital ships?Q&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered40:13What counted as capital-ship night-fighting rangeQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:28:18Why aircraft carriers made new battlecruisers obsoleteQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:41:46How a British two-inch gun progression reshapes WashingtonQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:35:42Why concentrated forces overwhelm an isolated capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:52:56The difference between retaining Hood and retaining her capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:32:41Kirov as a Soviet status shipQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...1:40:47Reserve squadrons preserve wartime fleet depthNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!11:49Why the Royal Navy did not need a pocket battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!55:49Why few navies copied the pocket battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:29:24Why British capital-ship plans appeared one class at a timeNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:53:00When larger capital ships would force British dock expansionQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:42:50How Lexington and South Dakota strained US dock capacityQ&A
- Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign4:03Reading a 1908 naval balance before committing forcesChapter
- Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign42:32Balancing speed, protection, range, and secondary fire in a campaign battleshipChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered58:15When larger capital-ship classes become more expensiveQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:00:17Why post-treaty heavy cruisers grow toward 25,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:35:31A 45,000-ton Washington capital-ship limitQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:40:48Could Italy finish the Francesco Caracciolo class?Q&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time45:07More Queen Elizabeths and Admirals harden Britain's treaty positionQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time56:51G3 and N3 construction makes dockyard expansion a 1920s priorityQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:42:19Paused construction left Force Z without the fleet meant to reinforce itQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:47:40Without Washington, the naval race settles into recurring small batchesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time4:32:49Competition asks how an unbuilt treaty-era warship reaches World War IIChapter
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids2:02:35Carrier length rankings mix capacity with political statusNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō12:16The treaty loophole behind small carriersChapter
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books19:23If every treaty navy received two new battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books58:35How a heavier British battle line changes treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:35:00How to build a Canadian two-ocean fleet from 1928Q&A
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:03:57G3 and N3 construction could feed a rotating capital-ship reserveNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:21:48Naval treaties remove construction continuity and reserve depthChapter
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:25:56Could retained Iron Dukes be upgraded to 14-inch guns?Q&A
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:26:56A treaty reserve could rotate old capital ships into new constructionNotable Point
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!42:37A Royal Navy built around triple turretsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:37:18How Nelson's torpedoes could be aimedQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:07:26A treaty without the capital-ship holidayQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:36:27Gas turbines transform interwar capital-ship reconstructionsChapter
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:50:04The interwar Royal Navy was not simply anti-carrierNotable Point
- Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History1:23:07Carrier success did not instantly end capital-ship developmentNotable Point
- Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History1:31:25Large-caliber autoloaders as postwar anti-aircraft weaponsNotable Point
- Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History1:32:10Why Britain studied capital-gun autoloaders firstQ&A
- Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History1:49:37Would nuclear power have prolonged British capital ships?Q&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...50:06The German capital-ship fleet was overestimated as a wholeQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:15:47A 1930 treaty walkout puts carriers and fast capital ships firstQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:37:27A 17,000-ton cruiser crosses the Washington Treaty's capital-ship lineQ&A
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response9:30How Britain planned a 22- or 23-ship capital fleetNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:32:39A Pacific crisis exposes Britain's capital-ship production pauseNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?2:12:01Would Britain accelerate Vanguard and the Lion class?Q&A
- The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response16:26SSBNs as capital ships and attack submarines as cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out20:30Capital-ship interiors also supported peacetime dutiesQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:11:05A 12-inch Lexington would have a short useful lifeQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:42:58A lone Vanguard would not trigger a major foreign responseQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:45:32Eight 16.5-inch guns offer the stronger heavy-battery choiceQ&A
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response17:29The Long Lance was designed to threaten any capital shipQ&A
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?23:23Churchill's escort switch disrupted several building programsNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?35:13Surface raiders created an escort dilemmaChapter
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?48:13Lütjens wanted to wait for BismarckNotable Point
- Who killed the Battleship? / Why no more battleships?1:23Five culprits behind the battleship's disappearanceChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?45:29Capital-ship concentration changes the convoy problemChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:58:30F2 and F3 designs show why interception speed matteredNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:40:31Treaty tonnage met production economicsChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:45:40Why Britain lost competitive capital-ship yard capacityQ&A
- HMVS Cerberus: KSS1 S4 Comment Response11:40Completed G3 and N3 ships reshape treaty bargainingNotable Point
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 95:14Battle cruisers, battlecruisers, and the capital-ship spectrumChapter
- Bruships 130: Battleships15:04Capital ships without the Washington Naval TreatyQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships35:50Choosing between 100 mm and 10.5 cm dual-purpose gunsQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships44:17How British construction would strengthen the US treaty offerQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:54:32Why later British battlecruisers were still likelyQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:57:55When early dreadnoughts would enter reserveQ&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers24:28A batch program could yield nine major shipsChapter
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 80:02Asahi and the capital-ship spectrumChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:45:57Why a Coast Guard label cannot hide a capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:42:27Non-Western powers capable of supporting capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:52:20A leading navy cannot stop studying the next capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:56:19Jacky Fisher expected the carrier age almost immediatelyQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty11:23The 5:5:3 ratio and America’s fifteen-ship battle lineNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:04:51What replaces the historical capital-ship building holiday?Q&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:16:47Why other powers remain unlikely capital-ship buildersQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:20:10Washington treaty rules for warships built for exportQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:22:43Why Russia still struggles to build capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series8:37Why a capital-ship article may omit HMS HoodQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:31:21Prince Philip and the Duke of Edinburgh naming traditionQ&A
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...51:53Norwegian geography frees ships and eases pressure on BritainNotable Point
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...1:19:11A stronger Far Eastern fleet changes Japanese choicesChapter
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...1:00:41Could Germany replace the ships lost off Norway?Q&A
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...1:03:20Could a defeat in Norway end Germany's surface-fleet ambitions?Notable Point
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...1:05:11Would defeat in Norway threaten Hitler's position?Q&A
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...1:08:38Scandinavian materials keep British capital ships movingNotable Point
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...2:17:34Would Hood and Repulse receive modernisations?Q&A
- Thoughts on Problems for Future of Strategy from a Naval Historian1:07:05Compare forces by mission before ranking themNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty43:48The material advantage Britain brought to JutlandNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:25:19Could British gunfire break the German breakout?Q&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:41:44Why not keep 15-inch guns?Q&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:47:46A higher baseline for naval limitationNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:54:10Would Britain trade down at Washington?Q&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:58:54Why the Revenge class still arrivesNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 87:41From battlecruiser to fast battleshipNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 821:43A 30-knot heavy battle line in the Second World WarNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 830:14Why 16.5-inch guns appeal as a heavy-gun compromiseNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:28:21A capital-ship refit is a weight-budget exerciseChapter
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series51:56Carrier conversions and treaty replacement tonnageQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:22:31A 1942 war and British capital-ship modernizationQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:48:28If Prince of Wales had been lost with HoodQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:56:51A British response to Tillman-style U.S. battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:31:22An Australian Tiger and Furious forceQ&A
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian4:13A five-part test for fictional capital shipsChapter
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian7:11Why a capital ship must defend beyond home orbitNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian8:13Capital ships must fit the operator's risksNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian31:21Executor class: intimidating but strategically wastefulChapter
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian35:59Cheops class: a monument first and a warship secondNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian45:04Peacekeeper command carriers need an escorting forceNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian47:55Ha'tak ships as instruments of Goa'uld coercionNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian57:57Vor'cha class as a visible statement of Klingon powerNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:03:05Victory class: a carrier-battleship for hostile transitNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:08:04Cylon Basestars are designed around Cylon systemsNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:10:11Galaxy class: adaptable capital ships with a complexity costNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:13:39Daedalus class as a practical hybrid capital shipNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:21:00A faster Nelson under a 40,000-ton treatyQ&A
- King George V(1911) Class: Why the Orion Class didn't stick as 'Super Dreadnoughts'25:13Treaty-era presence missions and worldwide serviceChapter
- King George V(1911) Class: Why the Orion Class didn't stick as 'Super Dreadnoughts'35:34Could an 'overage' category have preserved older capital ships?Notable Point
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 30:00Why wartime learning can outrun a ship designChapter
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 39:43From armoured cruiser to capital shipNotable Point
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:23:57How Britain might answer completed Francesco CaracciolosQ&A
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:26:46A fast Royal Navy treaty-capital-ship responseChapter
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:45:43Turning a game-heavy armour scheme into a plausible treaty designNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 552:13Cheap torpedo craft can threaten far costlier shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built2:12:38How larger infrastructure changes post-Hood capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built2:48:47How America might answer a 44-ship British battle fleetQ&A
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI1:00:41Pausing capital-ship construction disrupted Britain's wider naval programChapter
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI1:05:02Capital ships secured sea areas as well as fighting fleetsNotable Point
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 105:41Why capital ships need a balanced fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?1:52:34Why Britain's old battle fleet was expensive to modernizeNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?1:56:28Had Britain refitted fewer capital ships than the United States?Q&A
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 918:18Why Alsace required more than a new designNotable Point
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 937:04Alsace, Germany, and the case for a larger classChapter
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 80:49Fisher's deterrent vision depended on staff workChapter
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 83:34F3 and the 15-inch alternative to all-forward turretsNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 85:43Why gun number matters for ranging fireNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 815:33A battlecruiser's real speed is speed of engagementNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 819:58Incomparable versus G3: calibre against volume of fireChapter
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 828:19Fast 15-inch ships or armoured 16-inch bulwarksNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 830:54N3 mobile citadel and G3 task-force shipChapter
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 833:27Why Renown, Repulse, and Hood would age quicklyNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 844:04Three counterfactual tests for Fisher and treaty-era warshipsNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 70:29A revived Eight-Eight fleet behind A-150 and B-64Chapter
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 74:17Why capital ships displaced escorts and support forcesNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 40:01Paper strength versus industrial realityChapter
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 443:23H-39 as the practical German limitNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 454:39Would an early H-39 programme change Allied construction?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:53:31Did Dominion ships count against British treaty limits?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:00:47Could a mass of sloops threaten a battleship?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:51:04F3 speed and protection within the treaty limitChapter
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?3:00:29Could another country build capital ships?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 31:00:57Why refit older capital ships?Notable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer1:34:03Why proposed saint names for British capital ships are doubtfulChapter
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...6:11American status, spending, and Senate ratificationChapter
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...40:10Why one Commonwealth navy mattered to the ratiosNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...1:22:27Equal ratios and unequal global commitmentsNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...1:27:14Testing treaty arithmetic with an Australian capital shipNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?31:06Why 30, 19, and 17 were not equivalent cutsNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?3:28:34The 5:5:3 ratio: economy for some, insecurity for JapanNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?3:29:28What a 7:10 Japanese ratio might have builtNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock2:43Why battlecruisers were a compromiseChapter
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock5:31From ironclad frigates to separate battleships and cruisersNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 239:26The fleet Britain needed for two theatresNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 19:00The Royal Navy's thirteen-ship replacement problemNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 129:58What earlier Lion construction could have changedNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 11:20:23A 1935 Royal Navy rearmament scenarioNotable Point
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas1:11:59Counter-flooding, turret loss, and battle damageNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:09:13Why four G3s and four N3s were only Britain's opening moveQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:23:58How an unrestricted capital fleet would cycle older ships outQ&A
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:04:52Could Britain have chosen two G3s instead of Nelson and Rodney?Q&A
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:35:41Could Lion-class battleships have entered service by 1942?Q&A
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:36:11A concentrated German capital-ship force would change the Atlantic problemChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:47:29How would the U.S. Navy answer four German capital ships?Q&A
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction2:07:54When heavy cruisers are asked to do capital-ship workNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued35:31Renown's 15-inch guns remained dangerous to BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:26:27Infrastructure growth points toward 70,000-ton capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:49:37French capital ships needed major interwar reconstructionQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:51:06Scharnhorst's guns in an unrestricted battleship raceQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:20:38Numbers did not settle the Adriatic fleet balanceQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:25:17High-elevation guns and long-range fireQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:50:51Interwar fire control limits time-on-target gunneryQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:27:51Treaty replacement priorities for British capital shipsQ&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:47:08The Washington system allowed export construction with disclosureQ&A
- Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response10:12Presence ships create an escalation ladderChapter
- Albany Class: Comment Response27:05Why escorts risk themselves for capital shipsNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses12:29Why completed Soviet capital ships would demand a responseNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:05:09Battleships as the fighting line's scarce coreChapter
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:23:59Apocalypse class: lance fire and a Nova CannonNotable Point
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?6:41Japanese treaty acceptance and the Nagato classQ&A
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:11:18A crippled capital ship is harder to save than to loseNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon2:05:33How fast battleships could complicate the postwar balanceChapter
- Bruships 113: Jutland12:52Why G3s and N3s were unlikely to be saint-namedQ&A
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 51:18What makes a warship a capital strategic assetNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 535:50Britain's no-treaty capital-ship responseNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:40Why the K3 straddles battleship and battlecruiser labelsNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done13:36Why game damage can overstate capital-ship survivalNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done29:54Would K3s have changed naval treaty politics?Notable 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
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done57:04Reimagining the Francesco Caracciolo classChapter
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done1:50:39How Francesco Caracciolo could have disrupted fleetsNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History18:20Churchill's like-for-like naval procurement logicNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:50:05N3 and G3 cancellation as a treaty decisionQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History3:05:11G3 and N3: pursuit versus overwhelming forceQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)17:42The escort force a German carrier would needChapter
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 424:18Why treaty survival would encourage heavy modernizationNotable Point
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 425:34The capital ships that might have followed LexingtonChapter
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 426:56What treaty limits removed from naval planningChapter
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation17:24The integrated carrier and capital-ship task forceChapter
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation21:41Beyond the caricature of the battleship admiralNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation25:15Taranto, damage, and the alternative use of aircraftNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation30:06Two different interwar debates about air powerChapter
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 32:36The missing generation between Hood and NelsonChapter
- 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 & 325:47A single K3 could make an old fleet too costly to retainNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus50:05How a larger French fleet rewrites treaty arithmeticQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat37:24Why Renown is the chosen Royal Navy capital shipQ&A
- Osmaniye: Key Ship Series 1, Ship 55:56When prestige keeps capital ships out of actionNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:36:59How larger capital ships could raise the cruiser calibre ceilingQ&A
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition4:50Stable warship forms from battleships to missile escortsNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition12:30Ironclads as status capital assetsNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition47:46Obsolescence did not erase service valueNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword1:04:46Why navies build very large warshipsQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)1:08:25Germany's submarine and capital-ship trade-offQ&A
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters2:31:32Why first-rate ships resisted mass productionNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword37:43Gun stocks did not solve the 15-inch turret bottleneckQ&A
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?54:21Which British ships get the new shells first?Notable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:11:09Postwar design ripples from a different JutlandChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:56:36Why a larger German gun needed more than a barrelNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?2:00:58Why the game's knife-fight ranges misleadNotable Point
- 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 Books10:14Why older capital ships would become treaty tonnage placeholdersQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books34:41How more retained capital ships reshape the Royal Navy in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books39:19The component evidence behind an 18-inch Agincourt hypothesisNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!23:14Prestigious capital ships expose the Royal Navy’s commitment to steamNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response28:25Why battlecruisers counted as dreadnought-type capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...20:55An 18-inch Agincourt reshapes capital shipsQ&A
- 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
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:47:24Turret orientation keeps weight amidshipsQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:57:42Wartime shipbuilding widens the carrier gapChapter
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?3:32:29Would this war make battleships obsolete?Q&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response11:29Unfinished German capital ships would arrive too lateQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response54:00Royal Navy rebuilding would begin with familiar ships, then escalateQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response1:15:09Heavy officer losses could make aviation a Royal Navy force multiplierNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response1:19:54Capital ships might revive carried torpedo boats after the Channel battleNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers17:32HMS Warrior and the cruiser-capital-ship boundaryChapter
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...22:45A fast 12-inch capital ship for a smaller navyQ&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19914:09:51Kirovs served as capital ships and differed from hull to hullChapter
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:06:38Paper battleships were not ready answers to the G3 and N3Notable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:19:35Courageous and Glorious as 15-inch cruiser huntersQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:21:12A British alternative at the Washington Naval ConferenceQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:48:19Why large space warships may combine several rolesQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?29:02Why capital ships received 5.25-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat41:32When an 11-inch ship stops looking like a battleshipQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine5:04The Deutschland-class cruiser dilemmaChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:01:17Germany's 11-inch gun was a cruiser weapon, not a battleship equalQ&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:08:56Could Japan afford a capital-ship race against G3 and N3?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:21:52Would G3 and N3 have changed German naval rearmament?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:47:04Could Britain trade gun calibre for a third treaty battleship?Q&A
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)50:12Jeune Ecole fails France's peacetime presence testChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:25:21The Sverdlov threat shaped Western strike-aircraft and fleet planningNotable Point
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty47:31A 10:7 ratio could give Japan status while strengthening deterrenceChapter
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty54:00The building holiday redirected competition into reconstructionChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"27:18Washington's capital-ship quotas and the navies left outsideChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:13:36Replacement rules froze construction but permitted selective modernizationChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:05:54What remained after treaty battleships were scrappedQ&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:26:03Were early carriers prohibitively expensive force multipliers?Q&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video29:54Why a capital ship must look first-rankQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video59:02Why a secret weapon cannot deterQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:11:36Why capital ships still slow escort productionQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:24:15What counts as an old warship still in combat?Q&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More1:55:53Balance faster weapons against ship numbers and available crewsQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)6:53Fisher's concern over losing old shipsQ&A
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France30:34A stronger Home Fleet hunts German surface raidersNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)2:55Why converting line-of-battle ships into ironclads was costlyQ&A
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?37:48The French fleet strength that Force H replacedChapter
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?46:31Hood and Prince of Wales were a two-ship forceNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?47:55What seven battleships and seventy-four submarines addChapter
- Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace51:15Capital ships kept Stalin interested while cruisers delivered capabilityNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 320:29The infrastructure behind 100,000-ton capital shipsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4251:37Why the Allies could trade a capital ship for a raiderQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:22:30Why Force Z and Ark Royal mattered differently from HoodQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:44:48The Royal Navy's answer to Plan Z was continuous replacementQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:57:40A 1948 war leaves few old British capital shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 216:52A practical Japanese alternative to YamatoQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:06:38If French gunfire destroyed Hood earlier in the warQ&A
- Imperieuse Class(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p86:44Why a cruiser could still worry a battleshipNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:38:43Axis naval choices worth respectingQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading5:49Destroyer captains moving to larger commandsQ&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches1:12:28Why did capital-ship Marines carry towed artillery?Q&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches1:24:17Could a capital ship land an armoured car?Q&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again17:22Why battleships carried underwater torpedo tubesQ&A
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19421:18Royal Navy losses created an immediate capital-ship shortageChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19427:11Why Britain and America exchanged different kinds of naval supportNotable Point
- Algerie (1932): Marine National22:48Algérie as a procurement lesson for smaller naviesNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194123:36Carrier vulnerability makes escorts indispensableNotable Point
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments0:25Why 1939 fleet planning cannot use 1945 hindsightChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments46:04Why Australian naval infrastructure arrived too lateNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:45:44A third Renown changes modernization and deployment choicesQ&A
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193924:17Eleven-inch or fourteen-inch guns for the Dutch designNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193920:31Modernizing the Royal Navy's available capital shipsChapter
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.10:30Could Commonwealth dockyards have accommodated HMS Hood?Q&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:58:23Would more colonial yards repair capital ships?Q&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:42:32How would HMS Hood be freed from the Panama Canal?Q&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:42:54How dividing the High Seas Fleet could reshape naval treatiesQ&A
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:54:43Treaty labels did not make capital ships equivalentNotable Point
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less14:06Jackie Fisher uses flotillas to buy time for the battle fleetChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine27:00Postwar austerity collides with battleship prestigeChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:55:56Cruiser tonnage might have bought battleships or torpedo swarmsNotable Point
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:47:03A German High Seas Fleet in the treaty eraQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:02:49Keeping Lexington-class battlecruisers at WashingtonQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:03:44If Italy received two Bayern-class battleshipsQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:14:12A Renown-derived nine-gun capital shipQ&A
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)14:54Private yards brought different skills to fleet reconstructionChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)18:23Could carriers have bridged France's doctrinal schism?Notable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)19:09Private-yard specialization made cruiser orders a strategic tradeoffChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)22:54Naval chiefs faced a revived Jeune EcoleChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)46:02Italy, not Germany, set France's immediate design problemNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)21:47Zumwalt is larger than an early battleshipQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)38:07How frigates, cruisers, and destroyers changed rolesQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)40:07Why attack submarines resemble capital ships more than cruisersQ&A
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:45:17Did Algérie's superstructure look unfinished to save weight?Q&A
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)3:00:02Did France design a pure battlecruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:01:18How French super-dreadnoughts could alter the Washington TreatyQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:03:24Why HMS Princess Margaret would need a capital shipQ&A
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)19:38How Britain might have continued after N3 and G3Q&A
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)23:47How an N3 might have fought in the MediterraneanQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?18:26How the ironclad frigate created the cruiserChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?3:04:04Armour is central to the battleship definitionQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 21:51:58The tactical and political problem with KGV's 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels17:43Nelson and Rodney against a depleted German surface fleetQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels34:19Fisher with nuclear propulsion and autoloading heavy gunsQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels1:56:24Why Italy retained obsolete capital ships for treaty bargainingQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)33:12Capital-ship allocation and Italian conversion optionsChapter
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)36:59A replacement calendar built around service lifeChapter
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)46:56Which older British battleships would be modernised?Q&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)21:28When treaty definitions turn monitors into capital shipsNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)28:41Why battleship gun caliber carried national prestigeNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)30:35A 10:10:7:4:4 ratio intended to reassure JapanChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)31:05Capital-ship limits and replacement agesNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)36:24Escort effects accumulate across the fleetNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)42:11Make the flotilla the treaty unitChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)47:12The treaty underfunded wartime fleet screeningChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)50:47Why the Royal Navy needed at least twenty flotillasNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)0:00Using an equitable treaty counterfactual to test historyChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)24:59Article I paused capital ships, not all warshipsNotable Point
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)3:26Why the 1936 London treaty lacked deterrent valueChapter
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)14:22The 1930 capital-ship building holidayChapter
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)18:45What the 1936 treaty counted as a capital shipChapter
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)21:08The 35,000-ton ceiling and puzzling gun clausesChapter
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)35:29The Royal Navy fell far below its treaty tonnageChapter
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)46:03Treaty limits for a twenty-capital-ship fleetChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)8:00Why France and Italy received different capital-ship and carrier ratiosNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)9:22Why the 35,000-ton battleship limit looked unrealisticChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)21:54A 42,000-ton capital-ship settlement with staged replacementChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)24:29Why undersized capital ships would become death trapsNotable Point
- A Quick Outline of the Equitable Treaty Series0:51Washington Treaty subjects in the seriesChapter
- A Quick Outline of the Equitable Treaty Series1:17London Treaty subjects and fleet categoriesChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)20:27Why capital ships stayed out of the ChannelQ&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)50:15A cruiser in peace, a battle-fleet asset in warChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)58:26Is the Sovereign class Starfleet's battleship?Q&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)13:29What triple turrets change in capital-ship layoutsQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)25:26Why three triple turrets beat a two-turret layoutQ&A
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century23:39A cruiser can still be a capital shipChapter
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature7:42Capital-ship names suit submarines - except perhaps WarspiteQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature30:28A 24-inch naval gun could overwhelm its own shipQ&A
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)4:51Speed and tonnage in the Enterprise-Bismarck duelNotable Point
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)35:44Armour buys survival time, not invulnerabilityNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)34:51Why capital ships still need guns before torpedoesQ&A
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)5:23Why the loss of Royal Oak mattered beyond one battleshipNotable Point
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)32:22How the scuttling changed the postwar naval settlementNotable Point
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)25:16Capital-ship losses also destroy decades of experienceQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)25:47Replacement cycles instead of preserving HoodQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)28:50Why battlecruisers do not make battleships obsoleteQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)33:18The limits of rebuilding old capital shipsQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)35:12Why fast battleships remove Hood's escape marginQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)37:40How national priorities shape treaty battleshipsQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)44:59Why automatic escalation has a practical ceilingQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)46:57Battlecruisers for trade protection and cruiser huntingQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)48:51Trading speed and protection for a 16-inch batteryQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions12:25HMS Tiger's armour in the treaty eraQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions35:29What makes a ship a capital ship?Q&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions52:21How the Royal Navy named capital shipsQ&A
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)50:17Capital ships need escorts, scouts, and supply shipsNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)17:46The Washington Treaty’s carrier tonnage rulesChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)2:50Could continuous capital-ship building have accelerated naval radar?Notable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?46:21How destroyer doctrine answers an enemy battleshipQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:15:39French and Soviet destroyer forces without their intended fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:28:18Destroyers force battleships to maneuver and lose their aimNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion13:47Prestige ships and industrial opportunity costNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion34:48Battlecruiser value depends on the theaterNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)2:44A 42,000-ton capital-ship ceilingNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)45:00Modelling a Kii-based Japanese battleshipNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:08:08A cap arms-control advocates could defendNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:25:33Reading Jellicoe's imperial fleet proposal skepticallyQ&A
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)37:16A 10:10:7:4:4 treaty ratio for capital shipsQ&A
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships3:05:44A presence fleet still needs a warfighting coreNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)12:16Treaty limits and the appeal of big ships and big gunsNotable Point
- 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?2:12What use would Vittorio Veneto be to the Royal Navy?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?33:16Could Japan afford the 10:10:7 treaty ratio?Q&A
- 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?1:08:04Big ships, big guns, and the insecurity of treaty limitsChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:16:00Could more realistic treaty limits reduce conflict?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:14:23A Far Eastern war keeps carriers and capital ships buildingNotable Point
- 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
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?3:36:07How large would the postwar navies be?Q&A
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion58:28The 35,000-ton limit lacked a clear ship benchmarkNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue43:00Why a short 16.25-inch gun wasted its apparent sizeQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:01:05Why a battleship refit would skip a small calibre increaseQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:19:23Radar fire control gives three Des Moines cruisers the edgeQ&A
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)29:29Why Britain did not extend its 24-inch torpedo to destroyersChapter
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)56:56Capital ships should use range, not brawlNotable Point
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:00:24Trading Hood for a larger treaty battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:05:40Why a delayed Washington Treaty could raise battleship limitsQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:48:35Distributing surplus capital ships across the CommonwealthQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:13:50Paper warships as treaty bargaining toolsQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:14:17Why scrapping treaty capital ships could cost moneyQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:43:26Pooling carrier and battleship tonnage in one treaty limitQ&A
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)0:51Trading older capital ships for new constructionChapter
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)1:37Why a capability needs more than one hullNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)27:32Treaty tonnage and French capital-ship choicesChapter
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)57:22How availability shaped Nelson's design prioritiesNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)10:40Subdivision made floating docks resilientNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)39:58A worldwide ladder of dock capacityChapter
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)49:20A floating dock could become a building platformNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)50:08Infrastructure constrains capital-ship designNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books21:47Why six capital ships invite different compromises than twoNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books24:14How Canadian battlecruisers could reshape Washington Treaty tiersQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books40:27Why a single 16-inch gun is poor turret economyQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books1:32:32Why Washington counted battlecruisers with battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:01:28A Washington Treaty that forced every capital ship to be rebuiltQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:16:54How class commonality makes modernization affordableQ&A
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)30:13Why treaty gun ceilings become design targetsChapter
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)38:41How the treaty defined capital ships and displacementNotable Point
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)55:04Scarcity directed sensors to four favored capital shipsNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)10:28Worldwide basing versus larger warshipsChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)26:43Malta supports the Royal Navy's largest shipsChapter
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...39:10A treaty system built around 45,000-ton capital shipsQ&A
- Some Sunday Naval Books28:10Treaty-era modernisation of capital shipsNotable Point
- Some Sunday Naval Books34:54An unconstrained capital-ship technology raceNotable Point
- Some Sunday Naval Books36:37How treaty limits changed British strategyChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)8:36The 1909 dock table reveals class-by-class limitsNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)49:38Sheerness shows why dock access matters as much as dock sizeNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:31:13Capital ships without treaty limitsQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)26:43Capital-ship design records a navy's theories and decisionsNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)3:48Dockyards as a limit on capital-ship designChapter
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"14:39Why Incomparable would have displaced Hood as the fleet's prestige shipQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru22:37Torpedoes as a capital ship's finishing weaponQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:12:53Why capital-ship parity mattered more than cruiser advantageQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:08:58How HMS Incomparable could rewrite the naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:50:56The industrial bottlenecks behind rapid battleship constructionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:22:25Gun calibre does not define a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)3:39:13Obsolescence did not end every warship's usefulnessQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)3:49:35Why battleship guns encounter a practical ceilingQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:41:13Updating torpedoes in modernized First World War capital shipsQ&A
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises26:46How giant Hood successors might change naval treatiesQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)26:46How a triple-turret tradition could persistQ&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)2:17:31Q&A: extra Admirals at the Washington conferenceQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books1:03:25Why Amagi was so vulnerable on the slipwayQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books2:47:28Could a modernised Warspite catch Bismarck?Q&A
- The Operation: Taranto Long Patrol p415:16Why Taranto's strike was torpedo-heavyChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat45:42Scharnhorst and Gneisenau over BismarckQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:19:46When torpedoes began changing warship designQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore41:09Axis concentration in the Mediterranean would trade reach for confinementQ&A
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:37:23Fisher's legacy in the fast battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)5:26:41Why British capital-ship planning was about growth, not simple replacementQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:38:57Why King George VI fits a ballistic-missile submarineQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:25:41Why the Alaska class was not a capital shipQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:45:23Four Admirals and a homogeneous 15-inch battle lineChapter
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)1:33:03Why Resolution-class submarines inherited battleship namesQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:15:40Anglo-American parity if later naval conferences failedQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:13:05An amphibious flagship can be a navy's capital shipQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?55:40Torpedoes as a substitute for capital-ship numbersQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai11:25Status ships and the limits of deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:04:48What makes a warship a capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:14:41Shore influence does not automatically make every gun platform a capital shipQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out0:13Why battleships fizzled outChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out11:26Carrier missions outlasted the battleship missionChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out16:10The carrier replaced the battleship as the capital shipChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties0:40Treaty limits and the Nelson-class choiceChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties9:06The Washington Treaty bargain and American parityNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:12:56If every treaty navy received two replacement battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:32:30The Francesco Caracciolo class's turret-spacing trade-offNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:25:39Why the Iowa class looks like a battlecruiser beside MontanaQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:40:08Jutland and the end of the traditional line of battleNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)49:48Germany without capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:09:43Littorio-class battleships at Denmark StraitQ&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI56:04Why the Royal Navy preferred an 18-inch leapQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response34:22Fast raiders and British force-planning pressureQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response46:24Battlecruiser numbers and force availabilityNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)4:22:42Why ballistic-missile submarines are capital shipsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)4:51:00What a modern first-rate warship would look likeQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...19:43Mediterranean choke points and the case for protectionNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail4:16Capital ships as political statementsNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:36:30French losses shifted capital-ship strength toward the Bretagne classNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:09:03The three-ship Canadian Queen Elizabeth proposalQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:11:27Capital ships as flagship platformsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19130:40HMS Tiger and the battlecruiser trade-offChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19133:02Normandie's quadruple-turret compromiseNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19135:14Pennsylvania's twelve-gun answerChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19137:18Bayern, Revenge, and fleet numbersChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191311:46Salamis and the limits of international supplyNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191312:29Why the 1913 naval race was globalChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191314:17A technology race beyond hull countsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191315:44American deterrence without escalationNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191317:21Why matching gun power did not equal deterrenceNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191318:03Britain's planned concentration of 15-inch battleshipsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191318:37Capital ships and the uncertainty of deterrenceChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)2:43:23Which science fiction depicts useful capital-ship combat?Q&A
- Some More Battle Cruisers9:23HMS Hood provides the built battlecruiser baselineChapter
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 321:43Why Vanguard was a fast battleship, not a battlecruiserChapter
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History21:12US surface ships move beyond the carrier-escort roleChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)5:34Operation Halberd's layered escort forceChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)11:01Why destroyers dominate a convoy operationNotable Point
- Four Random Books 23: 1930s Thinking...12:02Interwar Royal Navy preparation and threat assumptionsChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History33:39Modern Naval Strategy charts the battleship cost spiralChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History37:49Why Modern Naval Strategy ties battleships to an enemy battle fleetNotable Point
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response6:34Treaty tonnage rules and Britain's need for hull numbersNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 7: Conclusion2:00Why interwar carriers already counted as capital shipsChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties2:33Why aircraft carriers became capital shipsChapter
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:20:40Weapons, fighters and the role of a space capital shipNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s44:48Submarines project capability without visible capital-ship presenceQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:15:12Where Hood sits on the battlecruiser spectrumQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:22:38Decades of shipyard investment behind giant capital shipsNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond16:02Could gunfire or submarines have deepened the Taranto blow?Notable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond52:10A small carrier force produces a strategic resultChapter
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:00:11How many destroyers can screen a capital ship?Q&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 1 of 5/Articles 1-71:50Article 1: a capital-ship building holidayChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 1 of 5/Articles 1-73:23Article 2 trades old capital ships for lower costsChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 1 of 5/Articles 1-710:45Articles 3 and 4 define and arm small carriersChapter
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul1:34:10Why a capital ship would have tightened St Nazaire's guardQ&A
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...12:07Four Artemis battlestars expose a force-design imbalanceNotable Point
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...21:35Battlestars should not be the only all-round combatantsChapter
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:38:46Renown exploited an unequal risk calculus off NorwayNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:48:02Orders to avoid risk weakened Axis tactical freedomNotable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/320:40Why small escorts could not solve the surface-raider threatChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:17:46Eight British capital ships for the Pacific fleetNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:24:41Without Pearl Harbor, carrier dominance develops more slowlyQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:00:39Which German capital ships could join an early war?Q&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 49:26Peacetime procurement and a balanced fleetChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 442:40The remaining Mediterranean capital shipsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...7:36A Far Eastern coalition fleetNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 448:10Submarine ambushes before the fleet battleNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:09:19How Britain could build so many capital shipsQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-433:12:50The Royal Navy's expanding weight in the Indian OceanQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?20:05Private ownership does not solve capital-ship costsQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:00:00Why museum-ship cover cannot hide operational readinessQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A15:36Stalin's ocean-going fleet and Project 24Chapter
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 2 of 20:25When destroyers and frigates become the biggest gunsNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 232:27Goodall on aircraft, protection and capital-ship displacementNotable Point
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy4:24Battlecruisers as a spectrum of rolesChapter
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:28:15Why Royal Dockyards stopped building capital shipsQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:36:27Why a future battlecruiser might be called a cruiserQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:53:14How Hood might have fared against Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy2:01:14The tanker opportunity cost of a modern battlecruiserQ&A
- An Introduction To Battle Cruisers13:51Reconstruction could remake an old warshipNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A41:20Aircraft carriers emerge as capital ships around 1930Q&A
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video1:14:51Why several cruisers could matter more than two capital shipsNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)30:32The battlecarrier's gun-and-flight-deck employment trapNotable Point