Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Fleet Composition

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  1. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    10:59Asahi destroyers, European frigates and Japan's mixed fleetQ&A
  2. Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    57:10Choosing an ideal UNSC fleetQ&A
  3. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    2:17:24Would thirty destroyers support a much larger German fleet?Q&A
  4. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    3:06:32A Pacific deployment still leaves fleets guarding EuropeNotable Point
  5. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    3:44:15Anglo-French strength could divide the Axis fleets between two theatresNotable Point
  6. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    3:58:42Would an armoured US carrier improve the whole fleet's survivability?Q&A
  7. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:09:49More Grom-class destroyers in a stronger 1939 Polish fleetNotable Point
  8. Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...
    22:28A proposed French cruiser fleet divides missions between smaller shipsNotable Point
  9. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    2:25:14Protecting Andromeda's missile bombardment shipsNotable Point
  10. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    5:37:43Why multiplying each alliance's best navy still favors the AlliesQ&A
  11. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    5:58:21How fourteen Type 82s could affect later destroyer numbersQ&A
  12. Battle of Actium(31BC); Last Gasp of the Roman Republic
    17:11Heavy galleys against Agrippa's balanced fleetChapter
  13. #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?
    1:03:12Fleet size shaped who could adopt fast battleshipsChapter
  14. Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence
    48:35Warrior versus Monitor obscures two different fleet systemsNotable Point
  15. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:43:31How fictional fleet economics shape ship classesNotable Point
  16. Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power
    1:26:24Why Duncan's North Sea Fleet needed no first ratesNotable Point
  17. Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?
    33:43Similar hull counts conceal Russia's advantage at ÖlandChapter
  18. Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned
    1:30:29Different battleship designs complicated Russia's fleetNotable Point
  19. Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned
    1:40:00A balanced fleet beat arithmetic gun countingChapter
  20. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:54:12How large could battleships grow without naval treaties?Q&A
  21. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    23:27The Ottoman mix of war galleys, small craft, and cargo shipsChapter
  22. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    24:38High freeboard and firepower versus galley mobilityNotable Point
  23. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    27:11Why Zonchio's fleet totals resist precisionNotable Point
  24. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    46:38How closely matched were the fleets' ships?Notable Point
  25. From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live
    41:15Rated warships filled different fleet price pointsNotable Point
  26. From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live
    3:14:29Captured ships and reserve squadrons complicate Trafalgar totalsNotable Point
  27. Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...
    1:21:44Choosing the ground for decisive battle at TsushimaChapter
  28. So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?
    0:00Jeune École as a warning against one-technology fleetsChapter
  29. So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?
    7:24Shared weapons undercut the small-ship advantageNotable Point
  30. So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?
    17:16Design perfection versus operational enduranceNotable Point
  31. So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?
    1:14:20One-off battleships deny France a coherent squadronChapter
  32. So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?
    1:17:20Doctrine becomes destructive when treated as an absoluteNotable Point
  33. So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?
    1:20:39A viable Jeune École still needs a battle fleetNotable Point
  34. So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?
    1:23:48Theodore Ropp and the continuing debate over the Jeune ÉcoleNotable Point
  35. So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?
    1:26:46What happens when both navies choose flotilla defence?Notable Point
  36. So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?
    1:32:17Hoche and the price of single-ship classesChapter
  37. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates
    4:31The rating system and the limits of a high-mid-low fleetChapter
  38. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates
    10:51The Royal Navy of 1814 was built around third and fifth ratesChapter
  39. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:33:19Ordering a battlecruiser class for a balanced fleetNotable Point
  40. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:50:58Mass submarines as a barrier in home watersQ&A
  41. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:18:54Fleet deterrence versus campaign prestigeNotable Point
  42. How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier
    43:30Fleet imbalance and global infrastructureChapter
  43. Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:26:02Ship count, tonnage, and crews tell different fleet storiesNotable Point
  44. Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:01:13Submarines as an invasion-denial forceQ&A
  45. Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:47:32Measuring naval strength beyond the number of shipsNotable Point
  46. Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
    24:19Why American frigate victories could not decide the War of 1812Chapter
  47. Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
    28:17Would Nelson have been sent to fight the United States?Q&A
  48. Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
    29:11Great frigates could not substitute for an American battle fleetNotable Point
  49. Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
    42:22Gunboats could not replace seagoing warshipsNotable Point
  50. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    4:21:39Udaloy and older ships in a 1990s Soviet fleetQ&A
  51. Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction
    1:17:10A carrier variant of the Daedalus battlecruiserChapter
  52. Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction
    1:20:50Would extra fighter pods stop a Daedalus from landing?Q&A
  53. Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction
    1:52:50Peacekeepers of Sol gives the carrier a fleetChapter
  54. Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    48:18The campaign fleet ignores Washington treaty limitsNotable Point
  55. Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:51:17Fleet balance points toward the Kiel CanalChapter
  56. Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:31:45Comparing fleets without ignoring the crew poolChapter
  57. New Ironsides: KSS1 S8 Comment Response
    10:44An American ironclad squadron against WarriorQ&A
  58. New Ironsides: KSS1 S8 Comment Response
    18:31Where Monitor and Warrior might actually meetQ&A
  59. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    0:42Tsushima's lesson about balanced fleetsChapter
  60. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    29:48Why Russia's paper strength could not reach the battleNotable Point
  61. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    34:59Japan assembled a layered order of battleChapter
  62. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    39:29Torpedo boats could shape a battle before firingNotable Point
  63. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    52:00The Borodinos formed a narrow modern Russian coreChapter
  64. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    55:21Geography demanded several balanced Russian fleetsNotable Point
  65. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    59:25Cruiser depth made Japan's battle line more than four shipsNotable Point
  66. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    1:07:59The six-six fleet made armored cruisers force multipliersNotable Point
  67. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    1:25:53Japan built, bought, and reassigned ships to useful rolesChapter
  68. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    1:42:17Obsolete additions made Russian numbers hollowChapter
  69. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    2:06:33Japanese light forces closed around the Russians at nightNotable Point
  70. Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)
    14:09Why the third rate dominates TrafalgarNotable Point
  71. Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)
    50:01Trafalgar's order of battle is a strategic snapshotChapter
  72. Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)
    1:09:20Counting Actium's warships, transports, and survivorsNotable Point
  73. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 5
    2:25:21Foreign orders shape China's campaign fleetQ&A
  74. Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough
    36:31The procurement problem of the fourth rateNotable Point
  75. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...
    1:59:14Why battlecruisers do not wholly replace battleshipsNotable Point
  76. The Imperium of Man: at SOME POINT I will figure this game out...
    54:00Fleet composition and the value of a cruiser reserveNotable Point
  77. The Imperium of Man: at SOME POINT I will figure this game out...
    1:00:53Target priorities and attacks on enemy mobilityNotable Point
  78. The Imperium of Man: at SOME POINT I will figure this game out...
    1:18:50Avoiding fixed defenses and timing the escort attackNotable Point
  79. The Imperium of Man: at SOME POINT I will figure this game out...
    1:53:39Fast frigates and stealthy cruisers divide the missionNotable Point
  80. The Imperium of Man: at SOME POINT I will figure this game out...
    2:06:39Budget-limited fleet expansion and local defenseNotable Point
  81. HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 8
    30:24Renown as the fast capital-ship partner for Force H carriersNotable Point
  82. Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses
    28:55The Third Five-Year Plan as a whole-fleet projectChapter
  83. Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses
    40:42The postwar ten-year programme and global reachChapter
  84. Glorious First of June (1794)
    1:55:28Similar fleet strength concealed unequal experienceChapter
  85. Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent
    42:42Why early U.S. naval growth favoured battleshipsChapter
  86. Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...
    2:19Building an Age-of-Sail battle fleetChapter
  87. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)
    4:03:20When game fleet actions resemble cavalry combatNotable Point
  88. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)
    3:08:55Matching frigates to commerce-protection missionsNotable Point
  89. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)
    39:34Balancing fleet quantity against ship qualityNotable Point
  90. Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build
    2:33:12The Bismarck chase as a cross-section of the prewar Royal NavyNotable Point
  91. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century
    1:24:36The three-decker force mix at TrafalgarChapter
  92. 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers
    22:10Town-class cruisers restore Royal Navy numbersNotable Point
  93. Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-65
    1:41:56Four fleet phases connect the wartime navy to global presenceChapter
  94. Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers
    12:20Protection and numbers instead of a fleet of first ratesNotable Point
  95. Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 2
    19:47Fleet manoeuvres and a naval review advertise Italian strengthNotable Point
  96. Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 2
    20:32A collision reveals Italy's torpedo-cruiser-heavy fleetNotable Point
  97. Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 2
    25:17Britain doubles Germany's blockade forceNotable Point
  98. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    1:58:58Coalition ship totals reveal careful status balancingNotable Point
  99. If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France
    9:18Reconciling conflicting French fleet-location sourcesNotable Point
  100. If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France
    20:47From allied asset to the burden of Force HNotable Point
  101. Velasco Class(1881): 19th Century Cruisers p5
    24:04The small-navy paradoxChapter
  102. Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again
    21:34How expensive faster-than-light drives reshape fleet compositionNotable Point
  103. Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again
    25:38Cruisers are defined by their weapons and fighter capacityNotable Point
  104. Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again
    25:49Why faster fighters still need a carrierQ&A
  105. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    3:04:08Should Italy build only Zaras and Capitani Romani?Q&A
  106. Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy
    1:29:32Building a balanced twenty-ship historical strike forceQ&A
  107. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    51:17What a 350,000-ton battleship would demandQ&A
  108. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    1:01:58A 1945 Royal Navy force built to refight JutlandQ&A
  109. Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."
    2:27:28The 1914 fleet was strongest below the capital-ship levelChapter
  110. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    2:32Squadrons that could have transformed TrafalgarChapter
  111. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    1:17:05A possible third British columnNotable Point
  112. Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol
    27:40Fleet composition and merchant-built warshipsChapter
  113. Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships
    2:04:46Norway's Tordenskjold class and cost-imposing deterrenceChapter
  114. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1913
    17:21Why matching gun power did not equal deterrenceNotable Point
  115. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 1905
    19:03Dreadnoughts did not instantly erase older battleshipsNotable Point
  116. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 1781
    3:29Two unusually even fleets meet at Dogger BankChapter
  117. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol Part 1/6 - 1696
    6:09What Age of Sail warship ratings measuredChapter
  118. Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 1
    12:29Camperdown's opposing fleets and small-warship balanceNotable Point
  119. Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 1
    17:25The Saintes and a rare British numerical advantageChapter
  120. Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 1
    27:56Exmouth's ships and bomb vessels at AlgiersNotable Point
  121. The Great White Fleet
    49:23Why the fleet's cruisers and destroyers did not complete the voyageNotable Point
  122. The Great White Fleet
    1:29:46Why the battle fleet should have taken cruisersQ&A
  123. Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)
    2:27:41Graf Zeppelin needed a balanced raider task forceChapter
  124. Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books
    2:43:17How cruiser growth reduced reconnaissance valueChapter
  125. Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"
    1:07:18How large were the fleets at Sluys?Q&A
  126. 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-22
    10:14Article 20's national replacement exceptionsChapter
  127. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...
    12:07Four Artemis battlestars expose a force-design imbalanceNotable Point
  128. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...
    21:35Battlestars should not be the only all-round combatantsChapter
  129. Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p2 of 2
    11:59Frigates as the eyes and working fleetNotable Point
  130. Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 2
    18:45Why Gambier built the fleet around third ratesChapter
  131. Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 2
    23:00Reinforcements under experienced captainsNotable Point
  132. Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 2
    24:26Third rates for Copenhagen's shallow approachesNotable Point
  133. An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 2
    29:26The Armada's 130 ships mask an uneven invasion forceNotable Point
  134. An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 2
    30:45Bay of Biscay losses change the fleet comparisonNotable Point