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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:23:26The Royal Navy if war began over Czechoslovakia in 1938Q&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:29A merchant hull for a diesel Kriegsmarine store shipQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:04Diesel cruisers, treaty limits and established machinery systemsQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:43A German fleet without large surface warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:04Taranto with Glorious and a larger Mediterranean carrier forceNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:23:20Diesel Kriegsmarine wargames and raiding across oceansQ&A
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?0:00Where the diesel Kriegsmarine counterfactual stopsChapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?3:48Concentrating German engine development on dieselsChapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?6:44Diesel fuel and competition between the German servicesNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?7:56A common fuel pool would still face diesel shortagesNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?12:55Surface ships and submarines competing for propulsion researchNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?21:34Plan Z and the political choice behind a diesel fleetChapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?24:53A separate fuel priority as political bargaining powerNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?29:40Long-range raiders and Atlantic replenishmentChapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?31:50More usable capital ships or the largest battleship?Notable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?38:06The estimate of ten to twelve hulls by 1940Chapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?46:56Diesel destroyer endurance and the Narvik problemChapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?55:25Why the Norwegian campaign would also changeNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?25:02A common Scharnhorst hull in a diesel-fleet scenarioNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:36Why a submarine-only fleet could simplify British defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:04Why an operational Graf Zeppelin would attract intensive attackQ&A
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...1:26:22Possible German responses to a failed surface raidChapter
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...1:29:51Why German surface ships would still face pressure to raidNotable Point
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?47:44Germany's worst case: the first wave caught at seaChapter
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?53:28The transport cost of losing the invasion flotillaNotable Point
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?1:01:40A failed invasion with costs for both sidesNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:57A German surface fleet redirects the Battle of the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:33Ships on building slips depend on vulnerable supportsNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:06How Norway and French radios could change the early warQ&A
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live1:38:05Which Kriegsmarine defection would help the Allies most?Q&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:17:31The German surface fleet as a fleet in beingQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live5:00:51A stronger Graf Zeppelin and the Royal Navy responseQ&A
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...0:00Why Germany needed a credible destroyer forceChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...2:41Narvik left the Kriegsmarine without enough destroyersChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...9:03The Type 1936A response repeated earlier choicesChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...10:56Removing destroyer names carried a morale costNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...32:31Destroyer priorities met industrial limits and poor radio disciplineNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...49:56Germany could not match Allied quantity, so timing and quality matteredNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...57:34Would earlier destroyer recovery have changed German options?Notable Point
- The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)27:59Torpedo failures and the need for an institutional skepticNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:12Could Germany invade Sweden after fighting in Norway?Q&A
- What would need to change for HMAS Australia & HMS New Zealand to be retained under Washington?59:19More fast capital ships could disrupt German rearmamentChapter
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:59Which secondary powers could build cruiser carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:33German ocean supply ships and stern refuellingQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:20Raeder and Dönitz as peacetime and wartime naval leadersQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:49Bismarck's value as a captured prizeQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:21Type XXI submarines and historical reputationQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:22Bismarck with Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:31A treaty-compliant Bismarck designQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:04:11Researching Nazism within Germany's armed servicesQ&A
- Bruships35:41Deutschland-class carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:36Getting U-boats past GibraltarQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:19S-boats in the Thames EstuaryQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:16:20Type XXI knowledge in 1936Q&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:18:22Armed tugs against U-boatsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)52:00France assembled a balanced fleet despite uneven fundingNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:38:39French ship quality varies by class but matches Italy overallQ&A
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?17:01Earlier King George V-class battleships change the Bismarck problemNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?36:23Scharnhorst's smaller guns concealed a fast-battleship threatNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?38:21Axis reactions face strict industrial limitsChapter
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?53:48Finishing Graf Zeppelin diverts resources from U-boatsNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?56:30Preparing to meet a German carrier and battleship groupNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:14:51Continuing major ships need not weaken British ASWNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:17:58A slower U-boat expansion risks losing its training cadreNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:10Why German and Italian naval designers did not cooperateQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:39:08Admiral Graf Spee and an uncertain review-date recollectionQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...49:21Operation Wikinger: misidentification and minefieldsNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?23:25Ribbentrop's declaration and the American destroyer incidentsNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?26:20Germany's industrial gamble in the AtlanticChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?34:01Plan Z and inward-looking strategyNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?1:13:10How an Italian change of sides would alter the Mediterranean warChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?1:15:36Mussolini declares while Hitler hesitatesNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...0:00Torpedo-boat roots of German destroyersChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...4:42Versailles and torpedo-boat displacement accountingNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...11:51Type 1934 fuel ballast, bow spray and stabilityChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...18:22Large destroyers and Narvik firepowerNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...22:50Plan Z and individually powerful destroyersNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...25:10Mine warfare crowded onto surface shipsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...27:08Hull testing and the limits of scaling designsChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...33:16Cruiser shortages and Germany's destroyer roleNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...35:25Why more T1 machinery bought little speedNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...40:57Reliable torpedo boats in Germany's small-destroyer roleNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...42:23Type 1936 construction lessons before sea trialsChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...47:51Wagner boilers as artisanal machineryNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...50:56Reading a Type 1936 armament-source conflictNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...56:49Why 5.9-inch guns overburdened the Type 1936ANotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...1:00:00Narvik and rushed destroyer developmentChapter
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:40German destroyer stability, heavy guns and fuel restrictionsNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:25:22Why Admiral Hipper wins by defaultQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:35:32The Deutschland class beyond the pocket-battleship labelNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:32A possible reason for scuttling Type XXIII submarines firstQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:18:56A broader British attack at the Denmark StraitQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:39:58A British night attack at the Denmark StraitQ&A
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:01:47How Japan's Kawakaze became Italy's AudaceNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)6:23Operation Regenbogen and the order to destroy the U-boatsChapter
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)10:51How Allied escorts intercepted retreating U-boatsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)15:00Why a U-boat-only strategy could not defeat BritainNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)17:03U-boat numbers versus usable dive lifeNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)21:34The May 1945 scuttlings and U-boat surrenderChapter
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)27:21U-boats that reached Portugal and ArgentinaNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)28:48Why Regenbogen made Allied disarmament easierNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)32:05Why surviving U-boat crews headed for NorwayNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)34:53Propaganda, surrender, and U-boat crewsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)39:41Non-German submarines in the scuttling totalsQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)40:49Surrender ports map the surviving U-boat fleetNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)48:28Why Norway attracted surrendering U-boatsQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)54:58How quickly could a U-boat be scuttled?Q&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)56:46How U-boat crews resisted scuttling ordersQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)57:03Failed prefabricated boats in the home-fleet totalQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:06:14U-234's unfinished cargo mission to JapanNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:09:09Type VII boats reveal the operational backboneNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:53:17What the Royal Navy learned from Type XXI and Type XXIII boatsQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)2:21:10What happened to the Type XVII Walter boats?Q&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:34How H39 design changes could obstruct German shipbuildingNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:47A 1939 Yamato disclosure reshapes battleship programsQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:19:03Would a larger Royal Navy deter German surface construction?Q&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:19Why German auxiliary-cruiser conversions stayed inexpensiveQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:09:41British strength could push Germany toward a carrier battle groupChapter
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:05:49A German carrier raid on Belfast risks British submarine interceptionQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:11:55Could Graf Zeppelin field a workable carrier air group?Q&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:14:58Supporting more German surface raiders takes resources from U-boatsQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:15:53German surface-warship construction would reduce U-boat capacityQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:16Could Germany have put V-weapons aboard warships?Q&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:12Dönitz's decisive U-boat fleet would provoke an Allied answerQ&A
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!28:05Wolfpack avoids U-boat mythologyNotable Point
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!29:29The early U-boat arm depended on a tiny cadreChapter
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...8:34German cruiser aircraft multiply surface-raider reachChapter
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...15:44The Heinkel He 60 provides a basic scout with an engine penaltyNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...17:38German floatplanes trade field supportability for performanceNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:47Large diesel engines for German destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:32How far high-pressure marine boilers could be pushedQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:38:10Swapping the major navies of the Second World WarQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:54:38Where would the Soviet Union put an inherited German fleet?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:56:08Why advanced machinery still has to work at seaNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle3:25:16Flower-class names, propaganda, and naval moraleQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:24:41A German-Soviet naval exchange and Britain's submarine threatQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…41:32Why the Kriegsmarine dominates popular naval historyQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon21:28Why ten times more German ships would not secure sea controlQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:00:23Planning a three-week-warning Channel Dash interceptionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:29:02Why swapping Axis fleets cripples Italy and JapanQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:00:52An enlarged Kriegsmarine still needs a support systemQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust50:31Why Raeder's surface fleet mattered even when its ships rarely foughtQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust3:58:22How the Deutschland-class raiders shaped Royal Navy deploymentsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida25:08If a British submarine sank one of Germany's twins early in the warQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:34:25If the Kriegsmarine regained Germany's 1917 fleet in 1938Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:46:42If Stalin received a French-scale fleet in 1938Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:31:22A Deutschland-class ship in the German battle lineQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II3:20:39Britain's answer to a much larger interwar German fleetQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II3:48:28If the Home Fleet vanished in April 1940Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:45:47Why captured European fleets would strain the KriegsmarineQ&A
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:50:15Could Göring keep blocking German carrier aviation?Q&A
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:56:06Would Hitler choose battleships or carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:51:46Why V-1 launchers do not belong on ScharnhorstQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:16A Nelson-style Scharnhorst and the problem of retreating fireQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:43:36Six Bismarcks armed with V-2 rocketsQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:50Tribal-class firepower in a Narvik counterfactualQ&A
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik16:51Command experience and destroyers packed with troopsChapter
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik21:44Why confined-water training mattered at NarvikNotable Point
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik25:20Late Norwegian readiness meets German naval hubrisChapter
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik30:10Eidsvold's challenge and sudden destructionChapter
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik58:38Narvik becomes a German Pyrrhic victoryChapter
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:54Why the Kriegsmarine preferred twin turretsQ&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...1:15:15Would a paper fleet bring war closer?Notable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:40:10How other powers might read a larger Taranto victoryQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:54Why German U-boats could not use the Arctic passagesQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:23:01Bismarck joins the Arctic convoy threatQ&A
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:15:23Germany's 127 mm gun and the deployment gapChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:38:34Germany's 150 mm destroyers as a failed cruiser shortcutChapter
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...1:23:43Mediterranean force deployment after TarantoChapter
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:47Restoring Imperial German naval capacity in 1936Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:38One Allied submarine type for Germany and JapanQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:30:10Would another navy fire a Royal Navy captain?Q&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:12If Tirpitz left Norway for active operationsQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:46A World of Warships design replaces Bismarck and TirpitzQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:57Panzerschiffe armed with 12-inch gunsQ&A
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!2:04:18Five smaller German capital ships instead of Bismarck and TirpitzNotable Point
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys30:20H6, O 8, and UD-1: one submarine in three naviesChapter
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys48:13O 11 exposes the resource inertia of German salvage plansNotable Point
- Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?35:32Führer Directive 28 meets a different CreteChapter
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:52:01A mass German surface-fleet breakout in 1941Q&A
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability21:00German surface raiders and the cost of fragile aircraftChapter
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:24Finding Type 24 torpedo-boat plating dataQ&A
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?3:03What Plan Z proposed to build by 1948Chapter
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?8:13Why the German navy remained a lower priorityNotable Point
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?9:08Why German commissioning dates can overstate readinessNotable Point
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?16:57The conventional anti-British concept of operationsChapter
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?44:01Capital-ship ambition crowded out essential escortsNotable Point
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?46:10An alternative Plan Z concept: Baltic control against the Soviet UnionChapter
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:26How defensive minefields could delay Germany in NorwayQ&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII1:26:22H68 served Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany across two warsNotable Point
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII1:49:40O 9 class: aging pressure hulls and Germany's costly salvage effortNotable Point
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII2:12:12O 21 class: advanced design divided between Allied and German serviceChapter
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:44What happened to Germany's surviving warships after 1945Q&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:26How naval mines changed between the world warsQ&A
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List1:08:10Friedrich Bonte and Germany's destroyer gamble at NarvikChapter
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List1:11:10What modern fleets lost with the riskable destroyerNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:13How a submarine-only Germany could strengthen a British attack on TarantoNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:37An all-submarine Germany shifts Royal Navy power eastQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:22Could Germany have fielded true submarines earlier?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:46Why an H-43 super-battleship would become Britain's priority targetQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:31A Canadian-built Helldiver strike on TirpitzQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:32:07Why Germany could not send its surface fleet to JapanQ&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?3:28Narvik cost Germany the crews needed to rebuild its destroyer armNotable Point
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?17:02Norway had a defensive threshold but failed to mobilize itChapter
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:12Why Tirpitz was most useful in the Norwegian fjordsQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:22What if Tirpitz had been completed as a carrier?Q&A
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?41:51Oscarsborg shows what Norway's unmobilized defenses could still doChapter
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?1:43:06Germany lacked the force for British-style raids against the United KingdomQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:04A Scharnhorst-derived alternative to the Bismarck classNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?36:39Dönitz valued the boats but doubted their employmentNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!36:58Could the Allies have used a captured Bismarck?Q&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:01:51Could Germany have built an HMS Unicorn equivalent?Q&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:04:35Converting a Königsberg into an aircraft-maintenance shipNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:40:18The German submarine development gapQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!2:59:49If Bismarck reached a French Atlantic portQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:39:04Gneisenau as a candidate for the most important blockshipQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:32:25Why Germany struggled with a 12.5 cm dual-purpose gunQ&A
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!50:54How HMS M2 might have shaped carrier-submarine tacticsQ&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:09:44Why Norway offered the greater Allied missed opportunityQ&A
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?57:38Early merchant losses had cumulative strategic costsNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:07Why German movements looked like an Atlantic breakoutQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:55A larger 1934 German fleet triggers an Allied building raceQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:09German battleship-carrier pairs before World War IIQ&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:51:06Why German mail-plane tenders were poor naval substitutesQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:58Repairing Germany's World War II destroyer designQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:46German destroyer range and the problem of reaching the AtlanticNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II39:39A surprise German fleet on the eve of warQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:10:41Why a quadruple 8-inch turret cannot be judged in isolationQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:14:50Would 8-inch guns improve a Panzerschiff?Q&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...59:14How the United States might answer a completed Plan ZQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:21:08Why future warships cannot solve Germany's industrial problemQ&A
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea15:00The Kriegsmarine's command pool narrowed its leadership choicesNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea30:01Plan Z could not develop in isolation from other naviesNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea32:31Hitler demanded offensive results without accepting combat riskChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea48:58Operation Regenbogen required a perfect battleChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea51:22Germany attempted commerce raiding with ships designed for other warsNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea56:46German surface ships mattered even when they stayed in portNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:48:50The defeat removed Raeder but preserved the fleet in beingChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:50:59Early destroyer losses restricted Germany's later operationsNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube1:25:19Hungary moves its flotilla between police and military controlNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live14:27Command from destroyer bridge to national strategyChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live14:27How damage restrictions helped British destroyers control the fightNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live33:23Tovey's winter convoys and Raeder's missing preparation timeNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live38:01Why Raeder wanted a balanced German fleetNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live46:32Admiral Hipper's displacement and divided design responsibilityNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:06:48Operation Regenbogen's contradictory ordersChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:17:00Would greater German aggression have changed the battle?Q&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:51:36German destroyer identity after the losses at NarvikChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:05:39Controlled aggression as the British advantageNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:13:17Friedrich Eckoldt's name and the loss of Z16Notable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:19:22Hitler, Raeder, and the surface fleet after Barents SeaChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:26:28Why new U-boats could not replace lost command experienceNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:51:42Should Germany have kept its surface fleet active?Q&A
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral35:42Lütjens belonged with destroyers and light forcesChapter
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral38:29Why an admiral aboard Bismarck created command riskNotable Point
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:08:02Why Germany did not up-gun its old pre-dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:34:40German warships in Norway did not impose an exceptional British burdenQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:50:22Four larger Scharnhorsts would force a British capital-ship emergencyQ&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:13:09German test pieces did not guarantee production qualityNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:34:30The arms race reshapes late-1930s fleetsChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:36:20Fleet confidence changes diplomacy and frustrates a submarine offsetNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:05:48The Indian Ocean brought three Axis submarine services togetherNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202413:48Was Tirpitz an effective warship?Q&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202415:17Why Scharnhorst's label mattered less than her operational fitNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202426:58Tirpitz's capable fire control and limited gunnery practiceQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:42:13The narrow route to an active Tirpitz sortieQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:16:15Would Scharnhorst be better with 11-inch or 15-inch guns?Q&A
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 451:23Rescue at sea after the Laconia OrderNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?30:41Reading the fictional battleship in Indiana Jones and the Great CircleQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?1:15:48An 18-inch Hood could break the historical treaty systemQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?1:54:21A German test carrier before Graf ZeppelinQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:19:49Why a restored High Seas Fleet would not solve German naval weaknessQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?4:21:35German machinery was capable but painfully individualQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...3:58:40Why a Free German Navy built around Bismarck is unlikelyQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...5:13:17Why two capital ships offered a limited deterrent against JapanNotable Point
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:29:04Modernized Yavuz holds the advantage over Admiral ScheerQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:41:33A Bismarck mutiny would create a Free German naval forceQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:24:09Why a delayed Second World War still hurts Plan ZNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/45:53Why Royal Navy operational research outpaced the KriegsmarineQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:06:50Germany, Nazi Germany, and the continuity of military programsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:05:58Why a longer-serving Zenker would not transform the German NavyQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/43:40:31Why a Plan Z fleet sortie strains historical credibilityNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:08:25Were the game's German-controlled Liberty ships historical?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:31:21A simpler design path for Graf ZeppelinQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:10:19Why a German 15-inch turret conversion was a tight fitQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:29:23Would Germany still build 11-inch ships in a Tiger Cub world?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:32:02Why gun range exceeds effective fire-control rangeNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:24:03Why better Axis long-range air support matters more than perfect shellsQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:34:26An unanswered source request about Graf Spee's fuel plantQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:36:52Would downward-opening breeches save space in German turrets?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:34:57Why Admiral Hipper-class cruisers needed such large crewsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:32:45Comparing Soviet and German fleet threats if war is delayedQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:16:32French-built Flower corvettes completed for German serviceChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:01:00The consequences of common German-Italian naval armamentQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:54:22Why mass British sloop building would not automatically produce Type XXIQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:47:53The Kriegsmarine explored guided weapons too lateQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 739:30Mazut and synthetic fuel leave different environmental hazardsQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:05:15Land-based air power would not automatically exclude Soviet carriersQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:06:55Graf Zeppelin could accelerate British carrier buildingNotable Point
- Steadfastly with Winged Sword: 881 Squadron RNAS/RCNAS19:00Ark Royal's symbolic value and Germany's carrier gapNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:31:08An uncrewed dream fleet first becomes a logistics crisisQ&A
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers22:38Graf Zeppelin and the cost of engineering perfectionChapter
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers50:41How institutional conflict overloaded Graf ZeppelinChapter
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...41:05Hood's battlecruiser label does not make her an early InvincibleNotable Point
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song53:18Why German destroyer problems were not just a stern-design issueQ&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:10:57Air defence, supply, and Germany's naval choicesChapter
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall36:28Would Günther Lütjens succeed as a carrier commander?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!5:38Why political naval history resists simple moral categoriesNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:19:57An 11-inch-cruiser alternative to German Plan ZQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:39:30German-Italian triple 15-inch turrets would accelerate a naval crisisQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:41:41Why French naval parity with Germany would break the treaty systemQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:52:55Why Bismarck's citadel was so longQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:31:08Why the German twin heavy-Flak idea needs a variantQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:32:30How the Anglo-German 35 percent naval ratio workedQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:37:18Were large German warships strengthened for ice?Q&A
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier11:41German raiders improvise around a thin supply baseChapter
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier19:44Why U-boat supply ships mattered so muchNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:03:12National strategy sets each navy's logistical ceilingNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier0:20Modernisation plans do not stand stillChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier43:43Britain's three-power problem and the Suez lifelineNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier45:19Germany: Plan Z's quality-quantity trapChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier47:24German shipyard readiness and the cost of changing designsNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier53:04Germany's balanced peacetime fleetNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:06:05Soviet construction adds uncertainty to the naval raceNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!24:14Why sources disagree over Deutschland's builderQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!29:52County cruisers against Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:02:29Why Scharnhorst's guns loaded fasterQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:18:23German capital-ship production and lost industrial memoryQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:25:27Why Scharnhorst's shells need not repeat River Plate failuresQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:34:42Bremse was already destroyer-sizedQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!3:29:31If Hood and Bismarck destroy each other at Denmark StraitQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!3:32:05Why the Europa carrier conversion exceeded German capacityQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!21:37Why Scharnhorst needed new diesels, not more old onesQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!31:11Faster loading requires a redesigned German turretQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:17:13German metallurgy and lost industrial memoryQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:20:26The most useful Axis naval technology exchangesQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:28:28An early German snorkel advantage would invite an early counterQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:45:01Wire-guided torpedoes and the countermeasure cycleQ&A
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:31:45How non-treaty navies widen the building raceNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:34:03Arms-race knock-on effects before World War IIChapter
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more43:24US neutrality-zone support in the Bismarck huntQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more44:27A combined German capital-ship sortieQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more48:20Detecting German naval activity through radio trafficNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more51:27A split German sortie against Force H and the Home FleetQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more58:59H-class starts and shipyard experienceQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:01:49German engine production and material limitsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:03:28Alternative diesel machinery and historical ship plansQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:04:29Proposed automatic loading and actual gun developmentQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:05:30H-class schedules and earlier German construction timesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:11:44Expanding H-class construction capacityQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:15:20Electric-drive development and the H-class timetableNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:22:35Untested diesels and the cost of redesignQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:39:39German naval pessimism in a Town-class counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...21:02What a warship carrying Schwerer Gustav guns would requireQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:41:17Six-inch shell damage and Graf Spee's protection at the River PlateNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:44:27Britain's response if Bismarck sank Hood and Prince of WalesQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:45:41How Bismarck and Tirpitz together could threaten Arctic convoysNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:11:20Bismarck's success was not needed for a 15-inch German twin refitQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:00:42An accelerated German fleet would mobilize larger rivals soonerQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:09:01Two forward turrets would improve Deutschland's layoutQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:48:12Why earlier German construction would trigger a larger naval responseQ&A
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission0:00Rodney and speed as survivalChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission8:44Torpedo-boat habits and fleet commandNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission31:19Promotion without broad sea commandNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission45:16Learning a cruiser command through private conversationsChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission50:59Building the Kriegsmarine's officer corpsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission51:55Personnel policy, Nazi pressure, and destroyer identityNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission58:48From Gdynia to the Humber minefieldChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:05:17Norway's warning failure at NarvikNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:08:25Norway, Renown, and the destroyers left at NarvikChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:18:53Glorious, damaged battlecruisers, and Lutjens's promotionNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:27:02Operation Sea Lion as an amphibious logistics problemChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:57:20Operation Berlin and disciplined raider commandChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:09:37Why Lutjens expected to sacrifice BismarckChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:55:53Why a multidimensional naval threat matteredNotable Point
- Regia Aeronautica's Mainstay: Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 451:35Regia Marina strength and Italy's shortage of industrial timeChapter
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign20:17Surface raiders need places to repairNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign51:23Germany's interwar naval development gapNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:03Could Germany have gone directly to 16-inch guns?Q&A
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!42:03Fighting escort for an Arctic convoyChapter
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:12:41Tattletale cruisers against Scharnhorst and GneisenauNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:16:00How early surface losses could change Norway and the Atlantic warNotable Point
- 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 Campaign2:03:23The German Navy owned aerial-torpedo developmentNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:25:11Scharnhorst and Gneisenau face a denser patrolNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:38:40Prize money for captured German warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:29:32How long a German Atlantic squadron could remain at seaQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:17:24Two modernized Tigers against ScharnhorstQ&A
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:08:20Graf Zeppelin and carrier aircraft without an operational carrierNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:11:22Six H-39 battleships appear in September 1939Q&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:50:49Why Canadian industry would not remove Narvik's valueQ&A
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History12:26Rebuilt Kongos complicate German Atlantic breakoutsNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History58:44Force H gains speed while the Home Fleet gains weightChapter
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:00:23Italian fleet strength receives less attention than German battleshipsNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:36:40Combined carrier groups hunt German surface raidersChapter
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:57:26Could a mass German breakout beat the coalition fleet?Notable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:19:19Graf Zeppelin and the danger of an undefined end stateQ&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...1:11:40Japan's declaration complicates Axis access to supplies and the French fleetChapter
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:39:20Why Wilhelmshaven was not a second TarantoNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:42:38Could Germany finish Graf Zeppelin in response?Q&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:50:44An Italian collapse could leave Germany's fleet in portNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:16:49Where would Germany surrender its capital ships?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed29:34Could Japan supply Germany with 41 cm guns?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:15:47Restarting German heavy-gun development in 1935Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:19:49How super-Scharnhorsts change British rearmamentQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:54:24Britain's response to a German 21-inch battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:04:43Why oversized battleship guns cannot stay secretQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:39:50Could German warships reach African colonies in 1940?Q&A
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist4:08Which Star Trek fleets resemble historical navies?Q&A
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist24:16Could disguised German seaplane carriers help U-boat wolf packs?Q&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built51:51Why German cruiser construction would trigger an early British answerQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:16:10How Germany might answer foreign 9.2-inch cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:49:58Designing an 80,000-ton battleship for shallow waterQ&A
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 80:28Why merchant seaplane tenders were not carrier schoolsNotable Point
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 811:31Westfalen from airmail tender to wartime prison shipChapter
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 822:44Ostmark's purpose-built but minimal aviation supportChapter
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 837:16A more useful German seaplane-carrier pathNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier3:50:15Was Plan Z meant to exhaust Britain's economy?Q&A
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 19385:45How AI repeats national naval stereotypesNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193827:08Kriegsmarine design after lost institutional expertiseChapter
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193831:27Scharnhorst's guns and the status of having a battleshipNotable Point
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation3:02Why German naval aviation struggled for institutional supportChapter
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation34:34World War I Germany had the stronger base for naval innovationNotable Point
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation38:35Postwar personnel losses break German carrier continuityNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:02:36How a 14,000-ton cruiser limit changes interwar fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:36:20Why a 1930 world war begins with Royal Navy dominanceQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:42:20Why delaying the European war to 1948 favors an experienced BritainQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:50:22Why a German invasion of Iceland becomes a naval trapQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?34:58Why Warspite would be dangerous to BismarckQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:03:52Scharnhorst and an unwanted claim of German design efficiencyChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:59:52German procurement and the absence of final design authorityNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered14:21Scaling Scharnhorst for triple 15-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered24:10Converting the Deutschland ships into light carriersQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered40:24Removing Hipper's rear turrets does not yield free speedQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:06:40Enlarging Deutschland leads toward ScharnhorstQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:13:37A slower Deutschland gains only modest armorQ&A
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 535:13Commissioning rules shift risk between navies and shipbuildersNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books27:50Phantom warships in wartime intelligenceQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books28:39A German coastal battleship instead of a PanzerschiffQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books55:37How far H-class construction really progressedQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books59:03How the Anglo-German agreement counted the PanzerschiffeQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:02:34A British cruiser at Graf Spee's true displacementQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:07:42The German yards ready for battleship constructionQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:12:50Why a more generous Washington treaty hurts GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:27:30The intelligence value of the Anglo-German Naval AgreementQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:33:41If Germany bought Ryujo for carrier experienceQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered49:59Could Germany complete seven Scharnhorsts by 1941?Q&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!37:10One force-design improvement for each major World War II navyQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:45:58A 5,000-ton German light cruiser for escort and torpedo attackQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:57:56Nine 16-inch Scharnhorsts would trigger a larger British battleship programQ&A
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:54:51Why Bismarck should avoid HMS RodneyNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!18:12A Soryu-derived German carrier and the British responseQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!50:22How Versailles and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement constrained GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:26:48How 9.2- and 9.4-inch cruisers would reshape rival fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:49:10What reliable autoloaders could do for German capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered29:09The Kriegsmarine after a failed Operation Sea LionQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:18:18How a destroyed Kriegsmarine changes Japan's war choiceQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:26:06Why Germany did not adopt its 5-inch dual-purpose gun soonerQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:57:17Bismarck's air defenses and Germany's intelligence gapQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:01:25Lütjens commanding an expanded Operation RheinübungQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:17:22Why Bismarck did not borrow Italian triple turretsQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:28:31Why the Deutschland class could neither fight nor fleeQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:35:46A diesel-electric German surface raiderQ&A
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?1:18:11Helicopters multiply Warspite's roles at NarvikNotable Point
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?1:19:47Axis adoption brings helicopters into prewar combatNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:54:35Could German helicopter landings alter the Norwegian campaign?Q&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time34:04Lions and Malta-class carriers create the Axis naval nightmareQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:21:44British 9.2-inch cruisers force Germany beyond the pocket battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books38:08Why Bismarck might zigzag against an unlikely submarineQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:23:42Why a German 5-inch dual-purpose battery was unlikelyQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:08:29What forty County-class cruisers do to treaty fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:44:27Tribal-class destroyers at NarvikQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:47:30Why France could not answer Plan Z aloneQ&A
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI38:55The Kriegsmarine entered war before its fleet was readyNotable Point
- Operation Frankton: The Cockleshell Heroes1:21:34What is known - and uncertain - about the raiders' deathsChapter
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes2:19:17Why prisoner protections constrain escalationNotable Point
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s29:17Why rival navies might struggle to copy Britain's leadChapter
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s1:24:25An extra year strengthens Britain and may delay U-boatsNotable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:28:53Rival navies face different barriers to matching BritainChapter
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:34:57Would Germany double down on diesel propulsion?Q&A
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 737:12Why replacing destroyer names with numbers can damage moraleNotable Point
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 611:30Construction numbers in fleet contextChapter
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 619:14T class and Type IX tradeoffsChapter
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 542:15Two British cruisers broke a German escort in BiscayChapter
- 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...1:05:26Axis battleship gunnery failures had different national causesQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:35:59Prewar naval mistakes in carriers, destroyers, intelligence, and strategyQ&A
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike20:13Ambush, attrition, and the political trapChapter
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 41:00Graf Zeppelin and the first-of-type trapNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 41:39What Germany needed capital ships to doChapter
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 421:37Germany's own name for the Scharnhorst classNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 425:58Foreign turbines inside Germany's capital-ship programNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 427:46Technical improvement versus fleet standardizationNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 435:14German capital ships were used piecemealChapter
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 454:42Bismarck's fame obscures the German design sequenceNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 457:45The Kriegsmarine's working capital shipsChapter
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response1:23:51A crippled Bismarck as an industrial burdenNotable Point
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 233:13Why old sloops still mattered in 1939Notable Point
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response22:53A land blind-landing aid was not yet a carrier landing systemQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response4:16Should Germany have built a training carrier first?Q&A
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response18:41A simple German carrier faced institutional barriersNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response19:49Why six-inch guns seemed rational to German designersQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:19:26The 1938 German scout cruiser as an oceanic destroyerQ&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?19:39Operation Berlin's success concealed a strategic costChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?45:29Capital-ship concentration changes the convoy problemChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:35:42How capable was German naval radar during Operation Berlin?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?3:03:31How did Britain sustain greater capital-ship sea time?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?3:25:12Could German headquarters direct surface raiders like U-boats?Q&A
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?0:01Standardization instead of paper perfectionChapter
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?16:27The Scharnhorst hull as a design baselineChapter
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?20:34Why the Kriegsmarine remains third in lineNotable Point
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?26:59The Goeben and Breslau lesson for distant raidersNotable Point
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?28:45Why repeated construction becomes cheaperNotable Point
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?31:45A Japanese-inspired German fleet carrierChapter
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?38:28The three-yard standardized building programChapter
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?44:55Why Germany still lacks enough destroyersNotable Point
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?1:18:41New German hulls create a readiness and intelligence problemNotable Point
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?1:34:03Fleet losses change the Norwegian campaignNotable Point
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?1:46:22Germany abandons the surface fleet - or doubles downNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers9:13Why a standardized Scharnhorst fleet threatens BritainChapter
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers17:35Range, cost, and yards make repetition plausibleNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers24:28A batch program could yield nine major shipsChapter
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers41:16Treaties, crews, and Göring constrain the fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers1:21:02Could Germany support its carriers with supply ships?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers1:24:49Would German carriers raid Britain?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers1:29:25Could Germany begin with night carrier strikes?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers1:45:36Hitler's caution may waste the extra prewar hullNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers1:45:36Norway becomes a carrier-and-battleship fleet actionChapter
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:17:20Where are Germany's heavy cruisers during Norway?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:23:36A German fleet defeat frees Britain and strains ItalyNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:23:36Operation Berlin faces an enlarged British trapChapter
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:26:47Could Germany win by destroying one hunter group?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:47:17U-boats cannot keep pace with the raider battleNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:48:04Would RAF bombing stop the building program?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:55:15Major losses turn the surviving fleet into a threat in beingChapter
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:00:31Would the Battle of the North Cape still happen?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:02:08Would Hitler sell unfinished ships to the Soviet Union?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:07:17More efficient ships still cannot win Germany's naval warChapter
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:23:40Would Germany build enough escorts for its carriers?Q&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back9:44Receipts and a pipe reveal Langsdorff's institutional inheritanceNotable Point
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies1:02:37Air-to-air missiles make trained pilots a strategic targetChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:18Why 11-inch guns did not make Scharnhorst a battlecruiserNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:24:09Plan Z and the limits of German rearmamentChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty2:43:35Why this treaty world is harshest for GermanyNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:47:37Why a weaker German surface fleet jeopardizes the Norway campaignQ&A
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 129:17Operation Tunnel and the danger of predictable patrolsNotable Point
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 133:11The Sept-Îles ambushChapter
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series45:50How to make Graf Zeppelin more practicalQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series50:11Buying a 16-inch gun design does not create the gunQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)35:51Contemporaneous views of German naval threatsNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)39:09How open-source naval information circulated during warNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres19:29Why German R-boats were mistaken for SchnellbooteNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres23:06R-boat flotillas as an interwar officer training groundNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres25:15R-boat flexibility, postwar continuity, and Germany's industrial limitsChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres28:13The Schnellboot's torpedo-focused flexibilityChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres1:02:43Fairmile D: the heavily armed ambush boatChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre33:18Räumboote: the German fast craft often misidentifiedChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre41:20Räumboote as adaptable mine-war craftNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre45:43Schnellboot design: fast, fine, and torpedo-centredChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:57:17Fairmile D "Dog Boats": guns, stability, and enduranceChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre2:07:15Why R-boats rarely received a fair fightQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!1:05:27Graf Zeppelin would not close the British marginQ&A
- 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 44:12The shipbuilding base Germany had lostNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 46:40Political patronage distorts technical judgmentNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 419:10Why split secondary batteries consume a shipNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 422:15Ignoring useful foreign naval solutionsNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 424:13Scharnhorst and the meaning of a fast battleshipNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 426:18Design growth outruns German yard capacityChapter
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 440:36H-42's gun existed ahead of its factoryNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 441:46Plan Z needed time, money, and naval priorityChapter
- 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 449:19The Royal Navy's three-theatre nightmareNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 458:40Commissioning was not operational readinessNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer9:20When cumulative losses erase the Kriegsmarine surface fleetQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer19:42Town and County cruisers against German surface raidersQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer25:22Dispersing German surface ships as a fleet in beingQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:17:04Why German designers considered mixed diesel and steam propulsionQ&A
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:32:49Reconstructing a Narvik-class destroyer in a design gameNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:49:09Why game destroyer range can misrepresent historyNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:48:27Sea Lion lacked a protected invasion fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:34:46Germany was not Britain's strongest historical naval opponentNotable Point
- 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
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:21:49Plan Z runs into industrial limitsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:26:35Axis codebreaking was uneven but consequentialQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:29:25Japan and Italy outweighed Germany at sea in 1939Notable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:42:38Turbine manufacture limits Germany's capital-ship programmeQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:45:51Britain could answer Plan Z while Germany was still buildingQ&A
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 71:47:25Continental and blue-water carrier design pathsNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses21:27How Soviet battleships could alter three maritime theatresNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses38:17How Soviet naval ambition could fuel an international arms raceChapter
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses55:24Project 21 as a Scharnhorst hunter in the BalticNotable Point
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat43:48How the Royal Navy could answer dispersed German raidersQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:17:26Why a damaged Bismarck should avoid an R-class battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:36:40Sea Lion required visible prewar amphibious investmentQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:41:51Why Graf Zeppelin's guns do not make a carrier duel sensibleQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:03:27What Britain could learn from a captured BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:08:12Why British warship machinery prioritized maintainabilityQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:21:53Marschall likely brings Bismarck home after Denmark StraitQ&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?8:04Lütjens's opposition to racial policy coexisted with obedience to the regimeChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?20:42Could Lütjens have succeeded Raeder as Kriegsmarine commander?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?27:26Naval mutiny shaped Hitler's distrust of the German NavyNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?59:24Military authority could conceal weak communication habitsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:03:19Karlsruhe combined diesel cruising with steam-turbine speedNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:18:30Personnel policy brought Lütjens into written opposition to racial lawsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:20:31When did German naval expansion resume after World War I?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:22:27How long would German naval industry have needed to recover?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:23:34Was Germany already building warships before its large expansion?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:29:53The Polish campaign exposed both Lütjens's limits and the Kriegsmarine's promotion problemChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:33:58Was there a better officer to promote instead of Lütjens?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:59:18Capital-ship scarcity made German tactical victories costlyNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:05:27What large warships were available to support Sea Lion?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:02:12Operation Berlin's success produced a revealing staff-room critiqueNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:03:57A concentrated German battle force could stretch British convoy protectionNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?4:17:37Lütjens's final command demanded more experience than his career providedNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland16:20Testing claims about Hood's destructionQ&A
- The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?1:52:55Why Graf Zeppelin changes British choices tooQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:12:00Why the Deutschlands retained 11-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:49:57A third shaft could turn Deutschland into a stronger raiderNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:34:52Bismarck was potent but inefficientChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:36:06Königsberg's mine rails conflicted with its gunsNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:39:06Type 1934 and Graf Zeppelin expose design-system problemsNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:40:02Deutschland's armour and speed limited its fighting optionsChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:43:50Deutschland's guns invited the wrong opponentsChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:44:50A Baltic role put Deutschland against heavier Soviet batteriesNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done17:46What a modernised Bismarck would demandNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:34:24Alaska-class firepower against an outnumbered raiderNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:49:05Why English accounts use MN and KMSQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 135:51Casemate guns and the cost of design creepChapter
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 149:53Why German raider doctrine wanted a carrierChapter
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 156:43Carrier ownership as a claim to great-power statusNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 11:00:56Committee design under political and interservice pressureNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 11:05:27How Graf Zeppelin’s air group changed with its missionNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 11:10:03The danger of making a first carrier too complexChapter
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation3:08:28Spähkreuzer make more sense as long-range destroyersQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:01:46Why Germany still builds pocket battleships firstQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:03:10Would Britain's larger carrier force change Graf Zeppelin?Q&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:14:13Dönitz and reports of defective torpedoesQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:22:03Why test environments mattered to torpedo reliabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat8:54Why finishing Seydlitz would not solve German shortagesQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)1:03:52Serving under MacArthur or commanding the German Navy?Q&A
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?1:30German fuel dependence before the diesel-fleet questionChapter
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?10:36The Kriegsmarine's mixed diesel and steam baselineChapter
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?25:28The projected 1942 diesel destroyer and its implicationsNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?30:26How more endurance could reshape NarvikNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?37:51Choosing an early diesel-development pathNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?45:25A diesel fleet would alter German naval design cultureChapter
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?47:33Diesel allocation would sharpen German service rivalryNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?50:45Surface raiding becomes a task-force challengeChapter
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?1:01:58A worldwide surface-raider surge with no safe route homeNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion11:20Keeping the diesel counterfactual to naval propulsionChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion12:55Germany already had useful diesel-warship experienceNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion22:18Bremse as a practical diesel benchmarkNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion54:07Hipper as the heavy-cruiser step toward a diesel fleetChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:03:03An early Königsberg decision reshapes the treaty environmentChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:13:05Long-range destroyers enable German task forcesChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:24:27Diesel eases one fuel problem without ending German constraintsNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:43:52Diesel range does not erase Germany's numerical weaknessChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:45:09Diesel endurance changes Narvik and Germany's opening deploymentsNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:51:53Versailles-era infrastructure still caps German naval growthChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:56:16Germany's land-power priorities keep the navy thirdNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:57:24Why longer range would not break the British blockadeQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:58:04Could German refining sustain the diesel fleet?Q&A
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck56:11Why a British-German battleship duel signals a wider failureNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck2:10:21The procurement weakness behind German naval radarNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition4:09:48Fuel competition in an all-diesel German fleetNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:57:45Radar quality includes whether it keeps workingNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...2:20:34Bismarck was limited by industry, not a treaty ceilingNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:42:25The industrial challenge behind a German destroyer-cruiser programmeQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:13:32The industrial prerequisites for a German minelaying cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword4:40A delayed war would not make German commerce raiding easyQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword21:48German shipbuilding capacity constrains an arms-race responseQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword27:12Why 15-inch Scharnhorsts would trade commonality for delayQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:35:50Testing and institutional honesty separated torpedo programmesQ&A
- Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI26:55Torpedo failures reveal testing inertia across naviesNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:56:36Why a larger German gun needed more than a barrelNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:04:33How many extra Scharnhorsts could replace Bismarck and TirpitzQ&A
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:36:29German limits in an 18-inch-gun worldChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:43:40Testing Bismarck's speed, range, and canal limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:43:49Canaris's loyalty to Germany and opposition to the Nazi regimeQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:05:30German and Soviet naval plans competing for guns and carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:18:11Soviet heavy-warship plans and German influenceQ&A
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:15:24German battleship design and Kiel Canal constraintsNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...2:16:37Polish submarines and Operation WorekChapter
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response26:29German and Italian Far East limitsQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak18:09An 18-inch HMS Renown and Germany's surface fleetNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response6:17Hood torpedo evidence and source languageQ&A
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response12:39A French-style carrier system spreading across EuropeNotable Point
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:13:08German submarine output suffered under divided authorityQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine0:44German heavy cruisers tied down larger forcesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine3:46Konigsberg and Leipzig expose design governanceQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine18:34Raider support plans still needed practical logisticsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine23:49German redundancy inflated ships without equal combat valueQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine25:35Modernized Invincibles could have hunted Hipper-class cruisersNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine27:07Graf Zeppelin needed a mixed capital-ship escortQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine28:07A France-only war did not rescue German cruiser policyQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine33:35Nine-gun Panzerschiffe echoed the O-class conceptNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine34:00German naval rearmament needed Two-Ocean Navy scaleQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine35:07Scharnhorst offered a better model than prestige copyingQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine36:37More powerful Deutschlands still offered no winning strategyQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine37:42German capital ships confused raiding and battle-fleet rolesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine39:31Interwar brain drain eroded German naval design expertiseQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine41:10S-boats and Dog Boats filled different coastal-force nichesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine44:13Nazi competitive bureaucracy weakened naval productionNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine47:32German nine-gun cruisers could accelerate British upgradesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine52:00German ships did not fit Dutch strategic requirementsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine52:46Prestige pushed cruisers toward capital-ship appearanceNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine1:00:22Deutschland class belongs in the cruiser roleQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:13:10A submarine-only German fleet would simplify Britain's warQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat50:17Hitler's Secret Commandos on German midget submarinesChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine3:48Why dictatorship could make naval administration less efficientNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine5:04The Deutschland-class cruiser dilemmaChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine10:19The command fantasy of victory without lossNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine11:38Plan Z's force mix and caliber burdenNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine14:21Jutland, Scapa Flow, and the missing fleet purposeChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine17:53Plan Z's presence fleet and mine-warfare logicNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine21:02Theory, procurement, and reality as three different fleetsNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine22:29The actual cruiser force and Admiral Scheer's reachNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine31:09Retained pre-dreadnoughts as a personnel burdenNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine41:49From cruiser rules to wolf packs - and the escort responseNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine43:44The surface fleet an oceanic submarine war requiredNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine45:18From treaty-system exclusion to the D-class escalationChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine52:32The Anglo-German agreement and Bismarck's reactive escalationNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine55:48Cruiser policy as a chain of reactions rather than a strategyNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine58:07Plan Z's calendars and the Raeder-Dönitz rivalryChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:00:00Plan Z and the Allied industrial responseNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:15:32High-status ships and strategic loss aversionNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:17:03Why a cruiser needs a chosen missionChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:21:03Competing bureaus and oversized cruiser designsNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:24:48Why dangerous organisations stop asking whether a design is rightNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:26:04Triple turrets, aft firepower, and mine-handling riskNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:30:43Why German cruiser policy failed to cohereNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:05Germany could afford more cruisers than its program deliveredQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII6:39Why Prinz Eugen found Hood's range so quicklyQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII7:36A twelve-gun Hipper would expose the treaty-enforcement problemQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII8:12The strategic choice behind Germany's 11-inch cruisersChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII17:43Plan Z could not freeze the Royal Navy in placeNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII23:38Why the Scharnhorsts escaped some design interferenceQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII27:44Plan Z needed shipbuilding investment a decade earlierNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII35:08Why six 11-inch guns limited a Deutschland raiderChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII43:22Prestige pushed German cruisers away from diesel propulsionQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII45:01A 15,000-ton Panzer ship could carry nine 11-inch gunsQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII48:13The two German warships called LützowQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII54:37Polycratic bureaucracy made Bismarck inefficientQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:01:17Germany's 11-inch gun was a cruiser weapon, not a battleship equalQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:03:37Superior technology cannot replace fleet mass indefinitelyQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:20:26Light cruisers designed around mines, not fleet balanceChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:28:04German Z destroyers tried to become small cruisersQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:33:24How the Hipper class became an expensive eight-inch cruiserChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:38:58Shared German silhouettes offered only limited deceptionQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:48:17A hybrid cruiser was worse than a dedicated fast minelayerNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:51:27The Bismarck sortie exposed the task-force shortfallNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:53:44Baltic light cruisers were structurally mismatched to NorwayQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:57:47A larger Bismarck force would multiply British commitmentsQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:07:14Why German light cruisers carried more guns aftQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:08:18French trade geography undermined the Deutschland raiding missionNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:12:23A six-gun Deutschland needed a stronger cruiser batteryNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:16:30A sensible six-inch raider needed speed and range firstQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:19:20Fast scout cruisers and the counterforce they would provokeChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:28:03Scharnhorst used a battleship hull for cruiser-scale gunsChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:37:31A standardized cruiser family would outperform prestige projectsQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:41:25The M-class paired Town displacement with Leander armamentQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:43:28Versailles erased the tooling behind Germany's old heavy gunsQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:55:38Why German cruiser procurement never matched its strategyNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII3:07:24A German manned torpedo carried its weapon underneathQ&A
- Admiral Hipper Class0:01Why the Admiral Hipper design disappointedChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class0:09Reading German warship reputations criticallyNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class6:22The cost of reinventing each German warship designNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class7:52Plan Z needed industry Germany had not builtNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class9:29Why Germany needed effective light cruisersNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class11:02German cruiser policy kept changing its answerChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class16:45Machinery complexity and unchecked design growthChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class20:36Crew pride can outlive a ship's design faultsNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class24:24Admiral Hipper was still being altered as war beganChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class25:00Raeder's personal stake in the name Admiral HipperNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class27:39Admiral Hipper's first major sortie found no merchant shippingNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class27:39Admiral Hipper from Glowworm to the Barents SeaChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class29:00Admiral Hipper bluffed her way into TrondheimNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class32:40Surface raiders could not deter trade while avoiding battleNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class35:42Why Admiral Hipper never returned to readinessChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class38:40How Oscarsborg Fortress sank BlücherChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class38:40Blücher entered Weserübung barely ready and without surpriseNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class46:23Why Deutschland became LützowNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class52:44Prinz Eugen and the logistics of the Bismarck sortieChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class52:55Why Prinz Eugen was chosen over TegetthoffNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class54:42A British magnetic mine delayed Prinz Eugen's sortieNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class1:00:56Seydlitz, Lützow, and the class's unfinished alternativesChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class1:02:27Germany sold Lützow and cruiser technology to the Soviet UnionChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class1:07:59The Admiral Hipper class as a policy failureNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class1:12:21Could armed Norwegian neutrality have deterred invasion?Notable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class1:15:07Better German cruisers would not have saved BismarckNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:45:24Why German cruiser plans, doctrine, and operations divergedNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:56:24How the Deutschland design changes with its intended purposeQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:35:09Why the Type VII must be judged by variantQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books4:26:58German heavy-gun plans and the space taken by sliding breechesQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books4:41:25Bismarck's theoretical and battle rate of fireNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"42:05Was the naval gun race truly global?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:59:27A 28-knot Rodney could reshape German battleship developmentQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:14:16How old battleships deterred German surface raidersQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:31:34Why Germany minimized six-inch damage to Graf SpeeQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:54:40Bismarck alone could not deter the Royal Navy battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:59:28German raiding theory, Plan Z, and actual construction never alignedNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:04:17Geography made German capital-ship construction harder to conceal than YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:05:31Why the Kriegsmarine could sortie raiders but not sustain an Atlantic task forceQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:10:59Germany never settled what foreign-policy purpose its navy should serveNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:16:02Waiting until 1948 would not solve Plan Z's strategic and economic contradictionsQ&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:18:45Did Germany need fleet carriers in the Second World War?Q&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War17:27Why more British carriers may not change German naval planningQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War42:20German pre-dreadnoughts were poor carrier-conversion candidatesQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History39:06Treaty persistence and Germany's missing fleet infrastructureChapter
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video41:48German naval infrastructure and the intended war timetableQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video1:10:06H-class infrastructure and the risk of an Axis political collapseQ&A
- Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…2:27:07Was Denmark Strait a German victory?Q&A
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations15:07A damaged U-boat can divert more forces than a sinkingNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations43:14U-751 mistakes Audacity for an Illustrious-class carrierNotable Point
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France3:17Two-ocean planning and the infrastructure answer to Plan ZNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?35:24French submarines tighten the northern blockadeNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:59:33How long would Tirpitz survive?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 331:54Why Germany could not mass-produce Bismarck-sized shipsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4241:12Graf Zeppelin as a carrier fleet in beingQ&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 1941-4257:47The capital ships needed to escort Graf ZeppelinQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:33:38Italian and German answers to the Alaska classQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:38:36Why delaying war would not complete Plan ZQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:42:35Plan Z would provoke a larger Allied naval raceQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-422:04:15Plan Z and the High Seas Fleet problemQ&A
- Duca D'Aosta Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina21:43Prince Eugene's warship namesakes and contested legacyNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 257:09Why Hitler is cast as the worst naval commanderQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:57:44Which World War II submarines could dive deepest?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:18:01North Cape if Scharnhorst kept her destroyersQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:30:40How capable destroyers could strengthen German surface raidingQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:57:26The worst Axis errors belonged to governments, not uniquely foolish naviesQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-402:06:04Why a 1930s German-Italian war would remain mainly on landQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-402:07:36What Dutch and Swedish planners could teach larger Axis naviesQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading27:48Why German communications lessons did not carry into World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading46:22Graf Zeppelin was built but never completedNotable Point
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments3:00Why veteran personnel mattered more than replacement hullsQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments16:55How Britain might answer operational Axis carriersQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments29:23Axis carriers could cause panic without being good shipsQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments52:41Why experimental guided weapons were not fleet-readyQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments1:01:03Better German communications security required radio silenceQ&A
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19429:11Bismarck exposed the Kriegsmarine's unbalanced forceChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194211:40A submarine-only Kriegsmarine simplified Allied defenceChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194215:45Restore German surface raiding with PanzerschiffeChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194217:51Germany could delay defeat at sea, not winNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194220:49Surface raiders preserved multiple threats for the AlliesNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194113:19Why the Kriegsmarine feels strong in January 1941Chapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194116:38German surface raiders need organic air reconnaissanceNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194117:27Graf Zeppelin could matter despite a flawed designChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194119:36A German carrier-battleship force ties down BritainChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194125:23Graf Zeppelin's threat value exceeds its combat valueChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments4:31Graf Zeppelin's value as a threat rather than a mature carrierQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments30:24Why Germany could not build a war-winning fleet by 1939Notable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194017:34The Kriegsmarine's missing balanced task groupChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194020:16Schnellboote as a second dimension of German sea powerChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194023:35Why diverse threats matter more than German sinkings aloneNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194026:27Graf Zeppelin's elegant but overcomplicated aviation systemNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19396:22Why famous weapons distort fleet historyNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193927:05Standardizing German capital ships on ScharnhorstChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193929:44The logistical cost of too many U-boat variantsNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193930:46Simplifying Graf Zeppelin with Japanese experienceChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193933:55Moving German naval production into factoriesChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193935:17Why bigger guns weakened German destroyersNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193937:04How Yamato disclosure could reshape German ambitionsNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193938:57Building German escorts from the Mowe classChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193940:29How steady German construction changes Allied procurementChapter
- Ruse de guerre22:41German raiders face unequal disguise problemsChapter
- Ruse de guerre31:40Dummy capital ships satisfy German fleet expectationsNotable Point
- Ruse de guerre33:26Dummy R-class battleships exploit German riskNotable Point
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:14:56Did Italy have the world's largest submarine fleet in 1940?Q&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:34:36Kriegsmarine and Japanese naval morale in 1945Q&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions43:20Why Scharnhorst was unlikely to escape North CapeQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions2:34:11German destroyers and a North Sea communications fiascoChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions2:43:35Raeder's commerce-raiding strategy and its compromisesChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 222:36Why Bismarck's loss mattered more than Hood'sQ&A
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)49:22Why the Toulon scuttling defeated Operation AntonChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels17:43Nelson and Rodney against a depleted German surface fleetQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels47:55Sending I-400 submarines to France in 1944Q&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:06:54How Versailles removed Germany's heavy-gun production baseQ&A
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)33:34Classifying Scharnhorst and the Deutschland classNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)34:52Channel Dash detection and planning assumptionsChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:02:39Submarine technology exchange needed more than plansNotable Point
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:15:10The limits behind the Deutschland-class mythologyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)29:17Why German carriers demand a British carrier responseQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...9:48How each German capital ship tied down British strengthQ&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:52:58What if Admiral Hipper and Gneisenau were lost in Norway?Q&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:57:17What if Britain destroyed the German surface fleet in Norway?Q&A
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)19:43Why Plan Z needed industrial preparation before 1939Notable Point
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)20:45Leipzig's pre-war Atlantic task-force rehearsalChapter
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)25:31HMS Salmon's torpedo and the cost of weak redundancyChapter
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)34:08From damaged cruiser to training ship and Baltic supportNotable Point
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)39:41The Prinz Eugen collision that ended Leipzig's serviceChapter
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)44:45Nürnberg's reconnaissance role and wartime modernizationChapter
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)49:13Nürnberg's Norway assignment became escort workNotable Point
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)50:17Capital ships need escorts, scouts, and supply shipsNotable Point
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)55:26Nürnberg's Soviet career as Admiral MakarovNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet27:12Why Admiral Scheer's wreck was buried instead of broken upQ&A
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)1:12Kriegsmarine secret projects and the limits of Plan ZNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)4:25Why the Deutschland class were heavy cruisersNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)7:10H-class battleships and the risks of paper designNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)8:36Hitler, warship names, and propaganda riskNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?32:08German destroyers: ambitious roles, inadequate numbersNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?47:21Why German destroyer guns were weak dual-purpose weaponsQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:52:43Why the Tribal class was not right for every navyQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:25:12Why S-boats could not replace German destroyersQ&A
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion9:46Two light cruisers against an 11-inch raiderChapter
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion13:47Prestige ships and industrial opportunity costNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion20:29Why surface raiding needs numbersNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol15:18The light-cruiser shortage behind German surface raidingChapter
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol20:00Königsberg as a reconnaissance flagshipChapter
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol23:01Shipyards as a bridge to German rearmamentNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol54:24Köln and the Fl 282 naval helicopter trialsNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol57:10The Königsbergs as a force-structure lessonChapter
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol1:02:02Requirements drift and the reality behind a tidy planChapter
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)34:43A fast battle line would reshape rival designsChapter
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment51:35Why the Admiral Hipper class remained heavy cruisersQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:04:10Which German surface warships survived the Second World War?Q&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:11:11Did the Royal Navy capture German fast attack craft?Q&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:34:50How the Royal Navy would answer a mass German surface sortieQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:55:41Why the Italian Navy posed the greater wartime threatQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:07:19Why the Admiral Hipper class kept specialized secondary gunsQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:06:09How a 1941 Franco-German naval war might unfoldQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:33:45What were the Admiral Hipper cruisers meant to do?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:39:58How German heavy ships spent displacement inefficientlyNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:27:20Did Axis cruisers fit their intended roles?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:33:27Would licensed Mogami or Zara cruisers have helped Germany?Q&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered29:31Why Germany left Admiral Hipper-class hulls incompleteQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:25:17Where the Admiral Hipper class spent its displacementQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)14:35Hood and Bismarck mattered differently to their fleetsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:12:46A failed Channel Dash releases ships for the eastern warQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...33:14Why an all-submarine German navy would be easier to counterQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:03:07A carrier raid on Kiel could reshape the Atlantic warQ&A
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)2:35How a destroyer escort fought off a superior force in the Barents SeaChapter
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)3:44How the name Deutschland changed surface-raider prioritiesNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)8:06How the Barents Sea action nearly transformed Allied fleet allocationNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:37:10Why Scharnhorst carried 11-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:37:48Who were Scharnhorst and Gneisenau designed to fight?Q&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:09:06How a Soviet battleship could reshape German deploymentsNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary40:18Why Scapa Flow was not another TarantoQ&A
- The Beginnings of Naval Aerial Strike: p1 Taranto Long Patrol23:25Taranto and the fleet-size calculationNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore41:09Axis concentration in the Mediterranean would trade reach for confinementQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:59:14Britain did not need submersible supply shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)3:45:24Who benefits from swapping Bismarck and Yamato?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)4:49:54Surface raiding versus enforcing a blockadeQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:23:09Why the Regia Marina posed the stronger fleet threatQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:49:39Why German battleships miss the top fiveQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…3:10:54Naval readiness timetables before the Second World WarNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…3:13:18The Anglo-German agreement did not grant submarine parityNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:17:52Royal Navy planning had to cover Japan, Italy, Germany, and the Soviet UnionQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:25:40Heinkel He 60 and Germany's shipborne reconnaissance systemNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:34:35Every major navy entered the war with a different readiness gapQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/40:31Dönitz, war crimes, and command responsibilityQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/416:51Dönitz as a political naval leaderNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/418:47Dönitz, central control, and costly persistenceNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/419:11Why Type VIIC U-boats suited night attacksNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/423:01A Biber attack on Antwerp's locksNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli28:37Comparing Italian, Japanese, and German fleet balanceChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai15:18Why Yonai doubted war with Britain and AmericaNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?14:57Why Dönitz received ten years at NurembergQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:28:38Axis admirals entered the war with different expectationsQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:24:25Dönitz inherits a failing naval commandChapter
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:41:03Predictable sign-offs weakened naval EnigmaNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:43:59Why Dönitz kept the surface fleet afloatNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:46:07Dönitz blamed Italian spies before German signals securityNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:48:45Dönitz kept sending U-boats out in 1945Notable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:08:03Raeder shaped the Kriegsmarine by removing rival talentQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz0:02Dönitz's unusual place in the Nazi collapseChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz6:19Political loyalty and the path to naval commandNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz7:11Family losses at sea and the Nuremberg verdictNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz9:31Raeder, Canaris, and a service chief's dutyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz22:10A U-boat advocate at the top of the navyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz33:50The surface fleet and force redistributionNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder0:32Why Raeder begins the Axis naval chiefs seriesChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder1:55Raeder's rise to command of the German NavyChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder4:07The political admiral chosen after a secret rearmament scandalNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder15:25A navy planned for later war forced into the Norway gambleNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder17:09A decade to prepare the KriegsmarineChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder21:49How long tenure made Raeder accountable for the fleetNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder25:13Why the Kriegsmarine entered war least readyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)15:39Langsdorff after the scuttling of Admiral Graf SpeeQ&A
- 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)1:53:12Why a 14-inch Scharnhorst is not a simple optionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:00:38More Deutschlands instead of Admiral Hipper-class cruisersQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response18:01A bigger German destroyer force invites a countermoveQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:06:50Could German minesweepers clear a route for Sea Lion?Q&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:21:57Destroyers carried the first German troops to NarvikQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:32:01Why the Royal Navy needed to prepare for three different opponentsNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:35:33Royal Navy torpedoes in the early-war reliability crisisQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:21:47Type XXIII U-boats reached combat too late to shape the warNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:33:17German shipyard limits constrained the surface-fleet choiceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)30:29Submarine accidents and German operational riskQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:11:29German U-boat standardization and innovationQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/76:39Type VIIs versus escort massChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/711:56Wolfpacks, intelligence, and veteran lossesNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/713:15A later war strengthens British ASWNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/715:01More U-boats provoke counterbuildingNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/716:38Surface raider carrier counterfactualNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/719:28German capital-ship construction bottleneckNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/721:32U-boat program opportunity costsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz0:06Why Hunting Tirpitz is useful for source-led naval historyChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz3:03X-craft passage planning for the Tirpitz attackNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions1:45German raiders and cruiser riskQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/71:27Dönitz's 300-submarine force calculationChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/73:37U-boat peak and tonnage curveNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/76:55Escorts outbuild submarinesChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/717:01British shipyard asymmetry multiplies escortsChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/724:20German balanced-force alternativeNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/728:15The best bad option and the Deutschland-class problemNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/729:54Defensive submarines and fast raidersChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/732:27A disguised forty-knot commerce raiderNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/733:33Axis naval infrastructure sets different limitsNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/712:31Long-range submarines, distant bases and the cost of surfacingChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident7:13Norway's strategic consequencesNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident7:56The missed mining timetable off NorwayNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant5:17Ark Royal's early air attacksNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant12:58Force K and the Graf Spee searchChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant14:32Skua strike counterfactual against Graf SpeeNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:37:31Separating German naval design from Nazi ideologyQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:45:01Why a Kriegsmarine capital-ship dash could not stop NeptuneQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:01:29A measured assessment of Karl DonitzQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)46:48Germany's larger design gap without naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:34:30German war options if Barbarossa never beganQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History4:05:26Why Bismarck's final action lacks a separate battle nameQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History4:07:30Why German battleships demanded close attentionQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-452:45:54Why Germany could not hold IcelandQ&A
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 220:49The German pincer and HMS Bramble's delaying fightChapter
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 228:08Why Burnett could not press the German withdrawalNotable Point
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces1:55:13Hellmuth Heye after the Glowworm actionNotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy1:22:17Could German S-boats reload torpedoes at sea?Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy22:08The Tribal class punished tactics built around an average destroyerNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:05:04Norwegian bases changed the Arctic convoy problemChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease30:28The Kriegsmarine and Italian Navy posed different threatsNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease36:59France's defeat opened Atlantic bases and cost Allied matérielChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland16:02Why the Narvik-class label can obscure German destroyer groupsNotable Point
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"1:47:40Why Italy worried the Royal Navy more than GermanyNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 32224:28Why Germany did not initially panic the Royal NavyNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered11:42The Kriegsmarine as a new risk fleetQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered14:38Why German naval expansion would trigger countermobilizationNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered44:54Graf Zeppelin's real danger in a surface task groupQ&A
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:27:41Graf Zeppelin needed a balanced raider task forceChapter
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:36:40Did Germany need an experimental carrier before Graf Zeppelin?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers33:20Graf Zeppelin's uncertain role and institutional conflictChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers36:23Graf Zeppelin's scale and changing air groupNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers38:15Graf Zeppelin's four-carrier plan overtaken by early warNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:39:41Bad actors can still make rational tactical decisionsQ&A
- Four Random Books 16: It's A Question of Dates15:55German heavy ships after the Norwegian campaignNotable Point
- Four Random Books 16: It's A Question of Dates17:17Disguised German merchant raiders in 1940Chapter
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 2 of 5: Planning, Invasion & Narvik,15:40HMS Glowworm's last fight with Admiral HipperNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 1 of 5: Introduction37:20Operation Weserübung attacks several ports at onceChapter
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/230:26Why the Pacific War is not a universal fleet templateNotable Point
- Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk10:27Why committing destroyers to Dunkirk was a strategic riskNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:09:02Bismarck's efficiency problem as a design-experience problemQ&A
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul24:22What Schnellboot specifications meant in practiceNotable Point
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul32:37Why fifty-boat attacks were exceptionalQ&A
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul2:25:45E-boats and R-boats serve different rolesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:05:33Could Germany have used an unscuttled French fleet?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:26:24Why Bismarck lacked German destroyer supportQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 421:10Operation Royal Marine and the cost of delayNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patreon Video 43:27Germany weighs attacks on supply convoys to Britain and SingaporeNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patreon Video 45:37A Black Sea role for the Deutschland classNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 442:14American supply convoys create a German strategic dilemmaNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 442:49A Black Sea role for the Deutschland classNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...22:50Kriegsmarine contact and internal dissentNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...25:36Coalition service tests German design assumptionsNotable Point
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean33:41HMS Seal's capture after mine damageNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:28:431943 shifted the Indian Ocean toward air and anti-submarine warfareChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:33:01Did German submarines belong in the Far East?Q&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)24:48A global commerce war and an alternative role for Force ZNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)36:48The surface raider Germany did not send to PenangNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:45:38Small guns did not make Scharnhorst a battlecruiserNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:50:52Why several surface raiders posed a different threat from more U-boatsQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:55:36Comparing German commerce raiding across two warsQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:56:01What Germany needed for a credible surface-raiding threatQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:01:56A war without German commerce raidingQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:03:28Why German capital ships began with smaller gunsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A40:35Why Plan Z battleships were an awkward raider conceptQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A45:33Plan Z exceeded German wartime industrial capacityQ&A
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 313:54Rapid expansion can leave naval experience trapped at the topNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 421:16Flower-class corvettes served thirteen navies on both sidesChapter
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…34:22Why Kriegsmarine ships should not be given KMS prefixesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:29:13Germany needed a balanced fleet, not simply more U-boatsQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy13:39Why Deutschland was not a pocket battleshipQ&A
- An Introduction To Battle Cruisers37:59Why the Scharnhorst class attracted two labelsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:52:39The danger if Germany had captured the French fleetQ&A
- The Battles of Narvik (Norway 80)1:56German destroyer readiness and the failed ambushesChapter
- The Battles of Narvik (Norway 80)4:23Ammunition shortages leave German destroyers nearly emptyChapter
- The Battles of Narvik (Norway 80)6:07Narvik breaks the German destroyer forceChapter
- The Battles of Narvik (Norway 80)6:51Norwegian resistance and the three battles of NarvikNotable Point
- The Battles of Narvik (Norway 80)8:54The third battle becomes a continuous destroyer brawlNotable Point
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full2:08Altmark's hidden role behind Admiral Graf SpeeChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full35:15Altmark's long evasion of the Royal NavyChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full52:08Altmark as a lesson in fleet surge capacityNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video4:05Graf Spee's silent passage frustrates the British searchChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video41:42Different raider doctrines produce different campaign mapsNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:47:11Graf Spee reveals Germany's missing raider support systemChapter
- The End of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video1:41A fighting end and Nazi propagandaNotable Point
- The End of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video5:57Hitler as the audience for naval successNotable Point
- SS Streonhalh; the Last Victim of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video2:21Langsdorff's search for bigger prizes and naval gloryChapter
- Altmark Last Meeting with the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video5:01German logistics in the South Atlantic campaignChapter
- Surface Raider Conundrum - A River Plate 80 Video4:10Surface raiders could draw escorts from critical routesNotable Point
- Surface Raider Conundrum - A River Plate 80 Video5:13How one German aircraft carrier might have changed commerce raidingNotable Point
- Cruise of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video0:16Reading Admiral Graf Spee's cruise as strategyChapter
- Cruise of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video2:28Caution, survivability, and Langsdorff's choicesChapter