Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Line Of Battle

Also searchable as Battle Line, Battle Line Tactics, Battle Lines, Line Of Battle Tactics.

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  1. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    32:18Did HMS Warrior and the ironclad frigates act as battleships?Q&A
  2. Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?
    28:42Battleship began as a battle-line functionNotable Point
  3. Trumps Battleship; A Naval History view on what we know of the Defiant Class so far
    10:04Iowa-class design for task-group warfareChapter
  4. 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 3
    1:06:14Exercise 78 shows why destroyers need cruiser supportChapter
  5. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    10:40:24Holding a line while opponents approach bow firstNotable Point
  6. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    11:13:02Frigate positioning behind first rates in the game battleNotable Point
  7. Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:32:28Why Anglo-Dutch and Napoleonic naval wars differedQ&A
  8. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    25:59Tsushima encouraged a uniform 21-knot battle lineNotable Point
  9. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    27:28American standard battleships followed the same cohesion logicNotable Point
  10. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    56:53Battlecruiser losses combined gunnery practice with tactical exposureNotable Point
  11. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    57:49Bellerophon's limited but effective fire at JutlandChapter
  12. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    1:02:09The Bellerophons proved the dreadnought squadron conceptNotable Point
  13. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    1:04:11Why the battle line gave way to the modern task forceNotable Point
  14. Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?
    33:43Similar hull counts conceal Russia's advantage at ÖlandChapter
  15. Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?
    36:27Could Sweden have broken the Russian line at Öland?Notable Point
  16. Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?
    38:32Reval turns an anchored fleet into a layered fortressChapter
  17. Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?
    40:53Sailing past Reval's guns magnifies every disadvantageNotable Point
  18. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    34:23How the German battle turn workedNotable Point
  19. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    1:43:39Leading Keppel's van at UshantChapter
  20. Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees
    1:45:39First rates evolved from bastions to line-breakersNotable Point
  21. Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees
    1:47:40Victory's layered battery balanced range and rate of fireChapter
  22. From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live
    1:57:33Raking fire helps explain the line of battleNotable Point
  23. From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live
    2:48:04First rates anchor and break the battle lineNotable Point
  24. Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes
    1:27:25Why Rodney's line-breaking plan failed at MartiniqueChapter
  25. Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes
    1:45:40Rodney breaks the French line at the SaintesChapter
  26. Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 2024
    3:16:15Would Scharnhorst be better with 11-inch or 15-inch guns?Q&A
  27. Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 2024
    4:44:02Where a Deutschland class belongs in a fleet actionQ&A
  28. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates
    59:49Dogger Bank made convoy passage the measure of victoryChapter
  29. World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4
    5:50:22Nelson, breaking the line, and crossing the TQ&A
  30. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    1:56:39Why historical naval language can mislead modern readersNotable Point
  31. Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 108
    1:23:10An alerted battle should still be decided by carriersQ&A
  32. Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!
    42:27HMS Africa's solo approach at TrafalgarNotable Point
  33. Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!
    49:00First rates broke the line, third rates filled itNotable Point
  34. The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 5
    20:29The all-rounder that could serve anywhere in the lineNotable Point
  35. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    1:38:32North Carolina with an all-forward F3 layoutQ&A
  36. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    2:24:26Building a fleet around a 28-knot battle lineQ&A
  37. Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    31:04Exhausting the enemy's torpedoes before closingNotable Point
  38. Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    45:09Why a battle line needs combined firepowerNotable Point
  39. Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:53:32Heavy cruisers as a second line behind battleshipsNotable Point
  40. Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:08:47Building a screened battle line for long-range fireChapter
  41. Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:33:56How complementary battleship divisions create layered firepowerNotable Point
  42. Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    44:20Break up destroyer attacks before torpedo rangeChapter
  43. Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    22:24When a formal line of battle is unnecessaryNotable Point
  44. Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:25:49A modernized battle line overwhelms Russian pre-dreadnoughtsChapter
  45. Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:49:18Arming a cruiser to support the battle lineChapter
  46. Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    3:45:53Standardization and light-cruiser vulnerability in the battle lineChapter
  47. Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    3:49:29Why a crossfire needs mutually supporting numbersNotable Point
  48. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    16:31Why 10,000 tons also became the cruiser ceilingNotable Point
  49. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    26:26Why the hybrid inherited both ships' weaknessesNotable Point
  50. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    29:02Fleet exercises had already exposed the hybrid's problemNotable Point
  51. Francesco Caracciolo: The Almost Next Battleship Era - KSS2 S6 Comment Response
    4:48N3 battleships as the Royal Navy's battle-line hammerNotable Point
  52. HMVS Cerberus: KSS1 S4 Comment Response
    16:43If Hood survived a secondary-magazine explosionQ&A
  53. Bruships 130: Battleships
    41:44Why battleships carried torpedoesQ&A
  54. HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response
    24:20Did German battlecruisers point toward fast battleships?Notable Point
  55. Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat
    1:01:15How Nelson might attack the Spanish ArmadaQ&A
  56. Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 8
    8:48Why armored cruisers entered Japan's battle lineNotable Point
  57. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    11:19Mackensen, Ersatz Yorck, and Germany's battlecruiser problemChapter
  58. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    26:00Russian capital ships for a Black Sea risk fleetChapter
  59. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    56:47South Dakota and Lexington as a fleet systemChapter
  60. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    1:36:24Montana, Iowa, and an enduring American doctrineChapter
  61. Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    10:5113.5-inch guns and the return to battle-line firepowerChapter
  62. Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    13:17Why firepower arithmetic cannot decide a naval battleNotable Point
  63. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 8
    45:35Building a battle line, screen, and fast wingChapter
  64. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 7
    11:59Screening and scouting ahead of the battle lineChapter
  65. Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 3
    29:00Caught between the battle line and the scouting roleNotable Point
  66. HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 8
    30:54N3 mobile citadel and G3 task-force shipChapter
  67. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 3
    33:27Forming a battle line for accurate gunfireNotable Point
  68. The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet
    1:07:20Battlecruisers lose their speed advantage in the lineNotable Point
  69. Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?
    1:09:12Caesar's hesitation and Queen's sacrificeChapter
  70. Glorious First of June (1794)
    1:44:30Howe leads the 29 May breakthrough himselfChapter
  71. Glorious First of June (1794)
    1:53:08How fleets repeated signals along the battle lineQ&A
  72. Glorious First of June (1794)
    2:09:45Howe's order to break the line everywhereChapter
  73. Glorious First of June (1794)
    2:14:32HMS Defence breaks through first and fights aloneChapter
  74. Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 5
    26:28Number 13 as a bridge toward YamatoNotable Point
  75. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    17:43All-forward guns for manoeuvring ship actionsNotable Point
  76. Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...
    12:52Why smaller ships avoided the battle lineNotable Point
  77. Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...
    14:02Breaking the line to concentrate forceNotable Point
  78. Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...
    17:09Cohesion after the battle line breaks upNotable Point
  79. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    1:57:39Barfleur: Tourville fights for an escapeChapter
  80. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    2:01:18Squadrons, divisions, and colored flag ranks at BarfleurNotable Point
  81. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    43:30Barfleur: line tactics, wind shifts, and a day-long battleChapter
  82. Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron
    44:20Barfleur's force imbalance and awkward casualty figuresNotable Point
  83. Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...
    55:52Armoured cruisers as battle-line supportNotable Point
  84. Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 12
    25:57How armoured cruisers could reinforce a battle lineNotable Point
  85. Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty
    55:50A controlled shipbuilding drumbeat could constrain fleets indirectlyNotable Point
  86. Imperieuse Class(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p8
    6:44Why a cruiser could still worry a battleshipNotable Point
  87. Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments
    36:33Iowa as the fast wing of a Montana battle lineQ&A
  88. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    1:41:16Zara approaches a balanced heavy cruiserChapter
  89. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    2:52:39Italian cruiser doctrine remains caught between two fleetsChapter
  90. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    3:02:03Cape Matapan puts the Zaras in the wrong battleNotable Point
  91. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    9:32How armoured frigates helped create the cruiser categoryChapter
  92. Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)
    19:37Protecting the battle line's unengaged sideNotable Point
  93. Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)
    32:09Blanche as a Jutland signal repeaterChapter
  94. Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)
    37:45The small-ship battle hidden by Jutland mapsNotable Point
  95. Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)
    43:48Fleet effectiveness beyond firing gunsNotable Point
  96. Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)
    2:33:29Why battle-line speed mattered for crossing the TQ&A
  97. Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)
    22:43Training at Scapa Flow and the Jutland deploymentNotable Point
  98. British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion
    31:16Battlecruisers as sea-control toolsNotable Point
  99. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    14:15Quantity versus armour in the battle lineNotable Point
  100. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    16:41Testing the design against BismarckNotable Point
  101. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    34:43A fast battle line would reshape rival designsChapter
  102. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    36:42Five ships as the conservative treaty outcomeNotable Point
  103. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    41:50Modernizing the Queen Elizabeth class for a common speedNotable Point
  104. Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"
    2:41:59Nelson-class design and the Royal Navy's distributed fleet doctrineQ&A
  105. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    1:09:35HMS Africa and independent commandNotable Point
  106. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    1:10:48The two-column attack at TrafalgarChapter
  107. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    1:19:45The tactical gamble of crossing the enemy lineChapter
  108. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    1:28:49The French van and the casualty imbalanceNotable Point
  109. Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)
    38:47The weather gauge at the battle openingChapter
  110. Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)
    42:35Early fire undermines British cohesionNotable Point
  111. Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)
    2:07:28Early line tactics still led into repeated melee attacksNotable Point
  112. Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)
    3:12:24The Gabbard turns disciplined gunnery into blockadeChapter
  113. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties
    4:25Trafalgar's battle-line image versus Jutland's manoeuvreNotable Point
  114. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    2:40:08Jutland and the end of the traditional line of battleNotable Point
  115. Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail
    1:56:58Why frigates usually stayed out of the line of battleQ&A
  116. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1915
    23:07All-forward guns versus task-force warfareChapter
  117. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    47:51French firepower centred on 74s, 80s, and Ville de ParisChapter
  118. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    56:50Why 74-gun third rates carried the fleetNotable Point
  119. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    1:13:03The Saintes begins before 12 AprilChapter
  120. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    1:18:27The battle lines engage on 12 AprilChapter
  121. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 1781
    9:24Why battle lines did not remain tidyNotable Point
  122. The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-1916
    56:42How frigates joined an age-of-sail fleet battleQ&A
  123. Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)
    1:41:06De Ruyter turns maneuver and broadsides against French gun numbersChapter
  124. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:16:20The vulnerable logistics behind Japan's carrier strikeChapter
  125. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:52:27How a surviving Pacific Fleet could reshape MidwayQ&A
  126. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:59:42Would surviving battleships delay the carrier war?Q&A
  127. Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle
    1:30The British columns and HMS Africa's unexpected approachChapter
  128. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    24:58Global war and the Royal Navy's competing schoolsNotable Point