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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:51:05Yamato's size as space for a modern refitNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII7:00Shimushu's early origins and delayed constructionChapter
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:54:48Six Kii battleships instead of two YamatosQ&A
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one16:00Yugumo losses, repeated demand and Yamato budget coverNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one34:14Treaty withdrawal and destroyer spending prioritiesNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one35:01Yamato secrecy and the limits of deterrenceNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one40:45A counterfactual 1938 shift to 100 mm destroyersChapter
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:21:22Yamato’s historical design loses its intended opponentsNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:29:54Japanese fear, stronger opponents and the smaller-war forecastNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:34:10Yamato battleships at TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:47Why Yamato's design logic depends on the treaty-era fleetNotable Point
- Five Doomsday Weapons of the Sci-fi universes, and the theories of Deterrence... why do they fail?24:36Why a secret Death Star cannot spread fearChapter
- Five Doomsday Weapons of the Sci-fi universes, and the theories of Deterrence... why do they fail?1:19:41How secrecy and interpretation shaped Yamato estimatesQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:13A Chinese submarine success could redirect Japanese ASW researchQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live28:56How completed N3s could enlarge YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:03:19Scharnhorst standardisation meets an early Yamato disclosureQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)28:43Yamato intelligence changes capital-ship planningNotable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)2:07:21Would Montana trade twelve 16-inch guns for nine 18-inch guns?Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)2:50:00Four Yamatos belong to the later 1944 Pacific scenarioNotable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)3:21:51A combined Allied battle line changes the Yamato comparisonNotable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)3:32:54A Pacific-first war could preserve capital-ship constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:24:32Why Yamato handled shells verticallyQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:18The absurd logistics of a 500,000-ton YamatoNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:53Why contra-rotating propellers rarely reach the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:39:26Yamato and Amagi types in Japan's First World War fleetQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:23Supplying oil for Yamato-class ships at JutlandNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:42How Europe reacts to an announced Yamato classQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:46Large-scale warship models already existQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:08:08If Japan had revealed the Yamato classQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:23A stretched Lion as a hypothetical answer to YamatoNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....53:59Later powers keep trying to reproduce the Warrior momentNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:22:28Why 28 knots defines a fast battleship hereNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:00:37Izumo and the A-140 J2 design tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:16Building Number 13 battlecruisers instead of YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:39Smaller Japanese battleships could strengthen the whole fleetQ&A
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?14:29Fast battleships force Britain to adopt new machineryNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:22:08Publicizing an A5M successor could signal Japanese strengthNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:34:02Could publicity make Japan's modern air group a deterrent?Notable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:48Making Yamato more useful through speed and publicityQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:31A surviving Yamato discovered by the JMSDFQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:49Why Japan struggled to reach the fast-battleship thresholdQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order35:24Yamato's maximum range versus effective rangeQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...1:22:59Swordfish against super-battleshipsQ&A
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit1:51:56Battleship gun calibre did not decide sustained firepowerNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships32:16Fourteen-inch guns, armour, and the Yamato problemQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle4:14:30Yamato, French predreadnoughts, and the battleship hotel questionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle4:31:30Why fuel constrained Yamato-class deploymentQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle4:56:51Could Japanese wartime capital ships survive into a victorious 1960s fleet?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle6:16:46Ship models and repeated digital warships in naval filmsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War7:13:08How building holidays weakened Japanese confidenceNotable Point
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- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress11:30:19How credible A-150 intelligence could reshape Allied buildingQ&A
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)21:47Why battleships remain central without wartime carrier proofChapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)25:34Yamato's 18-inch guns distort every rival building programNotable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:05Why aviation battleships solve the wrong problemQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:42What Japan could build instead of the Yamato classQ&A
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:11A Royal Navy of fictional Conqueror battleships in 1939Q&A
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:55:52Could Japan answer a renewed arms race with supercruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:43:07A 1940s revival of Japan's Number 13 designQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)50:24What Japan could build instead of YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:59Yamato, Montana, Lion, and the super-battleship labelQ&A
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- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?58:24Japan and Italy face a new battleship speed floorChapter
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō34:00Why the Mogamis' larger guns were a disputed choiceNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:40Yamato might reach the battle line but would not be capturedQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:55Revealing Yamato's 18-inch guns changes US deploymentQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:24Britain estimated Yamato's guns from photographsQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:35Royal Navy response to evidence of Japan's A-150 battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:46What would Yamato look like in an 18-inch treaty world?Q&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued35:47Montana armament: twelve 16-inch or fewer 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class45:29Origins of Kantai Kessen and Taikan Kyohō ShugiChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:18:00Would oil denial keep Yamato in home waters?Q&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:07:25How the Yamato program would reshape Allied constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:01Limits of the N3-Yamato and G3-Iowa analogyQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:59How an early Yamato design leak changes rearmamentQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:04Harpoon, battleship armour, and damage without penetrationQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:14:08How Yamato competed with Shokaku for Japanese resourcesQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:30:04A diesel battleship depended on solving the gearboxQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:39:09Why keeping the Yamato class secret weakened its deterrent valueQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:39:54When Japan would need a 20-inch YamatoQ&A
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:24:18Shinano's course choices keep Archerfish in contactChapter
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:29:49Shinano's unfinished systems cannot contain progressive floodingChapter
- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...1:23:36How a post-Tojo Japan might rebuild deterrenceNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:02:01What if Japan adopted British carrier training?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/46:46:43High School Fleet through real destroyer and torpedo mechanicsNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:38:51What Japan might build instead of YamatoQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:08:17Japanese battleships and the doctrine behind their sizeNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:00:51What modernized Yamato-class ships change in the Falklands WarQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:18:41Would Argentina sortie if the British had modernized Yamatos?Q&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 718:38Cruiser-line speed sets the fast-battleship thresholdNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:51:26Why Washington's cruiser group could not beat Yamato by daylightQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!2:10:34A 45,000-ton Washington treaty reshapes battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:57:40Yamatos and Iowas joining the 1915 Home FleetQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:10:30Yamato and Musashi in the Guadalcanal night battlesQ&A
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?1:06:41The verdict: a good idea executed too lateChapter
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...40:37A Yamato-class Type 3 shell made a brief wall of fireNotable Point
- War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion11:19Taihō and survival for an outnumbered fleetChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier25:43Japan: qualitative superiority versus shipyard bottlenecksChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier30:43Shinano as a battleship and Japan's construction choicesNotable Point
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:13:46Why smaller fast battleships do not solve Japan's problemQ&A
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:20:21Could Bismarck land a golden BB on Yamato?Q&A
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines15:21Shokaku scarcity and the Yamato resource tradeoffNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:38:32How revealing Yamato in 1940 might disrupt Allied shipbuildingNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:05:12Not big enough for the doctrineNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:08:26Yamato and the 28-knot fast-battleship thresholdNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:11:57Yamato's 18-inch guns as a deterrent design analogyNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!23:05Warspite versus Yamato at nightQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:04:56A T-class submarine salvo against YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:53:02Britain learns the Yamato and A-150 plansQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign44:23Why battleship rankings hide design tradeoffsNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote4:03:51Continuous building changes super-battleship riskNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:36:21The most dangerous Bismarck replacement in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:41:36Lion-class turrets, resources, and Yamato intelligenceQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:13:43Tillman designs and a qualitative arms raceQ&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...1:44:24Could Yamato hunt Bismarck?Q&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:00:22Yamato could prompt another generation of battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:21:30Yamato built to British prioritiesQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:45:26How to assess Yamato's armour qualityQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:21:51Practical upper limits for carriers and battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built4:15:08Why Japan could not simply match a larger Australian fleetQ&A
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:17:20Why bigger battleship guns were not automatically betterQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:01:33When Japanese battleships demanded a distinct British answerQ&A
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193837:08Attrition doctrine and Kantai KessenChapter
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!1:15:46Japanese treaty battleships and the road to YamatoChapter
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 647:28Renewed escalation dooms the small treaty battleshipsNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?27:28Turning 1938 naval design cultures into Star DestroyersChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:15:01A Yamato-inspired Xyston with a pagoda bridgeChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:21:30Why secrecy limits a super-battleship's deterrent valueNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:23:40Avoiding war with America could preserve the five-Yamato programQ&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London2:12:16Three treaty battleships become stepping stones to YamatoChapter
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 533:51Why 27 knots still falls short of fast-battleship statusNotable Point
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- The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)3:00:32Panama limits make Tillman III plausible enough to change later fleetsNotable Point
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:20:55An 18-inch treaty standard could push Japan toward 20- or 22-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:40:05A fourth Yamato turret drives the ship toward 80,000 tonsQ&A
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:26:09A higher Allied baseline pressures Yamato and the AxisChapter
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered35:21Yamato intelligence and the Montana-versus-Iowa choiceQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered58:30A sixteen-gun Japanese alternative to YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:00:59Why 28 knots could be enough for MontanaQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:31:51More treaty construction does not guarantee a larger YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time27:42British intelligence saw Yamato but misjudged her gun caliberQ&A
- What kind of Carrier do you need or want?55:09Night carrier operations required money and research depthNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!42:04Yamato could plausibly carry twelve 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:35:33A 100,000-ton British battleship shocks 1920 but answers Yamato in wartimeQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...2:01:24The battle needed to preserve super-battleshipsQ&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:22:46How would British 14-inch guns fight Yamato?Q&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare54:11The cost of a fourth Yamato main turretQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:35:48Why no A-140 design solves Japan's yard limitsQ&A
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:20:46Why a Yamato-like answer becomes less attractiveChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:31:03Yamato and the ultimate-weapon trapNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty2:31:57A 28-knot treaty world makes America's battle line obsoleteNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty3:00:28How would later battleships fit a higher treaty baseline?Q&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:05:21A British Yamato fleet would frighten enemies and strain BritainQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:19:38How a larger treaty limit would reshape YamatoQ&A
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian19:44Why secrecy weakened Yamato's deterrent valueNotable Point
- Battleships of the Treaty Era1:05:30North Carolinas, Yamatos, and industrial strainChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 433:00Japanese capital ships and Russian strategic memoryQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:45:55Warships whose strategic logic failedQ&A
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 926:17Choosing shell weight or volume of fireNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 70:29A revived Eight-Eight fleet behind A-150 and B-64Chapter
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 76:23Making battle-fleet strength visible as deterrenceNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 712:54Why six enormous guns can lose the ranging contestNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 722:42Yamato as the baseline for a larger battle fleetChapter
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 623:55Treaty interruption between Number 13 and YamatoNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 646:38Modernising Number 13 with Yamato-era armourNotable Point
- 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 450:42Why H-44's displacement is not simply fantasyNotable Point
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?3:02How Britain might answer continued Yamato constructionNotable Point
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?29:20Tillman IV-2 turns fifteen 18-inch guns into a design problemChapter
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?37:53A Tillman fleet would reshape the Yamato problemNotable Point
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?41:37Why these Yamato defeats need a counterfactual caveatNotable Point
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?51:43An 18-inch Tillman design meets the stability limitChapter
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:18:25Which battleships were probably the tallestQ&A
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 242:36Why fleet numbers mattered more than duelsNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 245:13What a Montana-Yamato duel cannot showNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 251:31A response to Yamato without advance knowledgeNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 257:50Yamato’s resource trap in an infrastructure warNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD2:02Gun elevation changes Yamato's practical rangeNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD14:57A British response to Yamato would be a fleet problemChapter
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD20:28Salvo volume and ammunition endurance decide the Yamato trialNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 134:44Lion versus Yamato: armour, range, and tactical distanceChapter
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 154:43A larger Lion as Britain's possible Yamato responseChapter
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 158:38How uncertainty about Yamato drives worst-case protectionNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 11:01:51Testing a 12-gun super-Lion against YamatoNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 11:07:10The sixteen-gun Dreadnought thought experimentNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 11:17:38How a known Yamato could distort rival building programmesNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?10:47Building Yamato as the armoured test targetChapter
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?20:32Range control is the decisive tactical advantageNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:32:59Converting new capital ships into carriers reshapes every fleetQ&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:42:35Without treaties, battleships could pass 100,000 tonsQ&A
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway56:39Yamato and the opportunity cost of naval megaprojectsNotable Point
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:05:47Why several modernized old battleships still threaten YamatoQ&A
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?1:40:04Yamato's protection and secondary batteryNotable Point
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?2:15:28Turret penetration as a gateway to the magazinesNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 526:28Number 13 as a bridge toward YamatoNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:11:06When did Britain learn that Japan was building Yamato?Q&A
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done23:15Why 18-inch guns need much larger turretsNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done34:51Why a capital ship should preserve its range advantageNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:34:24Alaska-class firepower against an outnumbered raiderNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 328:50Yamato-level firepower, not Yamato-level protectionNotable Point
- The full quick gun calibre guide (10-18in) to Dreadnought style ships1:10HMS Furious and Yamato in the 18-inch comparisonChapter
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck2:14:53What an 18-inch hit means for a battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword49:20Why Yamato's torpedo survival has no fixed numberQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'39:53Yamato and the cost of concentrating an industrial effortQ&A
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?48:40Yamato comparison depends on modeled gun rangesNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:20:20Planned fleet numbers matter more than a one-on-one duelNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:14:55Reconstructing Yamato for the comparisonChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:31:12Four twin turrets or three triples?Notable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:36:47Range advantage cannot remove magazine riskNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:57:06Yamato and British battleship retention in a delayed warNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:01:20Yamato's size and the case for big-gun deterrenceQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:32:49Yamato and the logic of big ships, big gunsQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:18:31Axis battleships were constrained by numbers, oilers, and lost expertiseQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...28:29Number 13-class guns were distant ancestors of Yamato'sQ&A
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy29:18A Yamato counterfactual about Soviet prestigeNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat15:39A surviving Yamato and the postwar battleship raceQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat32:51A captured Yamato becomes a Soviet victory monumentQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat1:08:23A Yamato intelligence leak forces Allied counterbuildingQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response1:04:03How Japan accounted for Nelson and RodneyQ&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:02:28What would Yamato look like in a world with G3 and N3?Q&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:34:39Four warship classes as national design stereotypesQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road45:57Larger treaty battleships would push Japan beyond Yamato-scale ambitionsQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:04:17Geography made German capital-ship construction harder to conceal than YamatoQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video24:05How revealing Yamato could have prolonged the battleship ageQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:17:37Yamato as both battle-line weapon and deterrentQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:25:07How the Royal Navy might fight YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:06Why Yamato required a fleet battle planChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War10:25Could the Queen Elizabeths defeat Yamato together?Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War11:12How an early Yamato disclosure could revive the Lion classNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War19:04Could Yamato have changed Midway?Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War54:40When the Allies identified Yamato's 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:08:11British intelligence misses Yamato and the Long LanceChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:10:32The industrial opportunity cost of YamatoNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History56:00Yamato could not deter an enemy kept ignorant of itNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:15:18Secrecy squandered Yamato's deterrent valueChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:26:03A public Yamato forces an Allied shipbuilding dilemmaNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:35:45Yamato trades fleet numbers for extreme scaleNotable Point
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:26:18Yamato intelligence and the fate of the Lion classQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:37:02War films make elite weapons and brutal discipline too commonQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:36Yamato and the industrial cost of prestige battleshipsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-422:06:08A Super Lion response to YamatoQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 216:52A practical Japanese alternative to YamatoQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:44:03Giving Yamato's plans to Britain in 1910Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:38:43Axis naval choices worth respectingQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4023:23How knowledge of Yamato might revive the Montana classQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4035:56Which battleships could defeat a NelsonQ&A
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19414:16Turn the Yamato class into public deterrenceNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19402:26Yamato construction and Japan's hidden industrial burdenChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193914:24Using the Yamato class as strategic disclosureChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193920:28The dockyard bottleneck behind Japanese capital shipsNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193937:04How Yamato disclosure could reshape German ambitionsNotable Point
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:39:47Why Japan could not simply build Yamato-class ships for GermanyQ&A
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)5:41What might Japan have planned after Yamato?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:54:11Why Japan paired large cruisers with Yamato constructionQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels3:30:01Iowa versus Yamato and the importance of the first hitQ&A
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)39:26Naval construction as recovery and industrial preparationChapter
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...14:07How to judge Hood and Yamato in contextQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet4:00Yamato's speed advantage over Nelson and RodneyQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet11:46Faster Nelson successors against Axis battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet16:01Why boarding Yamato would not guarantee her captureQ&A
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion13:47Prestige ships and industrial opportunity costNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)28:01Japanese security and the Yamato counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)39:36A German Yamato and the Allied responseQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)59:05Why Yamato could not pass through the Kiel CanalQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)1:10:48Separating warship fame from design qualityQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)1:53:58How another decade of peace transforms the major naviesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:23:42What determines the Lion class's successor batteryQ&A
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)14:14If Japan cancelled the Yamatos, where could the resources go?Q&A
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)16:03How could HMS Hood remain the world's largest warship?Q&A
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)16:41Could Yamato have been a more effective deterrent?Q&A
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)12:16Treaty limits and the appeal of big ships and big gunsNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)40:08Yamato fits the doctrine but arrives too late for 1939Notable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?37:02Mitsumasa Yonai's case for infrastructure over prestige shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?49:34How would early Yamatos change Allied battleship design?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:45:44Industrial capacity shapes the naval arms raceNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:45:44Could Japan expand submarine construction in wartime?Q&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:54:18A 1939 Anglo-Japanese war reshapes fleets and alliancesNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:31:35New Jersey versus Yamato in a one-on-one fightQ&A
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)22:48Why the first simulation cannot isolate gun layoutNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament41:18How would a modernised N3 compare with Yamato?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament50:49Compact armour and a hypothetical fight with YamatoNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:57:34Why a modernised Hood should still avoid YamatoQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:52:05How Britain and America might answer early Yamato plansQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:33:56Without treaties, infrastructure sets the battleship ceilingQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...51:13How revealing Yamato in 1941 could have changed Allied planningQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:10:14Why King George V should not meet Yamato aloneQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:12:51A modernized HMS Rodney against YamatoQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:28:00Yamato-class carriers would still need aircrewQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:16:56Warspite and Tribals would need a night ambushQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:25:11Yamato secrecy undercut deterrenceNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:32:01Britain could dock Yamato and design an answerQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?2:19:03Which Axis battleships could challenge Nelson and Rodney?Q&A
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?50:20Yamato and the missed deterrent messageNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?1:30:50Yamato secrecy undermines deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat1:26:42Battleship guns cannot be improvisedQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat1:30:12How Allied intelligence misread YamatoQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat3:08:23Where Japan's B-65 super cruisers might fitQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)3:45:24Who benefits from swapping Bismarck and Yamato?Q&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:13:55How earlier 18-inch battleships might alter YamatoQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:20:53Why Yamato was not designed to fight two IowasQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:23:38Secret capabilities and deterrence signallingNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:51:19Yamato and the infrastructure choice behind capital shipsNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:28:35Tillman IV versus YamatoQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...49:35Type 5 offered Yamato better anti-aircraft defenceQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...59:04A Yamato refit should prioritize 100 mm and 40 mm gunsQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/49:10Yonai's reputation and prewar policy recordChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/440:45More Yamatos or a stronger maritime industry?Q&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence57:21Why lost Japanese records limit claims about wartime technologyChapter
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence3:50:38A British carrier force could change Halsey's Leyte Gulf choiceQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:09:22Yonai saw Yamato as deterrence, not a war-winning fleetNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out2:40A battleship built to meet another battleshipNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu24:50Yamato, carriers, and industrial balanceNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:19:25Yamato-class ships at GuadalcanalQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:45:31A Nagato postcard could stand in for YamatoNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War37:10When mixed secondary batteries made senseQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:09:22How Yamato intelligence might have changed British constructionQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:13:20Could Yamato intelligence have given King George V 16-inch guns?Q&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 414:29Japanese refits and an unready battle lineNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:58:13Why Alaska is outmatched by YamatoQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:13:56Why aggressive Yamato deployment needed a larger strategyQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:28:09Moving Yamato's turrets exposed an industrial bottleneckQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A51:37The ship-design cost of a Japanese 20-inch gunQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:13:43Using Yamato-class resources for destroyers and convoy escortsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A26:34Bismarck and Yamato as competing resource choicesQ&A