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Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign

Study Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign, a Dr. Alex Clarke video from 22 Jan 2024, with 22 time notes. Topics include Capital Ships, Fleet Readiness, Naval…

Date
Runtime2:47:02
Guide points22 time notes

Time notes

  1. 4:03
    Reading a 1908 naval balance before committing forces

    The campaign opens with a comparison of British, German, and French ship totals before the next operation is chosen.

    Chapter
  2. 19:00
    Mines make a port attack costly rather than impossible

    A coastal-submarine build plan is used to explain how minefields can raise the cost of attacking a port.

    Notable Point
  3. 25:15
    QuestionWould developing the 4.7-inch gun have been better than pursuing the 5.25-inch weapon?Answer

    Possibly, because it could have covered roles later assigned to 4.5-inch and 5.25-inch guns; the better answer would have been to fix the earlier 5-inch programme and its political problems.

    Q&A
  4. 42:32
    Balancing speed, protection, range, and secondary fire in a campaign battleship

    A redesign of the campaign's Renown class shows how a capital ship's protection, speed, endurance, and secondary batteries are traded against one another.

    Chapter
  5. 47:42
    QuestionWhat were Scharnhorst and Dunkerque built for, and should they be classified as battleships or battlecruisers?Answer

    They were battleships: each navy built a battleship within its contemporary industrial constraints, even though the results did not match the familiar late-1930s form.

    Q&A
  6. 48:58
    QuestionWhy keep accepting Allied warship orders after exceeding shipbuilding capacity?Answer

    Because refusing Allied orders can damage alliances, while the game offers no way to delay exports and prioritise domestic construction.

    Q&A
  7. 55:39
    QuestionDoes keeping shipyard capacity full create too great a penalty for new construction?Answer

    Not necessarily: the ships are ordered for a war expected four or five years later, so immediate delivery pressure matters less than building the intended force in time.

    Q&A
  8. 56:24
    Designing a capital ship around the opponents it expects

    The campaign's capital-ship layout is explained as a response to pre-dreadnought opponents and proliferating torpedo boats.

    Chapter
  9. 58:02
    Crossfire punishes an isolated battleship and its unsupported cruisers

    A fleet action shows how divided fire and poor formation choices leave a battleship caught between British capital ships while light cruisers face the wrong opponent.

    Notable Point
  10. 1:17:19
    Recognising a German pre-dreadnought by its gun layout

    An unidentified campaign ship's battery arrangement is used to recognise the design language of a German pre-dreadnought.

    Notable Point
  11. 1:19:19
    Range and secondary batteries shape the terms of an action

    A running engagement illustrates how gun range and smaller batteries can decide who is forced into the other's effective zone.

    Notable Point
  12. 1:23:39
    A King George V name reveals a 1909 campaign anachronism

    A campaign-generated ship name is flagged as chronologically premature for the stated year of 1909.

    Notable Point
  13. 1:31:15
    Destroyers must close before their torpedoes matter

    The battle commentary argues that destroyers waste their chief weapon if they stay beyond torpedo range.

    Notable Point
  14. 1:51:00
    Armoured cruisers designed for distant-station danger

    An armoured-cruiser action explains why ships on distant stations may need enough gun power to face a minor power's battleship.

    Notable Point
  15. 2:04:56
    Imperator Aleksandr II and the limits of a coastal-defence battleship

    The Imperator Aleksandr II class is used to show how prolonged construction could leave a battleship obsolete at completion.

    Notable Point
  16. 2:16:44
    Why war with a minor power may look easier to propose

    The campaign prompts a contrast between military latitude against minor powers and tighter government control over major-power war.

    Notable Point
  17. 2:18:32
    Concentrating forces after a crisis

    A short campaign note explains the appeal of moving a single concentrated fleet from crisis to crisis rather than redistributing every unit separately.

    Chapter
  18. 2:28:24
    Massing available tonnage for a priority invasion

    A high-priority invasion prompts the concentration of every available regional ship rather than the use of a balanced peacetime distribution.

    Chapter
  19. 2:31:09
    A combined landing and mine-clearance concept

    The video sketches an alternative assault sequence that combines troop landings with specially prepared pre-dreadnoughts clearing a mined approach.

    Notable Point
  20. 2:33:37
    Ballast versus armour as a ship-stability tool

    A design complaint separates weight added for stability from armour added for protection.

    Notable Point
  21. 2:40:20
    Reading a Russian dreadnought in its Black Sea setting

    A brief comparison notes that Russian dreadnought designs could be more heavily armoured while still reflecting their Black Sea role.

    Notable Point
  22. 2:44:58
    Coastal submarines as an invasion-risk calculation

    The campaign closes by weighing an invasion chance against a defence featuring many coastal submarines.

    Chapter