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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…
Time notes
- 4:03Reading a 1908 naval balance before committing forcesChapter
The campaign opens with a comparison of British, German, and French ship totals before the next operation is chosen.
- 19:00Mines make a port attack costly rather than impossibleNotable Point
A coastal-submarine build plan is used to explain how minefields can raise the cost of attacking a port.
- 25:15QuestionWould developing the 4.7-inch gun have been better than pursuing the 5.25-inch weapon?AnswerQ&A
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.
- 42:32Balancing speed, protection, range, and secondary fire in a campaign battleshipChapter
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.
- 47:42QuestionWhat were Scharnhorst and Dunkerque built for, and should they be classified as battleships or battlecruisers?AnswerQ&A
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.
- 48:58QuestionWhy keep accepting Allied warship orders after exceeding shipbuilding capacity?AnswerQ&A
Because refusing Allied orders can damage alliances, while the game offers no way to delay exports and prioritise domestic construction.
- 55:39QuestionDoes keeping shipyard capacity full create too great a penalty for new construction?AnswerQ&A
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.
- 56:24Designing a capital ship around the opponents it expectsChapter
The campaign's capital-ship layout is explained as a response to pre-dreadnought opponents and proliferating torpedo boats.
- 58:02Crossfire punishes an isolated battleship and its unsupported cruisersNotable Point
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.
- 1:17:19Recognising a German pre-dreadnought by its gun layoutNotable Point
An unidentified campaign ship's battery arrangement is used to recognise the design language of a German pre-dreadnought.
- 1:19:19Range and secondary batteries shape the terms of an actionNotable Point
A running engagement illustrates how gun range and smaller batteries can decide who is forced into the other's effective zone.
- 1:23:39A King George V name reveals a 1909 campaign anachronismNotable Point
A campaign-generated ship name is flagged as chronologically premature for the stated year of 1909.
- 1:31:15Destroyers must close before their torpedoes matterNotable Point
The battle commentary argues that destroyers waste their chief weapon if they stay beyond torpedo range.
- 1:51:00Armoured cruisers designed for distant-station dangerNotable Point
An armoured-cruiser action explains why ships on distant stations may need enough gun power to face a minor power's battleship.
- 2:04:56Imperator Aleksandr II and the limits of a coastal-defence battleshipNotable Point
The Imperator Aleksandr II class is used to show how prolonged construction could leave a battleship obsolete at completion.
- 2:16:44Why war with a minor power may look easier to proposeNotable Point
The campaign prompts a contrast between military latitude against minor powers and tighter government control over major-power war.
- 2:18:32Concentrating forces after a crisisChapter
A short campaign note explains the appeal of moving a single concentrated fleet from crisis to crisis rather than redistributing every unit separately.
- 2:28:24Massing available tonnage for a priority invasionChapter
A high-priority invasion prompts the concentration of every available regional ship rather than the use of a balanced peacetime distribution.
- 2:31:09A combined landing and mine-clearance conceptNotable Point
The video sketches an alternative assault sequence that combines troop landings with specially prepared pre-dreadnoughts clearing a mined approach.
- 2:33:37Ballast versus armour as a ship-stability toolNotable Point
A design complaint separates weight added for stability from armour added for protection.
- 2:40:20Reading a Russian dreadnought in its Black Sea settingNotable Point
A brief comparison notes that Russian dreadnought designs could be more heavily armoured while still reflecting their Black Sea role.
- 2:44:58Coastal submarines as an invasion-risk calculationChapter
The campaign closes by weighing an invasion chance against a defence featuring many coastal submarines.