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

Study Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign, a Dr. Alex Clarke video from 13 Nov 2023, with 16 time notes. Topics include Fleet Basing, Naval Logistics, Naval…

Date
Runtime1:47:27
Guide points16 time notes

Time notes

  1. 0:49
    Using a British campaign to test the revised ship designer

    A fresh British campaign isolates changes in Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts before the Austro-Hungarian campaign resumes.

    Chapter
  2. 5:16
    An early battleship exposes stability and armament tradeoffs

    A pre-dreadnought-style design balances 12-inch guns, a six-inch secondary battery, torpedo defense, armor, speed, and the revised stability calculation.

    Chapter
  3. 11:27
    Distributing a fleet for global presence

    New battleships are divided among Scapa Flow, Gibraltar, Singapore, and Bombay to turn imperial bases into a worldwide presence network.

    Notable Point
  4. 16:52
    QuestionWas Tirpitz a better battleship than HMS Vanguard?Answer

    No. Vanguard was the more efficient and technically advanced design, while Germany's post-First World War maritime constraints limited what its industry could produce.

    Q&A
  5. 18:23
    Balancing transport capacity, research, training, and fleet readiness

    The campaign budget prioritizes transport capacity, technology, and crew training while rushing light cruisers to create presence before a war begins.

    Notable Point
  6. 20:19
    Port capacity limits where capital ships can be based

    A pair of battleships has to be moved when local tonnage limits cannot support them, showing that possession of a port is not the same as useful basing capacity.

    Notable Point
  7. 32:31
    Why aircraft carriers would greatly complicate the game

    Adding carriers would require modeling aircraft design and development as well as ships, creating a much larger technical problem than submarines.

    Notable Point
  8. 36:53
    QuestionWhy start with no ships instead of accepting an initial fleet and expanding it?Answer

    The harder start allows more historically plausible player designs and avoids keeping strange AI-generated ships.

    Q&A
  9. 37:34
    A Spanish Queen Elizabeth-based battleship proposal dies unbuilt

    A brief aside recalls a Spanish battleship design based on the Queen Elizabeth class that was intended for British construction but was blocked before the Spanish Civil War ended the project.

    Notable Point
  10. 39:21
    Procurement delay leaves navies fighting with yesterday's force

    Lengthy debate over the perfect design can outlast the crisis that justified it or leave equipment unavailable when crisis becomes war.

    Notable Point
  11. 42:18
    QuestionIs it better to have many adequate platforms than only a few very good ones?Answer

    Often, yes. A larger adequate force can absorb losses far better than a small elite force and is more likely to be available in useful numbers.

    Q&A
  12. 48:24
    Tiger's paper strengths were undermined by logistics

    The Tiger tank becomes a case study in bespoke parts, inconsistent batches, weak design control, and the operational cost of unnecessary complexity.

    Notable Point
  13. 1:04:36
    Cruiser trials expose a research-gated stability problem

    Refitting Brisbane and trying several new cruiser hulls produces extreme roll, pitch, weight, and gun-placement penalties that only later research seems able to solve.

    Chapter
  14. 1:14:30
    The automatic torpedo-boat design confirms the stability problem

    Even the game's own automatic torpedo-boat design has severe pitch and roll, showing that the problem is not merely an eccentric player layout.

    Notable Point
  15. 1:29:18
    QuestionAre you worried about China seizing Singapore?Answer

    Not particularly: Singapore has three battleships and three light cruisers, while allied Indonesia is being heavily reinforced to add regional depth.

    Q&A
  16. 1:32:23
    Triple-expansion engines narrow, but do not solve, the stability problem

    A battleship refit becomes workable with triple-expansion machinery, but a later cruiser remains badly unbalanced, leaving the basic-engine calculation as a plausible rather than complete explanation.

    Notable Point