Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)

The possibility was examined, but no navy actually adopted the mission.

A Royal Navy force-design point explains why a fleet built to concentrate several ships matters more than a single-ship comparison.

A useful design sits between protection, firepower, and speed; piling on armour consumes weight that could support speed or other capabilities.

A game-design aside explains why ever-larger battleship guns may be less useful than a heavy battery that still reloads quickly and puts many barrels on target.

A fleet-building discussion connects common gun calibres, repeat cruiser designs, and numerical concentration to logistical simplicity and combat power.

A battle deployment uses commanding ground and dead ground to show how terrain determines what artillery can see, protect, and suppress.

A brief aside notes that destroyers sometimes closed with much heavier ships closely enough to make boarding imaginable, even though such opportunities did not become actual actions.

A short tactical warning explains why defenders should abandon a position once an enemy moves around it and beyond the guns' field of fire.

A recollection that Rodney's chief engineer was Welsh is left unconfirmed because the claim cannot be tied to a source during the stream.

An alternate-history discussion traces how completed G3 battlecruisers and N3 battleships could alter treaty limits, rival building programmes, and later fleets.

A reassessment of the Tillman battleships separates Senator Tillman's policy question from the maximum battleship studies drawn by naval engineers and asks pro-navy viewers to recognise their own bias.

He considers the conversion plausible and suggests the Admiral-class hulls could have replaced the smaller interwar conversion carriers.

A political aside distinguishes simple conformity from the career incentives that discourage officeholders from becoming conspicuous targets.

Conversions are less efficient, but he argues that the much larger Admiral hulls would still provide substantial aircraft capacity and replace smaller converted carriers.

The desire to mobilise would remain, but moving East Coast industry to the West Coast by sea would be slower and easier to obstruct without secure canal access.

A game battle demonstrates how gun positions, a core force, held-back infantry, and a disposable forward line can absorb a counterattack before the defender takes the fort.

Faster Nelson-class ships could have altered the British hunting force, but readiness and refit state would still decide which ships sailed.

He sees it as a poor fit: protecting a reactor inside a combat battleship would impose a major weight and layout penalty.

A defensive setup covers likely approaches with several lines, keeps artillery on high ground, and treats the game's reinforcement limit as a reserve system.

Conceptually it could, but the combined vessel would be extraordinarily expensive rather than a practical historical design.

A battle uses US Marines and cavalry to show that troop quality and courage cannot compensate for attacking uphill into prepared fire.

A discussion of elevated forts explains how wells, pipes, trenches, cisterns, and large storage rooms made defensible but water-poor positions viable.

Yes. He argues that Japan benefited from striking before the relevant Russian forts were available for effective use.

Only in a strategic sense: stronger preparations or a longer defence might have held Santa Anna's army until a relieving field force arrived.

A consumer-history aside interprets Yorkie's exclusionary slogan as a provocation that encouraged oppositional buying and generated attention beyond paid advertising.

A discussion of schools, family connections, and military careers argues that patronage opened doors in Britain but could not indefinitely protect an officer who visibly failed.

The lieutenant's examination could expose failure publicly, so patronage did not remove every professional requirement.

Arthur Wellesley's purchased commission is presented as both family advancement and a way for his brother, the governor in India, to secure regiments he could trust.

A comparison of command and politics explains why habits that serve a field general can conflict with negotiation, constitutional restraint, and democratic compromise.

A comparison of military and political leadership explains how captains continually balance fighting power, mobility, personnel, and the limits of what is already aboard ship.

A political-economy aside contrasts a firm's profit test with a government's obligation to balance health, education, security, and other collective needs.

Wellington did maintain a staff, but it was smaller and more specialised than later general-staff systems, with engineers and artillery officers prominent.

A film-history aside argues that Omar Bradley's role advising Patton helped recast his own dispute with Montgomery as a broader American conflict with the British commander.

A wartime command aside portrays Cunningham as an effective advocate for naval policy when Alan Brooke tried to shape it from the Army side.

A political-theory aside presents government as a collective check on personal weaknesses and distinguishes older conservatism from modern ideological programmes.

Possibly, but the surviving skeletons may overrepresent people in unusually good condition and therefore require caution.

A brief staff-history aside groups intelligence, engineering, and logistics among the functions Wellesley pushed forward.

No. Earlier welfare reform, civil-defence needs, and existing local medical systems had already placed universal provision on a longer path.

A public-finance aside explains why a government issuing sustainable long-term debt may see moderate inflation reduce the real burden of repayment.

A historiographical correction presents the NHS as a major reform assembled from existing medical networks, local organisations, and earlier policy reports rather than an institution invented in one step.

A medical-history point links service in First World War trenches and field hospitals to doctors becoming more comfortable with collective rather than exclusively private provision.

An alternate-history discussion links continued capital-ship construction to shipyard employment, coal mining, trade-union alliances, and the politics surrounding interwar welfare reform.

Early adoption is tentatively placed around the Boer War era, especially on lighter guns, with shields becoming more common afterward.

A tactical aside weighs the enormous reward of killing Napoleon against the much likelier morale cost of missing him with period artillery.

A source-criticism aside compares Wellington's polished recorded speeches with the rougher voice in private letters and asks how much editors adapted for newspapers and public memory.