Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 3

The campaign opens with a blunt force-planning rule: trade protection must stay funded because commerce pays for the battle fleet.

A tactical setup assigns ships to hunt, screen, scout, and evade torpedoes before the heavier units meet.

A damaged fleet overwhelms local repair capacity, forcing ships to disperse among Yarmouth, Cádiz, Charleston, and other available bases.

The target offers an intermediate Atlantic base and a shorter resupply route to American holdings in the Mediterranean.

Redesigning an underperforming torpedo boat exposes the tension between firepower, armor, fittings, and displacement.

The campaign goal of American battlecruisers depends on funding boilers, turbines, and the associated design path before ships can be laid down.

Germany's capture of South Africa prompts a critique of a campaign result that ignores the Royal Navy's control of the routes between Europe and the colony.

Aviation-accident questions prompt a source check: has the relevant report been read, and is there enough evidence to answer?

The government cancels funding as soon as war ends, leaving unfinished ships and research to create weaknesses in the next conflict.

Turning toward short salvos and away from long ones helps a damaged ship disrupt the enemy's range solution while exploiting longer-ranged six-inch secondaries.

Once turbines arrive, refitting every ship is tempting; the resulting yard and budget demand becomes a strategic decision of its own.

An imminent machinery advance makes waiting a few months more sensible than ordering cruisers with obsolete propulsion.

Reviewing an older destroyer design shows how its three-inch battery has pushed it toward a gun-fighting role rather than a torpedo-centered one.

An old coal-powered heavy cruiser cannot absorb worthwhile armour and equipment changes without exceeding its displacement, pointing toward replacement by a new design.

Modernizing the battleship Illinois with turbines means trading speed, belt protection, gun power, funnels, and trim against a fixed displacement budget.

Radar once promised to reduce high-mounted observation weight, but expanding arrays and enclosed mast structures can put substantial mass aloft again.

Possibly, but the structure still has to be strong and stable enough for its sensors; reducing topweight cannot compromise the ship's ability to support the equipment safely.

Cage masts sought a high, strong, comparatively light platform for long-range visual observation and targeting.

Pro-carrier officers in different countries discussed their ideas with one another instead of working within separate national circles.

Modernizing many ships at once consumes so much money that training and research must be reduced while the refit programme moves through the yards.

The campaign finally produces an American battlecruiser by balancing beam, armor, speed, a six-gun broadside, and turbine weight.

Yonai was not a League of Blood member, but his influence and connections reached people around Japan's violent interwar factions.

A chat discussion distinguishes alleged Western corruption from the wider suspicion of foreign influence in interwar Japanese politics.

The campaign closes with four battlecruisers on order, enough to form the first planned American fast-capital-ship squadron.