7.12: both the Poltavas are probably scrap iron now.
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7.15: in the last three minutes, two more torp hits.

I think that's enough for now. Time to retire.
7.43: Heading home. At least three Bs sinking, two more damaged. We're off to a great start
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Scoreboard: 3 Bs sunk, two ...

And another torp hit. Probably done for.
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Interesting. These enemy ships all seem to be quite old designs. What have they been doing for the last 12 years?

7.09: CL charge is having the desired effect of breaking up their battle line. And...getting another torp hit.
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7.10 ...

Mar 1904
Battleship action. Right on dawn: man the guns! 6.55: Opening moves. One detached B--marked for destruction.
Six more to the NE: let every man do his utmost... 7.03: First torp hit. (cont)

Jun 1896.

Still nothing much happening, but yard size is now 14000 so I can build a useful B finally.
She has 4x 11", 8x 5", 18 kts, 11" belt.
Undergunned and under-armoured but should still have a useful working life.

Sep 1896
Commenced two Fusos as above.

Dec 1897.
Finally, a war. USA our ally ...

Mar 1893.
Commenced building two new CAs. This puts the budget very slightly in the red, until the earlier starts complete.1

Feb 1894.
Commissioned the first new CA, and developed Destroyers. Unfortunately with our current tech we can't build anything useful on 300t.

Mar 1894.
Designed a new CL ...

I let them speed away after 2 hours. No point smashing my engines for this small-fry.

And they have given up anyway. So, a short, victorious war. For the loss of one CL, we sank 8 Bs, 3 CAs, and 3 CL, and picked up 11P in two years.
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Let's not get too cocky.
The naval budget is reduced ...

Dec 1892.
Banzai! We have taken Sakhalin.
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Also the Diet has increased funding, so time for a slightly better CA at 9500 tons. This is the same basic template as the Itsukushima class, but with speed 21 kts, slightly heavier belt and deck, and two more 5" secondaries.
I'm going to build ...

Sept 1892.
The Russians are still feeding reinforcements into the area piecemeal. A B and some cruisers on the way--and very little left in Europe. It will take them a long time to recover. However, I won't have any new build for more than a year.
Apart from some commerce raiding by the Russians ...

23.28: and have another The remaining CA is manoeuvring frantically to escape the trap. Without success. 23.41: CA struck by torpedo again.
23.42: and again

Retiring, that'll do nicely.
Tonight's bag: 2 CAs, CL.

August 1892. Cruiser action, night.

Could get interesting! Is interesting, We're right on top of each other. Lucky break! CL blows up. And a torp into one of the CAs. (cont)

Three times.

Heading for home and letting the timer run down.
A decisive victory.

20.04: Night action, and here are the enemy once again doing mad stuff against the coastline.

It would be really great if the devs could cure the AI of this behaviour.
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I would say they're retiring. Once it's definite, so will I.
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We seem to have stumbled across a damaged ...

16.12: CA Asama torpedoes one of the Bs. It's out of the battle for sure, maybe sunk if we can hit it again.
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And a torp into the other B, courtesy of CL Naniwa.
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Moving back to screen the convoy and keep the Russian cruisers away. Also to provide fire support if needed.
We ...

June 1892.

Accepted a cruiser action to try and thin out the Russians some more. Their reinforcements are starting to arrive--one or two CAs, battleships on the way. However, my forces don't have a high enough turn of speed to catch them, so broke off the action after an hour's stern chase.

July ...

13.00: torpedo hit on one of the CLs. Bonus!
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Objective already attained, sank 2 ships plus a few.
13.08: another torp hits home.
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Retiring now, nothing more worth doing. The Russian is not pursuing--very wise.
Another +1 P
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However, the invasion of Sakhalin is ...

May 1892.

The Russians have one CL left in the area. Time to invade Sakhalin before they reinforce. Since their next detachment is currently off South Africa, this will take 3-4 months. This is 3/5 of their remaining battle fleet, so I'm not expecting any more. I've lost one (starting) CL, and been ...

7.08: another torpedo hit, followed a few seconds later by yet another.
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It would be really nice if there was some kind of visual indication of which ship was hit, as with gunfire.

However I think both of these Bs are going to the bottom.
7.17: Yaeyama puts a torp into the other B.
4 ...

7:02 localtime: CAs fire torps with little chance of a hit, but it might constrain the movement of the Bs. Collision! CM rams B. I'll take that trade if it comes to that. Takachiho takes the opportunity to put a fish into the B while struggling free of it. (cont)

April 1892.

The Russians have 3 more Bs in transit from Europe, currently off West Africa. If I can hit them hard a couple more times, this won't help them much.

Still training for gunnery and night fighting, working well so far. Next time, switching doctrine to torpedo warfare.

Two CAs building ...

And just like that it's over. Another torp finished off the other B, and the IJN is batting 1000.
Turns out the CA was a B after all so that's 3 out of 6 down in exchange for some scratches on the paint.

I don't know if these tactics are terribly realistic, and I have no idea why torpedo-equipped ...