Good morning Matrix users. As might be gauged by the two-week delay I will be needing to put this AAR on pause now due to some RL stressors I need to manage. I will finish it eventually, I have two other complete AARs on the NWS forums which are completed (or nearly completed), the second of which d...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/(edited)_sunrisesunsettime.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Following this victory it was decided to not trust to a favorable settlement what with the Western powers so invested in securing their oriental trade. The Special N...

Equal fleet Equal ships Equal guns ... Unequal crew P.S. I assume the 13kn on those BBs is just fog of war. They didn't order floating coastal batteries. I would agree on both counts. However I see my initial glance was wrong and one of these ships has already been delivered, so I will essentially ...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/(edited)_sunrisesunsettime.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/Screenshot_(1269).png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds At the renewal of hostilities a cruiser ...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/Screenshot_(1290).png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Apologies this has taken so long, I have a lot of plates spinning at the moment. However, here is what we know about the Chinese 10" armed 'corvettes', though we should ...

We of course acknowledge that the American battleships don't hold a candle to the British, but I am painting a picture where the Japanese see everything that goes against them to be orchestrated by America. Would America really have been the loudest voice in such a coalition? Probably not in this er...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/(edited)_sunrisesunsettime.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Akimo returned to Japan and with indignant fervor set about trying to orchestrate sticking a finger in the eye of every regional power he could, starting with the Ja...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/(edited)_sunrisesunsettime.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds The Bitter Fumes https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/Hotel-de-Oriente-1899-m.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds As the designated...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/(edited)_sunrisesunsettime.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Baptism of Blood In July port agents sent word that a convoy featuring amongst others shipments from Germany to support the Chinese battleships with ammunition and s...

An option to get those cruisers on TP back to front line duties, could be to order a couple of the cheapest possible AMCs: they would take only 4 months to "convert" and could be assigned to TP duties freeing the more valuable ships. I don't think I would bother with the small ironclad on...

In this case the two gun-boats (can't bring myself to truly call them corvettes at under 20knots), 2 of the least useful cruisers and the "battleship". https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/Screenshot_(1199).png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds Yashima is go...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/(edited)_sunrisesunsettime.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds In February of 1890 the first two Hashidates were laid down in the United Kingdom, as despite the bitterness of such a choice it made the most sense to take advantag...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/(edited)_sunrisesunsettime.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds The Imperial Japanese Navy in 1890 looked very much as if 20 men had stood up and answered “I can build a ship!”, and then done so, with no further consultation or s...

https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/k118/garrisonChisholm/(edited)_sunrisesunsettime.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds 1890 eight thousand sons born will not forget the Black Ships' humiliation This will be my protagonist-driven RTW3 AAR, chronicling the rise of Imperial Japan starti...