The various shipyards across the planet Nauticar Prime are ramping up ship building, though in a rather random unplanned way. Its as if it is the whim of some unseen hand that is guiding the construction of various vessels with no strategic plan.
The old central battery ironclad Turkanesque and her sister-ship Djinn get upgrades. Sadly obsolete compared to other nations' warships, it is a stopgap until the Sultanate of Metamora can receive the battleships it purchased from Krackovia to defend itself from the Zordanian Empire.
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| The Turkanesque getting rebuilt in the chaotic shipyards of Krackovia |
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| The Djinn on patrol at sea |
Flush with patriotic fervor from its surprising victory over the Commonwealth of Avalonia, Krackovia begins a major expansion of its navy, starting with several battleships.
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| An unnamed Krackovian coastal battleship in the lead of two other unnamed Krackovian battleships. |
Meanwhile, fiery debates rage on in the Avalonian parliament over the loss of two battleships and several freighters to the Krackovians in what is now known as the Hob-Slobia Incident. Some MPs refuse to fund any new naval projects until there is complete accountability for the incident. Others counter that this is an example to expand the fleet and build more modern battleships to counter both Krackovia and Laramidia.
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| The Cantankerous along with her sister ship the Curmudgeon represent the aging and increasingly obsolescent warships of the once mighty Avalonian navy |
Secret interference by Avalonia convinced enough members of the small, but scrappy Republic of Cerviche's government to nix any leasing deal with Laramidia for guano mines. So, Cerviche was not able to procure the armored cruiser Arkandelphia. Cerviche settled for several, overpriced seagoing monitors, one of which is shown below.
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| The monitor Cebolla steaming behind the light cruiser Chupacabra. Both built in Laramidia |
Avalonian diplomatic corps scored another diplomatic victory by transfering several obsolete warship to Cerviche's rival, Escalona. In return they get rights to build a naval refueling base on Escalona's southwest coast obstensively for Escalonia's navy.
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| Ex-Avalonian monitor Hobnob now Escalonian Areias de Cascais |
I do so like your navies! I'm looking forward to seeing them in action.
ReplyDeleteIn my own, I haven't gone much in for 'classes', pretty much using them for replacement names against losses. My first two navies, the Hellenic (Greek) and Turcowaz (Turkish) were small anyway, and so got pairs (Hydra class ironclads and Weisenfels class predreadnoughts). Otherwise ALL my ships are singles until you get down to destroyers and torpedo boats.
Having pretty much built all the ships I'm going to build (Izumrud-Zeleniya has now an armoured cruiser and a 5-vessel torpedo-boat flotilla to go with its two battleships), I imagine you own fleets will very soon outstrip mine for size!
I do like your eye-catching vessels. Fantastique!
Cheers,
Ion
As I get into the research of the warships of this time period, I am struck by how there are so many one-off warships there were. I like classes of ships so that I can keep reusing the ones I made.
DeleteThe number of ships I make of a particular class reflects how commonly they will show up for a battle.
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteThey are lovely looking! Impressed with the whole imagi-nations vibe as well - always a plus point for me!
All the best,
DC
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteImagiNations allows me to have more flexibility with campaigns than with strict historical games.