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Title: Parthia HY2, 1934
Post by: Kaiser Kirk on October 07, 2024, 09:49:16 PM
It looks like I had this fairly well completed.

I am churning through a ton of BP on heavy ships.
I have not planned out my future builds, as every time I do I have to revise the plan.
But with the Tiamat class finishing reconstruction, and my run of
Hamberkastig and Royn aux classes starting to taper off,
I should have the spare BP to afford the future.

I kinda expected building the fleet to be easier by now, but - as I think everyone has noticed- costs keep rising. Moving from 6000 ton to 8000ton and now 10,000 ton cruisers is an increase of 175%
Destroyers are twice the size, as are battleships.

Overall, adding carriers to the Fleet needs has drastically complicated
my building demands. In the past 10 game years I've laid down 13 vessels with flight decks,
in addition to the ships converted as trial ships and now scrapped.

I have also indulged in building a substantial auxiliary fleet, soaking up ~125BP.
That could have been quite a large number of warships.

IF my only goal was a showdown with the Byzantines in the Red Sea, and I did not worry about 'storyline' matters like coastal forces.. I would not need them.
IF I want my fleet to have power projection I do. So I have the ability to support the fleet in distant theater even if I loose my forward bases.

My hopes of laying down 4 new Armored Cruisers in 1935 looks ...optimistic...though.
And developing a light carrier design or another flight deck cruiser design seems also optimistic,
as does increasing my DD production, adding 1500 ton subs, and many other things.


Parthia  HY21934 Synopsis

Economy
Complete 1 Home IC
Complete 1 Home BP
Complete 3 Territorial IC
Complete 1 Enclave BP

Research
continue - 1933 Signals Int
Start – 1935 Torpedoes
continue - 1935 Submarines
continue - 1935:  Land Units
continue - 1935: Mechanization
continue - 1938 Aircraft

Continue - 190L47 115kt @ 821mps
Continue – variety of mountings

Naval Construction

Complete –
C38 Pouseki class cruiser
3 x Sher class corvettes
3 x Robah class fleet destroyers
1 x Hukar class Gunboat
1 x Xwarg class fast minelayer
2 x 500t SS30
2 x 460t Sturgeon class gunboats
3 x MGB
24 x MTB-J
2 x Barge tender
1 x Deniz Ghoorbagheh 13 class Fleet Light Tender
1 x Hamberkastig 5 Fleet Supply Vessel
1 x Royn 4 Fleet Oiler

Building
2 x Arwand Class Battleship
2 x Xiyon Class Light Armored Cruiser
2 x Basuc Armored Strike Carrier
1 x Wasendag Kamen Strike Carrier
1 x Bakhiarti Cruiser
1 x Manzikert Cruiser
2 x Hamberkastig  Fleet Supply Vessel
2 x Royn  Fleet Oiler

Laid Down
2 x Arwand Class Battleship
1 x Bakhiarti Cruiser
1 x Manzikert Cruiser
1 x Deniz Ghoorbagheh 14 class Fleet Light Tender
1 x Hamberkastig 8 Fleet Supply Vessel
1 x Royn 7 Fleet Oiler

Refitting
2x Tiamat refurbishment completes

Scrapping
BB1 & BB2 "Tortoise" Class – replaced in training fleet by new 'Frawar' BB.
24 x MTB-A of TB9

Infrastructure
None

Non-Naval
2 x Air Points
1 x Deployment
1 x Fortification

Main Battle Fleets, Total Warship & Aux Tonnage
Atlantic : 252,562
Expeditionary : 382,780
Main (Home) : 808,978
Pacific : 377,128