Fraasbioroid

Thanks again everyone. Following this advice I was able to win the 1890 campaign. Playing 1900 now and I was very excited about my light cruiser design only to discover they keep missing. I notice I am getting a large penalty to hit from “stability”. Is there anything I can do to improve this. Lastly am finding enemy destroyers hard to deal with. What’s the best approach here? Light cruisers with lots of small guns? I tried using destroyers of my own to “bait” their torpedos which seemed to work ok but a few times the enemy torpedoes which missed ended up hitting a battleship miles away after I lost track of them. I took your advice and had very little deck armour. What year do I start having to worry about that.

Thanks so much for the detailed replies. After reading these I checked and I had my entire fleet as fleet in being which probably explains my issues with transports. I switched most of them to sea control and had noticeably fewer transports being sunk. I also realised I had missed that light cruisers can fit secondary guns on their hulls near the middle of the ship - this upped their firepower especially at short ranges. After observing enemy ships I realised they had far lighter armour than mine which must explain how they managed to field so many. In several battles I was able to “one shot” a ship due to a secondary explosion. They never did this to me so I am assuming their lack of armour was to blame. I’m doing much better in the campaign now thanks but do have a few follow up questions: I can see the enemy ships top speed. Is there a way to see how fast they are going? A few times I am chasing fleeing ships which I have damaged in some way and was not sure how to tell if they were slow enough to be worth chasing. Is there a way to see enemy ship max range? It might be useful to compare my range to theirs as a benchmark Thanks again.

I've recently picked up this game and am enjoying it, but am struggling with the campaign. I'm playing as the British as I assumed that would be easier (given British Naval power at the time) However in the Campaign I keep facing the following issues: 1. The Germans always start out with a much larger navy than me. I'm not sure why. It's not like I am only building Battleships, they have more ships that me in every class 2. I always seem outgunned - I know number of guns isn't the be all and end all - and I always make sure my weight distribution is even etc. However I struggle to have enough firepower, both to win firefights and to hold off torpedo boats or quickly damage merchants. The battleship in particular seems to have way fewer guns that the Germans manage, even with a bigger displacement. Am I doing something wrong? I have been putting a large double turret and front and back but after that only have room for casemate guns. 3. I keep losing huge amounts of transports is "random events" (ie not ones where I get to defend them in a battle). I assume this is because I don't have enough ships to patrol. I am able to hold my own in the actual battles, mainly by relying on light cruisers with torpedos (also managed to sink a BB in the 4 TP vs 1 BB fight) but am getting ground down in the overall economy. Any advise would be appreciated! Thanks Fraser