BramtheDutch Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 (edited) W.I.P. history on Naval Action will be coming when EA hits.Preparing at the moment, maybe ill get some pre-EA pilot posts but nothing worth looking at.Read this topic for additional info http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/7975-is-there-a-way-to-curb-these-english-devils/ . Edited December 31, 2015 by bramluijken 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 (edited) Archives of War pilot post: Battle of Castries. The battle of Castries happend on 30-12-2015 and was one of the last great battles of this year. Pre-Battle French players chose the right time to start the battle because the dutch players had to sail against the wind to get to Castries, The Dutch planned on teamspeak to not enter until the Polish (PFK) players arrived so they could enter in force. When the dutch were waiting infront of the port a French player attacked them and by this tactical move the french gained more time untill the Dutch forces could enter the battle. Battle setup: sorry for the mid game image. Battle Start At the start of the battle of Castries both parties got in line position, the diffrence between the Dutch and the French lines were that the Dutch frigates were gaurding the flanks and rear, while the french frigates joined the line like displayed in this image below. You can see that one frigate is gaurding the rear and the others frigates are guarding the flanks. Note: Dutch ships are white French are red in the Images Mid Battle In the mid battle stages the French formed a group to try and breach the Dutch line like displayed in this picture. This was a good move by the French forces. After succesfully breaching the line and isolating 2 Dutch frigates and a constitution, the French got disorganised and fell out of formation. Late Battle In the late battle the Dutch isolated the last French 1st rate from their remaining frigates and the outcome was becoming clear due to the Dutch having more firepower. Here you see the isolated 1st rate and the remaining frigates. Battle results The result was a victory by the Dutch for defending Castries and only losing 3 frigates while the French lost a few 1st rates, ship of the lines and frigates. The French put up a hard fight but the Dutch had the number advantage and thats what gave them this victory. Note: can't recal the presize number of French ships lost will change it when I have battle logs. The Clans that were participating in this battle were: On the French side: EDR MRF On the Dutch side PFK DAS The Frecnh put up a good fight and everyone enjoyed this PVP match of two navies clashing at Castries. Note: This is a pilot post, please give feedback by replying to this post their is always room for improvement. This format is not the final versions and I still have a lot of work to do, this was a pilot for a battle to go in the Important Battles section of the AoW. I hope this post does not have a orange hue, I am an independent historian and this is a project that is totally seperated from my career in the Dutch navy, If you have any feedback on this please reply to this post. Edited December 31, 2015 by bramluijken 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Jack Walker Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 bramluijken, you had a great idea and this post it's a good first implementation of it. Keep up the good work ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 (edited) Moved to this post: http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/8715-political-situation/ Edited January 23, 2016 by bramluijken 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Smith Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Great battle report captain! Well done 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Sharpe Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Keep up the good work. The game/community badly needs something like this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJWolf Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) An excellent post Bram, I really like how you broke down some of the more decisive pieces of action such as the isolation of ships that affected the balance of power. Might I suggest two things: Small legend on the graphics to indicate colours to nation Possibility of broadly sweeping arrows on the graphics to indicate general movement of ships or battle Also, how was the victory achieved? Submission, routed/retreated, total destruction, etc. Edited January 2, 2016 by JJWolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) I am installing photoshop today to cover the graphics part, yes I will cover that next time in the battle results section of a post Edited January 2, 2016 by bramluijken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) Update on the project: Politics: Planning on getting them up before EA hits and otherwise in the same week. Please contact me if you are a clan leader or important person within a nation and want to provide me with this info Important Battles: Beside the pilot one (thanks for the feedback) im not planning on doing more until I got the battle logs (If I get them). Important events: Lowest priority at the moment. Also, sorry for the lack of content, life got busy. Edited January 11, 2016 by bramluijken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodoreWesley Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 While I find this project interesting, the sheer number of these battles may slow things down for you... One thing that might make it easier is to try and divide battles into wars, for example the current active conflicts are Danish Conquest of Puerto Rico (longest running war currently), Second Franco-Dutch War, and the Second Anglo-American War. Of course, this may be a bit confusing as one could consider all of these conflicts to be part of the same war as Great Britian (SLRN) is theoretically involved in all of the wars. I could write a brief history of the DAS if people are interested, however I would prefer the diplomacy overview to be made in a separate thread rather than in the history section, and only fleet/guild/clan leaders and diplomats should be able to post there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 (edited) Important change of plans Since I am finding out how much time on single reports costs, I have made a change of plans. Instead of doing every major battle and event on its own I am planning to divide it into two sections: The weekly update: the important battles and events over the last week, this is in newspaper style. Politics: like it is now. I hope this will still please the NA community. Cheers, Bram Luijken Edited January 13, 2016 by bramluijken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tatannn Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 I'm doing a daily report of what happend every day in PVP / PB, i quote most of PVP action from gustativa to Las Aves ( dutch side) I will doing a sump up thread and will be soon available, in french of course on http://navalaction-france.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 (edited) Okay nice to hear the French got their own chronicler, maybe we can work together in the future Edited January 14, 2016 by bramluijken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tatannn Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Topic avaivable, more than a Week of PvP, if you have some french speaking guys in your team you may have a translation =) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdrbobcito Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Bram, as you noted with Tatannn's post, this would be a very important "extra duty" for all clans to consider. That way, not only the victor writes the History. There could also be a weekly/monthly clan report on non security sensitive achievements in other areas besides just battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepepotamo Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Hi, you are wrong in some things about our faction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Smith Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Hi, you are wrong in some things about our faction. Could be nice Bram get some official statement from spanish nation leaders so he can update his work. Please. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 I spoke to the Spanish and French yesteday, the post will be updated this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BramtheDutch Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 (edited) Diplomacy is now finished, I will keep it up to date. If anything is wrong or if you have suggestions PM me! I am making a seperate post for the politics to make the information more easy to find. Cheers, Bram Luijken Edited January 23, 2016 by bramluijken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 This is a good example of cool content Would be nice to have more fellows doing this kind of articles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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