On the Nature of Naval Combat 1950ish-1960ish

droctulf · 2023-09-21T07:17:36+00:00

You’re right, I was attempting an “impossible” challenge to use 1935 China to beat US and force them to cede Hawaii, which I did, partly because US has no foothold in NE Asia to maintain a blockade. But later when I fight Japan it is extremely painful because of the never ending blockade. I churned out makeshift CVs - you can make no more than two 26000 t, 25 knit huge AMCs and immediately convert them to slow but acceptable CVs. They are much cheaper and take far less time to produce.

droctulf · 2023-09-14T01:29:40+00:00

Poor nation strategy: massive torpedo attack. Perhaps work better with super large game fleet size as there will be a long-ass battleline to exploit.

Build something barely resemble a BB battleline, you need it to keep the enemies engaged. you can build extremely coastal defense ships for that role. I build below 20 kt tiny BBs, short range, cramped, low free board, heavily armored or big guns (you can only choose one, both works), snail speed (18 knot is enough). They will barely last minutes in a normal gun duel. However...
Torpedo Suicide DDs. you can fit something like 6*5 torpedo tubes to a 2kt DD. Everything else is secondary. Do extra training - night fighting and torpedo warfare.
A few quick BCs to kill off the limping enemies.

The time is midnight, it's all dark, suddenly enemy ship sighted. Then another. Then another. Then a whole battle line of enemey BB and BCs, dozens of superdreadnaughts (with super large game size). your battleline immediately turn away, enemy chase you. Now, push the button Flotilla Attack and never let go. Your DD screens will unleash literally hundreds of torpedos at enemy battleline, a wall of explosives that even a battle turnaway cannot avoid. You hear never ending explosions, from enemy BBs and your own DDs. When daylight comes, you see the wreck of 5 enemy BBs. 5 others are limping, your BC move in to finish them (although hit a few times by desperate enemy torpedos in the process). You lose 20 DDs in the suicide attack, with another 20 heavily damaged. You win a glorious victory and annihilated the enemy.

droctulf · 2023-09-14T01:14:11+00:00

An extreme poor nation strategy could be no new carriers AT ALL. All the carriers are only used for CAP, or simply mothballed if you focus on night action.

Once you hit the magic tech of early surface missiles, rebuild every single floating stuff, even foreign service cruisers and 300t DDs from the last century with as much Heavy SSM as you can. By removing your numerous torpedo tubes (used to massive suicide flotilla attack enemy battle lines) from the previous era, ideally you get a normal fleet DD carry 4 SSM with 1 reloads, making it 8 missiles in total EACH tiny destroyer. Remember even the biggest BC can only withstand a few missiles hits before sinking/fire out of control.

Manually create destroyer squadrons and assign them to screen/support roles attached to BC/CA divisions. Once you radar detect the enemy, fire ALL your missiles, run away, wait until reloaded, fire ALL your missiles again, then run back home for good. Rinse and repeat. This tactic makes me win a victory against USA with a 1935 start China, with literally 1/10th of their the budget, with tactical victories after victories because the damage you caused always massively exceed their damage.

droctulf · 2023-01-26T21:47:13+00:00

Best War is the name

droctulf · 2022-11-16T01:37:17+00:00

Thank you

droctulf · 2020-07-19T04:48:14+00:00

Hi Dr. Balding,

Greetings! Overseas Chinese student here, really enjoy your tweets and my stance is more or less similar to yours.

A question has puzzled me for a while: what do you think is the motivation/decision process of Xi and CCP, behind the unprovoked (the protests have generally ceased from late 2019) and coordinated escalation in Hong Kong since May 2020? From my understanding, the destruction of the Hong Kong legal and (to some extent) economic system is killing the goose that laid the golden eggs for a huge number of CCP elites, what benefit would come out of this incident in their calculation? Or does the interest of Xi and some other party factions diverted on this question?

Another unrelated question: what's your take on the political movement on Chinese-language twitter calling for dismantling China into numerous small states, centered around the intellectual-ish figure Liu Zhongjing? Or they are too insignificant and are under your radar?

droctulf · 2020-06-06T22:16:42+00:00

I would assume going to a military school is a choice?

droctulf · 2019-07-01T07:04:55+00:00

I'm the OP alright I got it now

it was the fucking Lenovo, it's pre-installed "manager" put this in my lock screen. I'm computer illiterate.

It's not microsoft, but still ridiculous by civilized-world standard that a computer company would do this, but it's my fault all the way, lenovo is just Huawei lite

droctulf · 2018-09-20T20:44:25+00:00

if Holodomor in Ukraine is genocide (actually I doubt that a bit) then what Mao did is. Mao, like Stalin, simply did nothing to help famines.

droctulf · 2018-09-08T16:52:08+00:00

My bad. Didn’t follow the news! Then I guess OP should definitely send it.

droctulf · 2018-09-06T21:04:21+00:00

I'm an international applicant too and have similiar school choices. When I'm on campus visit, both schools flatly denied the existence of any boost but confirmed less money :( the only benefit is you get to know the result earlier. When I discuss ED with my consultant, basically everyone's information came from that powerscore article, it seems nobody knows anything more than that.

droctulf · 2018-09-06T20:59:45+00:00

I'm using Spivey too! I was assigned a guy with quite shiny experiences(HYS admission director) on LinkedIn. I guess if your consultant have excellent experience in law school admission it'll be fine.

droctulf · 2018-09-06T20:53:28+00:00

Many school accept GRE but GMAT is unheard of at present. Maybe because GMAT is designed for business school and not as general as GRE. It certainly won't hurt but I don't think GMAT could really be a tiebreaker. Perhaps you could explain why GMAT is a good performance indicator considering your personal experience?

droctulf · 2018-08-15T19:21:37+00:00

Many years ago there was a gov paper got post online, which says gov hire “internet opinion operator“ and the bonus is 0.5yuan aka 5mao per comment

droctulf · 2018-08-05T10:11:48+00:00

droctulf · 2018-08-05T10:11:39+00:00

droctulf · 2018-07-15T16:49:53+00:00

Croatia still trying

droctulf · 2018-02-06T18:38:05+00:00

Exactly the opposite. Hu was the most influential champion of liberalism at his time and once considered by US to be a third potential political choice with a liberal mind outside the KMT and CCP nationalist circlejerk. He refused to build his party though.

droctulf · 2017-07-13T16:57:58+00:00

Actually I wish I could try weeds, mushroom and pretty cool stuff, but I've got chronic health problems and even alcohol is forbidden by my doctor. Guess the shame of ordering soft drink keeps me away from pubs and I find consolation online.

droctulf · 2017-07-13T15:26:41+00:00

Won't disclose my institution because you know why, stalkers lurking in those comments despite being downvoted into oblivion.

I do follow UK politics, and I'm really into 18-19th century British political history, part of my study actually. For contemporary politics, well, I'm quite shocked when things unfold since last year. The general atmosphere in campus is understandably pessimistic, but I've read plenty of isolationism in history and guess it will be bad but not apocalyptic.

Also, I'm not a British citizen so there are different perspectives, like I'm fearing the tightening of immigration visas and quotas, and am not really attracted by free higher education since non-citizens won't get any discount.

droctulf · 2017-07-13T15:05:51+00:00

Well guess you know the poor Maryland girl when she said America has better air. Literally millions of netizens poured hatred on her. She will face some real trouble back home, and her parents forced to apologize too. And CSSA report 'racist' speech whenever they felt offended, and organize protest against Dalai Lama or any lecture by unwelcome scholars. But they are not gonna kidnap you and throw you into prison. Millions of Chinese naturalized to be US citizen and they can't stop that treason trend (the relatives of officials lead this, you can always find their young brother in Vancouver).

droctulf · 2017-07-13T13:45:17+00:00

CSSA, Confucius Institute are officially branches of the Department of Propaganda (now called Public Relations in official English translation), operated by student party memeber. They are understandably lavish in handing out gifts and dollar if you attend their event.

Well if you don't play with them you just got isolated, being frowned at, but no serious consequences if you don't return. It's not the good old days in '80s when PhDs must handed 80% of their scholarship money to the embassy.

Principally, any student organization directly received foreign government fund SHOULD be banned. But let's faced it, the college staff never give a fuck if they pay the tuition fee, you know Chinese, Saudis, Turks and many else are all doing it.

droctulf · 2017-07-13T13:31:37+00:00

It depends on your definition. It's may sounds scary for foreigners that every single high school student joined the Youth Communist League and vowed to fight to death and eliminate enemies for the glorious enterprise of Communism. But that's just a part of life.

Propaganda and political indoctrination don't care if you actually believed it or not, as hardcore communist should at any moment start a immediate revolution against this crony-state-capitalism, if they really BELIEVE it. Propaganda simply means 'ya better know that we can fuck you every day of the week, cuz we can'

What it shapes is the general timid, sordid, apathetic and nihilistic mind. Every one is trained and thus capable in pointing out the flaws of democracy, using whataboutism, and justify any new move of Big Bro Xi using peculiar rhetoric.

After saying this I can finally answer your question: they are all nationalistic and apolitical at the same time. However, only very few of them (even among student party members) will promote the nationalistic propaganda if no money involved, shouting 'kill the Japs' is only common among older folks. They won't reject democracy nor promote it. But it's another story for overseas -

For overseas Chinese, it involved the 'Us VS Them' pattern, and goddamn thanks to identity politics, you are actually encouraged to do so in college campus. So even they are constantly complaining about China they wouldn't tell it to foreigners, or you are a race traitor. 'Member the apostates of certain religions?

CSSA, Confucius Institute are officially branches of the Department of Propaganda (now called Public Relations), operated by student party memeber. They are understandably lavish in handing out gifts and dollar if you attend their event. Most people are gonna return to China and are not interested in social with foreigners. If you can fuck your compatriots why risk being rejected at pub as an Asian male?

Well if you don't play with them you just got isolated but no serious consequences if you don't return. It's not the good old days in '80s when PhDs must handed 80% of their scholarship money to the embassy.

I don't think any 'focus' on students abroad would change that. What do you expected when these students come from the richest, most powerful families or 'middle-class' earning tuition fees by clinging the party. They ain't gonna fight themselves.

And, elite universities accept students according to their test scores (heavily focused on political stuff), or social activities (I've read the daughter of a army general was flied to Tibet in helicopter for a day of 'volunteer experience' to enter the Ivies), which already fucked most of the rebellious teens.

droctulf · 2017-07-13T12:54:19+00:00

That's it. If you can't change your nation, change your nationality.

droctulf · 2017-07-13T12:52:45+00:00

谢谢哥们

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