Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Weapon class - Guide 293" video.

  1. Weirdly enough, a class of ships named HMS Ampersand , Apostrophe , Bracket , Comma , Degree , Hyphen , Interrabang , Percent , Quotation , Slash , Squiggle , Star & Thorn ... don't sound bad at all ^_^ .
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  2.  @leftcoaster67  HMS 15"/42
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  3. Or: HMS Bombard (after the great Siege Cannons of old ~_^ )
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  4. Well: Carronade (Cannonade?) is a type of gun, so they sort~ of did XD. Granted though: would have been great to see: HMS Bombard , HMS Serpentine , HMS Oneger , HMS Ballista , and others like Greatsword , Longsword , Trench Knife & Trebuchet .
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  5. HMS Troutbridge is to blame again, no doubt ^_^ .
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  6.  @RCAvhstape  Don't give 'em ideas -_-
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  7. A man walks into a Bar. He says "ouch" because it's an Iron Bar.
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  8.  @liberalsockpuppet4772  On the latter; having a Parrot & saying "Arr" all the time would be expected of all hands aboard ^_^ .
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  9. I'm sensing some serious Heresy
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  10.  @rogersmith7396  USS Congress Hardly ever moves, and when she does it's either backwards or a short jerk forwards.
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  11. Aye, or Executor ^_^ (once the RN has an outer space division, that is)
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  12.  @species3167  I still hope the next one is a 5MG on HMS Troutbridge .
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  13. HMS Conker
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  14.  @rogersmith7396  Plot Twist: HMS Boat is a Ship and carries a Boat named HMS Ship .
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  15. Real.
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  16. Well... not the politician's weapon of choice, that's for sure -_- .
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  17. Nah; as they had Destroyers in both size bands already, just all known as Destroyers. (some big ones being granted the term Destroyer Leader though) Germany meanwhile was still calling its diddiliest Destroyers "Torpedo Boats" XD.
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  18.  @rogersmith7396  Amen. Not their first foray into shipbuilding meddling either.
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  19.  @rogersmith7396  Kind of. That's more like the US equivilant of "We want Eight and we won't wait!!". (albeit without any ships being built... so perhaps more like that time the Canadian Senate almost approved a bill calling to fund several QE class Battleships)
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  20. If only we'd got HMS Shotput too ^_^
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  21. HMS Cosh
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  22. HMS Glasgow Kiss
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  23. HMAS Boomerang (the politicians particularly hate that ship XD)
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  24. Real answer: The Dutch settled down after they lost the last one ~_^ . We've been friends ever since. The 1st one only happened anyway because of a trade dispute.
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  25. ^ Nah. The first war originated in a trade dispute. The politicians in London didn't like the detail that a large chunk of English trade was being carried in Dutch ships. The politicians' efforts to change this ultimately led to war. (typical politics; seeing a problem, applying the wrong remedies, and learning nothing from it) As for the "5th Anglo Dutch War" theory: bit of a stretch. The UK in 1898 would have buried The Netherlands in sanctions had the latter interfered, which given the UK's place as a trading nation by that time would have hurt the Dutch hardest. As it was, UK relations with Germany never recovered (to Germany's ultimate detriment), after it turned out the Boer rebels were using a lot of German weapons. (and Germany was a far larger global player by then than the Dutch)
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  26. ^ That's a lot of words, for a disjointed assortment of overstated, misquoted and discontextualized "points" . Then again you do seem to think that pointing out that the Dutch lost the 4th war is a grave insult of some kind; when I was simply stating a fact. How effective Dutch troops were is also rather irrelevant, for reasons aforementioned. (can't send troops to another country's turf when they have naval superiority, among other advantages [various French & Spanish kings, Napoleon & Hitler both learned that the hard way]) Here's some hard facts though about the period: • The UK was the #1 economy, with the leading currency. The US had grown but was still smaller in both aspects, for various reasons. • The UK at the turn of century held 80% of the global Shipbuilding market; a record never surpassed by any nation since, nor likely to be. • The RN had a relatively high standard officer corps (especially those who'd been trained to use their own initiative); see the Russian Navy for an example of what you're thinking of. Also: By century's turn UK-German relations had not only started to sour, with Kaiser William II's poor diplomacy being mostly why, but the Kaiserlichemarine had started its expansion... a race that it lost, as the UK proved she could not only outbuild the boch, but stay ahead of them technologically. By WWI the RN was not only larger, but outmatched the Kaiserlichemarine in firepower, range, speed and how swiftly ships could be repaired / replaced. The previous Kaiser - aided by Bismarck - had been wiser, in keeping his navy chiefly small and mostly for coastal defence. (a period incidentally where the UK also was happy to build warships to order, for Germany)
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