Comments by "Adam Bainbridge" (@AdamMGTF) on "Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnought - Capital Ship Tournament Predictions" video.

I enjoyed the early UAD videos. More so than the warships game where you got a little... Distracted. Lol It was a nice chance to see a ship being "designed" while learning your thinking :)
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But then how do you factor in ammo quality control? Not to mention crew training/how rested they are. How physically fit they are. The quality of metallurgy and what if the workers building the guns/ammo/supplies were slave labour and trying to sabotage things like was common in ww2 Germany. The only way to do something like this is with sweeping generality and a focus on fun. learning is a wonderful by product. I don't think drach hides this.
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@GARDENER42 so the metallurgy isn't relevant? Nor is the skills of thoes building the ship? If the quality of the ammunition is irrelevant then I agree. That doesn't impact the ship itself (pun intended). But only if the ships are ramming eachother. What about the chemical industry in the building nation. I mean it's only important if the ship is designed to use an explosive charge to send the shell out the gun. Come to think of it. What about the fuseing system on the shell? I'd say that's important. Oh, and its shape. I mean. We aren't talking round shot. We can agree I am sure that the ship needs a crew. Let's forget quantity. We'll try quality. If it's not important then let's crew the ship with three types of people. 70+ year olds. They can sight the guns. We'll use normal military regects to handle the ammunition. Who cares if they have had polio or are missing a leg. That won't be an issue. As for the officers. Well they need to be able to think quickly..let's get teenagers. No decline inemtal faculties there. Let's have them crew a brand new top of the range destroyer, let's say a Fletcher class. We'll be generous and give it torpedoes. Of course they were built by slave labour who left out the detonators but let's not get bogged down with that. Commanded by a person suffering a serious mental health brakedown and an inexperienced dockworker replaced the engine lubricant oil with cooking oil (don't think it can happen? Ask the French in 1940) Against this 1945 destroyer with radar and shiney paint we have...... HMS Southampton... As she was at Jutland. With a superb crew. Built at the technological peak of the British empire. She's hopelessly out of date. Who would win? If we choose speed, protection and ability to sink other ships. Then the destroyer wins. Would it happen No. That's my point. You can't pick and choose circumstances. You either accept a broad generalisation and agree this is fun and or a learning exercise. Or accept it's not possible to compare one apple to another.
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@RedRocket4000 not sure I can agree there. Forced labour was used by the Nazi government before the war even started. It was used for general labour and indeed specialised work as well. The most common uses were in mining and heavy construction but also in factories, on assembly lines. Some examples include: russian pows used in mining, most notably salt mines and coal. French pows were used in arms factory's (in contravention of the Geneva convention). Organisation Todt used impressed labour from occupied countries (including France, The Netherlands and especially Poland and Czechoslovakia). These workers built factories, submarine pens and the Atlantic wall. The chemical industry (IG Faban being the most famous) used concentration camp labour. The arms industry (notably Krupp, Thyssen and Henshel) also used concentration camp slave labour on production lines for guns, ammunition and vehicles. Slave labour was used to build huge numbers of rolling stock. Locomotives always were in demand and again OT provided impressed labour. Guns, ammunition, torpedoes, engines, air filtration systems and the refining of fuels were all done with the help of slave labour. All things the Kriegsmarine used. Shindlers list is a very good movie. But the comment about O.S. being disappointed if the factory ever made a shell that could be fired is the exception rather than the rule. Inmates and slave labourers consistently came up with very clever ways to sabotage whatever they were making. They did so to make sure they could pass inspections (and this was done at huge risk. The pentalty for sabotage was summery execution not just for the person responsible, but often entire work details). The KM used slave labour just like the Heer and the Luftwaffe. I would highly recommend "The volunteer" by J.Fairweather. and "The saboteur of Auschwitz" by C Rushton for some very good insights into ways the slaves worked against their captors :).
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