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I thougt the whole idea of a soviet surface fleet was a propaganda stunt by the USSR. :p
Anyway go for carriers! Let the battleships drop dead, carriers all the way, build a russian enterprise! How do you write enterprise in Russian?

Erm... The Soviets' surface fleet was more than just propaganda... All in all, in 1941 the Sovs had three full scale BBs under construction - 33% more than the Jerries ;)

And about Enterprise... If you mean the specific name (like the carrier or Star Trek wreck) then it'd be Энтерпрайз (read as in English). If you mean a norman noun, then it'd be предприняте (pryedprinyatye or something like that, I've never been good at transliterating Cyrillics into Latin alphabet ;))
 
It was a long shot, but he rather hoped the state of the ship would cause it to sink miserably, and that would shame Stalin so much he wouldn't risk ever having to send such old material anywhere under the USSR's flag again.
It's a good thing that plan failed, embarrassing Stalin is a state offence and would have got him sent to mine salt in Siberia. If he was lucky! :eek:
 
I'm wondering what'll happen during the III World War ^^ I look forward to seeing the Soviet Red Fleet sinking USNavy and then conducting a RA2-style invasion ^^
 
This is going to be really interesting, and as Jedrek points out, the War against the US will be relaly interesting, although defeating the Japanese Navy will be great to watch as well. Keep up the good work!
 
Oh my, a Naval AAR! My favourite kind!

Nice to see one of these again, hopefully you finish it. If you don't I will rip your head off.

Now for some nicer comments, I really like the style you have going.

It's nice to see poeple acknowledge the use of a Soviet Navy.


And for you flag. I suppose I loaded your save game as Germany, went to click declare war, I would see the flag of the Soviet Union is also the jack of their navy. Clever idea though.
 
Spain must have been really greatful for the ship you loaned, so grateful that they didn't want to scratch the paint of the ship and kept it safely in the harbour.
 
"This time will be different! It has to be and it will!", Viktor repeated over and over again in his mind, thinking of February's presentation of the Heavy Cruiser design to Stalin, where the General Secretary vented his frustration over the "small thinking" of his Naval Commissar, almost cutting research funding for the Fleet altogether.


Ever since, and under Viktor's advice, Vladimir Orlov had risked everything on this presentation - his career, the future of the Navy, quite possibly his life! The centre-piece of the plan: a ship no-one could call unworthy of the Soviet Union!


- "Have you got all the photos Andreev? Check it again."
- "I'll double check sir, here are the Baltic pictures...


And over here are the ones of the Japanese Fleet operating in the months after their invasion of China...




...including the most detailed ones. I've brought it all sir"


IJN Mutsu


IJN Akagi

- "Alright then. Good job. We might just make this work."

They are called in. Viktor doesn't talk at all, and all the better, he'd be far too terrified by the presence of the Secretary General to make any form of coherent sentence.

He watches as Orlov displays the photos and makes a case for naval defences, but Stalin doesn't seem to impressed with anything except the Japanese carriers, and even that might have just been Viktor misunderstanding something.

Ah, now's the final move, Orlov is explaining the design specs of the battleship. What a crazy machine that is. Those cannons don't even exist in the Soviet Union, and the armour... Neptune's own harpoon couldn't pierce that! Not to even mention the engines of the thing. They could power every factory in Crimea and there would probably still be some energy left.


The Naval Commissar's point was that building one of these ships could serve as a fantastic example of Soviet economical and technological might, a glorious flagship for a fleet of modern Battleships.

Viktor looks at Stalin and freezes. The man's face is impossible to decipher. But he doesn't look glad.

Stalin gets up.

- "FINALY! I was beginning to think my Naval Commissar would never come up with a project worthy of our USSR! Bravo! With this - with this we can have a true Navy, worthy of Socialism! Let's make them!"

- "Ahm... Comrade Secretary... Them?"

- "Of course! Didn't you just show me how dangerous our enemies are becoming? If we are to triumph we need the best. You'll get funding to equip our main Fleets with these, and I'll double your research funding to provide the best possible support for them.

...just one thing...

These carrier things. They look rather impressive. I suspect the Japanese are on to something here, and our reports say the British and the American are investing in them too - yes I keep myself updated on my own - If the three largest navies of the world think they are worth it, perhaps we should look into them too. Put a team working on it."


Orlov and Andreev left the meeting too stunned to say anything...

And so it was that, in September 1937, the Great Soviet Naval Build-up Plan was launched.
The shipyards of Sevastopol, Vladivostok and Leningrad were granted resources for 3 of the new Battleship class each, preparations were made for the building of their support ships, and initial research on carriers started.





 
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Hope you built some naval infantry too? They were IRL the greatest contribution of the Red Navy during WWII. The famous Black Deaths. Also, did the Kronstadt Uprising happen in your "timeline"? Seeing that you skipped it in the history-post.

Of course it did not happen. How could there be such a thing as an uprising against the glorious Workers And Peasants Revolutionary Regime?
 
I always liked SH-Battleships, but nothing can defeat the mighty Carrier! :p
 
I always liked SH-Battleships, but nothing can defeat the mighty Carrier! :p

That's why he research CVLs, once those auto-range closing babies join the SH-BBs expect to see many CVs forming brand new deep ocean reefs!
 
Yeah. Because in an mere hour, SHBBs are capable of reducing the DD escorts of carriers to dust, and then start pummeling them. Catch carriers at night, and they are dead.
 
Yeah. Because in an mere hour, SHBBs are capable of reducing the DD escorts of carriers to dust, and then start pummeling them. Catch carriers at night, and they are dead.

Or better yet: give your SHBB fleet four CVLs and they can close in and destroy the CVs in broad daylight! Fleet Carriers are a burgeois luxury!
 
Sounds niiiiiice :)