The Heel Republic Invites all naval Powers

The Exiled Navy's is intrigued by this invitation, although declines. It finds showing our best ships to another nation so they may see its weaknesses is rather distasteful, and so we respectfully say no.

Moderal shall be in attendance.

We grant you license production of our pocket battleship, in return we want metal and access to your ports.

Rodica watches from the bridge of the TS Stilatke, a Strefst Class Battlecruiser. She was slightly more decorated than the previous two meetings, the St. Helena accords and the Morthal treaty. The people beside her were intensly looking at the other ship designs and furiously trying to draw them. They seemed particularly intrested in the new engines of Heels ships. She was not

After the Parades the Delegations are free to roam the city or meet with the King of Heel (as this is all before the declaration of Independence). The Tests will start in a few hours too.

Coltain was unsure how this would prove the worth of a ship in combat. Too many variables. Nonetheless, the Battleship HEMS Trillium, as well as the Armored and Protected Cruisers HEMS Pterios and HEMS Orcinus all engaged in the first trial. All three ships comfortably reached 20kn on the calm seas, and engaged with the “enemy” according to standard Divinian naval doctrine. Pursuant shots were fired from the forward guns, followed by half salvos upon coming up along the freighters at mid-range. The Orcinus luckily, landed her pursuant shots quite well, managing to land a solid hit from her 10” gun before reaching the accepted salvo range.

Surely the ships lacked the speed of some of their competitors, but Coltain knew full well that with the range of guns and the mathematics required to aim them, his competitors would have to slow down decently to hit their target. And he could rely on the strong artillery tradition of the Divinian Military Academies not to waste their hybrid salvos as the men quickly adjusted their shots. Within less than three minutes, the Trillium had notably found her target, after which the order was given to swap from half to double salvos. The resulting sound of screeching metal was music to the ears for the Councilor as he returned to port, cheekily sounding off a gun salute as he did.

The Native designs from Heel made an weird engine sound and accelerated far to fast for their proposed weight speeding towards the targets, one of them used its three frontal turrets to open fire at the targets earlier than the other ships. It was not very accurate but one of the 6 shoots meet it mark.
The other ship had a turret malfunction due to the double turret. The Blitzkrieg class was to late to join this particular competition but can join the next one.

The Native ship with the 3 front guns won this competition as it could engage earlier. The version with the dubble turrets came in last. The Imperial ship made the middle.

The Stilatke accelerates up to its top speed in the relatively calm waters of 23 knots. The ship handles the turn with ease managing to manuver through the course quickly and avoid the torpedoes easily.

The Divinian convoy, upon orders from Councilor Coltain, refused to engage in this trial, noting that no amount of prestige was worth potentially crippling a ship for the remainder of its service.