Stormwind Naval Reforms of 627

The second major reformation of the Royal Navy, the Stormwind Naval Reforms of 627 took place in direct response to the hard-learned lessons of the Fourth War. With steamships becoming increasingly vital to the fleet, the standard guns increasingly insufficient against more and more heavily armoured Orcish Navy vessels and almost completely useless against the newly designed Forsaken Navy Devastation-class dreadnoughts, the Reforms have lead to a marked schism in the Office of the Admiralty. Torn between traditionalists, modernists, and a fringe faction in favour of abandoning conventional naval operations entirely in favour of aerial dominance, the Admiralty has managed to agree on only a handful of principles:
*Experienced captains and officers are direly needed to replace those lost in the War.
*Alternative cannon designs - particularly rifled muzzle loaders and contained-breech loaders - are to be trialled until a suitable model is found.
*Ships are, henceforth, to be built along newly standardized lines to ensure maximum predictability.
Category:Stormwind Navy
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