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It was said Germany didn't have good overseas bases for a 1914 commerce war. But really they sort of do. Take Luderitz in South West Africa for example. It seems you could mount guns to protect both an inner and outer harbor and have a rail line to the interior.

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Tanga in East Africa, and Rabaul in the Pacific also could have protected harbors, Doulea in Kamerun could too.

It seems like good bang for the buck to strip some guns off the older pre dreadnoughts and fix them to protect these places, maybe some old cruiser torpedo tubes and some mines and you can have a cheap defense, hard enough that the British would have to bring up considerable effort to take them, nothing significant lost if you lose them.

Any ideas on how to use these bases more effectively?
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