Battleships AND Sudoku!

* TODAY'S PUZZLE **
Oripy has created a whole series of hyrbid puzzles marrying up some of the best Japanese logic problems with sudoku. Many of them have been recommended to us over the last few weeks so we thought we'd have a crack at this one: Kaiserliche Marine. This is a SERIOUSLY excellent puzzle which combines elements of both puzzle types beautifully.

Have a go at the puzzle here:
https://sudokupad.app/anfigouctj?sett...

Rules:
Normal 9x9 Sudoku rules apply.

Battleships: Place the given fleet of ships into the grid so that no two ships are touching, not even diagonally. Rotating ships is permitted. A clue outside the grid indicates the number of cells in the corresponding row or column that are occupied by ship segments.

German fleet: All ships are German Whisper lines. Adjacent digits along the line must have a difference of at least 5.

Kropki Dots: Digits separated by a white dot are consecutive. Digits separated by a black dot have a 1:2 ratio, meaning one is exactly double the other. Not all dots are necessarily given.

There is a smaller example puzzle here:
https://sudokupad.app/r2j26yf2s3
(With differences along the lines needing to be only 3.)

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** PATREON REWARD DAY **
Today we published a new sudoku hunt, Evening Attractions, themed around Negative Constraints as our March competition.

They'll also be a bonus crossword video from Simon and his solve of Region Geometry by Emre Kolotoğlu (3hr 36min long...!) released over the weekend. And Simon's discussion video about Dean Mayer's Sunday Times crossword from last weekend will appear at 1minute past midnight on Sunday morning (which is the moment that competition has ended.)

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▶ Contents Of This Video ◀

0:00 Theme music & puzzle intro
2:50 Well done Lucy.
3:26 A big few days on Patreon
4:35 Islands Of Insight
5:02 Rules
8:35 Start of Solve: Let's Get Cracking

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