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WWII44
Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 1st, 2013, 8:11 pm
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That is a semi-dreadonught I think


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Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 2nd, 2013, 1:53 am
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Nice AU Jabba!

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Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 2nd, 2013, 7:02 am
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Interesting drawings. Keep it up. :)


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Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 3rd, 2013, 8:41 am
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Battleship

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Final design for the Fleet Battleship design from page 1. Different weapons configuration after more thought was put into the layout.

2 x Twin 12"
1 x Twin 9"
8 x 5"
4 x 3"

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Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 3rd, 2013, 7:10 pm
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Nice designs. Keep it up! :)


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Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 4th, 2013, 3:07 am
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Interesting dreadnought design. No torpedo tubes? She looks to be of the time period where torpedo craze sweeped the navies and every ship had torpedoes, whether they needed them or not.

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Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 5th, 2013, 12:08 pm
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Having the 9" guns superfiring over the forward main battery seems like a semi-dreadnaught, late pre-dreadnaught era?

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Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 5th, 2013, 6:52 pm
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Interesting AU Jabba, but my only comment concerns the navy's composition. A small island nation (like this one here) probably will not have the funds and manpower for a battleship, let alone two of them. I would make the navy of small craft, such as destroyers and cruisers, maybe an armored cruiser (like the RN County class-the WW1 type, or the Black Prince class) as a flagship, and later a treaty 8" gunned cruiser to fit that role. Submarines and fast attack craft were usually the mainstay of small fleets, so these will come in handy here as well.
That apart, the drawings are nice and very good looking.

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Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 5th, 2013, 7:18 pm
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I never said small island... ;)

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Post subject: Re: < Insert AU Name here >Posted: June 6th, 2013, 8:31 am
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Hood wrote:
There's something British about all these but not so obvious as to be copies of British ships. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
Cheers mate! I think as the majority of my real-life drawings have been dreadnought-era ships of the RN, my drawing style has been influenced somewhat!
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Interesting dreadnought design. No torpedo tubes? She looks to be of the time period where torpedo craze sweeped the navies and every ship had torpedoes, whether they needed them or not.
Good point, it wouldn't hurt to put in a couple of hull-mounted tubes.
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Having the 9" guns superfiring over the forward main battery seems like a semi-dreadnaught, late pre-dreadnaught era?
Yes, correct. It is dreadnought era, but a non/semi-dreadnought design. I'm thinking the nation came late to the party when it came to battleship design. More 'modern' design of the ship with regards to hull and weapons layout, but mixed armament.

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