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So you are building a alt Lord Nelson class (may I ask if have gone straight from sails or are there anything in-between ? if not it will be very hard to do !) (IMO I would add a few AC growing bigger by each class of 2 build beforehand )
Nobody will lay down new post HMS dreadnought (well not after 2/3 years so 1910 max !) (and 20 is huge numbers, go with 2,4,max 6 ?)

Apart from that I like it for a 1905 LD ships (I would go for 2) for a not top tech navy that gets finished 1908-10 kept in service till 1918 (maybe buy a Dreadnought post war for scrap price or maybe you have already build some later in 1910+)

I agree with JSB's comments. A lot of times, these pre-dreadnought ships were built in classes of 1, maybe 2, and rarely 3 or more. Plus, the technology was advancing so quickly that a lot of times just after a ship was completed, another one was launched that made it fairly well obsolete. It's possible for you (with a country larger than the UK and the US) to build all 10 of those ships (I don't recommend it) in the course of 2-3 years (like with the King Edward VII class). Just do a little more research on Wiki or something to get a general idea on time frames of certain ships, and work off of that.

Another thing, I was looking at your factsheet and for a 345 million population, you have 8 million men under arms?! That's 2.31% of your population. For a country of your size (or of any size for that matter), you don't need more than 0.5% of your population under arms. What are you afraid of? The US military is significantly less men than Lothringen, and has the largest military to boot, with 10 Aircraft Carriers (275 ships total), 6000 aircraft, and one of the best (and largest) armies, with only 1,360,000 men, for 0.425% of their entire population. Unless you are like North Korea, with a Juche policy, you don't need that many soldiers.

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OK, I will do something about that soon. Nobody will lay down new post HMS dreadnought (well not after 2/3 years so 1910 max !) (and 20 is huge numbers, go with 2,4,max 6 ?)
What I meant here was that they were in serviced from 1905 to 1920 not they were brought into service from 1905 to 1920
Apart from that I like it for a 1905 LD ships (I would go for 2) for a not top tech navy that gets finished 1908-10 kept in service till 1918 (maybe buy a Dreadnought post war for scrap price or maybe you have already build some later in 1910+)
What I meant was the ships saw service from 1905 to 1920. They were not introduced into the navy from 1905 to 1920.

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Ok that makes it much better.

(I would still build a series of PDs why not give yourself more nice ships to draw and design a style of your own say in batches of 2 or 4, every year or 2)

I have edited the Damon battleship stats, only two of the ships existed

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Himmel class battleship
This class of ships were often shadowed by the larger Damon class battleships. They had four 12 inch guns, eight inch guns, twenty six 6 pounder guns, fourteen 2 pounder guns as their armaments. They are protected by 16 inches of belt armour and 10 mm of deck armour. It has a 2 shaft quadruple expansion engines and 28 boilers creating 15200 hp which equals to 11330 kW. The Himmel class has a top speed of 18.5 knots. These ships were manned by 725 officers and sailors. Two of these ships were built, LS Himmel and LS Isakov. Both ships were scrapped in 1917.

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Hi Oberst,

Looks OK, but I do have a query ... quadruple expansion engines? Given that this is earlier in your timeline than the Damon, wouldn't they have triple expansion engines (unless they were a test bed) - it's also worth noting that most marine VTE engines were just that - triples. I assume that the extra weight (and maintenance complexity) of the fourth cylinder is more of a burden than the efficiency gain merits.

Also, the aft portholes appear the be occluded by the walkway.

Regards,
Adam

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I agree with Apdsmith's comments about the quad expansion engines. The extra weight and complexity would not make it worthwhile.

Also, it's perfectly fine to use other people's hulls, but it will usually look much better if you make sure the shading is consistent through the whole ship. I'm referring to the hull, which reminds me of Psilander's technique, but it doesn't fit the rest of the ship, and as such, looks out of place, so I would recommend just sticking to one color for the hull and then possibly a slightly darker color for overhangs and things like that.

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Himmel class, Redone
Yes, the Himmel class was used as a testbed for quadruple expansion engines

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Kampf class Battleship
The Kampf class battleship is a class of two battleships like the previous Himmel and Damon battleships. These ships are armed with eight 12 inch guns and ten 6 inch casemated guns. It is protected by a belt armour that is 254 mm thick and deck armour that is 63.5 mm thick. She has a top speed of 23 knots because of her four steam turbine and 16 boilers. It was manned by a crew of 925 sailors and officers. Both ships were lost in the Battle of Jutland.

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