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You say protected cruiser yet there seems to be an armour belt on the exterior as well as being a bit late for a new PC unless this is launched a few years before hand

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Easy fix.

Relabeled it.

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Crovenia's ally Skyria (The France/Germany/Britain) recently lost it's larger shipyards in a war, and ordered ships from Crovenia to reinforce their navy.

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And here's an older destroyer design.

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Don't want to pick holes in a story but any power that holds F/G/B must be a very strong sea power and it would almost certainly have docks on both GB and at the end of the Rhine ? (v a Ukraine, mainly Land power with much less needs for ship = less dockyards ?)

The destroyer looks nice and fits 1901.

I'm sure that nation's owner will have an explanation for that.

As for the destroyer, how much sense would it make for it to be refitted into minelaying duty or something similar during WW1?

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As the saying goes Quality over quantity, we often see people in this subfirum pumping out dozens of drawings but never correct simple errors which often lead to people not taking them seriously.


Seeing that mines are heavy, anywhere from 150-750kg, in order to carry enough mines to be worthwhile, I expect you'll seriously overload the hull, ruin the stability and have to cut all weapons aft.

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Right, well I would assume the 1901 destroyer design would be decommissioned by WW1 then as I can't see it being able to put up a fight with other destroyers at that point.

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I would keep them for secondary duties,

I would strip them down (remove most guns and/or TTs) and use them as Mine or ASW ships,

Mine - say front gun only and 2 rails of mines running to stern from the 2nd funnel (but only store mine from 2nd funnel to the 1st TTs, all numbers from bow, limit numbers as they cant carry much weight)

ASW - keep bow gun, move stern gun forward to behind rear funnel and add a very few DC to stern (like 1 or 2 rails and 4/8 DCs) (most Subs will try to use deck gun so any small escort will stop that and make them use expensive torpedoes)

I wasn't aware that depth charges were in use during WW1.

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