No, more things like end and upper belts - usually too thin to do much good. Put on a very thick main belt, CT, armor for guns and deck and leave everything else unarmored...
Alright then, hope the next design is more to your liking...
Well, here's a battleship design that I cooked up:
Deutchsland, Imperial Germany Fast Battleship laid down 1940
Displacement:
44,492 t light; 46,670 t standard; 51,200 t normal; 54,824 t full load
Dimensions: Length (overall / waterline) x beam x draught (normal/deep)
(918.57 ft / 885.83 ft) x 98.43 ft x (31.17 / 33.00 ft)
(279.98 m / 270.00 m) x 30.00 m x (9.50 / 10.06 m)
Armament:
9 - 14.96" / 380 mm 40.0 cal guns - 1,604.62lbs / 727.84kg shells, 100 per gun
Breech loading guns in turret on barbette mounts, 1940 Model
3 x 3-gun mounts on centreline ends, majority forward
1 raised mount - superfiring
12 - 5.91" / 150 mm 40.0 cal guns - 98.70lbs / 44.77kg shells, 300 per gun
Breech loading guns in deck and hoist mounts, 1940 Model
4 x 2-gun mounts on sides, evenly spread
2 raised mounts
2 x 2-gun mounts on centreline, evenly spread
2 raised mounts
16 - 4.13" / 105 mm 45.0 cal guns - 35.62lbs / 16.16kg shells, 300 per gun
Anti-air guns in deck mounts, 1940 Model
8 x Twin mounts on sides, evenly spread
4 raised mounts
36 - 1.46" / 37.0 mm 40.0 cal guns - 1.48lbs / 0.67kg shells, 2,000 per gun
Auto rapid fire guns in deck and hoist mounts, 1940 Model
6 x Triple mounts on sides, evenly spread
6 x Triple mounts on centreline, evenly spread
6 double raised mounts
Weight of broadside 16,249 lbs / 7,370 kg
Armour:
- Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg)
Main: 15.0" / 381 mm 575.79 ft / 175.50 m 11.91 ft / 3.63 m
Ends: 15.0" / 381 mm 310.01 ft / 94.49 m 11.91 ft / 3.63 m
Upper: 15.0" / 381 mm 575.79 ft / 175.50 m 8.01 ft / 2.44 m
Main Belt covers 100 % of normal length
- Torpedo Bulkhead - Strengthened structural bulkheads:
5.00" / 127 mm 575.79 ft / 175.50 m 29.86 ft / 9.10 m
Beam between torpedo bulkheads 82.02 ft / 25.00 m
- Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max)
Main: 8.00" / 203 mm 7.00" / 178 mm 3.00" / 76 mm
2nd: 5.00" / 127 mm 4.00" / 102 mm -
3rd: 2.00" / 51 mm - -
4th: 2.00" / 51 mm 2.00" / 51 mm -
- Armoured deck - multiple decks:
For and Aft decks: 5.00" / 127 mm
Forecastle: 5.00" / 127 mm Quarter deck: 5.00" / 127 mm
- Conning towers: Forward 8.00" / 203 mm, Aft 8.00" / 203 mm
Machinery:
Diesel Internal combustion motors,
Geared drive, 3 shafts, 200,875 shp / 149,853 Kw = 32.00 kts
Range 12,000nm at 16.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 8,154 tons
Complement:
1,701 - 2,212
Cost:
£21.835 million / $87.341 million
Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 2,992 tons, 5.8 %
- Guns: 2,992 tons, 5.8 %
Armour: 20,951 tons, 40.9 %
- Belts: 9,284 tons, 18.1 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 3,180 tons, 6.2 %
- Armament: 1,566 tons, 3.1 %
- Armour Deck: 6,446 tons, 12.6 %
- Conning Towers: 475 tons, 0.9 %
Machinery: 5,371 tons, 10.5 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 14,379 tons, 28.1 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 6,708 tons, 13.1 %
Miscellaneous weights: 800 tons, 1.6 %
- Hull above water: 300 tons
- On freeboard deck: 300 tons
- Above deck: 200 tons
Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
84,477 lbs / 38,318 Kg = 50.5 x 15.0 " / 380 mm shells or 15.3 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.13
Metacentric height 6.1 ft / 1.9 m
Roll period: 16.7 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 56 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.67
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.01
Hull form characteristics:
Hull has a flush deck,
a straight bulbous bow and small transom stern
Block coefficient (normal/deep): 0.659 / 0.667
Length to Beam Ratio: 9.00 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 31.79 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 52 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 55
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 45.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 0.00 ft / 0.00 m
Freeboard (% = length of deck as a percentage of waterline length):
Fore end, Aft end
- Forecastle: 20.00 %, 32.74 ft / 9.98 m, 26.77 ft / 8.16 m
- Forward deck: 30.00 %, 26.77 ft / 8.16 m, 20.83 ft / 6.35 m
- Aft deck: 35.00 %, 20.83 ft / 6.35 m, 20.83 ft / 6.35 m
- Quarter deck: 15.00 %, 20.83 ft / 6.35 m, 20.83 ft / 6.35 m
- Average freeboard: 23.39 ft / 7.13 m
Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 71.6 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 171.9 %
Waterplane Area: 69,128 Square feet or 6,422 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 113 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 198 lbs/sq ft or 965 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 1.09
- Longitudinal: 0.97
- Overall: 1.00
Excellent machinery, storage, compartmentation space
Excellent accommodation and workspace room
Essentially it's a fast moving (for a battleship) armored behemoth using diesel locomotion. Also, Germans loved odd calibers for their guns, so don't sue me for keeping with the odd caliber tradition. Also, this ship uses somewhat experimental rapid autocanons for AA defense...