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What an unholy mess of a ship this is, what kind of thinking or rather lack of, went into this behemoth?

These guns you have used are of such a large size, the sheer weight would capsize the vessel in even the slightest breeze should one blow upon it. not only that the hull is too shallow, short, and short width to even support the entire weapon. If they even fired the hull would be shook apart.

And what is with these whole lines of portholes, not only do they serve little purpose, they serve as a weak point and a single striking of a torpedo or any other weapon would shatter rows of them, not only that the hull around the portholes would be severly weak.

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I said I was changing the guns to 20.5 inch from 31.5 inch.

What's the difference? All the same, the turrets will fall out as soon the ship rolls over (and he rolls over when launched!)

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No they are a lot lighter then that 31.5 inch guns that are in the first post.

They're still bigger than any guns ever mounted

but not much bigger than the 18.1 inch guns used on the Yamato and she is about half the size.

Think about the tonnage difference of the guns, the tracking systems and the ammunition lockers for the 16 and the 18 inch. Its a huge number... and this will be bigger for you. The calibre doesn't mean much for the tonnage

No, the tonnage that my ship has means I can use bigger and more guns that the Yamato.

Lads ... c'mon, you are banging your heads against a brick wall.

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Nobody expects the Imperial Inquisition!

Although that is better than the massive 31.5 inch guns you used on the George I, 20.5 inch guns will still pose a hefty amount of tonnage on the deck and under-deck equipment. I know you are going for a vessel that is based and inspired by the Yamato, but I'd suggest going with 18 inch guns.

Also please do not forget that you need to remove most of those portholes on the hull and superstructure.

I'd suggest looking at photos of various battleships and looking at drawings in the SB archive to help you with designing your ship correctly, looking at real life designs, along with additional research can help considerably with designing AU and personal ship designs.


I re-read my original message, I apologize if I was rude in anyway.

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