Shipbucket

Some suggestion to improve quality and plausability in your designs.
1. Have a tactical idea for the ship - how will it be used?
2. Get inspiration from similar IRL designs
3. Make a springsharp calculation - not so hard if start with some figures from RIL designs.
4. Draw the ship, make sure guns, missiles and sensors match in time and with eachother.

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All Royal Swedish Navy units from 1522 to present

How's this?

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"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

Well, certainly an improvemnet. But my problem with these projects (big-dick battleships) is that in the real world they would stay on the drawing board (where they belong) for simple reasons: for the cost of one of these you could get at least two hulls with already sufficient firepower, and that's two hulls to sink, two hulls to deploy, two hulls to have rotating, two hulls that would fit in existing dry docks......etc, etc.

But boys will be boys

True, that's exactly why she's a NBD in an AU.

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"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

Okay, I've done some work on the Campaign, Cenet, and drew a repairship,



I will also be adding a history of my AU. On a side note, due to the public school system, I have ad less time to work on drawing, so new drawings will take a while. Once they are finished, l will upload a lot at once.

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"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

On the big ship, why do you have deck mounted torps, rather than placing them in the hull where they will be better protected. Right now they are... poorly placed.

I can't help but think there isn't enough hull above the waterline on the big 'un...

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@Blackbuck: Added about 1/3 more hull, better?
@barnest2: The reason for the torpedos to be deck-mounted is so that they can be fired as parallel to the ship as possible. That way she can inflict as much damage as possible on the target ship without providing too much of a target by turning for a broadside.
Also, some quick specs on the aux. ship:
399 feet long, 71 foot beam, 5,080 tons unloaded, top speed of 19 knots, twin screw,in the center is a small drydock that cn be used for storage, transport, and small craft repairs, 2x2 240mm guns, 1x1 150mm gun, 2x50' motor utility boats, 6x30' motor workboats, 2x26' motor utility boats.

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"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

What about reloading? Especially during battle, when the main guns are firing and splinters from enemy shells are flying all over the deck?

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You can fire roughly parallel even with them placed in the hull amidships

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