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Correct. They were meant to either rake the superstructures of torpedo boats or outright sink them through volume of fire and were the CIWS weapons of their day. Any weapon that remotely resembles an anti-aircraft gun prior to the actual deployment of naval aircraft will more or less be for this purpose, or at least for use against anything from a torpedo boat up to a destroyer or even cruiser which is incidentally what the casement guns are for. The "secondary" turrets were, as the doctrine of the time prescribed, actually meant for engaging other battleships (though naturally they were useful against cruisers too).

I've split the shading discussion into seperate thread:

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Should the 1pdr barrel not be a single black line thick with a dak grey line under it?

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Well, here is what I have so far on the USS Connecticut (BB-18) as she looked in ca. 1909.

It is still embarrassingly very much a WIP.

Please comment and stop me before I kill a ship again.

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the muzzle is a bit wrong, if you was drawing the muzzle-shield. We don't show that in Shipbucket, we show the ship as in ready for ...

I see i just like the muzzle blocks.

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Looks exellent keep going!

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Okay, is this better?

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You just had to go and add those ugly cage masts to this beautiful per-dreadnought didn't you...

Looks good so far, what is the multi-shaded grey area at the base of the foremast? canvass?

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Sorry Syzmo, that's history.

Yah that's canvas all right.



I still have to add-in the 3in/51s

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