Amongst the thousands of other SS files, probably.  Why?

Intersting ship...and has just enough predreadnought/semi-dreadnought era French in it to be "ugly".

Thanks.  She's the ultimate escort cruiser for the battleline.  DD's will fear her.

Quote from: maddox on March 14, 2010, 06:12:46 PM
Thanks.  She's the ultimate escort cruiser for the battleline.  DD's will fear her.

Yes they will, until something like a CA or BC puts a 9-15" shell or 2 in her and all those magazines go *POOF*

Well, for one reason or another, a CA or BC that're bothering to range on her aren't shooting at anything bigger and more valuable, so either that's a good thing, or it's a wash, isn't it?

Depends on how many Eclairs there are and what other screens are out there. If there's only 1 Eclair and 2-4 Demarce screening a few BBs then taking out the Eclair opens the battleline up to torpedo attack much easier than sinking 2-4 Demarces. I understand that 1 14k ship will be better then 2 7k ships, but it, no matter how many guns, can only be in 1 place at a time.

You could always do what the Italians were thinking about in one of those slow Pre-Dread refits, the one with 2 12'' and some 8'' guns. They were going to replace everything with 3-4'' guns for port assualt. That would be useful.

Quite possibly people've noticed that I haven't been doing any drawing lately; partly, this is due to class, and more to Mass Effect 2, but I actually have been working on something - a design that jumped into my brain and declined to leave until 'produced'.

Probably this is what my N4 dreadnought-era battleships will look like.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c386/valles_uf/Dragon-c-1.png

1 hit amidships and 9 secundaries are gone.

Leaving only nine more on that side. ^_^

The followup class will probably spring for (lightly) armored floors and bulkheads separating each gun to try and cut down on things like that, as well as adding torpedo bulkheads, and further followups will go to enclosed mount-and-hoist.

No, this effort is not, in fact, dead.

BEHOLD!

The Iberian CABRAL Class Armored Cruiser!

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c386/valles_uf/VVV2-DonJuan-h.png?t=1282014342

On the turrets... I'd leave a few more pixels next to the gun, by the pics there's no place to put the trunnions - unless way back, but then you'd need to cut off too much from the faceplate to accommodate gun elevation - unless it's an evil Maori plan to stop the Armada. :P

*facepalm* Point.

*fixes*

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c386/valles_uf/VVV2-DonJuan-i.png?t=1282023867

Up for some more customers? Mainly those of us less inclined to artistic things (points to self) ;D

Looking great Valles.

May I ask how my L21, in the meantime named BB-1 "Kaap Delgado" is coming along? Last time I saw her she was looking very promising.