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Post by serger on Mar 26, 2018 7:48:23 GMT -6
Actually, one of these troughs WAS blown up by some unidentified scoundrels. And I don't know WHAT was blown up there! Maybe those scoundrels hauled there tons of TNT in the middle of the night...
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Post by ddg on Mar 26, 2018 8:09:15 GMT -6
Probably the paint locker.
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Post by splatterdemalion on Mar 26, 2018 15:38:15 GMT -6
Actually, one of these troughs WAS blown up by some unidentified scoundrels. And I don't know WHAT was blown up there! Maybe those scoundrels hauled there tons of TNT in the middle of the night... Probably it was the 3500t of fireworks & rum carried on board to impress & appease the colonials...
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Post by dorn on Mar 27, 2018 0:47:51 GMT -6
Actually, one of these troughs WAS blown up by some unidentified scoundrels. And I don't know WHAT was blown up there! Maybe those scoundrels hauled there tons of TNT in the middle of the night... Probably it was the 3500t of fireworks & rum carried on board to impress & appease the colonials... I do not think so. Look at the ship, she is not serious warship, she must smuggle ammunition as the king does not pay well. And officially colonial cruiser, we know what new doctrines Royal Navy has.
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Post by serger on Mar 27, 2018 1:08:18 GMT -6
Ermmm. That's not Royal Navy ship. It's Spanish ship, built on UK.
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Post by noshurviverse on Mar 27, 2018 4:43:02 GMT -6
Sometimes, you've got to take things to the extreme. Attachments:
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Post by HolyDragoon on Mar 27, 2018 5:33:31 GMT -6
That's a monitor... Designed to shoot subs underwater.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Mar 27, 2018 6:43:21 GMT -6
Sometimes, you've got to take things to the extreme. That was legal??? There is a building 'stop' (no pop-up message actually) if you try to put > 8" gun on a protected cruiser. How did this happen?
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Post by director on Mar 27, 2018 9:10:03 GMT -6
That 13" gun isn't a weapon, it's a propulsion system for going rapidly astern LOL.
If you fired it anywhere but straight ahead the ship would roll 360 degrees - maybe more than once.
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Post by archelaos on Mar 27, 2018 11:50:25 GMT -6
Sometimes, you've got to take things to the extreme. Nice flat-iron gunboat
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Post by noshurviverse on Mar 27, 2018 18:53:47 GMT -6
Update on the design, I've managed to create it rather similarly at the start of a Japanese campaign as a legacy ship. I provoked a practice war with Italy, to be able to 'safely' test out the design. Results have been somewhat less than encouraging. Firerate without maneuvering is currently one round every five minutes, with >1% chance of a hit occurring at standard engagement ranges. Attachments:
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Post by asdfzxc922 on Mar 27, 2018 19:53:43 GMT -6
Sometimes, you've got to take things to the extreme. That was legal??? There is a building 'stop' (no pop-up message actually) if you try to put > 8" gun on a protected cruiser. How did this happen? Protected CLs may have a single fore or aft gun up to 13", in order to allow Japan to start with Matsushimas.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Mar 27, 2018 20:21:25 GMT -6
O.O wow. I had no idea those wave-motion-gun ships were accommodated.
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Post by bcoopactual on Mar 28, 2018 7:11:49 GMT -6
Haha, I had never even heard of those ships (Matsushimas not the wave-motion gun. I was hooked on both Star Blazers and then later Robotech when they were first released in the States.) Looks like director was right about those ships. From the wikipedia entry - "The guns proved only marginally successful during the First Sino-Japanese War, due to a slow rate of fire, and numerous mechanical problems. The guns could not be aimed abeam, as their weight would cause the ship to roll over when fired. In combat, gunners were able to fire only around one shot per hour[4] due to the time it took to reload." Those things were crazy. Which for the time period meant they were very, very French.
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Post by director on Mar 28, 2018 7:17:58 GMT -6
Well, just a more extreme version of the Esmeralda and other Elswick cruisers. Still, the only thing I've seen that came near to that for crazy was the British M-class submarine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_M-class_submarine).
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