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Post by mycophobia on Oct 26, 2021 0:14:23 GMT -6
From The East - A Qing China AAR Made with RTW and From the Depth
Hello all, some of you may recall me as the one behind the Canadian AAR with 3D models made with the game From the Depths. Unfortunately, that AAR was cut short as my old computer decide to bork itself, with that goes all the previous designs and the older version of the FTD i've been using to make the models and the save. While recovery is possible, at this time I thought maybe I might as well update the games and try something new. As before, my aim with this AAR is to create a RTW AAR supplemented by 3D ship models to make up for the some what limited graphical component of RTW2. The core structure of the AAR will be same as before, the table of content below will help you navigate the posts, and you can always just flip through the threads the good old way. Updates will be divided into AAR posts with campaign updates/battles, which will be like any other RTW AAR but supplemented with images made with the FTD ships, and ship posts show casing RTW design recreated in FTD. House Rules
To slightly mix things up from the last AAR, this one will be played with variable tech and Larger fleet size. After the Canadian AAR, I thought I'd attempt to write a nation whose naval history I know slightly better, hence the choice of Qing China. There are many excellent alt-history on this forum, whose quality in writing I cannot hope to match, but I thought this time I may attempt to engage a bit more with the writing aspect in addition to ship models and RTW actions. The only house rule, as with Indivisible & Insignificant and my previous AAR, is that any ship except some AMCs, KEs and possibly AVs, must be built in From the Depth before they can enter service in RTW. These FtD creations will then be used to set up battle scenes and dioramas to supplement any battle scenes from the RTW portion of the AAR. Aircrafts, buildings, coastal installations may also be made depending on my free time and interest to further supplement the ships. While I have played around with FtD for a very long time, I am not an expert builder nor an expert on naval construction&engineering. Thus I am sure to make some mistakes and mess things up, but I will try my best to make things presentable. Furthermore, I will try my best to make things "Work" in FtD as well, so that they will not merely be hallow shells that appears like a ship. That is not to say I will go through full interior detail, but I will give every ship internal subdivision, armor layout, engine/magazine compartment etc to make them work as similarly as possible with their RTW counterpart. But, given even a modded version of FtD is not the perfect tool to recreate naval designs, "looks" are still the priority here. At the bare minimal, the design will float, move, and shoot so they can reenact RTW engagements in 3D. Some larger ship maybe slightly scaled down so that spawning more than one of them does not totally trash my CPU. I will try to hide these variations the best I can but you may notice some proportion issues if ships are compared side by side. Compared to my last AAR, I will probably be making some designs that are some what less practical for both a fun and RP factor to make things more interesting (which hopefully will not cause me to die horribly) Table of Content Ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy
Battleships
Carriers
Cruisers
Destroyers
Support Vessals
Others
Given I am essentially starting from scratch again, having lost all my old FTD models and is presently requesting another RTW key for the new computer, expect a while before things get rolling, but hopefully I can maintain a somewhat more consistent, if slow, update schedule, and if nothing else, feel free to drop by once in awhile to look at pretty botes
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Post by mycophobia on Oct 26, 2021 0:20:03 GMT -6
1886 - Nagasaki Incident
August 13th, 1886, Sailors of the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty was on a shore leave during a "friendly visit" to the Japanese port of Nagasaki. An altercation with the locals in the local red light district escalated, and when the Japanese police arrived to detain the sailors, a brawl ensued causing death on both side. August 15th, despite the palpable tension in the city as Qing and Japanese authorities attempted to negotiate a resolution, about 300 Chinese sailors were nevertheless permitted shore leave, despite express order prohibiting the carrying of weapons, they were armed with clubs and locally purchased katanas. Police were again attacked and in the ensuing brawl, more Qing sailors and Japanese Police and civilian were killed, and several sailor was detained. Brevet Vice-Admiral William Metcalfe Lang of the Beiyang Navy.When William M.Lang, the British advisor to the Beiyang navy attempted to negotiate the release of the detained sailors through the local British channel, his request was ignored, and the angry William Lang advised Admiral Ding Ruchang, commander of the Beiyang Navy to issue a threat of shelling Nagasaki if the Japanese did not back down. Ding, himself an advocate of curtailing the growing Japanese threat before the Japanese fleet became a threat agreed to the proposal. Lang and Ding managed to convince prime minister Li Hongzhang that a war at this time is not only an opportunity to destroy the budding Japanese navy, but also a chance to wash away the recent shame from the defeat of 1884 Sino-French war. While Li favored the diplomatic solution, the unanimous opinion from his senior officers convinced Li to resort to force. When the outraged Japanese understandably rejected Qing's ultimatum for ludicrous compensation over the killed Chinese sailors, the Beiyang navy turned their guns upon Nagasaki and opened fire. The First Sino-Japanese WarDespite the valiant effort of the Japanese navy, they have not yet acquired a modern fleet able to match the might of the Beiyang Navy, and after severe losses and damage to crucial port facilities, the parties entered into a peace agreement brokered by European Powers, with Japan paying a substantial reparation to the Qing Empire. The war did reveal many faults and corruption within the Beiyang navy itself, and the need for substantial reform did not go unnoticed. With substantial reparation from Japan, the Empress Dowager generously allowed the proposed reform to take place, most important of which being the consolidation of various regional navies of the empire under a centralized command. Admiral Ding, for his part in the First Sino-Japanese war, was promoted to head the new Imperial Chinese Navy. The New Century
By 1900, the Imperial Chinese Navy is without doubt the most powerful naval force in the far east. With a fleet of 4 relatively modern battleships and nearly a dozen cruisers. Much of the previous decade was spent consolidating the massively regionalized fleets and centralizing command of the new navy. War reparation allowed the regional navies assortment of obsolete ships to be modernized with more uniform designs. Ding himself, a Cavalry officer with little naval background, did what he can to learn from his foreign advisors. Nevertheless, the Imperial Chinese Navy is still a far cry from those of the western powers, and the Qing Empire remained a piece in the great game of European nations. Japan, somewhat recovered from their defeat in 1886, begin to rebuild their fleet with ever increasing vigor. The corruption in the imperial court and the navy are also far from eradicated. Indeed, Brevet Admiral Lang resigned in 1890 after an altercation caused by fellow officers questioning his largely symbolic position of vice-admiral, cooling Sino-British relations. Only time will tell if the Imperial Chinese Navy and the Qing Dynasty can survive new century and into ten thousand of ten thousand years beyond.
That sets the starting point of the new campaign, actual gameplay will take a while to happen as I have quite a few classes of ships to work through. The point of divergence from this campaign actually came from a common misconception about the Nagasaki incident i've read about alot in Chinese sources, being that William Lang strongly advised Ding and Li to threaten war and destroy the Japanese Navy. (In reality, Lang favored the diplomatic solution and even testified against the Qing sailors, possibly out of outrage of the lack of discipline that lead to the incident, to the point where Ding in his own private letter complained that Lang lacks loyalty for speaking for the Japanese.) Nevertheless, it seems a quite interesting thought as to what could happen if the Nagasaki incident did escalate, and can explain the slight lead Qing has over Japan in the game. In any case, hopefully that was an enjoyable read, and I am hoping to start going through the starting ships in the coming days.
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Post by akosjaccik on Oct 26, 2021 1:15:16 GMT -6
Well, I certainly did not expect my morning to be this good. Granted, I am rather bummed over the news about FtN, but the "compensation" is more than promising!
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Post by boomboomf22 on Oct 27, 2021 13:07:18 GMT -6
Today is a good day to die! New Myco AAR is greatly welcome.
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Post by mycophobia on Oct 27, 2021 20:29:44 GMT -6
Li Yun(丽 云 - Beautiful Cloud)-Class Gunboat (1895)
10 ships in Class
BackgroundAs part of Admiral Ding's effort to unify the diverse regional navy, many obsolete vessel in the other regional navy need to be replaced. While Beiyang Navy was the most advanced Navy in 1886, the Fujian Navy fought the Sino-French war two years prior with a fleet of Junks mixed with few slightly more modern vessel, to predictable result. Yet admiral of each of the regional navy are not keen to give up their ships, nor are the imperial court consistent over their directive to purchase new ships abroad or to "save face" by building up the local ship building industry. In the end, a compromise was reached, Fujian Navy, whose obselete fleet have the most ship to replace, will be permitted to construct a generic gunboat meant as a replacement for all regional navies at the Foochow Arsenal in Fujian. OverviewThe resulting gunboat of the Li Yun class is meant to serve as a coastal patrol vessel that also have the range and speed to serve as a dispatch or auxiliary transport, and provide light escort to convoys. It is even small enough to navigate major rivers, a request by the Guangdong Navy. While the ships are build locally, each ship are equipped with 4 Canon de 100 mm Modèle 1891 in single mounts. With the departure of William Lang, Qing decided to approach other European powers to broaden their options, preference of the regional navy further influenced this process, as a result, while the quality of the fleet may be more standardized, the equipment used are far from so. While the Li Yun class isn't an exceptional class by any means, and probably a bit too large for what they are meant to do, they are at least useful enough for a variety of roles that could convince the regional navy to accept their use. Li Yun fires its 100m guns in training, the vessel being quite heavily armed, as the Chinese navy still expected their auxiliary and patrol ships may have to be drafted into fleet battles to support their limited number of modern vessels against an European enemy.
With that I have the first ship post ready as well, the small gunboat is quite easy and fun to cook up, now let's hope the larger ships will come along just as nicely The diversity seen in different regional navy of the Qing Dynasty is quite fascinating to look it, and I feel a good excuse for me to throw in some diversity of ship design and maybe even purposely try to incorporate some ....unorthodox designs, especially with variable tech on. Still, if I give the regional navy too much flavor this AAR probably will never get started, so all things in moderation, I guess.
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Post by zederfflinger on Oct 27, 2021 22:34:24 GMT -6
Looks great so far! Being Canadian, I really enjoyed reading your previous AAR. I eagerly anticipate further developments here!
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Post by akosjaccik on Oct 28, 2021 6:12:33 GMT -6
Probably too much spleen on my part to start off my contributions to the AAR, but it occured to me that "Beautiful Cloud" will gain a whole new layer of spiritual meaning if it turns out that the vessel is prone to mag. detonations.
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Post by mycophobia on Oct 30, 2021 1:17:52 GMT -6
Yu Shun Class Unprotected Cruiser (1893) Ships in Class: Yu Shun (雨顺 - Favorable Rain) , Kuai Ma (快马 - Swift Steed)
Background A central debate over the development of the new imperial navy is the choice between producing ships locally or purchasing them from abroad. Beiyang Navy, the branch founded upon purchasing of advanced foreign ships, naturally wish to continue this trend, at least when it comes to major combatants of the navy. The southern regional navies, such as the Fujian and Guangdong Navy, both neglected when it comes to receiving the newest ships and invested in seeing their own provincial ship building industry profit and improve, pulled all the string they could to convince the Imperial Navy to procure Chinese-made vessels where possible.
While the naval reform following the first Sino-Japanese war saw most obsolete vessels scrapped, political pressure and limited budget means Admiral Ding tolerated some of the relatively more usable vessels produced by the southern shipyards, the Yu Shun class cruisers being the largest of such survivors.
Firepower Armed with a mix of British BL 5-inch Gun and French 100mm gun, Yu Shun's armament is not so much a deliberate choice but the Fujian navy's attempt to scour their store for usable guns to arm Foochow arsenal's newest hull. While the firepower of 8 guns, 5 of which can be brought to either broadside is quite impressive, the mixed caliber is really more trouble than it is worth for the cruiser, especially considering that Imperial quartermasters will have to deal with procuring ammunition for two guns that have for the most part very comparable performance.
At least the governor of Fujian can avoid using the number "4" when reporting to the empress dowager to brag about the amazing advance his ship yards has made when it comes to warship armament.
Armor It is an unprotected cruiser and it lives up to that name, at least it carries a hefty amount of coal which provides some added protection to the vital area of the ship. In addition, the slightly more valuable BL 5-in gun is protected by a simple gun shield.
Speed/Utility This is the main reason why the Yu Shun class survived Admiral Ding's scrapping orders, light construction, complete lack of armor gives it a max speed of 21 knots, fairly impressive for its time. As the goal of the ship is to patrol China's vast shorelines, they are design with great capacity for coal and other supplies, allowing the vessel to both serve as a long distance patrol vessel, and to deliver troop and supplies to far flung corners of the empire with relatively good speed.
All in all, the Yu Shun class is unlikely to be of any use in a real battle of the 20th century, but the old vessels are at least useful auxiliary vessels to handle tasks that the much smaller Li Yun class may not be able to carry out. With the heaven's grace, perhaps the relative size of these vessel may even discourage a particularly cautious raider captain.
Thats 2/8 classes done, quite someone to go. A 2000 ton KE is ofcourse not of much use, but I thought it will be a neat way to represent some outdated vessel that would probably still exist within the Qing Navy. If nothing else, they are not a bad way to meet what meager foreign station requirement I may end up needing. I would be really happy if they can engage and sink a raider or something, one can always hope
These two are somewhat vaguely inspired (though far undergunned in comparison) by the story of cruiser Long Wei (Dragon's might), indigenously made by Foochow arsenal, sent up to the Beiyang Navy (Who had no faith in the quality of a locally made ship and initially threatened to abandon the ship if it is delivered to them), promptly renamed Ping Yuan (Calm Expanse) and thrown aside as a second line training ship, with its captain being of the same rank as a gunboat captain despite the vessel being designated a cruiser.
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Post by mycophobia on Oct 30, 2021 1:53:06 GMT -6
Ning Hai - 宁海 Class Protected Cruiser (1897-1898)4 Ships in Class:Ning Hai ( 宁海 - Tranquil Sea), Ping Hai ( 平海- Calm Sea), Xun Hai ( 巡海- Cruising Sea) , Chi Hai ( 驰海 - Galloping Sea)
Overview
The Ninghai class is a series of 4 ships ordered by the Imperial Chinese Navy to renew its cruiser fleet to modern standards. All 4 vessels were constructed by AG Vulcan Stettin, a long time partner of the Beiyang navy, supplying many of the warships used in the first Sino-Japanese War. The ships of this class relatively small, with China's budget in mind. Nevertheless, they are balanced design and well protected for their size, but suffers from a lack of firepower that limits their use against anything above their size.
Weaponry
Armed with 8 5" Krupp gun, the Ning Hai class has adequate but unimpressive firepower. In combat against any armored target, these guns will struggle to damage any vitals and lack the volume of fire to substantially damage their target's structure. Still, this is tolerable firepower for a ship Ning Hai's size. The ship also carries a pair of underwater torpedo tube midship, standard for a cruiser of this era.
Armor Unusually perhaps, experience with loss of gunnery crews in exposed deck gun mountings lead to the Imperial Navy to request turreted protection for the 5" guns on Ninghai. As a result, all 8 guns are placed within fully enclosed and armored turrets, proof to splinters or even the odd hit from low caliber guns.
The ship itself is also rather well armored, with an internal sloped deck and coal bunker providing fairly impressive protection to its vitals. Being strapped for resources, the Imperial Navy hopes that if the ships cannot outfight their enemy, they can at least live to fight another day. After all, it will be different to convince the Empress Dowager to permit further funding for foreign ships if the existing ones are easily sunk. The last thing the navy needs is further "proof" to feed the Empress' Dowagers fear that the West is set on undermining her Empire, true as it may be.
Speed On such a small hull, all that armor means something had to be sacrficed. In this case the Ning Hai class can make an adequate but unimpressive 21 knots of speed. This is actually faster than the 6,600 ton Izumi class by a knot, the latter being Japan's main line cruiser at the turn of the century. Worryingly however, Japan's massive 13100 ton Asama Class armored cruiser have a speed of 22 knots, and the Ninghai Class have no chance against these behemoths.
In fact, every major naval power has armored cruisers that can make 22 knots of speed, but if China ever finds itself at war with any such powers but Japan, it likely has more than a knot of speed to worry about.
1899 - Xun Hai and Yu Shun on patrol off the coast of Fujian
Guess I'll do one more since I've got the Ning Hai made already
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Post by akosjaccik on Oct 30, 2021 16:47:16 GMT -6
"All in all, the Yu Shun class is unlikely to be of any use in a real battle of the 20th century" - Right. I concur. I personally for example would never use my 3000-ton, 21kts scout cruisers well into the 1910s, nu-uh. Didn't happen. Granted, I wanted to retire my very similar ships (the Zenta class) early on as well, and nowadays they are only on TP, but I just found their low maintenance costs and simply having access to an "extra" hull with any sort of guns just too tempting. Still not cost-efficient meta, sure, but they can still put in the work and thwart the odd cruiser here and there. As such, I envision a longer career for these cruisers than it would appear at first glance. I also look forward to the other classes, I do wonder what sort of answer you'll give (if any) to the massive foreign armored cruisers.
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Post by mycophobia on Oct 31, 2021 1:46:57 GMT -6
"All in all, the Yu Shun class is unlikely to be of any use in a real battle of the 20th century" - Right. I concur. I personally for example would never use my 3000-ton, 21kts scout cruisers well into the 1910s, nu-uh. Didn't happen. Granted, I wanted to retire my very similar ships (the Zenta class) early on as well, and nowadays they are only on TP, but I just found their low maintenance costs and simply having access to an "extra" hull with any sort of guns just too tempting. Still not cost-efficient meta, sure, but they can still put in the work and thwart the odd cruiser here and there. As such, I envision a longer career for these cruisers than it would appear at first glance. I also look forward to the other classes, I do wonder what sort of answer you'll give (if any) to the massive foreign armored cruisers. Because RTW doesnt have unprotected cruisers the Yu Shun is actually classified as KE, which means that as far as our lord and saviour, battle generator is concerned, she's probably much less useful even when compared to the Zentas, but one can hope. At least they are dirt cheap Foreign Station tonnage and if they somehow survive long enough I can see them being useful in that role. As for answer to those big Japanese armored cruisers, no sir, I have none
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Post by mycophobia on Oct 31, 2021 2:28:17 GMT -6
Qing Hai (青海 - Azure Sea) Class Protected Cruiser (1899) Ships in Class: Qing Hai (青海 - Azure Sea), Cheng Hai (澄海 Clear Sea) ,Guan Hai (观海 - Observe Sea)
OverviewThe conflict of regional and central authorities, of domestic and foreign procurement, is a central part of the politics within the Imperial Chinese Navy. With the procurement of the 4 Ning Hai class, relative small vessels that are actually within China's ability to domestically produce, the Foochow Arsenal feels they are not being given a fair chance in the navy's procurement program. The Empress Dowager, for all her shortcomings, is not opposed to the idea of developing domestic ship building, if only because that it will increase her prestige against political opponents within and without, with perhaps some well chosen gifts from the Fujian governor to sweeten the deal. Therefore, by her celestial decree, the Foochow Arsenal is awarded a contract for the construction of three more protected cruisers to match the Ninghai Class. Foochow Arsenal, builder of the Qing Hai Class and probably largest and most modern ship building facility in China at the time.
Thus, the Qing Hai class is build with a very particular goal in mind. Not to counter a particular class of enemy ship or to fulfill a particular role, but simply to out do the Ning Hai Class and prove it to the world that China's ship building industry can at least produce smaller vessel worthy of a modern navy. Being built directly to compete with the Ning Hai, and at the same time learning from its design, the resulting ship certainly have great similarities with the Ning Hai, but also some key differences. FirepowerQing Hai is 200 ton heavier than the Ninghai Class, most of that weight went to a slightly wider hull to fit a larger engine and more importantly 10 Mark 1 QF 6" Gun, license produced at Foochow arsenal when Anglo-Chinese relationship remained warm in the early 1890s. With the ability to bring 6 6" gun to bear against target on either broadside, Qing Hai packs very impressive firepower for its size, and certainly solved the Ning Hai class' issue with firepower. The class also carries a pair of underwater torpedo tube, but carries no lighter guns. The 6" gun, while having a decent rate of fire, is still quite heavy in their mounting and not best against fast and small targets like torpedo boats. Armor
Despite larger size and better guns, some compromise had to be made with the Qing Hai to construct her within China's shipyard limitation. In this case being the armor. Displacement, speed, and guns are all obvious methods to measure the worth of a ship. Armor on the otherhand, is a bit more complicated. On paper, Qing Hai's sacrifice is small, the maximal thickness of her internal sloped deck is reduced from 2.5 to 2" compared to the Ning Hai, a seemingly tiny sacrifice for the improvement to speed and firepower. In reality, Qing Hai's protection scheme has several weaknesses. The internal protective deck does not extend all the way to the ship, leaving tips of the vessel completely unprotected. Qing Hai's guns are protected by a 2" thick gunshield instead of a fully enclosed, splinter proof turret, and lastly Qing Hai's bridge and conning tower is much less protected as well. This leaves quite a few holes in the ship's defense, but these are holes that the Empress Dowager would not bother to notice. SpeedSpeed is the other factor upon which a Ship's ability maybe easily measured by a layperson, and in this Qing Hai will certainly work to surpass the Ning Hai. Reducing the thickness of the internal sloped deck and providing larger engine space allowed the Qing Hai to reach a speed of 22 knots, which does give her a significant advantage over the Ning Hai in her role as a cruiser. While not pleased with the southern regional navy's interference with his procurement program, even Admiral Ding admitted that he is impressed with the speed of the Qing Hai. Faced with threat of the Japanese armored cruisers, this extra knot of speed will certainly be appreciated by Chinese Cruiser captains. Qing Hai outpacing Ninghai during her speed trial, a fact that brought much pride to the Chinese people
With that the protected cruisers are wrapped up . 4/8 of class left, though I suspect the battleships will take me some time.
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Post by rs2excelsior on Nov 1, 2021 7:56:27 GMT -6
Looking good so far, and I’m excited to see where this goes! Seems like some fairly solid CLs so far
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Post by mycophobia on Nov 2, 2021 0:16:06 GMT -6
Chao Yong (超勇 - Exceeding Courage) Class Armored Cruiser (1899-1901)Ships in Class: Chao Yong (超勇 - Exceeding Courage),Yang Wei (杨威 - Display Might), Ying Yang (鹰扬 - Eagle Soars), Dang Kou (荡寇 - Purge Outlaws)
Overview Armored Cruisers, also sometime referred to as "Armored Swift-Ship" are highly valued vessel in the Qing Navy. War against the Japanese have taught the Qing Navy the threat of a fast and armored vessal, equipped with numerous quick-firing guns. Thus a modern armored cruiser was the priority of Admiral Ding's new navy, however, falling out with the British in the 1890s delayed the purchase plan, and it took until 1899 for the first ship of the class to be delivered by German shipyards. As of 1900, the last ship of the class, Dang Kou, remains under construction and expected to be delivered early 1901.
Named after the old ramming cruiser sunk during the first Sino-Japanese war, the Chao Yong class is a balanced design, while certainly not the most massive or impressive of their kind, they do have numbers on their side, as their smaller size allowed the Imperial Navy to afford more ships of this class.
Chao Yong firing a full broadside, showing the various gun she's armed with, a torpedo is also lunched from her underwater torpedo tube, seen just under her aft mast.
Weaponry The Chao Yong class's main armament is a pair of 240mm SK/40 guns, produced by Germany and used on some of their own ship designs, as well as China's own Ding Yuan class battleship. These guns, while deadly against lighter ships, is not particularly effective against capital ships. Being rated to penetrate about 4.7-5" of armor at close range under 5000 yards, these guns will struggle against Japan's 13100 ton Asama class, which has a 6" belt at the thickest areas.
Chao Yong's firepower is complemented by 10 130cm SK/35 gun in casemates, the same guns used on the Ning Hai class, aa result of Admiral Ding's effort to unify the guns used by the Imperial Navy, as currently French, German, and British naval guns can all be found upon various ships of the navy. 8 more 105cm SK/35 gun on her top deck provides further firepower against smaller vessels.
Against larger targets, experience in the Sino-Japanese war have shown that with enough shells, some are bound to cause havoc upon even most well protected ship. If that would not suffice, Chao Yong is also carrying 4 18" torpedo, launched from two underwater torpedo tube located near hear aft mast.
Armor Chao Yong's armor scheme is mostly comparable to contemporary designs, more than able to resist most guns mounted on protected cruisers, but will not resist guns larger than 9" at close range. The armor remains decently thick along the entire waterline of the ship, never going below 3", and her super structure also benefits from the protection of armored casemates being mounted within.
All in all, Chao Yong's protection is designed to allow her enough protection to escape unfavorable engagement at longer range, and giving lighter enemies the least chance to damage her with a "lucky shot"
Speed In this regard Chao Yong is once again adequate, but not exceptional. Built to keep up with the Ning Hai class, her speed is passable for her role. But with the Japanese Asama class capable of 22 knots, this one knot of difference is greatly magnified. Ding himself had to be give up no small concession to calm a livid dowager empress, after the latter discovered the ships she spent taels upon taels of silver on are still outmatched by their Japanese counterparts.
Phew, thats the armored cruiser done. The Cruiser itself, as the description goes, is not outstanding, but good enough to do their job as heavy scouts and cruiser hunters, assuming they steer clear of any of the big bad 10k tonners. While the ship themselves are not particularly exceptional, I am very happy with how the build turned out, I also considered making the turret dome, but could not find a to do so that would look good on a dual turret so I decided against it in the end.
That does not mean I have given up my dome turret addiction, and I may be able to sneak one in one way or another.
Until next time, which is either gonna be soon with a destroyer, or a while with a BB.
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Nov 2, 2021 3:58:07 GMT -6
I can't wait for the Akos/Myco collab where Myco digitizes all the ships, sends off a FtD file and Akos prints and paints them. Should only take you guys about 4 months per post if you quit your jobs, so get to it! But seriously, it might just be that I haven't seen them for a while but these look amazing, approaching true replication and not just an anime version. Awesome work Myco.
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