battleship

The Colorado-class battleships were the last Standard-type ships the USN would ever build: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado-class_battleship Originally four ships were planned: Colorado, Maryland, Washington and West Virginia. However, with the development of the Washington Naval Treaty...

So I was thinking, what if after Japan denounced the naval treaties in 1936, the US said screw it and modified the plans for the NC class ships and instead based off their concerns for Japanese and German large cruisers/pocket battleships that were being built, decide to make the following...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Berlin_(Atlantic) This is the Kriegsmarine operation in question. In essence, what is the best case scenario for the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in this surface raid, and what changes would be needed to ensure this scenario? And what effect could this have...

During Operation JUNO in the course of the 1940 Norwegian campaign, the German battleships/battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau encountered HMS Glorious and her two escort destroyers, Ardent and Acasta. This did not go well for the British. HOWEVER: The resulting events meant that...

Anyways, with a POD in spring of 1915, this is the alternate world in 1923, as a semi- to almost-realistic take on the popular Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Kaiserreich. The objective is to determine the outcome of this alternate Washington Naval Treaty.

Second of the Scharnhorst class, Gneisenau was an unlucky ship, meeting her demise as an active combat ship due to an unlucky bomb hit in February 1942, after the Channel Dash. However, perusing her Wikipedia page, this comes up...

In April 1945 things were not going well for the Empire of Japan. The once formidable Imperial Japanese Navy had suffered an uninterrupted string of crushing defeats which had left the once mighty fleet a mere shadow of its former self with only a small handful of operational ships remaining as...

Having survived the Xinhai Rebellion the Qing dynasty has returned to its old habits, namely importing white elephants. In the year 1928 they issue a tender to the ship builders of the world for two new treaty compliant battleships (Dingyuan II and Zhenyuan II). Realizing that this will probably...

Create a scenario where pre-dreadnought or semi-dreadnought battleships defeat dreadnoughts in battle. Any time, any navies, any place, any POD or PODs are available.

I have been thinking about this scenario for quiet some time now. So basically at the end of the war, Japan still had a few ships such as unfinished battleships, carriers, and submarines at the shipyards at the time of the Empire's surrender to the Allies. All of these became property of the...

Alright, which was the best class of 16" armed interwar battleships? edit: two rounds, 1) as built and 2) as of final upgrade

As the title says, how would the Royal Navy battleship develop without the Anglo-German naval arms race or even WWI? Say the Germans concentrate more on their Army, modernising their fleet but not attempting to challenge the RN? I’m assuming Dreadnought would still be built and all-big gun...

This is an itch I have been needing to scratch for some time now - I got the idea from Antony Williams ATL/ASB WW2 novel 'The Foresight War' and applied my fascination of the G3/N3 and O3 designs of Battleships coupled with the Naval treaty limitations of the day and also the problems of...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: A big thanks to "consulting admirals" @jsb @Luminous @hipper @RamscoopRaider @steamboy for their stellar contributions to this thread. It would not be half as interesting without them! For the uninitiated, US hull classification symbols are used as abbreviations for ship...

I can remember reading on wikipedia that several different designs were put forward for the Alaska class cruisers, including 6000t(!) cruisers, or overgrown heavy cruisers. Given that the general consensus on the board is that the Alaska's were a bad design built too late, would a different...