A history of the 'Big-Gun' ships.

??

I don't follow you? The Nassau ships were at the time they went into service the best Germany built. They still didn't have 12" guns, and they were not 'all on the centerline, superfiring turrets', so how were they really that bad?
 
Yea, I was hoping to slide by with that.:rolleyes:
To be fair, though, I will have to add them back in, but how about if, when doing the Dreadnought section, we leave it as it is, and then have a seperate Pre-Dreadnought section where the secondaries are included?

My thinking here is that in the Dreadnouht section, we really want to focus on the 'biggest guns', and including all the secondary batteries (and I could hardly just do this for the pre-dreads, could I), would force me to make the table harder to read, and distract from the readers being able to quickly and cleanly see what the main armament was on each class, and how that evloved.

Once I am up to doing this as wiki pages, then the need for brevity will no longer apply.

The problem is that the secondary batteries really are not just secondary for PD ie they actually make up a large part of the fighting power at close range that they would end up fighting (8'/9.2' are very diffrent to 3'/4')
 
Simplest way for me to do this would just be something like:

10x12"
18x6"
etc...

but that would mean at this stage, only 1/2 or 1/3 of the ships could appear on the SS of the tables I am making. As is it, I am going to have to break up the UKs pre-dreads into at least two, and maybe three seperate SS.

Once I can make wiki pages, then the process can be full on, with all the cross links and info we all want, all in one place. What I am trying to do right now is just get some basic info on all the main nations navies, and post that minimal info on the screen shots in this thread. If it is really a big issue at this early stage, I suppose I could set a three class limit to each SS, and then include the additional info, and I suppose that that would work, but then it will take more time and effort, and I think end up being more confusing.

Dunno.
 
Yea, I was hoping to slide by with that.:rolleyes:
To be fair, though, I will have to add them back in, but how about if, when doing the Dreadnought section, we leave it as it is, and then have a seperate Pre-Dreadnought section where the secondaries are included?
Split the guns into two sections, Primary and Intermediate, with the latter being empty for Dreadnoughts. As for now to split it, say, anything over 5" is Secondary/Intermediate, and under is Auxiliary.
 

Delta Force

Banned
Split the guns into two sections, Primary and Intermediate, with the latter being empty for Dreadnoughts. As for now to split it, say, anything over 5" is Secondary/Intermediate, and under is Auxiliary.

Six inch guns aren't really heavy secondaries.
 
Top