I occasionally wonder why this Player Characteresque Design has not been included:
An almost 10,000 ton displacement ship equipped with 15" guns from a battleship.
Cruiser sized, very slow, big guns, heavy armor. I am shocked that these things aren't staples of the game!
There's even WW1 versions in keeping with World of Warships tier system!
The Royal Navy is not the only offender to make such ships. WW2 List of the things.
The US Navy even had a few!
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| USS Tallahassee ex USS Florida |
I have read about a monitor used in WW I but I have never been that curious about what they looked like. The Germans had a Light cruiser in the Indian ocean as a Commerce raider. major P.J,..pretorius who was a scout (SPY) for the pinpointed her hiding place in the Rufiji river delta and 2 monitors came from the waters off the coast of Belgium(?) and sank her after a brief battle. Just a fun fact about a monitor.
ReplyDeleteI was presented a picture of HMS Abercrombie when I once told a player that their ship design was too heavily armed. I foolishly also stated that such armament was never mounted in the real world.
DeleteLike any other naval architecture exercise, or engineering exercise in general, it produces pros and cons in the final product.
DeleteWhat kind of compromises did you require the player to make?
Eventually I found the obscurata in the rules that prevented such heavy armament on HIS ship.
DeleteIn the real world an ocean-going monitor gives up speed and sea-keeping for armament and shallow draft. They're the littoral combat ship of their era.
My player was trying to have their cake and eat it too. They ignored a couple of the design restrictions in the rule to have destroyer speed and agility with battleship guns and armor.
Well, your players could have done it if they contracted the construction through the Darrians (TL16+)
DeleteIT was GURPS: Vehicles they were using at the time. I'd made a Victorian era "space" world with flying ships at the cusp of the change-over from sail to steam.
DeleteThere was Magical SCIENCE! involved.
Hey Angus;
ReplyDeleteI thought those were defense monitors used by various countries to defend their coastline, kinda like floating batteries. I don't know how well those ships would handle the open seas. although my knowledge on those class of ships are weak.
Coastal monitors handle open ocean poorly.
DeleteBut in a game...