Alright, now that I’m off of work I can type huzzah.
Alright I’ll say this & I know I’m 100% not alone but we really should see vessels from the 1800’s, hell many thought the German minesweeper Schütze was gonna be the 1884 torpedo boat of the same name.
There are several suggestions for vessels from this time period Already on the forum be it the old one or this new one, IIRC the Diadem class Protected/Armoured Cruiser is the oldest suggestion of such.
I’d tbh wanna make suggestion posts yet I’m held back by wikis/ shitty books not rated for sourses by the forums.
I’ve already mentioned a few times how I’d wanna see Flatiron Gunboats added to the game like the Castore class (16 inch on a 660t vessel is wicked), or the Armstrong Type F1 Gunboat HMCS/ later HMAS Protector 1884 (South Australian Ship) (its rusting hulk is just off the coast from me) which had a large number of weapon types or the smaller Armstrong Type B1/ Gayundah class (Queensland navy, Lightning in one Aboriginal dialect, also the HMQS Paluma which was Thunder), while not having as many weapons as the heavier Type F1 it still packed a punch.
Besides those the Coastal Battleships of the time intrigue me a lot, pretty sure your second last image is one, such vessels would flesh out the TT of the same prefix.
Also another aussie ship the HMVS Cerberus (Victorian Navy, that’s a confusion given the post name), a Coastal Battleship with 10.5" RML cannons.
Speaking of armoured cruisers the closest we got for time period is the cruiser Ikoma from 1905 (laid down dates), we see similar vessels in all trees if given the chance (so many french ships added that I thought were going to be such but were in one case a German WWII destroyer…).
An on the note of torpedo boats, we could see so many variations from small 11t vessels to 400t vessels, HMQS Mosquito when? (Queensland ship), a small vessel with a 0.45 inch gatling gun & iirc three torpedoes (including a spar type) all the way to the early large ocean going types the TBD’s HMS Viper/ HMS Cobra both two experimental vessels ordered after the Turbinia demonstration.
Further ships the Pelorus class third class Protected Cruiser, specifically HMAS Pioneer (soz last aussie ship, also rediscovered off of Sydney 11 years ago), a small 2200t vessel armed with 4" cannons, field cannons, 3pdrs, mg’s & torpedoes.
But now comes a fun question, mixed propulsion vessels with sails & stream, how would the devs model that? the removed seperate engine controls maybe? Could you see your engines losted & the need to use sails as an option?
How would you balance the armour or cannons of vessels? what would their BR’s be in the mixed climate of the current mode of 1905 - 1991 vessels?
E1, inches not millimetres for the gatling guns.
