The swedish Navy. Has some cool looking ships. Like torpedo boats with Anti ship missiles and we even had some actual real battleships during ww2
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The coastal defense ship turned seaplane tender HM Pansarbåt Dristigheten
Armament worse than a 3.3 ship with the protection of a battleship, would be bad and difficult to balance but i still want it.
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It’s very cool Bateman, but that’s nothing.
HMS X1
2 × twin 5.2 in (13.2 cm) guns
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Italian Monitor Faà di Bruno (1917-24, 1939-45…she fought in both World Wars, although ‘fought’ is a relative term!)
Shes a monitor so you’d expect a smallish ship with a big turret and you won’t be disappointed.
2x 15in Battleship guns in a single mount, backed up with two 40 millimeter antiaircraft and four 3-inch deck guns, all squeezed in to a 55m long, 2800 ton armoured hull.
Of course there is a minor drawback - maximum speed was 3 knots due to insufficient power and a flat bow. Basically she was a very angry barge!
FYI not even the oddest Italian Monitor - Alfredo Cappellini had a similar armament but was built on a floating crane platform! Strangely she was a little faster than di Bruno.
And there’s more beside, they did like them oddballs! … https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww1/italy/italian-monitors.php?amp=1
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You think that’s something.
HMS M-1: 1 305mm (12-inch)/40 naval cannon. Can be fired through the periscope too
The Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle (PACV)
There are many ships I want to see that are very derpy although a few have been mentioned already.
Coastal TT:
• Armstrong Flat Iron Gunboats which could be added for all trees (national bias the South Australian gunboat HMCS Protector which sits just off the coastline in central Queensland), Also the Italians getting the Castore class…
• Monitors, from 100 tonnes to 10000 tonnes they could all come with with their slow but dangerous armament from 3" - 18".
• River Gunboats, Like the Insect class be it WWI or WWII configuration, British gunboats Una & Pamela, late WWII boats built of teak wood an have a 40 mm & lewis guns, There’s a few paddlewheels thar could be added as well.
• Tallships, There were a few in the first world war iirc, there was also armed smacks in that conflict & heh post WWII there was armed junks from china.
• mixed powered vessels like with sails & steam engines eg the US Annapolis class gunboat.
• Coastal Defence Battle/ships which would be the top of the trees Lelutoo has posted quite a few swedish ones over on reddit, But ohh so many trees could get them an plus they have coastal in their names… (The US could get a few as well as the brits, National bias again HMVS Cerberus, fun note these are RML guns).
• further torpedo boats besides just the Chidori class although an as designed one would be great (it was a really top heavy ship at one point an would look like a mini Yūdachi in a way, Bleckley class TB (it had an aircraft), The Type 1935/1937 torpedo boats which only main gun is at the stern.
• Hydrofoils like that Sparviero class in the CDK or the USS Flagstaff with a M551 turret
• USS Carronade a ship built for firing rockets
• Type 14 Second Rate ASW Frigate (so think a smaller Type 12 with three dual 40 mm & a Limbo mortar).
• Project 775 with those two AK-725
• Project 1208 & Project 1248/12481 so gunboats with T-55 turrets & AK-630’s
BlUeWaTeR:
• Frankenships, Project 30/Project 7, Tribal class halfs, there was also a US ship iirc.
• Apollo class protected cruisers setup for the Zeebrugge Raid with them getting flamethrowers on them.
• USS Vesuvius, Dynamite Gun cruiser
• Auxiliary / Armed Merchant Cruisers like SMS Cap Trafalgar, HMS Rawalpindi, HMS Jervis Bay, Atlantis HSK-2 (we have her old name in game), the Kormoran HSK-8 (F in the chat for HMAS Sydney II).
• MAC ships & Seaplane Tenders if carriers get added.
• I do still think it could be added but the Project 1143 Heavy Aviation Cruiser Baku as a AA ships or an aircraft armed ship with a Yak-38 loaded with bombs (aircraft must be researched to be used)
• Helicopter Cruisers: Project 1123, Jeanne d’Arc, Andrea Doria class, Vittorio Veneto (add in this as a way of adding helis into the mode).
These are the ones I can think of atm But there’s so many strange ships I know I’m forgetting an will keep adding if I think of them.
This is the PLAN Jiujiang, a destroyer converted into a fire support ship armed with 250 grad rockets:
Why not?
SSV-33 of Pr.1941 " Titan " class, electronic reconnaissance ship:
Longer than even the Kirov -class nuclear powered cruisers, which it shares the CONAS powerplant w/. The armament is completely different though, being almost entirely dedicated to close-in AA - two AK-176 in single turrets, four AK-630 CIWS, eight NSVT in four double-mounts, and sixteen Igla SAM 's in quad launchers.
And a hangar for Kamov naval helicopter. Of course.
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Project 12081
specification
Displacement (tons):
Standard: 390
Full load: 450
Dimensions (m):
Length: 55,13
Beam: 9,14
Draft: 1,44
Speed (knots): 23
Range: 540 nmi (10 knots)
Autonomy (days): 10
Propulsion: 3x3800 hp M-504B diesels, 3 fixed pitch propellers, 1x200 kW diesel generator, 2x100 kW diesel generators
Armament: 4х1 9K32 “Strela-2” SAM system launchers (9M32 missiles)
2x1 100 mm D-10-T2s - 240 rounds (Project 12081 - added “Bastion-K” (9M117 anti-ship guided missiles))
2x6 30 mm AK-630 - MR-123 “Vympel-A” fire control system (om MAK-10 - without fire control system, Project12081 - 1x6 30 mm АК-630 without fire control system)
2x2 12,7 mm “Utes-M”
2x1 7,62 mm PKT
2x1 30 mm BP-30 “Plamya” grenade launchers
1x2 140 mm ZIF-121M “Sneg” rocket launcher (120 M-14OF rounds)
1 “Aquilon” combat laser weapons complex - Project 12081
Electronics: «Nickhrom-M», «Mius» navigation radar
Complement: 32 (4 officers)
This vehicle can be used to test laser weapons.
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Admiral Kuzniecov, the only vessel visible from space.
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The auxiliary cruiser Hjälpkryssare Warun (Hjkr 5), she was a cargo ship before being turned into a warship during ww2.
Leif Eriksson
Whatever it is no Submarines please then the tiny playerbase of Naval’s going to be half than it is now, nobody wants to have their big battleship that they grinded for 1 year to be sunk by 1 big invisible torpedo out of nowhere…
Same can be said for Cold War missile boats VS Battleships, if those were added it’d be terribly unfair for the big ship as are the Rockets vs old Heavy Tanks in RB :/
Most likely it will take more than a few. Battleships usually have torpedo bulges that soak up most of the damage
WW2 submarines are also very slow underwater and easy prey for any semi-competent destroyer
It depends on the ship and the torpedo. Most ships below 7.0 do not have torpedo bulges and many ships at 7.0 do not have torpedo bulges.
Anti Torpedo Bulges didn’t appear until 1914 and there are several ships in game from earlier years. Existing ships also would have had to wait for refits. Many ships never received them them at all and relied instead on improved DC as speed was more important than the armour meta of battleships.
BBs would be very unlikely to be sunk by single hit, but subs usually fire a spread of 3 or 4 anyway and the cumulative effect of multiple hits can exceed the individual sums. The games dodgy flooding mechanism will do half the work for you.
But whilst not easy targets the game is far from real life. Top tier is full of circles of death filled with barely moving large ships lacking any smaller partners in an integrated fleet. A sub won’t need speed d or tactics when it’s a point n shoot environment.
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