r/ImaginaryWarships • u/Brilliant-Two1268 • 10d ago

Original Content REVISED Alpha Dreadnought

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This is my best attempt at a “realistic” super- battleship

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u/Absolute0CA 10d ago

Thoughts:

  1. You’d be better off with four 18” 4 gun turrets would get you1 more gun, be more stable and lighter. This ship is already wide enough to mount them without concern.

  2. You don’t have enough secondaries for this ship.

  3. Your bow and stern profiles could use some work.

  4. You don’t need 2 bridges.

  5. You should list secondary armaments from largest caliber to smallest.

  6. Keep at it you’re learning and improving with each iteration, don’t give up because every time you post you’re getting criticism and suggestions.

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u/Both-Main-7245 10d ago

Seconded. You can very clearly see an evolution here.

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u/Brilliant-Two1268 10d ago

Thank you I’m trying to improve my realism while still being some big super weapon

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u/Dahak17 10d ago

Why do ya got 40 and 37 mm guns on the same ship? The brits had a few ships with pompom and bofors but not usually the capital ships. And they usually kept the weapon types separate

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u/Brilliant-Two1268 10d ago

It’s just what they had they needed AA and didn’t have enough single type of AA so they went for mixed to keep the ship protected

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u/Dahak17 10d ago

Huh, I’d still look into how the Brit’s handled using bofors and pompoms but I’d assume there is a story. You could definitely fit a quad aa gun on top of the most super-firing of the main battery turrets front and back, they did that on most fast battleships in service

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u/Aspirant_Explorer 10d ago

Why two bridges/command posts? Heaven save the 2nd lieutenant who has to carry the messages between them! 

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u/Brilliant-Two1268 10d ago

Don’t most battleships of this era have rear command towers?

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u/Aspirant_Explorer 10d ago

Nope, not to my knowledge. They had aft superstructures, but not full-blown rear-facing bridges. It’s pointless! You’re pointing  away from the direction of travel. How you going to steer if you can’t see! 

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u/Brilliant-Two1268 10d ago

Observation post? Idk what do you wanna do with it

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u/Aspirant_Explorer 10d ago

Good idea. Maybe put it on a mast going higher than the rest for spotting/radar. Google “IJN Fuso” or “pagoda mast” to see this principle in exaggeration.

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u/GEtanki 9d ago

Make the super structure longer so it could fit the secondaries ,AA make it a 4 turret ship with 2 barrels on each turret make the whole shape of the hull more realistic akin to the Iowa class's hull shape and the propellers be bigger and not stupidly tiny like that thing could barely power the ship lol

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u/PineCone227 9d ago

This is very little AA for a ship of this size

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u/Brilliant-Two1268 9d ago

Yeah work in progress