Spanish Heavy Cruiser 1913

[Admiral Donuts]

Very advanced. This one will murder TBs and CLs. I can only afford six but...what the hell.

[Suribachi]

What guns are those?  6 inch?

[Admiral Donuts]

8s

[Admiral Donuts]

7 hours ago, Suribachi said:

What guns are those?  6 inch?

 

[Deadpan_Alpaca]

And why not, in fact? I can make something like this with any "big armored cruiser" hull - and that is quite fun. 

[Admiral Donuts]

5 minutes ago, Deadpan_Alpaca said:

And why not, in fact? I can make something like this with any "big armored cruiser" hull - and that is quite fun. 

Yeah some of us are very meticulous with our designs, others take the 'good enough' approach. When I find a good ship hull like this one at just the right technology, in Spain of all places, I end up dancing a jig lol.

[Deadpan_Alpaca]

38 minutes ago, Admiral Donuts said:

Yeah some of us are very meticulous with our designs, others take the 'good enough' approach. When I find a good ship hull like this one at just the right technology, in Spain of all places, I end up dancing a jig lol.

I am Russia main and in my designs I usually follow the approach "there can't be enough dakka". 

https://content.invisioncic.com/r237714/monthly_2023_06/image.png.60539057ceea6acf1375a43fb012b9e8.png

Though, honestly I have some difficulties in figuring out how to tune AP type for the CAs. 8-inch gun is technically able to penetrate BBs - as AI usually tends to keep them around 12-14 inch early on (I play with NAR mod and it is not that easy to stack armor there so AI is forced to stick closer to reality), and dedicated AP shells tend to penetrate BB main belt at close distance  at least. BUT at the same time said shells have too slow fuse delay so most hits on anything other than BBs are just overpens - which still do the thing, thanks to floodings, but actual explosion inside is much funnier.