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Krakatoa
Post subject: French Battlecruiser to Battleship growthPosted: August 7th, 2014, 10:12 pm
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Some time ago I did a set of alternate drawings on the premise that the Dunkerque's were replies to bigger German PB/BC (like Syzmos Seydlitz) and the follow up Gascogne type would be bigger again. Seeing David Latuchs drawings of Alsace reminded me of these. You will note that I have carried the 5.1" quads through both drawings as I give the French the 5.1" as a good system rather than the problem it was.

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The enlarged Dunkerque goes to 8x15" and 24x5.1".
The Gascogne goes to 12x15" and 24x5.1"
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Post subject: Re: French Battlecruiser to Battleship growthPosted: August 8th, 2014, 9:54 am
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Beautiful ships! I always like Dunkerque and Richelieu but felt their forward batteries spoiled their looks. Gasgogne looked much better and these are improvements on that.

Kudos and looking forward to more!
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Post subject: Re: French Battlecruiser to Battleship growthPosted: August 8th, 2014, 2:48 pm
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Very interesting ideas. Thanks for sharing these.

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Post subject: Re: French Battlecruiser to Battleship growthPosted: August 8th, 2014, 6:45 pm
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Nice work!
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Post subject: Re: French Battlecruiser to Battleship growthPosted: August 9th, 2014, 6:33 pm
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They would've looked beautiful like that as well!

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