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What countries officers use blue scarfs?

Here is a wip of a Roman battleship from 1917. It was built as an emergency wartime measure, as several Roman dreadnoughts had been lost in a combined Gaul and Germanic ambush, Germania had not officially entered the war yet. When commisioned, the Devesatio was the biggest and most powerful warship in the world. Armed with 4x2 16 inch guns, 18 5 inch guns, 8 76mm AA guns, and 8 torpedo tubes. She was also the first Roman battleship to have a significant torpedo bulkhead, and she was also heavily compartmentilized. Heavily armored, the ships of this class would survive several wars, in the course of three decades.

It is still a wip, I have much details to add. As always, just comment on what you think is good, and bad.

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It has a very 'British' feel to it, I like it!

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The masts are japanese. The guns are a mix of Japanese guns, and the 15 inch turret of the Caracciolo class. The aft superstructure is taken from the front superstructure of the Arkansas. The front superstructure is mostly the lower half of the superstructure of the Revenge, modified to look slightly different.

It's an interesting mix of styles. Whether its "Roman" is open to question, no-one can possibly know what that style would look like for sure so there's an element of interpretation. It's a nice standard dreadnought design though.

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Nice work.

I believe I can now call the Devestatio, or Devestation class battleship finished.

I have added a SS report for the Romulus in the first post.

5" deck armour is on the thin side. I'd say at least 6", preferably 7" or above.
You could also decrease the armour belt to 13" instead of 14" and incline it by, say 10-15 degrees(I'm not sure if you can do it with Beta 2 though, which I think you're using). I'd seriously decrease the amount of armour on the secondaries. With 5" face armour, and and everything else at around 4" they won't be able to train very quickly, which will make them bad DP-mounts. I'd say 2" is enough for face, and 1-1,5" for the rest.
150 SPG for the main artillery is really a lot, considering the amount of barrels you're shipping. The Iowas kept 130 SPG, and she only had nine guns. I'd say 110 SPG is sufficient, or maybe even 100.