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Burning floatplanes were a bad deal at Savo Island

Burning floatplanes and burning boats - hence the move to relocate all floatplanes to the quarterdeck, and the almost complete removal of all flammable wooden boats from most ships (by 1945 they carry two whaleboats at most).

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

-- hull knuckle argument has been split off

Please use this thread to discuss Krakatoa's design.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

One of the questions asked was about the 6", and where they cam from, which is from Davids drawing.

The look of the 6" on the New Hampshire is good, they suit the ship. But when I take them off the NH, clean them up, and then install them on the cruiser, they look too small. I have put a triple 6" off one of Colo's Cleveland's in the same drawing as a comparison, which begs the question do I need to increase the size of the triple on the CL. When compared to the twin 8" on the CA version, again the CL's triple looks tiny, but against the Cleveland triple, looks the right size.

I have added a rebuilt 6" to the same dimensions as the other two but retains the original look.




I have also followed Aris new 'knuckle' line, but I can not follow it too far because I fit a full armour belt from turret to turret to cover the magazines, so it must be shorter.

Version 2 with larger turrets in place.

I actually find the shading on this drawing far more likely to be accurate then the multiple-toned hull shading in the other thread.

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I think the style conveys the appropriate amount of information for a Shipbucket drawing, which ultimately is the important thing.

I was going to say something regarding the ship, but after reading all your arguing I forgot what I wanted to say. The only thing I remember is torpedoes. Anyways I know using World of Warships as my reason to justify why I always want torpedoes on my US cruisers was because most of the other nations cruisers I fought against had torpedoes (Germany and Japan). The firepower of the main guns was great, but every now and then a destroyer gets to close and either I can't aim my massive guns, can't reload in time or my secondary guns are seamlingly useless. Torpedoes always seemed like a good idea to at least scare them off or get them to keep their distance.

When I played in a destroyer I was often surprised when the cruisers I fought against launched torpedoes at me and forced my too dodge (one cruiser was a German ship the other was Japanese). I got picked off easily because my main guns weren't effective to deal with cruisers at long range and at close range, about 6km where I can drop torpedoes, I was constantly having to dodge torpedoes launched from cruisers and maybe a destroyer somewhere.

Playing in BB I had the same issue. Cruisers are an easy target for a battleship, but on occasion one gets too close and drops torpedoes and my slow battleship was heavily damaged before I'm able to take care of the cruiser.

I'm just saying that they could be useful in US cruiser designs. Even two torpedoes will be enough to warn a destroyer not to get too close.

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Look up battle of Samar, the torpedoes of the cruisers did nothing to deter the DDs and the DEs.