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St. Gidlon-class

General information

Nation of origin: Eskida

Namesake: St. Gidlon of Kunzan

First ordered: 2210

Number planned: 2

Built: 2211-2215

Completed: 2

General Characteristics

Type: 1st class battleship

Displacement: 17,800 tons

Length: 144 meters (472.4’) waterline 145.6 meters (477.7’) overall

Beam: 22 meters (72.2’)

Draft: 8.5 meters (27.9’)

Installed power:
12 watertube boilers
4 triple expansion engines
18,000 ihp

Speed: 18 knots

Range: 4,200 nmi at 11 knots

Compliment: 1,020

Armament:

4x305mm (12”) twin turrets

24x120mm (4.7”) 6xtwin turrets 12xcasemates

8x37mm (1.5”) 8xrevolving cannons

Armor:
Belt: 280mm (11”)
Turrets: 270mm (10.6”)
Conning tower: 305mm (12”)
Deck: 25mm to 65mm (1” to 2.6”)

Ships:
ERN St. Gidlon
ERN St. Paota

I know its purpose, to prevent the gun blast from the superimposed gun from hurting the crew of the lower gun, but I'm curious if anyone knows its technical name.

New Kifu-class Armored Cruiser 

General information

Nation of origin: Kingdom of Ranove

First ordered: 2211

Number planned: 2

Built: 2215

Completed: 1

General Characteristics

Type: Armored Cruiser 

Displacement: 15,600 tons

Length: 150m (490.1’) (WL) 155m (508.5’) (OA)

Beam: 21m (68.9’)

Draft: 8m (26.2’)

Installed power: 
48 water tube boilers
4 triple expansion engines 
20,000 ihp

Speed: 17.5 knots

Range: 6,850 nmi at 11 knots

Compliment: 893

Armament:

12x240mm (9.4”) twin turrets

8x100mm (3.9”) 2xtwin turrets, 2xtwin mounts (attached to the main turrets)

24x75mm (3”) deck guns

8x37mm (1.5”) revolving cannons

6x450mm (17.7”) underwater torpedo tubes 

Armor:
Belt: 52mm to 155mm (2” to 6.1”)
Deck: 25mm to 50mm (1” to 2”)
Conning tower: 305mm (12”)

As a note: the New Kifu was occasionally called a battleship due its sheer size and amount of armament, but officially because of its armor and smaller caliber guns was counted as an armored cruiser.

Link to their twitter:

https://x.com/mmw\_miko?s=21

Note: decided to redo the Rien-class as I now have a bit better idea of some lore and design style.

Rien-class Protected Cruiser

General information

Nation of origin: Kingdom of Eskida

Namesake: Rien River

First ordered: 2204

Number planned: 4

Built: 2205-2208

Completed: 4

General Characteristics

Type: Protected Cruiser 

Displacement: 4,780 tons

Length: 124.4 meters 

Beam: 13 meters 

Draft:  5.5 meters 

Installed power:
8 watertube boilers
2 triple expansion engines
10,600 Indicated horsepower 

Speed: 17 knots

Range: 6,400 nmi at 9 knots

Compliment: 446

Armament:

4x152mm (6”) twin turrets

6x102mm (4”) deck guns

4x37mm (1.5”) revolving cannons

Armor:
Deck: 30mm to 65mm (1.2” to 2.6”)

Maalon class torpedo Cruiser

General information

Nation of origin: Kingdom of Eskida

First ordered: 2207

Number planned: 14

Built: 2207-2212

Completed: 14

General Characteristics

Type: torpedo cruiser 

Displacement: 1,140 tons

Length: 84 meters (275.6’)

Beam: 8 meters (26.2’)

Draft: 3.5 meters (11.5’)

Installed power: 
4 water tube boilers
2 triple expansion engines 
7,400 indicated horsepower 

Speed: 27 knots (maximum in flat calm)

Range: 1,320 nmi at 8 knots

Compliment: 83

Armament:

4x102mm (4”) deck guns 

6x37mm (1.5”) revolving cannons

4x450mm (17.7”)  twin torpedo tubes

Armor:
Deck: 15mm to 28mm (0.6” to 1.1”)

No idea what this ship was originally supposed to be. First image is cropped and tilted so you can read it easier. Second image is the unedited version if anyone is interested about reverse image searching.

As a brief note: the Repulse class and Kehar class are split by a decade of development, the Repulse seeing first commissioning in 2205 while the Kehar was commissioned in 2215. Both ships however represent their respective doctrines, the Eskidan doctrine vs the Sorluni doctrine. 

Both the Sorluni and Eskidan doctrines aren’t completely set in stone doctrines; as the Sorluni doctrine encompasses a vast number of countries in the continent of Sorlun, and the Eskidan doctrine has been spread across a handful of nations that have begun modifying it. However the basic principles of both doctrines will be displayed.

The major difference between the Sorluni and Eskidan doctrines is the thinking of how a line of battle would be fought between two sides. In the Sorluni doctrine it is thought that a battle would start out with a line of battle, however it would eventually result in a whirling brawl. Considering the two sides' close proximity and almost surely the presence of torpedo boats, it could be expected that both battle lines would eventually fall apart and become that whirling brawl. The close proximity would also theoretically allow for ramming, so having a ram bow would be a benefit. Because of the possibility of a close quarters brawl it is preferable to having lots of guns pointing in every direction. Also big guns and heavy hitting are slow to reload, slightly smaller guns are not as heavy hitting, but you might be able to squeeze in a few more rounds by fire rate. 

The Eskidan doctrine however thought the battle would start off the same, however it was surmised that the first side’s battle line to fall apart would get picked off one by one. It meant the whirling brawl most likely wouldn’t happen. It was also thought that the first side that could win project the heaviest broadside possible would win, as many main guns as possible were preferred. Because the whirling brawl wouldn’t happen and because they wanted the hardest hitting broadside, wing turrets for main guns weren’t popular. A main gun wing turret would be pointed in the wrong direction most of the time and thus was dead weight that subtracted from armor or speed, thus main guns should occupy the centerline when at all possible. Heavy secondary guns aren’t completely discounted, however if you could sacrifice a pair of secondary wing turrets for another centerline main gun turret, then the main gun turret is preferable.

Note: posted this a few days ago without the explanation and thought it was a tad lazy of me, so I wrote this up to give the methodology of each style.

Most of my regular ships are built in base 3 and 1m tall, however i decided to make a ship to show how well a ship that is built in base 4 and 2m tall looks. I skipped over building the hull because I’ve already done a lot of examples of that. But I do plan on showing how i build things above the hull. As a little preface to that, for superstructures I suggest getting references to what you want. What I will be showing is mostly the techniques I use when making superstructures.

As a note all of these ships were built around the technological equivalence of the late 1880s to early 1890s.

Kehar-class Battleship 

General information

Nation of origin: Terrihan

First ordered: 2209

Number planned: 2

Built: 2210-2216

Completed: 2

General Characteristics

Type: Battleship

Displacement: 16,200 tons

Length: 138 meters (452.8’)

Beam: 20 meters (65.6’)

Draft: 8 meters (26.2’)

Installed power: 
30 water tube boilers
3 triple expansion engines

12,000 ihp
Speed: 16.5 knots

Range: 2,450 nmi at 10 knots

Compliment: 861

Armament:

6x305mm (12”) twin turrets

8x200mm (7.9”) twin turrets

8x120mm (4.7”) deck guns 

20x37mm (1.5”) anti-torpedo boat guns

4x450mm (17.7”) underwater torpedo tubes

Armor:
Belt: 230mm (9.1”)
Deck: 55mm to 105mm (2.2” to 4”)
Conning tower: 310mm (12.2”)

Do those wondering how I did this effect, I took the ship reference piece, scaled the reference image out of the way before scaling the piece so it covers the ship. It gives a decent looking line drawing vibe.

As far as I know this was supposed to be a coastal defense battleship that sometime after 1904 but before the Russian Civil War.

When i build ships i attempt to use very predictable numbers that follow a pattern. Now an example that might seem strange is a number like 0.375 it seem completely random however it is one half of 0.75 or you can break it up into three 0.125, and two of those are 0.25. If you are noticing a pattern that is the key. 0.25 is the lowest number out of 1/4ths, 0.125 is the lowest number out of 1/8ths. There are two types of numbers i try to avoid using most of the time 3 or 7. A key example is if you've tried dividing anything by 3 and you end up with either 0.33333... or 0.66667... There are exceptions, like with 3 being dividable by another number that can be divided by 2 or 5. Example above: 10 can be divided by both 2 and 5, 12 can be divided by 2, 6 can be divided by 2, 15 can be divided by 5 etc etc etc.