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Al Koz-class Protected Transport Cruiser

General information

Nation of origin: Al Buya

First ordered: 2208

Number planned: 4

Built: 2208-22012

Completed: 4

General Characteristics

Type:Protected Cruiser/Transport ship

Displacement: 4,740 tons

Length: 126 meters (413.4’) (waterline) 127.1 meters (417’) (overall)

Beam: 14 meters (46’)

Draft: 6 meters (16.7’)

Installed power: 
12 watertube boilers
3 triple expansion engines

Speed: 18 knots

Range: 9,500 nmi at 11 knots

Compliment: 258

Armament:

5x152mm (6”) guns (1 twin turret, 3 deck mounts)

6x37mm (1.5”) anti torpedo boat auto cannons

Armor:
Deck: 52mm to 25mm (2” to 1”)

Syehi-classSecond class protected cruiser
Qeye-class Protected Frigate

General information

Nation of origin: Ranove/Eskida

First ordered: 2210

Number planned: 
36 (Ranove)
12 (Eskida)

Built: 2210-2217

Completed: 
38 (Ranove)
16 (Eskida)

General Characteristics

Type: Second class Protected Cruiser/Protected Frigate

Displacement: 1,930  tons

Length: 95 meters (312.7’) (overall) 94 meters (308.8’) (waterline)

Beam: 11 meters (36.1’)

Draft: 4 meters (13.1’)

Installed power: 
6 water tube boilers
2 triple expansion engines
7,800 indicated horsepower 

Speed: 22 knots maximum 

Range: 3,600 nmi at 11 knots

Compliment: 251

Armament:
Syehi:
4x1 140mm (5.5 in) deck guns

4x1 37mm (1.5 in ) revolving cannons

1x1 450mm (17.7 in) submerged torpedo tube
(aft) 

Qeye:
4x1 127 (5in) deck guns

4x1 37mm (1.5 in ) revolving cannons

1x1 450mm (17.7 in) submerged torpedo tube
(aft) 

Deck: 

50mm (2”) (only over machinery and magazines)

Note: the Class will mostly be described under the Syehi title for brevity.

Overview:

The creation of the Syehi-class was of a similar nature as the Othina-class, it was a joint venture between Ranove and Eskida. It was technically part of a larger treaty, Eskida would get to dock at Ranovio ports as though they were Eskidan, and in exchange Eskida would cooperate with their knowledge on building a so-called “Light Colonial Cruiser”. The Light colonial cruiser name was only used on paper, officially it was classified as a second class cruiser. The Syehi was supposed to be a small, cheap class that could be ordered en masse and could pose a threat via sheer numbers. 

The highly unorthodox design was Eskida’s signature experimentation. For the past years before Eskida was experimenting with ship designs that could save weight while still maintaining sea keeping. You could make a tall cruiser with excellent sea keeping, but that height costs weight of materials that could be allocated elsewhere. Even raised forecastles still wasted weight. So Eskida had been experimenting alongside other allies like Phiria, and Al Buya at a so-called ‘flush deck’. Other cruisers around the era would incorporate this, including a few rebuilt older ships. 

The Syehi and Qeye classes largely looked identical by silhouette. The Qeye-class, however, swapped out the four 140mm guns in exchange for a newer 127mm gun which was coming into service for Eskida. 

As a note the Syehi and Qeye were classified differently. Ranove officially classified the Syehi as a second class protected cruiser, sometimes in common language they’d also refer to it as a scout cruiser or light cruiser. Eskida classified it as a protected frigate. Primarily because it was slightly feared that a commander might see they had a ton of cruisers and become overconfident. So Protected Frigate started to be used. Even slightly older classes like the Aent-class was reclassified as a protected Frigate. Was the difference kind of arbitrary? Yeah. Technically frigates were supposed to be smaller and less capable yet a class like the Maalon which was much smaller than the Qeye, was still classified as a torpedo cruiser.

Platform: mobile, specifically I used an iPod touch

Genre: warship building game

Estimated year of release: I have no clue when it was released but I know somewhere around late 2018 to early 2019 that it was removed from the Apple App Store.

Graphics style: it kinda had a world of warships vibe but with ps2 graphics, i believe it may have used Unity.

Notable changes: N/A

Notable gameplay mechanics: it specifically was centered around warship creation, but instead of block by block like warship craft it had presets. I believe the presets went akin to: historical hulls (Yamato, Baltimore, Iowa etc), guns (some historical some not) and torpedo tubes. 

Other details:

Gameplay wise it kinda had a mobile world warships vibe it wasn’t controlling a fleet but just a single ship. As far as i know it was single player with a campaign. I believe all the hulls were historical ships, but you could add on different guns. Like I had a Baltimore hull with twin 10 inch guns strapped onto it.

Extra: 
This isn’t from the game I’m looking for, this is battlestations: midway, HOWEVER, it has a very similar look to it.

Decided to make some simple line drawings using a basic shipbucket style. I tried kind of mimicking us navy preliminary sketches, although a bit more pixel art style.

For the TLDR lore, during the 2208 Protected cruiser design study the concept of triple turrets was floated. In theory a cruiser could keep a broadside of six main guns, on a smaller footprint than one with three twin turrets. The saved weight and space could be reallocated for more boilers, more armor or making the ship smaller, as in the K09-3 being six meters shorter.

The K09-1 and K09-2 are both 114 meters at waterline, with the K09-3 being 108 meters. All have a draft of 5.5 meters, and a beam of 12 meters. The armor for the K09-1 would be 65mm on the main deck and shrink down to 27mm near the bow and stern. The K09-2 and K09-3 would have an increased main deck of 80mm with the deck shrinking to 35mm on the K09-2 and 27mm on the K09-3. All three ships would be armed with the 152mm/45 gun as the main armament.

As a note, all three designs were not preliminary designs. They were specifically design study ships to be used in war games to test the practicality of twin triple turrets compared to twin turrets.

Wondering how the ships look and should i possibly use this for other ships? I probably will, cause these ships took like 2 hours to draw up. The regular way I make ships is closer to 10 to 20 hours for one ship. Still curious about others opinions.

Also for the mods, the ships are by me.

Link to Karle94’s Deviantart page:

https://www.deviantart.com/karle94/gallery

Atanka-class

General information

Nation of origin: Terrihan

Namesake: City of Atanka

First ordered:

Number planned: 10

Built: 2211-217

Completed: 10

General Characteristics

Type: Light Armored Cruiser/Light Cruiser 

Displacement: 4,880 tons

Length: 126m (413.4’) (waterline) 128m (419.9’) (overall)

Beam: 12m (39.4’

Draft: 5.8m (19’)

Installed power:
12 x watertube boilers
3 x triple expansion engines

Speed: 22 knots

Range: 8,700 nmi at 12 knots

Compliment: 524

Armament:

Atanka-class:
16x152mm (6”) 2x twin turrets 4xcasemates 8xdeck guns

6x76mm (3”) deck guns

4x450mm (17.7”) submerged torpedo tubes

Monahaka-subclass:
12x152mm (6”) 2xtwin turrets 4xcasemates 4x deck guns

6x76mm (3”) deck guns

4x480mm (18.9”) 2xtorpedo tubes 

Armor:
Belt: 76mm (3”)
Deck: 50mm to 25mm (2” to 1”)

Ships:
Atanka-class:
TIN Atanka
TIN Sindrka
TIN Alemga
TIN Eralem

Monohaka-subclass
TIN Monohaka
TIN Tatahen
TIN Kekera
TIN Monota
TIN Nomm
TIN Neida

Atanka-class

General information

Nation of origin: Terrihan

Namesake: City of Atanka

First ordered:

Number planned: 10

Built: 2211-217

Completed: 10

General Characteristics

Type: Light Armored Cruiser/Light Cruiser 

Displacement: 4,880 tons

Length: 126m (413.4’) (waterline) 128m (419.9’) (overall)

Beam: 12m (39.4’

Draft: 5.8m (19’)

Installed power:
12 x watertube boilers
3 x triple expansion engines

Speed: 22 knots

Range: 8,700 nmi at 12 knots

Compliment: 524

Armament:

Atanka-class:
16x152mm (6”) 2x twin turrets 4xcasemates 8xdeck guns

6x76mm (3”) deck guns

4x450mm (17.7”) submerged torpedo tubes

Monahaka-subclass:
12x152mm (6”) 2xtwin turrets 4xcasemates 4x deck guns

6x76mm (3”) deck guns

4x480mm (18.9”) 2xtorpedo tubes 

Armor:
Belt: 76mm (3”)
Deck: 50mm to 25mm (2” to 1”)

Ships:
Atanka-class:
TIN Atanka
TIN Sindrka
TIN Alemga
TIN Eralem

Monohaka-subclass
TIN Monohaka
TIN Tatahen
TIN Kekera
TIN Monota
TIN Nomm
TIN Neida

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.