The Dreadnought Project

This is what I have been up to. Trying to make a ship to add to the online game Pirates of the Burning Sea. They allow user submissions, if they have high enough quality.

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It looks like the American USS Deleware class.

Storm Eagle Studios is some kind of small developer that is making a niche game. I particularily like that combination because you get gems like the tank simulator Steel Beasts that way.

There pro ...

All I really know about old American gunnery is that they seemed to play catch up with the British RN quite often.

In particular they copied a lot of things for American submarines from the British ...

You might have them inside out. That happens sometimes, but I don't think that is the case.

Can you email me a copy of your saved animator file and I will take a look at it.

kylewiegers@alltel. ...

Now the question is if that 15,000 yard range is the effective range or the maximum range. I think it is maximum.

Effective range is where you can expect to hit something you are aiming at, and th ...

And that is what Animator is. It is free.

I used it to make the SMS Kaiser that Tone was using in his simulation presentation in the UK.

Effective range was probably similar to the guns of other navies of the time period, which might be easier to find data for.

I understand that the US Navy ships could fire at long ranges, but didn' ...

Can I ask what the crowd thought of your computer demostrations?

Did anybody mention anything that surprised them?

Those lectures you gave, they were some sort of door prize to guests of the conference to attend as a reward, or what was their purpose if that is wrong?

I tried looking around and did not find any good reference material about that ship. All that I could come up with was that it is the only Japanese pre-dreadnought ship that Japan still has preserved ...

Signed.

Kyle "Weird Guy" Wiegers.

If you put up your e-mail address maybe I can talk you through it.

Actually, I found I wanted to do a predreadnought, and the USS Iowa seemed like an interesting design. I thought her "hexigonal" turret arrangment were interesting, with secondary batteries in wing t ...

P.S. That looks great in the sim. I noticed that a couple of flags have been added to the ship as well.

As a side note I have been tweaking my model here and there as I debate what to model next. ...