Why am I creating this thread? Because I have no other place to put it! I've worked really hard, but I have no places to put it and to show off my hard work! Now, a bit of background. What is New Nations? I'll present the condensed version; basically, the timeline of the World was trotting along nicely to our current history. However, an intervention of something caused a chain of events eventually leading to the eruption of one of the smaller lava chambers of Yellowstone Supervolcano at 1918. The end result of the ensuing 2-year mess was a volcanic winter, a rearrangement of world borders due to the collapse of colonial empires (they're busy enough feeding themselves) and the deaths of millions. In this mess, ideologies are bound to rise. And they did. The Socialists: Founded under the writings of Karl Marx, heavily revised and remade to fit the reality that humans are selfish. The largest and most powerful world bloc by far but suffers from constant infighting, or at best tenuous relations between the 2 most powerful nations. The Caliphate: Founded under a certain man named Mr. Ayyad, he united the Islamic-Arab nations and managed to integrate Persians into an Islamic Caliphate. They are determined and can unite under a single cause. The Fascists/The Capitalists: Europeans. They want their colonies back, or at the very least their glory of the Empires of old back. They have united to do so, and have the strongest background and industrial base to work with. Now, 2 of these three factions have no modern military. So they need to build militaries. There was a small problem; building a military tradition is hard. One of them opted to copy, one opted to build a real tradition. The Socialists had massive mineral wealth, and a strong industrial base developed from learning from the half-dead Americans. The US still existed, and the Socialists basically copied everything. The Caliphate opted to learn from the British and Germans, but to also work on their own. This inevitably resulted in an Arms Race, because the Socialists were so big they needed a massive military, and they opted to build Battleships bigger than anyone else, and more of them. Given, they were frankly not that good and meant to be disposable. However, no one knew that. The end result was the Socialists, the Caliphate, and the Fascists all racing to build their navies up into the 3rd and 4th generation of Capital ships. The Socialists ultimately had to reconstruct all their ships to make them actual, long-lasting ships. The Caliphate and the Fascists had the advantages of learning the Socialists fail, and built all-around better ships, all with their own characteristics and peculiar armor layouts. All of these nations eventually ended up designing the biggest practical ships that could ever be built, at roughly 90,000-110,000 tons of standard displacement and 18-20 inches of gun caliber. Only the Socialists had the Economic clout to build these ships, and they did build 2, that was eventually reconstructed.
Hood, SNE Battleship laid down 1932 Displacement: 34,735 t light; 36,685 t standard; 39,916 t normal; 42,500 t full load Dimensions: Length (overall / waterline) x beam x draught (normal/deep) (820.21 ft / 820.21 ft) x 101.71 ft x (27.23 / 28.69 ft) (250.00 m / 250.00 m) x 31.00 m x (8.30 / 8.75 m) Armament: 8 - 15.00" / 381 mm 42.0 cal guns - 1,937.86lbs / 879.00kg shells, 100 per gun Breech loading guns in turret on barbette mounts, 1914 Model 4 x 2 row twin mounts on centreline, evenly spread 2 raised mounts 16 - 5.25" / 133 mm 50.0 cal guns - 76.59lbs / 34.74kg shells, 400 per gun Breech loading guns in deck and hoist mounts, 1932 Model 8 x 2-gun mounts on sides, evenly spread 80 - 1.57" / 40.0 mm 60.0 cal guns - 1.98lbs / 0.90kg shells, 0 per gun Breech loading guns in deck mounts, 1932 Model 15 x 4 row quad mounts on sides, evenly spread 5 x 4 row quad mounts on centreline, evenly spread 20 - 0.79" / 20.0 mm 70.0 cal guns - 0.26lbs / 0.12kg shells, 6,000 per gun Breech loading guns in deck mounts, 1932 Model 10 x 2 row twin mounts on centreline, evenly spread Weight of broadside 16,892 lbs / 7,662 kg Main Torpedoes 4 - 21.0" / 533 mm, 23.50 ft / 7.16 m torpedoes - 1.558 t each, 6.232 t total In 2 sets of deck mounted side rotating tubes Armour: - Belts: Width (max) Length (avg) Height (avg) Main: 12.0" / 305 mm 469.16 ft / 143.00 m 11.52 ft / 3.51 m Ends: 2.99" / 76 mm 252.59 ft / 76.99 m 11.52 ft / 3.51 m 98.46 ft / 30.01 m Unarmoured ends Upper: 4.02" / 102 mm 469.16 ft / 143.00 m 8.01 ft / 2.44 m Main Belt covers 88 % of normal length Main Belt inclined 19.00 degrees (positive = in) - Torpedo Bulkhead - Additional damage containing bulkheads: 2.01" / 51 mm 469.16 ft / 143.00 m 26.35 ft / 8.03 m Beam between torpedo bulkheads 95.14 ft / 29.00 m - Gun armour: Face (max) Other gunhouse (avg) Barbette/hoist (max) Main: 16.1" / 410 mm 7.99" / 203 mm 12.0" / 305 mm 2nd: 2.99" / 76 mm 0.98" / 25 mm - 3rd: 0.98" / 25 mm - - 4th: 0.98" / 25 mm - - - Armoured deck - single deck: For and Aft decks: 2.99" / 76 mm Forecastle: 2.01" / 51 mm Quarter deck: 2.01" / 51 mm - Conning towers: Forward 12.01" / 305 mm, Aft 1.00" / 25 mm Machinery: Oil fired boilers, steam turbines, Geared drive, 4 shafts, 190,387 shp / 142,029 Kw = 32.00 kts Range 5,500nm at 20.00 kts Bunker at max displacement = 5,816 tons Complement: 1,411 - 1,835 Cost: £14.938 million / $59.751 million Distribution of weights at normal displacement: Armament: 2,908 tons, 7.3 % - Guns: 2,896 tons, 7.3 % - Weapons: 12 tons, 0.0 % Armour: 11,078 tons, 27.8 % - Belts: 3,789 tons, 9.5 % - Torpedo bulkhead: 918 tons, 2.3 % - Armament: 2,803 tons, 7.0 % - Armour Deck: 3,241 tons, 8.1 % - Conning Towers: 327 tons, 0.8 % Machinery: 5,619 tons, 14.1 % Hull, fittings & equipment: 15,129 tons, 37.9 % Fuel, ammunition & stores: 5,181 tons, 13.0 % Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 % Overall survivability and seakeeping ability: Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship): 52,558 lbs / 23,840 Kg = 31.1 x 15.0 " / 381 mm shells or 6.4 torpedoes Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.14 Metacentric height 6.5 ft / 2.0 m Roll period: 16.7 seconds Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 52 % - Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.63 Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 0.89 Hull form characteristics: Hull has a flush deck, a normal bow and a cruiser stern Block coefficient (normal/deep): 0.615 / 0.621 Length to Beam Ratio: 8.06 : 1 'Natural speed' for length: 28.64 kts Power going to wave formation at top speed: 54 % Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 58 Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 0.00 degrees Stern overhang: 0.00 ft / 0.00 m Freeboard (% = length of deck as a percentage of waterline length): Fore end, Aft end - Forecastle: 20.00 %, 29.56 ft / 9.01 m, 24.18 ft / 7.37 m - Forward deck: 30.00 %, 24.18 ft / 7.37 m, 18.80 ft / 5.73 m - Aft deck: 35.00 %, 18.80 ft / 5.73 m, 18.80 ft / 5.73 m - Quarter deck: 15.00 %, 18.80 ft / 5.73 m, 18.80 ft / 5.73 m - Average freeboard: 21.11 ft / 6.44 m Ship tends to be wet forward Ship space, strength and comments: Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 81.5 % - Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 166.1 % Waterplane Area: 61,871 Square feet or 5,748 Square metres Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 116 % Structure weight / hull surface area: 199 lbs/sq ft or 971 Kg/sq metre Hull strength (Relative): - Cross-sectional: 1.02 - Longitudinal: 0.99 - Overall: 1.00 Excellent machinery, storage, compartmentation space Excellent accommodation and workspace room Poor seaboat, wet and uncomfortable, reduced performance in heavy weather This ship is a Fast Battleship for the 1920s that it was designed for. It is a Battlecruiser for the standards of the 1930s that it was built in. The 12-inch main armor belt is sorely lacking as a Battleship; her German counterpart, the Bismarck has far stronger armor protection. Her 12-inch armor belt is sufficient to defend against 15-inch Caliphate shells, but not 16-inch SEU or Caliphate shells. Just like her real life counterpart, her deck armor is terrible and in a long-range engagement she would be demolished, just as she was in real life. In a closer-range engagement she could stand up to her enemies, although they are at the bottom tier of the Capital Ships that were built. Her 32 knots of speed is sufficient to run from the SEU and Caliphate Battleships, from mostly 30 knots of speed with the exceptions of Zheng He with 32 knots, and the SEU Ming-Class with 33 knots. However, her short range is problematic for long sorties where she could run out of fuel rather quickly. This ship was pulled out of the SNE files after a great deal of negotiations between British and German designers on how on Earth to use the spare 15-inch 42-Caliber guns left over from the days of the British Empire. It was eventually decided to build 2 ship clases with 15-inch guns of both British and German design and then see which had optimal performance. It turned out neither did, and a semi-German philosophy was adopted. At the end of the day, they ended up with what was essentially a Battlecruiser.
