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In lugnet.build, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> I liked those WWI BB and BC with the staggered port and starboard turrets.
> A great job of buiding it with Lego.
Thanks!
I've always liked the wing turret concept. The theory was
marvelous, but in the end it wasn't nearly as marvelous as
the American-pioneered raised-end mounting, which became
standard by 1916 on capital ships of all nations.
> Of course, my pyrates would sail in under those big guns, board it, and make
> those lubbers walk the plank....
Well, we'd just turn into the wind, that that would be the end
of that. ;)
Actually, the idea of something sneaking in too small and too
low to hit with the HG was a real fear of capital-ship builders.
That's why the 88mm guns are there, and why the casemates are
there too. The British did away with these for several generations,
but the Germans kept them. Oh, and you did see the machineguns
on top of the flag bridge? They do angle *down*...
...it would be a replay of that movie whose name escapes me, where
the pirates take over the Coast Guard cutter just to be cut down
on the deck by the one machinegun, a weapon they really didn't
know about...
best
LFB
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