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In lugnet.build, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> 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.
I just like complex looking things - I love really old steam locomotives and
find the streamlined stuff boring.
>
> > 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...
The Island. Peter Benchly. Michael Caine.
I did just that scenario in a shared-world (very long explanation which I
will avoid) and simply point out that it was the classic cutting-out foray:
catch 'em in port, board and overwhelm 'em before they know what was
happening. The wake from a BB would probably sink a pirate boat at sea! :-)
Bruce
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