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I'm a nation roleplay enthusiast. I make fictional warship designs for said roleplay. This is mostly a dump for said designs, though I also write about other stuff here, such as politics.

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Posted by Dorfplatzner - 1 month ago


I must remind all of you. All ideologies are banned except for Cosmosism. That is, unwavering pledge of loyalty to the server of Cosmos. Your citizens' demonym will be Cosmosian and nothing else. Any protest to this rule or support of foreign influence will be met with harsh punishment and direct permanent bans. No server matters more than Cosmos itself.. All countries must change their ideology to Cosmosism, effective immediately if they do not wish to be banned under 24 hours for disobeying a new rule. All spectators must change their names to "Cosmosian #(put any number)", effective immediately if they do not wish to be banned under 24 hours as well, we are not forgetting you purple role creatures.


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Posted by Dorfplatzner - 1 month ago


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Posted by Dorfplatzner - 1 month ago


A MORGNA WES CORE

VECTERN SIS DA!


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Posted by Dorfplatzner - 1 month ago


Seriously, you've got to see his works for yourself! You may only know him through The Jungle Book or The White Man's Burden, but there's seriously much more to the man than meets the eye. He's the best English-language poet since Shakespeare, and his poems were even set to music by the likes of Peter Bellamy and Leslie Fish. You've gotta try listening to the song versions. They'll change your perception of him.


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Posted by Dorfplatzner - 1 month ago


I once saw someone on Reddit call it the 'poor man's battlecruiser,' and I couldn't agree more. It's got the bloody layout of a pre-dreadnought battleship and the speed of a fast battleship, and yet the armour and armament of neither.


Yes, I get it; the Treaty of Versailles severely curtailed what could've been done with the Panzerschiffe, but if I were to design them myself, here's what I would do:

(DISCLAIMER: I am NOT a real-life naval architect, so please take my yapping with a pinch of salt.)

  • Place the 11-inch gun turrets in front amidships, a bit like the Richelieu-class battleships to save weight and maximise armour protection
  • Increased secondary armament and placed them within the superstructure, abaft the main turrets; 5x dual 15 cm guns and 5x 8.8 cm in single mounts (the loadout could be modernised to include Bofors 40 mm guns and hypothetical German dual-purpose guns)
  • Used weight savings to increase speed to at least 30 knots; future designs could adopt geared steam turbine engines instead and increase speed to 31 or 32 knots
  • Increased belt armour thickness to 4 inches, deck armour to 2 inches, main battery armour to 6 inches, and conning tower armour to 6.1 inches


Results: You now have an 11,000-tonne armoured cruiser with significantly better protection and speed. While not enough to win the war in the Nazis' favour, at least the Admiral Graf Spee would've given the English a harder time sinking her by the River Plate.


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