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Started by totemgam, February 26, 2021, 11:32:49 AM

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totemgam

We continue to immerse you in the atmosphere of the age of steam and have released a video about CSS Alabama general haracteristics. In the next video, we will discuss the combat characteristics of the famous Confederate Raider.


MengJiao

Quote from: MengJiao on March 09, 2021, 10:41:48 AM

  The French Ironclad super frigate Gloire was near the duel between the two American ships.  I suppose she could have blown them both out of the water if she could catch them (I'm not sure how fast she was).  In search of big frigates I ran a Caroline War battle or two.  The only thing really close included two Spanish ironclad stream frigates and two torpedo boats sinking 4 German gunboats at Palau:

   And the nightmare goes on as Arrogante blasts Chicksaw:


Sir Slash

So the Chickasaw is the ship in the foreground? She does seem to have picked a fight with the wrong Frenchman.  :hide:
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

MengJiao

Quote from: Sir Slash on March 17, 2021, 11:14:09 PM
So the Chickasaw is the ship in the foreground? She does seem to have picked a fight with the wrong Frenchman.  :hide:

  Yep.  The Chickasaw (an ironclad monitor) has better guns and armor than the Arrogante (a "Floating Battery")...but monitors seem to have trouble with lucky shots touching off fires and they don't seem to deal well with that.  On the other hand they don't get catastrophic waterline hits unlike say the various forms of "casemate" ironclads and the even more mysterious "Iron Ironclads" that the poor Peruvians have.  The floating batteries don't seem to have any obvious problems but I suspect that's because there's no good data about how they did under fire.  There were a lot of monitors and their problems are well-documented which seems to make them suffer when fighting "Floating batteries"...

totemgam

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The monitors have a thin upper deck. Most ships have guns located well above the monitor deck, so their shells usually ricochet off the monitor deck. But guns on floating batteries can, under certain rolling conditions, shoot at the deck of the monitor at an advantageous angle. Then the thin deck will be pierced and there is a high likelihood of a fire. But in general, with a rough sea, monitors are reliable fighters. I do not remember that I was able to pierce their waterline. In addition, monitors are very difficult to ram, because their body is hidden far behind the outer armor.

Yes, ironclad floating batteries did not fight in real history. We were unable to identify the weak points for a lacky shot.

totemgam

We have finally decided on our plans for a new IRONCLADS 3 project and is in a hurry to share them with you.


Sir Slash

"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.


Destraex

If they are in game crew and all graphics that looks nice.
"They only asked the Light Brigade to do it once"

MengJiao

Quote from: Destraex on November 25, 2021, 06:26:44 AM
If they are in game crew and all graphics that looks nice.

It's like all my ironclad dreams are coming true!

MC

Very much looking forward to this one.

totemgam

Quote from: Destraex on November 25, 2021, 06:26:44 AM
If they are in game crew and all graphics that looks nice.

There are problems with the gun crew. We were able to animate only half of the actual number of gunners. We left all the specialists and the officer, but the people with the ropes (moving the gun) had to be reduced.


totemgam



IRONCLADS 3: Cherbourg 1864 - Work in Progress No1 - Ship Construction

MengJiao

Wow!  Extremely cool!