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On Sat, 6/21/14, Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Ship Design & the 'Plankwells'
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Saturday, June 21, 2014, 6:11 PM

 On 21/06/2014 02:30, Phil Pugliese
 (via tml list) wrote:

 >
 > Somewhere I have a book that detailed the original
 armor scheme for
 > the Renown, Repulse, & the Hood at the time they
 were laid down
 > (pre-Jutland). The Hood was particularly silly w/
 32,000+ t/displ &
 > pretty thin armor.

 That was the earlier design for Hood. As laid down she was a
 larger, faster, and better armoured Queen Elizabeth. After
 Jutland her class-mates were broken up (as they'd barely
 been started), but Hood was built to completion because it
 would have cost more and tied up the slip longer to have
 broken her up, and had quite a bit more deck armour worked
 in. She was known to have flaws, being a pre-Jutland design,
 but as she was the flagship, and the best of the older
 ships, she always had her mid-life refits put off, which is
 why she hadn't been properly rebuilt when WWII broke out
 (though it's unlikely to have made a difference when she was
 sunk).
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I always figured that when she went down it definitively answered the BC efficacy 'question'.

Though I doubt that anyone really was promoting them anymore by then.

Still, the USA came with their CB design during WWII but, from what I've read, the USN was adamant that they were to be considered 'large cruisers' rather than BC's & their design was pretty much an upscale of their 'Baltimore' design w/ 12" guns. The secondary stayed the same but many more quad-Bofors were added & each had it's own rudimentary RADAR director. Also, compartmentation was greatly enhanced.
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 > To get back to the TU & the CT Plankwells, I
 couldn't imagine
 > trotting them out into battle using the CT HighGuard
 rules. Not w/
 > that puny Class 3 Meson Screen!

 Her armour is somewhat light, too. A spinal PAW will scrape
 weapon systems off her very quickly.

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Is that using the CT system or a later one?

I don't know if a MT version of the Plankwell was ever published & I only recently discovered that Mongoose had done a sort-of 'between-the-wars' style refit of the class in their redo of the CT 'Fighting Ships' supp.

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