I guess we can compare the Maus to the Yamato, right? 🙂 Or more likely to the Super Yamato, since it was never produced. But this ship is outstanding indeed. A lot bigger than every possible ship that was ever built. So it is like some sort of Japanese Ratte.

Zipang

Kaneda’s 500,000 ton Super Battleship

General specifications:

Length: 609m

Beam: 91m

Draft: god knows

Weight: about 500,000 tonnes

Speed: 42 knots

Powerplant: not known, but is said to have 6 shafts for propulsion

Crew: 12,000(?)

Armor:

Belt: 350mm

Deck: 127mm

Turret/Barbette: 305mm

Tower: 410mm

Bulge: 100mm

Armament:

50 x 2 406mm (16 in.) main guns

100 x 1 14cm secondary guns

100 x 1 10cm secondary guns

50 x 2 61cm above water torpedo tubes

This ship should be made into some kind of a Co-Op boss or as an 1st April special mode, I guess.

History:

Vice Admiral Hidetaro Kaneda came up with this concept in around 1912 when he was a Commander (not a shipbuilder). Since Japan had limited funds and resources to build many ships, he suggested building one giant ship instead. He came up with this size after numerous calculations to stay level in Pacific Ocean, but of course Japan (or any other country) did not have the technology to build it, so it was scrapped.

Concept art:

CRUISER CLASS, BLAS DE LEZO (1922)

Possible stats in game

• Survivability:

•  HP: 22500(fist hull) 24000 (second hull) 25000 (third hull)

• Artillery:

•  -Main:

  6×1 152,4/50 mm Vickers BL 6″ Mk.XI [http://Vickers BL 6″ Mk XI]

  7rpm, AP dmg 3000, HE dmg 2100, range 12km (stock GFCS) 13.5km (upgraded GFCS)

  -Secondary:

  4×1 47/50mm Vickers QF 3 Pdr [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_3-pounder_Vickers] (first hull) range: 2.5km

  1×1 47/50mm Vickers QF 3 Pdr [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_3-pounder_Vickers] (second hull) range: 2.5km

  4×1 76.2/45mm Vickers DP gun (second and third hulls) range: 3km

• Torpedoes:

•  4×3 533mm, equpped with 21in Mk. VIII torpedoes (all hulls)

  range: 6.5km , max dmg 10500, speed: 50 knots, 1 rpm

• AA:

•  4×1 7mm Vickers Mk II MGs, range: 1.5 km [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gun] (first hull), dps: 2

  4×1 47/50mm Vickers QF 3 Pdr [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_3-pounder_Vickers] (first hull) range: 2.5km, dps: 12

  4×1 76.2/45mm Vickers DP gun (second and third hulls) range: 3km, dps: 12

  1×1 47/50mm Vickers QF 3 Pdr [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_3-pounder_Vickers] (second hull) range: 2.5km, dps: 3

  1×1 13.2mm Hotchkiss MG (second hull) range: 1.5km, dps: 1

  3×20/70mm Oerlikon guns (third hull) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oerlikon_20_mm_cannon] range: 2.1km, dps: 15

• Manouverability:

From chamorro, EU.

CRUISER CLASS, REINA REGENTE (1911)

Historical Info sum up:

Coming SOON™…

Possible stats in the game:

• Survivability:  HP: 18000 (first hull) 19000 (second hull)

• Artillery:

   -Main

  6×1 150/50 mm González Rueda guns

  2×2 150/50 mm González Rueda guns

  6.5 rpm, AP dmg: 2400, HE dmg: 2700, Range 9.0 km (stock GFCS) 10km (upgraded GFCS)

  -Secondary:

  2×1 75mm guns (cannot find the model of the guns, yet) range: 2km

  12×1 57mm Nordenfelt, range: 2km [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QF_6_pounder_Nordenfelt]

• AA:

   nothing (first hull)

  8×1 Lewis MGs  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_gun] (second hull), dps: 5

• Manouverability:   Max Speed: 19.5 Knots

From the user named chamorro, on the European WoWS forums:

Obviously, this is a work in progress

Comment/Aclarations section

• The Reina Regente model in this proposal is the 1911 ship (not any of the other ones)
• In Blas de Lezo, torpedo tubes are 6 Port and 6 starboard; the MGs are 7mm because they use the 7mm Mauser ammo
• In Reina Victoria Eugenia, the third hull is a “Hypothetical” configuration
• Last hull on Almirante Cervera is a “Hypothetical” AA gun layout supplied by germany or built with license
• The TIII Reina Victoria Eugenia’s hull follows its post 1937-38 reconstruction
• The TVI light cruiser project’s second hull AA and secondary layout is a “Hypothetical” combination of licensed built weapons and directed imported ones
• The TVI heavy cruiser second hull AA layout is a “Hypothetical” configuration
• Canarias’ third hull is the modernized hull and the AA layout is a “Hypothetical” one based on guns Spain already produced or had already bought
• TVIII-X project AA layouts are hypothetical layouts based on possible configurations taking in account guns at the navy’s disposal and optimal placement of the guns

Let’s start with everyone’s favourite, the T I !

MINELAYER AND GUNBOAT CLASS, JÚPITER

Historical Info sum up:

In 1934; two new Minelaying boats were authorized, with that number being increased to 4 in 1935. These ships would fulfill the need of modern minelaying ships for the republican government; which lately would be seen its role extended to gunboat due to a similar or more powerful artillery loadout to contemporary spanish destroyers.

With a designed displacement of 2000 tons and a cost of almost 15M “pesetas” per unit; all four of them were to be built in the “SECN-El Ferrol” shipyards. The first two units, Júpiter (Jupiter) and Vulcano (Vulcano) would be commissioned in 1937; while the other two ships, Marte (Mars) and Neptuno (Neptune) were commissioned in 1938 and 1939 respectively.

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