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I like the barbette mounted main battery. Theere were many ships like this during this period with just 1 or 2 extra large guns mounted on barbettes. The French, especially, seemed to like them. They hadn't yet figured out that with so few barrels and the very slow reloading times of the day that getting a hit would be mostly by luck. The only thing that mattered was the bragging rights over who had the biggest gun.
Your ship is advanced in that it has fewer than usual scuttles (portholes). The only thing it lacks is a couple of 12.5 mm machine guns for short range defense against small, fast moving targets. Another optional addition would be bilge keels. The Germans found they needed them to counter the rolling caused by the length of the Baltic swell.
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Yeah, that's what I found was rather common for a little while, after the invention of the Canet gun system. It's actually taken from a Japanese ship, the Matsushima, though, i do believe it was built and designed in France.
I need to rework the design for some text issues, so I'll see about adding those in soon, then on to the information for the ships themselves.
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There were three similar ships built in France for Japan. Two, the Itsukushima and the Hashidate had the main gun mounted forward, the third, the Matsushima had the main gun mounted aft, hopefully, to improve sea-keeping. The maximum rate of fire for the main guns is stated at 2 rounds per hour. Strangely, unlike most Japanese ships of the period, they apparantly had no MG's. (That does not mean I don't think you should not add 2 to 4.)
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