USS Indiana BB-1

[afilter]

From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indiana_(BB-1)

USS Indiana (Battleship No. 1) was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time.[6] Authorized in 1890 and commissioned five years later, she was a small battleship, though with heavy armor and ordnance. The ship also pioneered the use of an intermediate battery. She was designed for coastal defense and as a result her decks were not safe from high waves on the open ocean.

Indiana served in the Spanish–American War (1898) as part of the North Atlantic Squadron. She took part in both the blockade of Santiago de Cuba and the battle of Santiago de Cuba, which occurred when the Spanish fleet attempted to break through the blockade. Although unable to join the chase of the escaping Spanish cruisers, she was partly responsible for the destruction of the Spanish destroyers Pluton and Furor. After the war she quickly became obsolete—despite several modernizations—and spent most of her time in commission as a training ship or in the reserve fleet, with her last commission during World War I as a training ship for gun crews. She was decommissioned for the third and final time in January 1919 and was shortly after reclassified Coast Battleship Number 1 so that the name Indiana could be reused. She was sunk in shallow water as a target in aerial bombing tests in 1920 and her hulk was sold for scrap in 1924.

[BattleshipOverkill]

Dude! You're killing me! Now I'm wanting to get into pre-dreadnought and WWI naval warfare too. lol

[afilter]

Pre-dreads are awesome.

You are a prolific painter and the models are cheap by WaS standards at only $3-4 a capital ship. You can get an entire squadron for the cost of a WaS booster.

[Bluebear]

If you'd like to try Pre-Dreads, a great "starting battle" is to get the main division for each side for the "Battle of the Yellow Sea". Russians have six battleships and the Japanese have four battleships and two heavy cruisers. This will give you fairly equal fleets (only 4 points apart).

Most of us have chosen 1/2400 scale Panzerschiffe models for our fleets . . . 1/6000 is really too tiny for this period (ships are much smaller) . . . however, the 1/3000 WTJ ships are a very reasonable alternative (although slightly more expensive than the Panzerschiffes.

Enjoy, sir . . . because you won't have to worry about airplanes, submarines or even radio and radar. This is a period of naval gunfire at (relatively) close ranges . . . because range-finding was quite primative. . . . and some of the ship designs were deliciously funky.


-- Jeff

[warchariot]

Yeap, no planes is a big draw for the Pre and WWI

[afilter]

Having never gamed pre-dreads before discovering NT this period is quickly becoming my favorite naval gaming period. True ship vs. Ship combat at fairly close range.