Wartime construction for the Navy of Tarrantry
I can't see a maritime nation like Tarrantry not producing at least some new vessels during the war years. Probably something along the lines of a new line of Cruisers to go along with the two new...
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Rich the one most pleasing to the eye is the Emden. I would add another dual on the superstructure platform aft in the space between X and Y. Primary function is AA remember. I am going to see if I...
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The Emden is an 'own design'; the two Italians are historical.I didn't go overboard with the twin 4.1in mounts. I could have replaced all the 5.9in, but I think there would be added weight in...
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I'm with Carr2. The Emden with another 4.1 twin worked in. Lower it down half a deck and protect it and "Y" mount with that shelf-like extension over the mount found on KM destroyers.
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I'm somewhat curious as to why you would bother putting a torpedo suite on an AA cruiser. That would almost guarantee that it would get sent into knife fights, and really, that's not where you want...
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From what I can gather the AA cruisers for the most part started as destroyer leaders in the US Navy. I think the theory is it would give the ship a limited offensive power to get out of scrapes with...
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Carr2 wrote:Theodore...Tarrantry was your baby for the most part.Well, this is an alternate history board...
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Yes it is but I won't step on someone's story line without him at least accepting the basic idea of the plotline.
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Carr2 wrote:Yes it is but I won't step on someone's story line without him at least accepting the basic idea of the plotline.I think what is meant there is that it wasn't Theodore who wrote the bulk...
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Theodore has become the custodian of the Saga. I wish someone would take all the parts and repost them as a series on the present board. The wayback machine has a lot of it but sketches o ships have...
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Carr2 wrote:Theodore has become the custodian of the Saga. I wish someone would take all the parts and repost them as a series on the present board. The wayback machine has a lot of it but sketches o...
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Big Rich I was looking at the British C class cruisers that were converted to AA vessels. If we knocked off the Q turret and scrunched the superstructure together raise the bow profile a bit to give...
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Larrikin22 wrote:I'm somewhat curious as to why you would bother putting a torpedo suite on an AA cruiser. That would almost guarantee that it would get sent into knife fights, and really, that's not...
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I think the scaled back armament and the centerline placement of the guns would mitigate the weight problems and the individual mount problems. If we take the 4 mounts in the standard AB XY positions...
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I know this thread has gone off on a tangent, but if we could go back to the title for a minute, I've been re-reading (again) Tarrantry stories and other information and it occurs to me there was...
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Another comment and little theory . . . There seems to be a gaping hole in the Tarrantry stories in terms of what happened in the Pacific after late '42 (or the events of The Last Carrier). What we...
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Fred the Great Nice to see another person who sees the holes in the Saga that should be filled in. Also we have a mention of the Renommee lost in the Med in Dec of 41 but no story line. Which is why I...
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Carr2 wrote:Fred the Great Nice to see another person who sees the holes in the Saga that should be filled in. Also we have a mention of the Renommee lost in the Med in Dec of 41 but no story line....
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I agree the problem being the research needed to bring the tech data up to the writing level. I love the writing done on the Saga.
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And I just discovered this interesting reference in The End of the Saga that I had embarrassingly overlooked: “And then, when any other leader would have leaned back and basked in the glory of victory...
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Siegmund aus dem Engelnwald wrote: The story of Trevanne in the Pacific (at least for 1945) is in Death of an Immortal. This was posted to the board in the 2004-05 timeframe, but apparently was not...
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