Shadowomega23 wrote...
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Well, i wikied it last year when I did a history essay on battleship warfare. Does that count?
Nope! You win!
The Iowa class BBs must have been boring for such an essay, seeing as they were nothing but mobile gun platforms for shore bombardment and (later) missile launchers.
Actually the Iowa was used mainly for its AA role for fleet support, their main guns where used very little, but when they where they devistating. Infact the Jersey broke from her carrier group to provide assistants to another fleet which engaged the ****** fleet sent to take them out. When "Big J" Showed up the battle switched in favor of the US as the Jersey's guns helped in sinking the ****** fleet. The Iowa wasn't really a full fledge BB like the Bismark, or Yamamoto, they where Fast Battleships the quickest battleships ever built. This is why I had started building a design of these ships for a reintroduction into the Mass Effect Universe.
You know that Is not a bad idea, I was reading the Codex entries and the Alliances likes Carriers faster battle ships more so then the large Dreadnaught class ships which the Alliance fleet only has 8 of each named after a Mountain on Earth, Fuji, Kilamonjaruo, Everest,. The frigates are named after major battles example the Normandy and in my Story its Sister ship the Mdiway. I think the carriers would be named after world Leaders Presidents and Prime Ministers, the Cruisers my guess would Cities and the Battleships would be Countries and/or States
Dreadnaughts are Battleships. WWI Dreadnaughts became Batteships in WW2 take a look a some of the old ship classifications size and tonage increase as well as gunsize between the gunships of the line.
Okay then if that case The Alliance has not one but two classes of the dreadnought the Everest class: Everest, Fuji,Elbrus and the Kilimanjaro class: Kilimanjaro, Tai Shan, Shasta, Aconagua, and Orizaba if you did not know already... How would you fit that Iowa\\ class into the mix, The reason I ask is because it sounds like great idea