Latest and overdue Maori designs

[maddox]

I would change positions on the aft mast and smokestack, now the crew in that mast will be smoked .

[Borys]

Smoked human flesh .... mmmmm ....

[Valles]

Much updating! I'm debating whether to sketch out the submerged portion of the hull, also, or leave her as a waterline view.

[Guinness]

I always do the below the wateline and often then post images of both, but you need not be as obsessive about it as I am :) Really all you get with below the waterline is illustrating how many screws a ship has and any underwater tubes or bulges, etc.

[Borys]

Purdy!
But Caesar turret does not need 360 traverse ...
Borys

[Valles]

G: I guess I'm not, it has two, and it doesn't have any such.

B: Perhaps not, but you'll recall from other designs that the Maori provide such anyway.

[Borys]

Ahoj!
Two screws ain't enough.
Borys

[Valles]

The three-screw layout of the point cruisers has been nothing but trouble for them, and there isn't really room for four, so.

[Sachmle]

I'd move the boat inboard farther, probably two double stacks (4 total boats) behind "Q" and then cut back the superstructure to allow more firing arc. She's barely useful as is outside of full broadside.

[Valles]

Like so?

[Blooded]

Very nice! What does the writing say?

[ctwaterman]

If you can read this your to Bloody Close
:P

[Valles]

'Pokere Roohi' - Shadowed Rose

[Sachmle]

Like so?

Better, but you'll still turn your boats to kindling when firing abaft the beam or on the forequater.

[Valles]

They're out of the direct fire arcs, actually, and I sincerely doubt that 150mm guns have the same kind of muzzle blast as 12" or bigger, to cause damage at a distance greater than the length of the gun itself.