Naval Estimates

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Naval grand strategy wargame about designing fleets, managing budgets, and surviving the dreadnought arms race. https://discord.gg/rKDwhXuwUR https://elouda.itch.io/naval-estimates

A dreadnought design in Naval Estimates' 3D hull viewer, painted in RN B5 Intermediate Blue with a light grey superstructure. An open "Customize Textures" panel offers deck, metal, and hull-plate finishes plus historical Royal Navy paint schemes - 507 greys, Home Fleet, Victorian Black, Tropical White.

HMS Barham driving through a swell with HMS Malaya astern, and the flush-decked aircraft carrier HMS Argus on the horizon between them.

The turret designer in Naval Estimates: The Dreadnought Age. Design parameters for a twin 12"/40 BL Mark IX turret - barbette mount, hydraulic drive, full enclosure, 100 mm Krupp armour, power-assisted loading; a top-down plan view of the twin-gun turret; and the new ammunition supply panel, tracing rounds from the magazine up power-driven linked-cage hoists, through a working chamber below the gunhouse, to the breech - 1.4 rounds per minute per gun from a 33.8-tonne supply chain with a crew of seven. The design summary shows 360 tonnes total, a 6.18 m roller path, and 21.7 km maximum range.

Deck plan of a 158.9-metre dreadnought: five twin turrets with their overlapping firing arcs drawn.