Add the Borodino/Izmail-class BC hull

[Stormnet]

Right now, WW1 era russian BCs are just resized dreadnought hulls, so to change that and add more variety, why not add the Borodino class (also known as Izmail-class) battlecruiser hulls? 

Construction of these started in 1912, 4 ordered, and they were laid down on 1915, but the construction ceased during the russian revolution and was never restarted. But we do have an idea about how the hull looked and how the ship would likely look like, including turrets (4x tripple 14" turrets) and tower (probably a cylindrical design). They were to have a speed of 26.5 knots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodino-class_battlecruiser

https://www.naval-encyclopedia.com/ww1/russia/borodino-class-battlecruisers/

 

Photoshop of Gangut of what the Borodinos could have looked like.

 

Artwork depicting the BCs

 

Launch of Izmail hull, June 1915

 

Images from an unknown book

 

Just hope you add it next update if you decide to add new hulls.

Edited June 30, 2021 by Stormnet

[Your lord.]

Agreed. the Borodino's were some of my favorite ships and its a shame they arent in the game.

[CapnAvont1015]

Loved playing Izmail in WOWS and love to play it here. Especially if it looked like the picture you showed us.

 

 

[HistoricalAccuracyMan]

8 hours ago, Stormnet said:

Right now, WW1 era russian BCs are just resized dreadnought hulls

While I agree and would love to see those ships added as well, that problem isn't just with WW1 Era Russian BCs...it's in just about every nation available. Especially if you look at the US Navy, Royal Navy, Japanese Navy and German Navy hulls...most of their battlecruisers and like half of all their heavy cruiser designs are basically just resized battleship hulls

[Stormnet]

13 hours ago, HistoricalAccuracyMan said:

While I agree and would love to see those ships added as well, that problem isn't just with WW1 Era Russian BCs...it's in just about every nation available. Especially if you look at the US Navy, Royal Navy, Japanese Navy and German Navy hulls...most of their battlecruisers and like half of all their heavy cruiser designs are basically just resized battleship hulls

Yeah, I know that. Same for towers. There are DD towers whose size is comparable to 2 inch cannons... Tiny people...

I hoped instead of resizing, for once the devs actually delivered several unique hulls... Let's hope once core is done they can start really focusing on delivering more actual content.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Anyone else think that maybe the devs added too many nations from the start?

I'd prefer the big nations, USA, Britain, Japan, Germany with a full, well fleshed out (refit options, different beam ratios, all the superstructures with proper names, etc), than ALLLLLLLL the nations including fictional ones like China, but with less fleshed out options.

Every hull specifically designed for, say, Austria-Hungary is a hull 'taken away' from the USA, or Japan or such.

[Stormnet]

On 7/2/2021 at 5:19 AM, ThatZenoGuy said:

Anyone else think that maybe the devs added too many nations from the start?

I'd prefer the big nations, USA, Britain, Japan, Germany with a full, well fleshed out (refit options, different beam ratios, all the superstructures with proper names, etc), than ALLLLLLLL the nations including fictional ones like China, but with less fleshed out options.

Every hull specifically designed for, say, Austria-Hungary is a hull 'taken away' from the USA, or Japan or such.

There is the problem that those minor nations either didnt last long (Austria-Hungary looking at you) or pretty much bought all of their ships to european powers (not seing the chinese make many BBs). The exceptions are maybe Russia and Italy, that did last longer (thought with diferent covers) and did produce some ships of their own.

If you dont want them to be so repetitive, the only solution is to go semi-historical and design stuff that didnt exist but could have back then.

Edited July 3, 2021 by Stormnet

[ThatZenoGuy]

4 hours ago, Stormnet said:

There is the problem that those minor nations either didnt last long (Austria-Hungary looking at you) or pretty much bought all of their ships to european powers (not seing the chinese make many BBs). The exceptions are maybe Russia and Italy, that did last longer (thought with diferent covers) and did produce some ships of their own.

If you dont want them to be so repetitive, the only solution is to go semi-historical and design stuff that didnt exist but could have back then.

That's all the more reason not to include them until the game is properly fleshed out. 5 bucks for a faction pack seems more than reasonable as long as they're equally fleshed out.
The issue is the game has been out for over a year and we are yet to have a nagato pagoda IIRC.