Damage Mitigation, Prevention, and Repair Board StudyThe newly established DMPRB, or Damage Mitigation, Prevention, and Repair Board, is undertaking a detailed study into the results of naval combat upon our own fine nation's ships, focusing on what hurts us the most, how we can most prevent that hurt from happening by good design, how we can decrease and repair the hurt after the damage happens most effectively, and what parts of the ship make either of those easier or harder and why. From this study they will give a multitude of design suggestions meant to make our ships harder to hurt, make them get hurt less when they get damaged anyway, and make them easier to repair after they do get damaged. Some suggestions, such as reinforced anti-explosion doors between the magazines and... basically anything else, will be easier the other suggestions, like their current focus on efficient pumping techniques for countering flooding and widespread training in proper damage control for all crewmen, but the hassle should be well worth it for us to have less sinking or maimed ships at the end of a battle.
Central Rangefinding StationA proposed upgrade to naval firing control stations, the doctrine of the Central Rangefinding Station would consist of a central location on the ship equipped with both a powerful mechanical calculator and a large scale rangefinder, either of the stereoscopic or coincidence types. This rangefinder would thus feed data into the calculator, which would then calculate the proper firing solution to hit the target, which would then be communicated to the ships guns for firing, allowing increased effectiveness per shot in battle.
So here's two designs we should do this turn so we can then revise them into the blueprints for the Serpent before we undergo the pre-war megaconstruction phase at the end of this turn. Better armor would be nice, but damage control will also help ships survive better, and better rangefinding and shooting is very important and if we don't put a proper firing control system in now, we'll have to wait for the next generation of ships or at least the next generation of refits to put them in in any large scale. Meanwhile better propellant can probably be used without needing a full revision spent on upgrading the blueprints later, so I don't think it's a priority right now, as this is our last turn before the big build phase so we should focus on stuff that directly effects the mass building we're about to do.
(1) Damage Mitigation, Prevention, and Repair Board Study : Happerry
(1) Central Rangefinding Station : Happerry
(0) Mk1 optical range finder:
(0) Face hardened armour(harvey armour):
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Topic: Refit and Repair, Sothweg, Spring, 1890, Production & Deployment Phase. (Read 26806 times)