CORPEN 18:
STEEL DREAMS
Ship Ratings
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
United States
SHIP RATINGS:
This section provides data for several never-built ship classes of the WW2 era for the
Corpen 18 rules.
France:
Class: Alsace BB Category: Capital Ship
Movement:
3/3
Fire Control: IV
Main Battery: 8VL Range: 11 To-hit:
+2/+2/--
Secondary: 2 Range: 7 To-hit: +1/+1/+1
Torpedoes: --
Protection: 8/9
Notes: A follow-on to the Richelieu class. There were several main armament
schemes considered. Statistics above assume an armament of 12 380mm guns in
three quad turrets, including two fore (as in Richelieu class) and one aft. If
adopted, this scheme would have been a further development of the Gascogne BB
(the fourth Richelieu-class ship), whose two quad main battery turrets were
distributed one forward and one aft.
Class: St. Louis CA Category: Cruiser
Movement:
3/3
Fire Control: III
Main Battery: 4L Range: 8 To-hit:
0/+2/-1
Secondary: U5 Range: 4 To-hit:
--/-1/--
Torpedoes:
1/2
Protection: 4R
Notes: Successor to the Algerie CA, with Washington Treaty restrictions removed.
Main armament was to consist of 9 203mm guns, in three triple turrets (two
forward, one aft).
Germany:
Class: "O, P, Q" BC Category: Capital
Ship
Movement: 3/3
Fire Control: IV
Main Battery: 8VL Range: 10 To-hit: -1/0/-1
Secondary: 2 Range: 7 To-hit: -1/0/-1
Tertiary: U5 Range: 4 To-hit: --/+1/--
Torpedoes: --
Protection: 4/6
Notes: A badly underarmored battlecruiser design which earned a derisive
nickname of "ohne Panzerung quatsch," ("unarmored nonsense") after the
preliminary letter names assigned to the three projected ships.
Class: "M" CL Category: Cruiser
Movement: 4/3
Fire Control: III
Main Battery: 2 Range: 7
To-hit: -1/+1/-1
Secondary: U4 Range: 4
To-hit: --/-1/--
Torpedoes:
1/2
Protection: 2F
Notes: A fairly mediocre light cruiser design, inferior to contemporary foreign
counterparts. Although it represented an improvement in terms of speed over
earlier German CLs, its main armament was reduced by one 150mm gun.
Class: "Spaehkreuzer" CL Category: Cruiser
Movement: 4/3
Fire Control: III
Main Battery: 2 Range: 7
To-hit: -2/0/-1
Torpedoes:
3
Protection: U7R
Notes: A fast but lightly armored cruiser intended as a fleet scout, an oceanic
raider, or a destroyer flotilla leader.
Class: 1936C DD Category: Escort
Movement:
4/3
Fire Control: II
Main Battery: U6 Range: 5
To-hit: -1/+3/+1
Torpedoes:
4
Protection: U7
Notes: An evolutionary design derived from wartime German destroyers. In
contrast to its predecessors, it was to have a dual-purpose main battery,
consisting of six 128mm guns in three twin mounts, mounted one fore and two aft.
Italy:
Class: Commandante Medaglie d'Oro DD Category: Escort
Movement:
4/3
Fire Control: II
Main Battery: U7/1 Range: 5
To-hit: -1/+1/-1
Torpedoes:
3
Protection: U6
Notes: A promising late-war destroyer design incorporating, for the first time,
dual-purpose 135mm guns in four single mounts.
Japan:
Class: B65 BC Category: Capital Ship
Movement:
3/3
Fire Control: IV
Main Battery: 5VL Range: 8
To-hit: 0/+2/-1
Secondary: U5 Range: 4 To-hit: --/+1/--
Torpedoes:
1/2 H
Protection: 5
Notes: Japan's projected response to the US Alaska class which, ironically, was
itself designed as an "answer" to the projected (but as yet non-existent)
Japanese "large cruiser" design. Visually, these ships would have resembled a
scaled-down Yamato class.
Netherlands:
Class: Design 1047 BC Category: Capital
Ship
Movement:
3/3
Fire Control: IV
Main Battery: 5VL Range: 8
To-hit: 0/+2/-1
Secondary: U6 Range: 4
To-hit: --/0/--
Torpedoes: --
Protection: 5
Notes: Designed with German assistance. Main armament would have consisted of
German 280mm guns.
Soviet Union:
Class: Sovetskiy Soyuz BB Category: Capital Ship
Movement:
3/2
Fire Control: IV
Main Battery: 9VL Range: 10
To-hit: 0/+2/-1
Secondary: 2 Range: 6
To-hit: --/0/--
Torpedoes: --
Protection: 9F
Notes: An ambitious design whose combat effectiveness, in view of the lack of
Russian experience in capital ship design, would have probably been far less
impressive than these statistics suggest.
Class: Kronshtadt BC Category: Capital Ship
Movement:
3/3
Fire Control: IV
Main Battery: 5VL Range: 10
To-hit: 0/+2/-1
Secondary: 2 Range: 6
To-hit: --/-1/--
Torpedoes: --
Protection: 4F
Notes: An inadequately protected battlecruiser design, inspired by German
Scharnhorsts.
Class: "Cruiser X" CA Category: Cruiser
Movement:
4/3
Fire Control: III
Main Battery: 4L Range: 10
To-hit: 0/+2/-1
Secondary: U7/1 Range: 5
To-hit: --/0/--
Torpedoes:
1/2
Protection: 2F
Notes: A very poorly protected (for its size) albeit very fast raider with a
large seaplane complement.
United Kingdom:
Class: Lion BC Category: Capital Ship
Movement: 3/3
Fire Control: V
Main Battery: 9 VL Range: 10 To-hit: 0/+2/-1
Secondary: U7/1 Range: 5
To-hit: --/+1/--
Torpedoes: --
Protection: 8
Notes: An improvement on the Prince of Wales class, with thicker armor and main
armament of 9 406mm guns.
United States:
Class: Montana BB Category: Capital Ship
Movement: 3/2
Fire Control: V
Main Battery: 9 VL Range: 10 To-hit: 0/+3/0
Secondary: U6 Range: 5 To-hit:
--/+2/--
Torpedoes: --
Protection: 9 R
Notes: Arguably the most powerful battleship design ever.
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Mike J.
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