Re: Wet Thrust/Full Steam Playtest

At 09:06 PM 8/20/97 -0400, you wrote:
>At 03:00 AM 8/20/97 +0000, you wrote:
>>Here's some stuff from Conway's on pre-dreadnought armour:
>
>Rob, that's great information. Any idea what armour was used (in
general) on
>British and German ships during WWI? I'm assuming it was Harvey and
Krupp
>armour respectively. I'm going to use these figures to adjust my
>Russo-Japanese war stats for General Quarters.
>
>Allan Goodall:  agoodall@sympatico.ca 

I don't have the 1906-21 volume but I _think_  pretty much everyone was
making their armour by the Krupp process by WWI- certainly the
London/Implacable/Duncan classes of predreads were using KC, and
"1860-1906"
says the Americans were quick to adopt Harvey and slow to adopt Krupp
armour.  I also recall a "whose BB is best" thread a while ago on
sci.military.naval, in which one poster quoted post WW2 tests on BB
armour.
These apparently found that for a given thickness of plate, Japanese
armour
was much poorer than US, and that German and British plate was
significantly
better (I think the latter two were about equal).

cheers,
Rob 

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