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SMS Bayern

13.3k LocalDealer  1.5 years ago
1,635 downloads
Auto Credit Based on BMilan's Dreadnought Challenge (1906-1920) [CLOSED]

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SMS Bayern was the lead ship of the Bayern class of dreadnought battleships in the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy). The vessel was launched in February 1915 and entered service in July 1916, too late to take part in the Battle of Jutland. Her main armament consisted of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns in four turrets, which was a significant improvement over the preceding König's ten 30.5 cm (12 inch) guns. The ship was to have formed the nucleus for a fourth battle squadron in the High Seas Fleet, along with three of her sister ships. Of the other ships only one—Baden—was completed; the other two were canceled later in the war when production requirements shifted to U-boat construction.

Controls
Rudder : Yaw
Turrets : Automatic
Propulsion : VTOL

Armament notes

A Main Gun salvo system wherein only the respective available guns will be ready for firing depending on where the target is relative to the direction of the ship due to their limited firing arcs. All guns sets are labeled accordingly and will only be active when the target is within their firing arcs.


Firing Arc Diagrams




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General Characteristics

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.401
  • Wing Loading 6.6lbs/ft2 (32.4kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 107,639.0ft2 (10,000.0m2)
  • Drag Points 250000

Parts

  • Number of Parts 1711
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 6,110
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    58.3k BMilan

    Official evaluation

    - First Impression (5/5):

    Upon first look the ship look marvellous! Smooth and clean design while perfectly representing the original ship. The first test run went well although I had to use faster time because the turrets are very very slow.


    - Design/Accuracy (15/15):

    To my knowledge, the build represents the original ship perfectly well, I didnt find any innacuracy.


    - Details (12/15):

    The ship is very nicely detailed although I feel like more could have been added such as railings, stairs etc. but things like the windows are nice additions.


    - Features (15/20):

    The ship has all of its weaponry being usable, all being auto-aimed and some nice rudder+custom prop based movement


    - Build Quality (9/10):

    The hull is just beautifully smooth and the gun aiming system is insanely sophisticated with each gun only being active if the selected target is within their firing arcs.
    The build itself is super efficient, with fuselage slicing used all over the place to reduce parts and the builder also uses other parts very creatively, such as the wheels on the cranes. Label parts are also used a lot and the way the fuselage inlets are used on places like the funnels or searchlights is just ingenious.


    - Performance (17/20):

    The ship behaves excellently with the ocean mod, it sails smoothly even at some massive waves.
    I'm personally not a fan of auto-aim only weapons but they are perfectly valid and get the job done. I feel like the main turrets are a tiny bit too slow, it's realisitc, but could be a bit faster to be more enjoyable. The aiming system itself works flawlessly however.
    The use of custom propellers and actual rudder based steering is also great and works very nicely.


    - Description and Information (14/15):

    The description is awesome, with a great balance of text and screenshots and nice formatting. It includes a history section as well as the controls, and I really like the additional effort of building a whole new ship just for the screenshots.


    Additional Points (-0, +3):

    +3 for the effort of building a König class from scratch just to show it next to Bayern on the screenshots

    Total: 90

    Congratulations for your second place!

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    13.3k LocalDealer

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    73.9k Monarchii

    say, LD, how do you do the aft limited traverse activation..? it's been a while and I forgot, and I'm curious as to how you did it(since I can't check it as of now, device got steam-get'rollend)

    +1 7 months ago
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    254 ivan6uy

    can i make it sinkable and post it PLZ ill give you credit.

    +1 one year ago
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    Excellent 10/10

    1.5 years ago
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    6,623 Samfpanzer

    Fond memories of this ship from WoWs blitz

    1.5 years ago
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    77.3k MrCOPTY

    I Don't Know Lot About Ships (Expect They Float, \0/) But This One Look Really Cool

    +2 1.5 years ago
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    60.4k PapaKernels

    Everyone chose today to upload their dreadnoughts 😂

    +1 1.5 years ago
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    Welcome to Byron's car wash lol 😂

    +1 1.5 years ago
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    This is beautiful

    +1 1.5 years ago