Coastal Defence Ship's got wrong Armor

[Znail]

The entire idea behind the Coastal Defence Ships were that they had Battleship level of armor and guns. It's possible to mount the correct guns, but at least the Swedish ships come with the wrong ones. Armor is limited to Cruiser armor though.

Update: Only one gun turret can be battleship sized, historical armament should be two.

 

[Archangel85]

individual module slots do not necessarily correspond to the number of turrets (my guideline when scripting the historical designs was 6 barrels broadside = 1 module, rounded up). Since all Coastal Battleships that I am aware of had a max 4 guns broadside for their heavy armament, they get one module.

As for the armor, it is an unfortunate byproduct of the way the system works, but it also is mostly historically accurate. The Sverige class had 8 inches main belt armor, the Äran had 7 inches, both of which are decidedly below battleship grade.

 

[Znail]

8 inches or 200mm main belt armor is exactly what you get with early Battleship armor in the game. 7 inches should still be close enough or at least be considered Battlecruiser level of armor as that was 6 inches. It seems a bit strange to round 7-8 down to 2-4 when either 6 or 8 would be closer. This also makes the ships rather illogical in addition to unhistorical as it was the heavy armor that made the ships so slow and shorter range. But limiting the Coastal Defence Ships to Battlecruiser armor would be fine as it would at least make more sense then the current Cruiser armor.

As for the turret so can I accept that as it's one of the downsides of the concept was that there wasn't room for many main gun turrets on such small ships.

The starting guns on Sverige is still wrong though as it had the exact gun that you get with the first heavy battery.

 

[Znail]

The problem is right now so are the coastal defence ships mostly worthless. The idea is for them to sacrifice speed and range for armor and firepower. The extra firepower is marginal and there are no extra armor making them just worse then cruisers. With BC armor so would they at least have an armor advantage against cruisers and their guns and would be worth using, if you don't need the speed or range.