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Janissary Class Dominion Heavy Cruiser

Janissary Class Heavy Cruiser

Disclaimer: This ship was designed within the WWN ruleset, which is the reason for the frag poles as ammo, the max of 6m of armor, and the steam shafts used instead of heavy armor.

Armament:
6x twin 210mm turrets firing 4m long frag shells at 10rpm
6x single 100mm turrets firing 2m long frag shells at 30rpm
4x quad torpedo launchers under the deck in the stern
a large number of aesthetic quad and single AA guns

The Janissary is designed to fulfill the role of a heavy cruiser: fighting other heavy cruisers and light cruisers. For that reason it has twelve 210mm guns, which is slightly more than most treaty heavy cruisers (most had 8,9, or 10x 203mm guns). The Janissary's most unique feature is her setup of variable-height turrets. There are three twin turrets forward and three turrets aft (in a hexagonal layout overall), and they are designed so that whatever angle the enemy is on, they will always be able to fire over each other. This leaves the wing turrets slightly underarmored and vulnerable, but it is just a really cool concept. It could work realistically by one of two ways: a rotating circular plate with a varying height where the low side would be rotated to face the enemy, and the turrets would sit on top and go up and down the with the ring they're sitting on, or a system of pneumatics where the lowering turret would provide the pressure to raise the other turret that has to go up.

For AI it features 4x mainframes, one for each of the two gun sections, one for navigation and most of the detection, and one for the secondaries. The AI is set up with a breadboard to theoretically make it switch sides as it takes damage on one side.

UPDATE: It now features two floatplanes which carry APN-guided large bombs. This aircraft was made by Samson, and some credit also goes to Samson and Rocketman for some of the decorations (bollards, life boats, decorational light and medium AA) which I took and modified a bit for my own use. To launch the planes, there are two ACBs on the bridge, or you can use a complex controller to press left or right arrow.

Please let me know what you think and if you have any questions or suggestions. It was a fun but very time consuming build, and like most things in FtD, it can still use a few more updates.

This was built for WWN, you can find our ruleset and general information at;
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16Ak3m_91W-i4rgwBGiAmOwpT8HcKa2NOPTmkF6wsCho/edit#gid=0

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