Hey All,
Over the years I had been thinking about creating a fleetlist based around Amercian battleships from pre-WWI to WWII. While I have some background material I've doodled, I'm not ready to present yet. Ships configs I do have in abundance. I'm trying to shoot for this fleet needing to turn broad side to enemy ships, with little torpedo support save from CL's and L'xingtons. (I know L'xingtons where CB's before being converted to CV's, but I wanted a carrier BB). The time frame (in 40K) in which these ships were built, would have been around the beginning of the Dark Age of Technology or the end of the Great Diaspora/Exodus).
Now to the ships! Feel free to criticize. Points cost were completely made up. Armor ratings, turrets, and shields I tried to base around the main armor belts and AA guns actually mounted on American battleships. An interesting note, the first three classes did mount torpedoes in real life, and is incorporated herein.
![](http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/jaghpanther/Mercuria.jpg)
![](http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/jaghpanther/Mercuria2.jpg)
![](http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo244/jaghpanther/Mercuria3.jpg)
Fleet Notes:
Special Rule - +1 to repair critical damage / bonus negated if ship takes a bridge smashed or engine room damaged crit (bonus cannot be regained even if the engine room is repaired) - this is represented by adding 10pts to the Smotherman cost
Launch Bays - I halved the cost of the Smotherman points (6.75) for launch bays that can only launch Furies / the L'xington has 80pts added for torpedoe bombers
Armor - I charged the full 10pts for all ships that have 4+ stern armor / I'owa's were charged 42.5 (5+/6+prow)+32.5 (6+prow) for it's armor / escorts with 5+ prows were charged 2.5 Smotherman points
08/30/11 Added escorts10/13/11 Added Smotherman points cost / minor tweaks to some weapons loadouts / some notes10/25/11 Finally got the uploader to accept. Bolded points to the right of the table represent Smotherman points.