Please cast your votes for the Battleship campaign's starting date, length of build, and campaign name. This will help me get the ball rolling so I can submit the campaign.

Starting date will be either:

July 1st

August 1st

Length of campaign:

7, 8, 9, or 10 months?

Here are the names to choose from:

Battleships of the world.

Battlewagons forward.

Jutland Legacy.

Broadside.

King of the fleet.

Battlewagons.

Dreadnoughts.

20th century Battleships.

Please vote!

Garry

Hey Garry,

August 1st

7 or 8 months ???

Jutland Legacy

Cougar

July 1st and I vote for broadside.

On the Dreadnought note though, perhaps sometime next year we could arange a dreadnough build, IE, anything from 1905 to the Washington Naval treaty. Problem is, thats pretty much all resin ships.

Gary, here are my votes:

Start: August 1
Length: 8 months (Feb 28)
Name: King of the Fleet

Tom

I say July 1st, 8 months, "Broadside"

Sean

Garry!

I'm converted!

I like :

Aug 1st

7 Months

Broadsides ( Nice dramatic ring to it)

Garrybeebe -

Voting for August 1, 8 months, and "DreadNoughts".

Blade48mrd

I second Blade.

I doubt I'll be able to participate but as to the name how about this. One of the best books on battleships I've read was called, The Thunder of the Guns. I always likes that name.

August 1
7 or 8 months
Broadside

this will include sailing ships.....ships of the line so frigates (Old Ironsides) are excluded.

I would also like to stipulate that anyone brave enough to tackle one of these beasts (Heller makes some pretty great ones too by the way) be given a completion as long as hull is complete...painted totally, all masts and spars are in position, and most of rigging is complete. A special notice of a V device for Victory if they manage to complete it

Hi Steve!
I think the only Sailing ships that should qualify are the old Ironclads, like the Agincourt. I guess the Old Iron sides would fit in there to. These were the predesessers of the Battleships. And like you said, all the power to the member that wants to tackle one of these! (jrats ?)



Garry

First, my vote:
1 July, 9 months, Battlewagons.

An aside: 100-gun ships like Victory were the battleships of that age. Frigates (Constitution) were much smaller, but once above 60 or 70 guns, you were into "Ships of the Line". Nonetheless, I'm not gonna tackle my Heller Victory until I have a clean bench & all my supplementary research done.

So I'll stick with the Iron Shipwright NC BB-55.

John

August, 7 months, and I could care less about a name...

I think it should be limited to iron hulled battleships...basically, Dreadnought is considered the first true battleship in the modern sense...since all ships of war can be coined 'battle' ships if you want to get literal.

I would basically open it up to 1900 and later, battleships and battlecruisers.

This could include then, ships like the upcoming Mikasa, HMS Hood, Renown, Repulse, Scharnhorst, Queen Mary (no, not the liner), Indefatigable, Lion, etc...
It should also include the Alaskas, even though their categorized as Large Cruiser, they're Battlecruisers. It can also open up some of the modern Soviet stuff.

My two pence.

Jeff

I have built 2 of the revells,with sails.


i would build a Monitor,the protoype which changed Navies forever.

Garry

OK

1 Jul

7 months

Battlewagons Forward!

Tracy

Any more voters out there ? Last chance for your input mates, time to send this salvo to the aproval board!

Cheers

Garry

August 1st

10 months

King of the fleet

Hi,

August 1st
7-8 Months
Jutland Legacy

Skipper

Hey Garry....

There's a campaign name you could have used....."Salvo". That sounds kind of cool too for a name.

It too has that epic ring like "broadsides"....hmmmm

Gary: August 1, 7 or 8 months and Battlewagons.

Keith

August 1.
7-8 months

dreadnaughts