Thread:AdmiralJoshNinja/@comment-27822411-20141213114539

That battle we had with the Erstaz Raider and Darksome Cast lead to a major stability problem. So I looked at the ship, and I saw 3 problems with the cruiser design. From top being the smallest problem, and the bottom the biggest;

3) The freeboard: DC has a rather large freeboard for a cruiser. Then again, Shoron also had a similar freeboard and she didn't have a problem. In fact, there was barely any listing when pulling a hard turn. So that is a small problem, but the least of our worries.

2) Placement of guns: Now, the 38s are the heaviest 4x5x2 gun in the game for vanilla, and they are placed rather high up. Again, Shoron and to a lesser extent Kageryū and ER have the same deal, though they did use lighter 40.6 cm guns. Again, a small problem.

But the major concern:

1) A huge superstructure: This includes the slightly raised front. The superstructure is very big and probably very heavy, making the ship very top heavy. And this is something my cruisers don't seems to have. This is the biggest problem with DC: her oversized and overweight superstructure.

So, building a good, powerful and good looking panzerschiff is not impossible, but you might want to address this issues to help with the stability problems. 