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Here are construction details and arrival dates for American and Japanese battleships in Orange Dawn.

US BATTLESHIPS
All normal until you get to the Colorado Class.

Colorado Class (historical)
BB-45 Colorado: Completed August 1923
BB-46 Maryland: completed July 1921
BB-47 Washington: Completed August 1924
BB-48 West Virginia: Completed December 1923

Kentucky Class: BB1917 design, 10x16inch guns
BB-49 Kentucky: Completed December 1924 begins game at Mare Island
BB-50 Wisconsin: Completed April 1925 begins game at Mare Island

South Dakota Class: 12x16 inch guns
BB-51 South Dakota: completed December 1925 begins game at San Diego
BB-52 Indiana: completed March 1926 arrives in game March 1927
BB-53 Montana: January 1927 arrives in game March 1927
BB-54 North Carolina: November 1927 arrives in game Jan 1928
BB-55 Iowa: June 1926 begins game at San Diego

Massachusetts Class (South Dakota class but with 8x18 inch guns)
BB-56 Massachusetts: January 1928 arrives in game March 1928
BB-57 Illinois: August 1928 arrives in game November 1928
BB-58 Missouri: January 1929 arrives in game March 1929

Maine Class (Tillman IV-2)
BB-59 Maine: July 1929 arrives in game September 1929

US BATTLECRUISERS

Bunker Hill Class (CC1916 design, 10x14 inch)
CC-1 Bunker Hill September 1919 begins game at Pearl Harbor
CC-2 Ticonderoga January 1920 begins game at Pearl Harbor

Lexington Class (8x16 inch)
CC-3 Lexington Completed January 1924 begins game at San Diego
CC-4 Constellation Completed August 1924 begins game at San Diego
CC-5 Saratoga Completed February 1925 begins game at San Diego
CC-6 Ranger Completed December 1925 arrives in game Jan 1927
CC-7 Constitution Completed March 1926 arrives in game Jan 1927
CC-8 United States Completed November 1926 arrives in game April 1927

President Class (8x18 inch)
CC-9 President Completed March 1928 enters game in May 1928
CC-10 Congress completed November 1928 enters game in January 1929




Japanese Battleship Classes

All normal through Nagato and Kaga classes.


JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS
Kii Class (10x16 inch guns)
Kii completed April 1925
Owari completed December 1925
Wakasa completed August 1926
Kushiro completed February 1927

JAPANESE BATTLECRUISERS
Amagi Class (10x16 inch guns)
Amagi August 1923
Akagi December 1923
Atago December 1924
Takao March 1925

Yashima Class (No. 13 class, 8x18 inch)
Yashima September 1927
Ezo: March 1928
Yamato: June 1928
Musashi: January 1929

Hi!
Japanese named thier cruiser by name of moutains, althourh No.13 class even more powerful than battleships they were BATTLECRUISER, so they should also get names from mountains.

Yashima is a poetic name of Japan Islands, Ezo Yamato and Musashi is the name of formor states in Japan, so these names can name battleships but not battlecruisers.

The names of Amagi class firstly were Amagi Akagi Atago and Ashitaka, you can see all of them are Initiated by A, althourh lately Ashitaka renamed to Takao, so I wondered the names of No.13 class might be from mountains and initiated by I.

There is a great possibilty of Ibuki Ikoma Iwate and Ishigari, the old armoured cruiser or battleships of same names should be retired when they finished.

If I remember correctly, the No. 13 design was considered a "fast battleship" and not just a battlecruiser. In which case dreadnought-type names would be appropriate.

Orange Dawn has had to take a back seat to real life concerns, but I do intend to continue work on this project.

Hi FDRLincoln, Thanks for your work and I will support you as a can.

Although No.13 likes a kind of fast-battleship, but the 8-8-project is to bulid 8 battleship and 8 battlecruiser, under this project, No.13 must to be bulit as a battlecruiser, so they must be named as Battlecruiser.

Actually I had read some Japanese fiction, the No.13 had been name as Fuji, Asama and so on but all of them all acording to the mountain.

Bumping this thread back up....all of this will be in the scenario.