From AdamC: Grand Old Ladies and their American Cousins (49 points).

 

First We have three Queen Elizabeth Class Battle ships in their World War II guise after modernization in the 30s.  

Queen Elizabeth, Warspite (nick named the Grand Old Lady) and Valiant.  All three had very active careers in Two World Wars.

Warspite is of course one the most active ships in world history with 15 battle honors in Two World Wars. The Museum ship that should have been government bureaucracy being the only enemy her "plot armor" couldn't overcome.  

Four Omaha-Class Cruisers these were built by the US after the Great War and were the first cruisers The USN had built in 10 years.  It was clear that the USN needed Ships to Scout for the Battle fleet and initially these ships were called "scout cruisers" (later they were classed as Light Cruisers) and included two air craft to help with this scouting. 

They had an odd combination of  6" guns with two mounted in twin-turrets, one fore and one aft as well as four more mounted older style sponsons on each broad side.  Almost as if the designers couldn't make up their minds so they did both.  Unlike Most other US cruisers the Omahas have torpedoes.  

Next up are four ships of one of my favorite classes The Brooklyn Class Light Cruisers.  These ships were developed as a response to the Mogami and share that classes original armament with fifteen 6" guns mounted in fife three gun turrets. 

These ships were light in name only being of similar size to existing US Heavy cruisers. They were built to be fast and pack a punch.  The guns of this class could fire 10 rounds per minute meaning one of these ships could absolutely drowned and enemy in 150 shells in sixty second! Small wounder they were nicked named the "machine gun cruisers."  They were good ships, with several serving in the 1980s in South America. (Again why didn't one of them become a museum ship?!) 

Finally we have 4 Bagley class destroyers and 4 Mahan class Destroyers both good 1930s American destroyers, which as I have described them elsewhere I will not discuss them now.  Most of these ships will see action at up coming convention (Mayhem and Huzzah)  here in New England this year, maybe I'll see some of you there.

If I have the points right it should be an additional 16point for the Destroyers (8 at 2 points each) and then 33 points for the larger ships (11 at 3 points each) for an additional 49 points.

I'm glad I was able to come back this year its been great fun and I am as always in awe of the quality and quantity of work one can see here. 

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Wonderful work Adam (and great mini-histories on these storied ships). The painting is crisp and clean, and I really like the clear basing. Well done and I look forward to having you with us the next time we hoist anchor. 

- Curt