This is the famous, early 20th Century Greek warship named apparently after the guy that put alot of money into it. I imagine it'll work great as any generic dreadnaught-ish ship. Also of note, you can spot this thing 'from space' using the satellite images on google maps:mischief: .

Download:
Averof Cruiser (http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=4777&act=down)

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/691/averofcruiserlx6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/8681/averofcruiserjl3.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Happy sailing!

A Greek armor cruiser?:crazyeye: :clap:

Cool, the Georgios Averof, Launched March 12, 1910, Commissioned September 1, 1911 and Decommissioned August 1, 1952... Very good looking Ship Orthanc :goodjob:

Great :)

Good to see it done

Nice boat, O! :clap:

El J would love this for AoI. It would fit in very well.

The attack look a bit weak, but this doesn't take away from the fact it's very cool!

Question: Does it really sink that fast in game?

Very nice indeed. :thumbsup:

-Oz

Wow! good job.

Thanks everyone!

Tank_Guy#3: Yes, the animations shown in the preview should run at that speed in-game too.

This is a very nice ship! :thumbsup: :clap: :goodjob: Could you please do more of them ?

Wow, great work!
I would never have thought someone would actually make that!!!
(info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_cruiser_Georgios_Averof)

Now all we need is someone to make Karteria:

http://www.shipsonstamps.org/Topics/html/gallion.htm (picturein the middle)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abney_Hastings (info in the later adventures paragraph.)

As always, a really nice ship. Very good!

Definitely a keeper! :D

Smashing! Really nice.

Older, pre-World War I ship units are a rarity to find. This is an amazing vessel, and an excellent example of a unit type that has very few actual units. This ship works well alongside Wyrmshadow's Casemate BB's and his HMS Dreadnought.

Excellent work!

Also of note, you can spot this thing 'from space' using the satellite images on google maps:mischief: .

Happy sailing!

What town is it in?

It's just south of Athens, the town is called Faliron, but really if you're just looking at the satellite image you can't tell it's seperate from Athens. Look for a harbor, and a big boat (however, I will add that the stern seems to have a tent or something over it).

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/51326/averof.jpg

PS: The ship north of it is the HNS VELOS (ex-USS Charrette), an old Fletcher-class DD from WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNS_Velos#HNS_Velos_.28D-16.29

:)

It kinda looks like a French predreadnought ...


It's basically good, but the death seems off to me. Can't really describe what's wrong ... the sinking motion just doesn't look natural.

Well it definitely is a pre-dreadnaught, though I think it was built in Italy.

As for the death, maybe I didn't make the hull go up high enough from the explosion, that's all I can think of fixing there. It does sink fast for a big boat, but it does after all have to go from afloat, react to the explosion, then become completely submerged all in 12 frames.

Looking at it further, I think the problem is that it should glide backwards as it sinks; being basically torpedo-shaped, differential water resistance would make it glide aftwards like on a ramp.