View Full Version : New Naval Unit: Queen Elizabeth Class WWI/WWII Battleship


W.i.n.t.e.r
Jan 24, 2004, 08:02 PM
This file shows the Queen Elizabeth prior to its conversion, i.e. still in its late WWI look. Use this Unit to close the gap between the "Battlewagon", "Dreadnought"- and/or "Pre-Dreadnought" ships and the WWII Type "Battleship". *NEW* Post 15 (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=1549230#post1549230) holds some good info on this beautiful vessel- Go check it out!


WWI Battleship "Queen Elizabeth Class" (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/WWI_Battleship.zip)

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/QueenElisabeth.gif


And here is an in-game preview (left):
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/in-game.JPG


Notes:
-The Death File is still in Beta Status- I left it this way since ships of that time had a nasty habit of blowing up when hit from above, by having left it the way it is now, the death flc kinda suggest this lil feature...
-The Fidget file and Run lack something I had wanted to make: Smoke- if somebody feels creative please feel free to add a small smoke screen for the run-animation and a short, single heavy one for the fidget... Njoy!!!

Ooops- I forgot to update the Ini:
Please download this one and replace the Original one that came with the Main Zip:
WWI Battleship.Ini (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/WWI_Battleship.Ini.zip) (Now Updated to go with Battleship-Sounds)

Gogf
Jan 24, 2004, 08:19 PM
First post! It looks great!

Drivebymaster
Jan 24, 2004, 10:17 PM
Yes The second one to post GREAT UNIT might I add

Drivebymaster
Jan 24, 2004, 10:18 PM
Oh ok I will try to do the smoke screen I will PM it to you later

ArbitraryGuy
Jan 25, 2004, 12:35 AM
Very, very nice... I like the ships of this era.

Vuldacon
Jan 25, 2004, 01:52 AM
Looks Very Good W.i.n.t.e.r...Great "Gap Filler", Thanks
:goodjob:

TheMorpheus
Jan 25, 2004, 07:20 AM
Very good unit :goodjob: Nice work

W.i.n.t.e.r
Jan 26, 2004, 04:58 AM
:) Thank you for your nice posts :) and thank you Drivebymaster

btw. if you check the first post yet again: I changed the Ini a second time (it ocurred 2 me that not everybody has downloaded the Pre-Dreadnought (I think it's Kinboat's) so I changed the sounds back to the battleship ones'). If you call a copy of Conquests your own you can do as I did and use the Cruiser attack sounds by changing the "Attack1" entry to ..\Cruiser\HeavyCruiserAttack.amb

Daniel Khan
Jan 26, 2004, 06:48 AM
Very beautiful.

achs2007
Jan 26, 2004, 12:28 PM
wowww go trog dor

emu
Jan 26, 2004, 01:26 PM
i recognise this from another unit

Colonel Kraken
Jan 26, 2004, 01:37 PM
Nicely done, WINTER. Very nice!

--CK

Ossric
Jan 26, 2004, 02:13 PM
what i like about this unit is that it blends in so nicely with the other sea units from firaxis.

Drivebymaster
Jan 26, 2004, 06:11 PM
yes thank you Winter I am having a little trouble with the pallets and I have a bad headache and a cold so don't expect anything soon BTW I have the first 3 directions done on the fidget and most of the flic is done. I just need to refine it some more to make it not so pixley

W.i.n.t.e.r
Jan 26, 2004, 07:36 PM
H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth

Completed in 1915 and gave her name to a class of 5 ships including the unlucky H.M.S.Warspite that turned out to be a bit too succeptible to collisions with her sister ships (amongst others*). Another ship of this class, the H.M.S. Agincourt was cancelled before completion in 1914, with the aparition of plans for the Queen Victoria Class.

Having the new 15inch guns weighing 97 tons and 57 ft. long firing a one ton projectile and having a range of 20 miles the Queen Elizabeth was capable of firing just over 1 round per minute: Eight 15inch guns in four turrets and sixteen 6inch secondary, and four 21 inch torpedo tubes.

It was also the first class of battleships in history to be powered by oil firing, giving an I.H.P.of 75,000 and a speed of 25 knots, at a displacement of previously unseen 27,500 tons! Serving through WWI and seeing action in the far east of WWII, H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth was scrapped in 1948.

http://www.btinternet.com/~sidneyharbour/Images/HMSWarspite.jpg http://www.btinternet.com/~sidneyharbour/Images/HMSQueenElizabeth.jpg

The Queen Elizabeth Class comprises the following vessels:
H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth;
H.M.S. Warsprite;
H.M.S. Barham;
H.M.S. Valiant;
H.M.S. Malaya;
H.M.S. Agincourt (incomplete- 3 other ships in construction for Canada scrapped at the same time);

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A little anectode on H.M.S. Warsprite: ;)

Collided with H.M.S. Barham 9 months after commission (1915),
its rudder jammed during fight in the Battle of Jutland after which it was shelled by the German Navy,
collided heavily with H.M.S Valiant (1916),
a year later (1917) with H.M.S. Destroyer,
narrowly missed shelling a passenger liner (1937),
accidently fired into city of Valetta with pompoms (1937), :D
severely damaged (1941) by 500lb bomb at Crete,
severely damaged by 3 German guided bombs (1943),
hit magnetic mine after repairs at Portsmouth (1945), :lol:
left Portsmouth (1947) but broke tow on way to breakers, :rolleyes:
ran aground in Prussia Cove off Cornish coast and:
scrapped where she lay 1947-1956 :goodjob:

(this is just one of the reasons I wouldn't like to join the navy :))

W.i.n.t.e.r
Jan 26, 2004, 07:49 PM
Originally posted by Drivebymaster
yes thank you Winter I am having a little trouble with the pallets and I have a bad headache and a cold so don't expect anything soon BTW I have the first 3 directions done on the fidget and most of the flic is done. I just need to refine it some more to make it not so pixley

:) :) :)

jamesjkirk
Jan 26, 2004, 07:56 PM
This is an awesome unit! :goodjob: If you hadn't made it I'd've requested it anyway, since it's sorely missing from the Civ progression line, and much needed for a scenario I'm working on. This and all your units are great, so keep up the good work!

Mobilize
Jan 26, 2004, 08:01 PM
Awesome unit, I had downloaded the Dreadnought but it wasn't civ-colored. I'm downloading this right away.

What do you prefer as a tech to research this and possible stats?

:goodjob:

W.i.n.t.e.r
Jan 26, 2004, 08:26 PM
Thank you guys :)

hmmm- I made it available with combustion- but it doesn't necesarily have to upgrade to the Battleship as the Queen Elizabeth was around until after the end of WWII (see the screen-capture) with both oil AND coal (as the class had been planned with a hybrid system of coal and oil- the British Admirality didn't trust the new fuel too much and feared to be cut off from its mid-east oil supplies in case the war'd go nasty)

snapshot (http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads6/Values.zip)

Drivebymaster
Jan 27, 2004, 05:33 PM
I am getting really made at my computer :mad:
I keep messing up the pallets the smoke that I made. It thinks the smoke is appart of the blue :mad:

I am about ready to pull my hair out or whats left of it :crazyeye: But winter what I did was find some colors that looked like smoke and sprayed it on and an easier way I now just saw is take the smoke that come out of the barrels when it fires and paste it :goodjob:

I'm off to the bat layer...ohh forgot to mention this my computer doesn't have internet hooked into it yet. (will be getting internet when all of this $%#^ snow melts) I am using my friends comp so you would probably have to wait...ohh...two days or so I have one more direction on the fidget

Drivebymaster
Jan 28, 2004, 05:25 PM
NOOOO my computer said my file is missing I can't find it???? AHHH I worked so hard!! Damn if I have to do this again, I have a new plan I will shortin the amount of frames....#$@% I can't find it. I will post tomorrow about if I find it I was done it looked so cool in the game and on flicster...god winter if I don't get this done I am sorry I have just been so busy with my state tests and everything god dang it

Drivebymaster
Jan 28, 2004, 05:27 PM
I had saved the file and I went to my bed and went to sleep got up went to school came back and started to work on it and BAM that god dang "Can't find it Crap" came up what do I do

W.i.n.t.e.r
Jan 29, 2004, 10:58 AM
Hmmmm :confused: what program wer U using- perhaps you saved it in its main folder ???

Drivebymaster
Jan 29, 2004, 05:02 PM
No I checked I am using Paint shop Pro and Photoshop (I had really good looking smoke) I haven't found it I am starting a new one with only five frames. Will that change how fast the flic will show in C3C

W.i.n.t.e.r
Jan 29, 2004, 05:48 PM
yup- but my suggestion would be to use the original number of frames but to use your five frames as follows:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3 (basically just using the frames in -reverse- order where applicable, and using them more than once) :D

Drivebymaster
Jan 29, 2004, 06:09 PM
Ohh But when it counts down I looks like it it going backwards.

btw pissed I have to start over again oh and another thing I thing the ship should have a little rocking back and forth but not to much.

W.i.n.t.e.r
Jan 31, 2004, 11:46 AM
indeed :crazyeye: sorry- u r obviously right

CivGeneral
Jan 31, 2004, 03:05 PM
Can this unit be used as a Battle cruiser?

W.i.n.t.e.r
Jan 31, 2004, 08:33 PM
well- you can use it in any way U like, of course- yet this one is really a battleship- battlecruisers wouldn't have such elaborate secondary armament nor the number of turrets as on the Queen Elizabeth class. as U wish :rolleyes:

Drivebymaster
Jan 31, 2004, 08:35 PM
I am sorry I haven't been here much.....I am sorry Winter I cannot complete the smoke because one I lost the origanal file and I know have a job that is keeping me way to busy

I truly am sorry.....

W.i.n.t.e.r
Feb 01, 2004, 04:50 PM
no problem bro... I'll see if I'll get back to it some time- at the moment I am job hunting though- so there isn't that much time for units right now either (if I ever had any :p)

Drivebymaster
Feb 02, 2004, 07:02 PM
Sorry but I had a State test to prepare for...and when summer roles around I'm going to try out for the ARMY

MarineCorps
Feb 02, 2004, 08:23 PM
Originally posted by Drivebymaster
and when summer roles around I'm going to try out for the ARMY

Why army? Why not Marines?:p

W.i.n.t.e.r
Feb 03, 2004, 01:57 PM
Originally posted by MarineCorps


Why army? Why not Marines?:p

hmm- I never liked the idea of having to go to the army- I am the kind that likes to stay in bed those 5-more-minutes ;) luckily they didn't get me and now I am too old (if nothing weird happens like the Russians attacking us out of boredom, that is)

Drivebymaster
Feb 03, 2004, 04:58 PM
I am leaning kinda towards the Airforce because I loved planes since I was a child

MarineCorps
Feb 03, 2004, 07:34 PM
Originally posted by Drivebymaster
I am leaning kinda towards the Airforce because I loved planes since I was a child

The Marines have planes. Harriers!:love:

W.i.n.t.e.r
Feb 10, 2004, 07:09 AM
Wyrmshadow- mayB you could add some smoke to this baby :) ?

just a single *bloob* on the fidget and something for an alternate run ??? It looks pretty cool on your latest ships on CDG...

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Sorry, the "rocking" won't be improved for this unit (although it would look swell)- not much time right now, tbh.

bogdanSUPERIUS
Feb 18, 2004, 10:01 AM
:goodjob: Looks very cool!!!:thanx: I planed to put for PreBattleship time... :worship:

W.i.n.t.e.r
Feb 20, 2004, 11:38 AM
hmm- so I guess noone is going to make the smoke then ??
:o

EDIT: Thread no longer Serviced

Drivebymaster
Feb 23, 2004, 05:22 PM
...well....someone will eventually. Might as well head on into a new project. I thought of new unit a few days ago....a football player wouldn't that be somethen