Royal Navy - Revenge class BB - 2025 edition

[VonDos]

Hi everyone!

I'm glad to release this new mod: Royal Navy Revenge class (HMS Revenge, HMS Resolution, HMS Royal Oak, HMS Royal Sovereign \ Arkhangelsk, HMS Ramillies) battleship.

https://i.ibb.co/Z6ScqD7D/RNBBRevenge2025.jpg

D\L link: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=6555

https://i.ibb.co/zHj8BjbK/HMS-Royal-Sovereign-FL18403.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/The_Royal_Navy_during_the_Second_World_War_A11792_ %28cropped%29.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/LmXd0Ky/Soviet-battleship-arkhangelsk.jpg

This is the eighth unit for Royal Navy, reworked in collaboration with flush deck.

Pack include a multi skin unit based on Revenge class with six skins, one for every ship in the class.

https://i.ibb.co/V0K0PFJJ/VD-Revenge-Recap.jpg

Based on SH5's Revenge, converted for SH3 by Kovall, 3d updated using SHV model and parts and a lot of details (portholes, stairs, cables, lifeboats, glass windows\interiors, turning radars\rangefinders...) and some details from Gerome73 and The_Frog, including the reworked library. .zon file reworked with Fifi's help.

Library new version.

https://i.ibb.co/FqWTM0TV/R1.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/DgzCH46w/R3.jpg

----------------------------------- CREDITS

For this 2025 version:
Thanks to Kovall and Ubisoft for original model.
Special thanks to flush deck for new fantastic textures, for ship library and gunners\crew also!
Huge thanks to the_frog for let me use his wonderful gun's library, a revised version is included in this pack, for some details and crew added to the model! Thanks to Gerome73 for some model's details too.
Thanks to Sphere, who give me permissions to include and modify his searchlights mod (please read original readme included).
Thanks also to Anvar1061 for some suggestions about those searchlights and about optimize .eqp files.
Thanks to Fifi for suggestions related with guns' reflections, and for help with hull's .zon configuration.

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This mod replace all previous versions =)

https://i.ibb.co/3m21mSDn/R2.jpg

Best regards,
Vd

[Anvar1061]

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[Fifi]

Thank you for this fantastic model! :yeah:

https://i.postimg.cc/c4Xg2XNV/SH3-Img-29-4-2025-9-19-38-410.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/qvFtMqqw/SH3-Img-29-4-2025-9-20-42-110.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/FKJYfvJ4/SH3-Img-29-4-2025-9-21-33-62.jpg

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[VonDos]

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Thank you for this fantastic model! :yeah:

:Kaleun_Salute:

Thank you for your report about possibile ID conflict with another unit!
:Kaleun_Salute:

@everyone: Thanks to Fifi, i've found a possibile ID conflict about HMS Revenge. I've tested in mission the involved ships, nothing strange appeared. Anyway, i've reuploaded the Revenge BB with new IDs, in order to prevent any risk =)

Thank you everyone!

Best regards,
Vd

[Stefan Thimme]

TOTALLY SUBERB!
REALLY LONG TIME AWAITED MOD!
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[VonDos]

TOTALLY SUBERB!
REALLY LONG TIME AWAITED MOD!
:Kaleun_Salute::Kaleun_Thumbs_Up::Kaleun_Applaud:

Thank you so much, my Mate :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up::Kaleun_Salute:

Best regards,
Vd

[Ktl_KUrtz]

U-30 and HMS Ramillies have "form"!
Many thanks VanDos.
:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
KUrtz

[Mister_M]

Excellent work ! Funny coincidence, the WoWS model of HMS Royal Sovereign was released just a few days ago on a Russian test server.

https://imgur.com/a/huSHFPO

[VonDos]

U-30 and HMS Ramillies have "form"!
Many thanks VanDos.
:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
KUrtz

Thank you, sir =) well, wasn't HMS Barham the one involved with U-30? Maybe i don't remember well...

Excellent work ! Funny coincidence, the WoWS model of HMS Royal Sovereign was released just a few days ago on a Russian test server.

https://imgur.com/a/huSHFPO

Thank you so much, Mister_M!
Well, when i started this work, WOW's model wasn't available yet, and i must admit it's an hell of model. But, if i'd make Revenge class again today, i guess i'll start from SH5 model again. Nothing against WOW superb models, but i've in mind my medium/old pc, and rework and mount similar beasts in an old pc in a 20 years old pc game appear something strange, someway "heavy" to me. But, why not, maybe someone will convert WOW version too, and people will be free to choose. "More options" is always good =)

Best regards,
Vd

[Ktl_KUrtz]

Thank you, sir =) well, wasn't HMS Barham the one involved with U-30? Maybe i don't remember well...
Vd
It was "the German submarine U-331, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen". ... U-331 thus passed through the screen and was in a position to fire her torpedoes after the leading ship, Queen Elizabeth, had passed her by and the second ship, HMS Barham, was closing rapidly. Tiesenhausen ordered all four bow torpedo tubes fired at a range of 375 metres (410 yd)." "Wikipedia."
The rest is History.

U30 (KUrtz) and HMS Ramillies is another matter!
Thanks again VonDos!
Great work.
KUrtz

[BUKER]

Hi VonDos,

Can I ask you to make a similar historical coloring as an add-on?
https://i.postimg.cc/L8rLmDdV/21-5302797-draft2.jpg

[VonDos]

Hi VonDos,

Can I ask you to make a similar historical coloring as an add-on?

A dark gray\green scheme? I'm not the textures author, i'm trying my best, here i am with results;

https://i.ibb.co/CpLk5BJG/R1.jpg

D\L link for this addon texture: https://www.sendspace.com/file/5r4vzd

If ok, well. If not, i'll ask to my Friend flush_deck :salute:


Best regards,
Vd

[flush deck]

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for your support and your words on this unit and the others provide by the wizard VonDos and dressed by me.

Our best boost so far :Kaleun_Cheers:

You don't need my skills on this skin my dear friend, you have made a great job on it :Kaleun_Applaud:

@Buker, as you can see on the screen shot posted by VonDos, we can not put a dedicated color on the library. The light grey finish is the color that will be used by all the Royal Navy units that use the same library. Put dedicated color on the library is really complicated and need to update the .dat file to associate texture to each library and make a dedicated library file for each unit.

It's the reason why I haven't made this scheme, the light grey guns and radars on an overall dark grey scheme give a very strange finish that is, in my opinion, far from historical accuracy. That's why I've choose to make the Royal Oak in light grey finish and not in this overall dark grey version.

But if you like it like that, just go on, always a pleasure to give you what exactly you want :salute:

Keep just in mind in the futur that we can not change the color of the library object to adapt them to a particular scheme. That's why I need sometimes to change a bit the historical camo schemes to make something adapted to this constraint

Have fun guys
some more to come in the next few days
:Kaleun_Wink:

[BUKER]

If ok, well. If not, i'll ask to my Friend flush_deck :salute:

Best regards,
Vd
Hi VonDos,
Overall it looks pretty good, just need to repaint the gun turrets and make the deck a little darker.:yeah:

[VonDos]

Hi VonDos,
Overall it looks pretty good, just need to repaint the gun turrets and make the deck a little darker.:yeah:

Hi BUKER!

Quoting flush deck:
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we can not put a dedicated color on the library. The light grey finish is the color that will be used by all the Royal Navy units that use the same library. [...]
Keep just in mind in the futur that we can not change the color of the library object to adapt them to a particular scheme.
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This is a fact, with library placed outside the ship file, for guns, radars, rangefinders etc, you can not bond a single ship texture with a specific equipment set. You should need a clone of the ship and a clone of the entire library for every skin. Or, alternative to rebuild the ship's dat with a kind of internal library, like latest the_frog wonderful cruisers Dido, Town and Colony. This is a good example of solution to this problem, but 1) require literally tons of works, not only for guns model and textures, but also for import, for every single gun on every single turret (not replicable), their .sim data, rotation, elevation, speed, fire rate, muzzle flashes positions etc etc... 2) this create large files, in a 32 bit memory-hungry game with 4gb RAM limit.
Sorry for this. If you want, i can try to make a darker deck, using a single .tga for all the ship non trasparent parts, no problem about this!

Let me know! :salute:



You don't need my skills on this skin my dear friend, you have made a great job on it :Kaleun_Applaud:

:Kaleun_Cheers::Kaleun_Salute:
Thank you sooo much!

Best regards,
Vd


EDIT: Stefan Thimme sent me a revised .dat file with an improved position of main turrets. Effect is really good, so i've reuploaded the unit =) thank you so much mate!!