[REL] Regia Marina DUILIO class battleship (GWX only version)

[VonDos]

Hi everyone! I'm glad to release my 15° ship: CAIO DUILIO class italian battleship!



http://www.sendspace.com/file/qri91a

Special thanks to Gerome, who authorized me to use his BB Roma, a optimal base for this work.
Thanks also to evan82, BBW and Buhring (beta testers) and subsim community for the help in developing with impressions and suggestions!

NOTE: this version is GWX3.0-only compatible, just because she use Privateer's GWX 381 italian guns (he's working on 320 guns); if you try to use her in a nonGWX installation, main guns will be missed. BTW a non-GWX version is avaiable at http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147236

[nikbear]

Beautiful as ever VonDos,your work is art

[denis_469]

Thank!

But main guns can replace easy

[mr chris]

Great stuff VD
Is the any chance of anyone making a mod that adds her into the campaign?
Like BBW has done with your Warspite, SS Rex, Lanconia and San Gerogio (sp)

[Butzis]

Kommandant Von Dos grazie mille !
Greetings und gute Jagd !

[bigboywooly]

Nice work Von Dos


@mrchris
Up to my neck in stuff at the mo mate so I wont be doing anything soon

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Nice work Von Dos


@mrchris
Up to my neck in stuff at the mo mate so I wont be doing anything soon

Hi mate.
No worries is it a shame you seem to be the only guy that adds the ships into the game.
I just love to see Ships in the game where they were Historically in real life.
I feel like a right twat every time a new ship is released and i ask the same question.
( Does this need adding in the campaign to show up in game.)
As i know that you will come along and say yep and here it is.
I feel like a pestering git. Who is not satisfied with the release of a great new unit.
Just wish i had the brains to do it myself but if you remember as i do a few years back the fiasco that was you helping me to add the Graf Zeppelin to a harbor. Well i think its best i leave the campaign files well alone and leave them to the pros.

So no worries at all mate, as i cant really run the game the way i like at the moment as my rig is slowly coming to the end of its life.

[geosub1978]

Congratulations once more!

[Jimbuna]

Nice one VD

@Chris.....PM me your requirements (date/location etc) and I'll sort you out a wee JSGME anabled mod mate.

[FIREWALL]

As usual VD a beautie.

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Nice one VD

@Chris.....PM me your requirements (date/location etc) and I'll sort you out a wee JSGME anabled mod mate.

Cheers for the offer Jim
Have been doing a little looking around at what she got up to during the war and so far this is what i have come up with.

She was present and damaged at the battle of Taranto.
Which led to her being towed to Genoa for repairs which took 6 months.
Then the next thing i can find is that she was Part of the close covering force at the first battle of Sirte .
Have had a quick look through the GWX manual and this battle is not scrpited into the game.
Wikipedia info on the battle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Sirte

Close covering force - Rear Admiral Raffaele de Courten (on Duca d'Aosta):

• 1 battleship: Caio Duilio;
• 3 light cruisers (7a Divisione Incrociatori): Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta, Muzio Attendolo, Raimondo Montecuccoli;
• 3 destroyers

Distant covering force - Rear Admiral Angelo Parona (on Gorizia):

• 3 battleships: Andrea Doria, Giulio Cesare, and Littorio;
• 2 heavy cruisers: Gorizia, and Trento;
• 10 destroyers

Then when the armistice with the allies was signed in 1943 she was used as a training ship but i cant seem to find out where she was based.

[Jimbuna]

Here she is with elements of the Italian fleet (Roma, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Vittorio Veneto, Duca Degli Abruzzi, Littorio etc) at La Spezia in June 43....I've sent you a PM to what you were after

Looking forward to the screenshots