What is your favorite naval era of history?
And more importantly, why is it the era of pre-dreadnought battleships?
>>447972
Jokes on you: I love galleys.
Pre-Dreadnought era is boring as fuck
>Lets build these super advanced (for the time) bigass battleships.
>And not fight them.
>ships with sponson turrets
This is my fetish
>>447980
Ancient galleys or like Barbary Corsairs/Sun King galleys?
>>447972
I like it because you can see the transition from the age of sail to the age of steam.
>>448020
They look like iron ships of the line.
>why is it the era of pre-dreadnought battleships?
It's not.
Those things are fucking disgusting.
16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and late WWI-WWII are my favorites. It's so hard to make paddleboats and ironclads look good, because they're bulbous, unsightly things. I love the 16th and 17th centuries especially because its the beginning, and sometimes quick end too, of naval powers in Europe. The developing styles and traditions are really neat, with the 18th century peaking in the strength of wind-powered vessels with a focus on numerical armament.
The only thing I like about the ironclad to pre-dreadnought era are broadside ironclads.
The relatively obsolete gun configuration, but still well armed and armored, they're kind of neat.
Otherwise all those ships are too ugly compared to everything that came before and after them.
>>448025
>>448031
>>448033
>>447972
>>447972
Post 9/11 era.
Ww2 is objectively the greatest era of naval warfare
>>447972
WW2
>Submarines
>Giant Battleships
>Flak everywhere
>Dogfights
>No boring missiles
>Giant clusterfuck battles
>Based Enterprise refused to die
>>447980
>taking your pretty ships out to sink them
>not keeping them in port
>>448005
Both Ancient and up to Renaissance.
Especially the medieval ones. Galleys were the warships par excellence of the time. Shit like the Cog are just trading vessels modified for war -like a pickup truck with a machine gun. And Viking Ships are too small and their naval tactics are retarded.
Meanwhile Galleys? Hoboy. That thing is only meant for war and nothing else.
>>448054
>WWII naval warfare
>everything revolves around planes
>FUCKING PLANES
Nigga please.
>>448066
>inplying aerial combat isn't just another aspect of naval warfare
>>448066
>everything revolved around planes
>60% of Japanese ships sunk were from submarines
K
>>448066
To be honest, WWII was just the beginning of planes and submarines taking center stage.
Brits still sank the Italians in ship-on-ship engagements, and the Germans still sank the Brits in ship-on-ship engagements.
With the fact that it was the context where the most advanced, heavily-armed ships (I know the Americans had heavily-armed ships well after, that's why this next part is important) were actually being applied in all-out world war, that just makes the engagements more special. Just like in WWI. Battleships and propeller planes both saw their swansongs in WWII. Again, I know they were used somewhat after, but their application in WWII was the most widespread in history.
1812 on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain is really fascinating. Not only are big ship of the line battles on inland freshwater lakes just wonderfully bizarre, but each lake was it's own separate theatre and things tended to swing back and forth on all of them. Neat stuff.
>>448097
>Brits still sank the Italians in ship-on-ship engagements
The most successful attack against the Italian navy used Torpedo planes, I believe they were biplanes.
>>448121
Yeah I know, my point is that ships still engaged ships as well.
>>447972
Triremes senpai
>>448025
What makes these different from Dreadnoughts?
1571 best day of my life
>>448169
The prefix.
Gun size mainly and design.
>>448175
>1571
>day
>>448186
Welcome.
It's a meme my newfriend.
I'm biased to renaissance-era naval fighting, it's when my country saw their greatest successes.
