Home Page

Put together beginnings of home page at:

http://www.angelfire.com/va/basileus/index.html

The only thing up and running right now is the Jane's All the Galaxy's
Fighting Ships entries for the Nea Rhomaioi. Follow the links from the word
"Background". I hope to do the same things for my ground vehicle designs and
TO&Es, followed by much expansion on the background
material, then links collections--there are enough out there on the web
already for that to be low priority. Please let me know questions, comments,
or typos you notice.

BTW, a somewhat related question: I recalled some discussion of the concept of
a "True" Battlecruiser as meaning a battleship without armor and a lot faster.
So I built one. Unfortunately, I still wanted something smaller than a
battleship and bigger than a heavy cruiser. I settled on the designation
"Light Battleship", which I abbreviated BL
for Battleship, Light.  Does anyone know a more historically-based term
I could use and an abbreviation thereof? I recall that the Germans built small
battleships which were dubbed "Pocket Battleships" but I don't recall if
that's an official designation.

> John Atkinson wrote:
...Snip...JTL
> BTW, a somewhat related question: I recalled some discussion of the

XXX   Not quite, perhaps a more common description would be:
A ship with reduced main (battleship) weapons and (Cruiser) armor
      on a hull capable of High (Cruiser) speed.   JTL	 XXX
So I built one. Unfortunately, I still wanted
> something smaller than a battleship and bigger than a heavy cruiser.
I
> settled on the designation "Light Battleship", which I abbreviated BL