NationStates Jolt Archive

(Well, being as I don't want to let WoS die just yet, but haven't quite the motivation (or RP partners) to finish off the American affair or to start something new, a new defence review thread seems an easy way to keep things ticking over.)

Having –somewhat controversially- remained out of the Great War in spite of pleas from Paris and from London especially, Walmington advanced into a new world with a military machine dangerously out-dated. Designed to defend an empire that made a point of having no first-world enemies –that is to say, designed to police imperial holdings against the troublesome free-will of their residents- the Walmingtonian armed forces were horribly offended by the sudden rise of European Fascism. During the 1919-1927 Second Cape War, Walmingtonian infantrymen marched into battle with single-shot rifles fired by black powder, and had a great deal of success in laying waste native spearmen and musketeers.

When German, Italian, and Ercolanan tanks and machineguns cut through continental Europe and threatened Africa, the martial benefits inherent to Walmingtonian abstinence from the Great War became apparent in her factories. During the Great War, a young minor noble and major adventurer named Henry spent much time in Britain and France pointing-out that Westonshire, Stockshire, and Burnhampshire were a lot closer than Michigan, and that His Walmingtonian Majesty was –while inclined to stay out of the war for now- a lot more reliable than that wishy-washy Wilson fellow from America. Chaspot Inc. really took-off during the First World War, supplying the British with war materials and the French with currency enough to buy them in turn from the British.

Walmingtonian industry expanded wildly, and even after the war it retained a large redundant capacity both at home and on the Cape. The Second World War, the anti-fascist struggle, finally brought Walmingtonian defence thinking up to modern terms.

More or less.

Major Royal Walmingtonian Army Equipment

Wayne MkII Pistol
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Operation: Double-action revolver
Calibre: .441"/11.2mm (.455" British)
Magazine: Five-shot cylinder
Barrel Length: 5"
Muzzle Velocity: 650fps
Service Notes: Former standard-issue service pistol to all branches of Walmingtonian military, now available for sale to officers
Additional Information: Top-break configuration

Constable MkII No1 'Special' Pistol
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Operation: Double-action revolver
Calibre: .441"/11.2mm (.455" British)
Magazine: Five-shot cylinder
Barrel Length: 5"
Muzzle Velocity: 650fps
Service Notes: Issued widely to vehicle crews and also favoured by some commandos, but gradually losing ground to Custodian (next entry)
Additional Information: Top-break configuration. Hammer spur removed, disabling single-action firing.

Custodian Automatic Pistol MkI
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Operation: Short recoil
Calibre: .40" Automatic Walmingtonian
Magazine: Eight-shot detachable box
Barrel Length: 5"
Muzzle Velocity: 950fps
Service Notes: The first automatic pistol to enter Walmingtonian service, it faces some resistance from officers
Additional Information: A fairly large pistol, especially in small Walmingtonian hands, but said to be pleasant to shoot

Machine Carbine, Catania Pattern
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Operation: Blowback
Calibre: .40" Automatic Walmingtonian
Magazine: Twenty-eight-shot detachable box
Barrel Length: 7.5"
Muzzle Velocity: 1,000fps
Rate of Fire: 550rpm
Service Notes: From having issued no machine-carbines until hardly a decade ago, this has become the third made standard issue
Additional Information: Elsewhere would be called a sub-machinegun. Magazine is top-feed. Sometimes refered to by servicemen as a catter-gun

Free Magazine Infantry Rifle
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Operation: Bolt action
Calibre: .303" British
Magazine: Eight-shot detachable box
Barrel Length: 27"
Muzzle Velocity: 2,700fps
Service Notes: Standard issue infantry weapon in the years surrounding the second world war, withdrawn after proving unpopular with infantrymen; now serves as sharpshooter's weapon
Additional Information: Said to be cumbersome in action and poorly balanced, it is none the less an accurate weapon in skilled hands

Automatic Bullpup Infantry Rifle
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Calibre: .260" Wayne (6.5x47mm)
Magazine: Eighteen-shot detachable box
Barrel Length: 24"
Muzzle Velocity: 2,450fps
Service Notes: The first automatic rifle to become the standard issue infantry arm of the RWA
Additional Information: May be loaded by six-shot charger. Extremely reliable, accurate, and well balanced semi-automatic weapon. Can fire muzzle grenades.

Machine-Gun, Land MkII
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Calibre: .260" Wayne (6.5x47mm)
Magazine: One-hundred-shot belt
Barrel Length: 23"
Muzzle Velocity: 2,350fps
Rate of Fire: 550rpm
Service Notes: Perhaps the first squad automatic weapon in RWA service, and proving quite useful
Additional Information: Based on the Bren Light Machine-Gun the MG,L-MkII is essentially a belt-fed, re-chambered version with a slightly shorter barrel

Machine-Gun, Land MkI
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Calibre: .303" British
Magazine: Forty-seven-shot pan
Barrel Length: 26.25"
Muzzle Velocity: 2,450fps
Rate of Fire: 550rpm
Service Notes: The Walmingtonian version is used as a medium machinegun. Also used as the Army, Navy, and Air Force's lightest type of anti-aircraft gun
Additional Information: Basically a licence-built Lewis gun that is usually mounted on a tripod, and is water-cooled. Thought to have been used instead of a Maxim-derivative because it is, for example, five or six times cheaper than the Vickers Mk 1 and because it is lighter, better suiting the typically small Walmingtonian soldier. Efforts have been made by great care of manufacture to dismiss some of the complicated Lewis' frequent stoppage problems, but without a total redesign these have not been fully dismissed

Machine-Gun, Heavy MkI*
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Calibre: .55"Walmingtonian (13.95x105mm)
Magazine: Fifty-shot fabric belt
Barrel Length: 50.5"
Muzzle Velocity: 3,150fps
Rate of Fire: 450rpm
Service Notes: Used in static defences, mounted on Land Rovers, and fitted to some tanks. The second-level anti-aircraft gun of Royal Walmingtonian Army, Navy, and Air Force, where it may appear in dual-mountings. Also arms several fighter and bomber aircraft in the RWAF.
Additional Information: Another reliable weapon, this is sometimes regarded as a little bit un-Walmingtonian because of its arguably excessive size and power

Rifle, Anti-Tank
Manufacturer: Sykes-Durban Defence of the Walmingtonian Cape
Calibre: .55" Sykes
Magazine: None; single shot
Barrel Length: 44.5"
Muzzle Velocity: 4,700fps
Armour Penetration: 35mm at 300 yards against 0 degrees; 25mm at 100 yards against 60 degrees
Service Notes: Not widely used by RWA at home, but often on hand in colonies and sometimes mounted on vehicles such as the Baby Carriage. It is kept in service thanks to a Walmingtonian aversion to rocketry that is most strongly felt in the Army's upper echelons.
Additional Information: Barrel is free to recoil in the stock in order to reduce recoil impulse against the shooter, and the butt is padded to further improve comfort. The Rat, as it is called by troops, is an unusual weapon having a coned-bore based on the Gerlich principle, using a special .55" round of tungsten core surrounded by soft lead jacket and cupro-nickel envelope with a raised band around it. Though the breech calibre is some 14mm, the emergent calibre is 10mm, and the deforming squeeze action of the bore is what causes the increased muzzle velocity and affords armour penetration half again what one might otherwise expect.

No. 36 Mark W Mills Grenade
Manufacturer: Sanders and Sons
Type: Defensive, fragmentary
Delay Fuze: Four seconds
Weight: One pound eleven ounces
Service Notes: Standard issue hand grenade in RWA
Additional Information: Licence-built version of standard British weapon

Light Mortar, Two Inch
Manufacturer: Sanders and Sons, Chassire Arms
Range: Six-hundred yards
Ammunition: High-explosive, smoke, illumination, signals, practice
Service Notes: Used across the theatres of RWA operation but not in huge numbers, espeically since the increased use of rifle grenades began post war
Additional Information: Almost a grenade launcher in practice, and can be fired on horizontal trajectory as an improvised anti-tank weapon requiring bracing against fixed object to deal with great recoil

Howitzer, Light, Two and one Third Inch
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Calibre: 2 1/3" (actually 60mm)
Range: Reportedly 6,800 yards with absolute maximum charge, though the usual is lower
Service Notes: In limited use as a mountain gun and sometimes appearing as a support weapon at company level and above
Additional Information: A low velocity weapon used loosely in place of a medium/heavy mortar and able to be towed by light vehicles, and even seen to be moved by horses. It has a grapeshot-type round for point defence against infantry assaults

Howitzer, Medium, Three Inch
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Calibre: 3" (actually 76mm)
Range: 7,000-11,000 yards depending on shell type
Service Notes: An increasingly rare weapon most often seen only as the primary armament of CCMkIICSH Hardy
Additional Information: Shell weight is from around 12lbs (shrapnel) to 18lbs (high explosive)

Cannon, Automatic, One Inch
Manufacturer: Wychwood Automation, Chassire Arms
Configuration: Twin guns on flexible mounting
Calibre: 1" Walmingtonian Automatic
Magazine: Twenty-shot box (each gun)
Rate of Fire: 450rpm (each gun)
Ceiling: 12,000 feet maximum; 8,000 feet effective; 1,000-4,000 feet optimal
Armour Penetration: Almost 3" with armour-piercing round
Elevation: -6 to +85 degrees
Service Notes: Used primarily as the third-level anti-aircraft gun for the Army, Navy, and Air Force in fixed mounting it is also used on a light towed arrangement for use as a low-level anti-aircraft gun as well as a ground fire support weapon. It is sometimes found mounted on Baby Carriage light armoured vehicles, on medium trucks, or fitted as the primary armament of Walmingtonian armoured cars where it may appear in single-barrel configuration
Additional Information: Based on the 1" Aviation Cannon. Often (but not always) protected by a shield.

Gun, Light, Six Pounds
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Calibre: 2" (actually 49mm)
Ceiling: 18,000 feet maximum; 12,000 feet effective; 2,000-6,000 feet optimal
Armour Penetration: Over 2" at 500 yards against 30 degrees; over 4" at 100 yards and 0 degrees
Service Notes: As Gun, Anti-Tank, Six Pounds replaced British 2pdr anti-tank gun in RWA service. Also in service modified as Gun, Anti-Aircraft, Two Inch where it is the fourth level anti-aircraft gun in use with the Army, Navy, and Air Force and is magazine fed
Additional Information: Uses high-velocity six-pound shell in anti-tank role, high-explosive in anti-aircraft and emergency anti-infantry or fire-support roles.

Gun, Medium, Eighteen Pounds
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Calibre: 3" (actually 76mm)
Ceiling: 28,000 feet maximum; 18,000 feet effective
Range: 12,000 yards indirect fire
Armour Penetration: 6" at 100 yards against 0 degrees (AP round); above 8" at 100 yards against 0 degrees (experimental APDS round)
Ammunition: High-explosive, armour-piercing, smoke, illumination, practice
Service Notes: Appears as tank gun. As Gun, Anti-Tank, Eighteen Pounds it is the most common crew-served anti-tank weapon in the RWA, and also serves as a field-gun. As Gun, Anti-Aircraft, Three Inch it is the fifth level anti-aircraft gun in use with the Army, Navy, and Air Force
Additional Information: A towed weapon with a round base that may be lowered to enable 360 degree traverse in either anti-tank or anti-aircraft configuration. A good crew can best twelve rounds per minute at burst

Gun, Heavy, Twenty-Eight Pounds
Manufacturer: Chassire Arms
Calibre: 4" (actually 101.4mm)
Ceiling: 36,000 feet maximum; 28,000 feet effective
Range: 20,000 yards indirect fire
Armour Penetration: 8" at 100 yards against 0 degrees (AP round); 10" at 100 yards against 0 degrees (experimental APDS round)
Ammunition: High-explosive, armour-piercing, smoke, illumination, practice
Service Notes: Appears as field-supremacy tank gun. As Gun, Anti-Tank, Twenty-Eight Pounds it is the primary counter-battery artillery piece available and the most deadly anti-tank gun, though slightly less nimble at close range compared to the 18pdr. As Gun, Anti-Aircraft, Four Inch, it is the sixth level anti-aircraft gun in use with the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
Additional Information: The most modern gun available to the RWA and also appearing as a naval gun as primary armament of some destroyers and secondary on some cruisers. Has indicated promise for the future of armour piercing discarding sabot ammuntion as a tank-killer.

Velocipede, Motor, MkII
Manufacturer: Stockley Motors
Maximum Speed: 45mph
Service Notes: Quite widely issued to signals corps, engineers, and other units.
Additional Information:Walmingtonians sometimes dislike doing things by halves, but will consider lower extremes no less readily than upper extremes: two wheels are considered the civilised minimum, while the maximum is represented as however many wheels one can cram under a nice steam train. At home, peddle cycles are more popular than motor cars, but in the field they proved to be impractical and often more trouble than they were worth, and so a motorised replacement had to be found.

Land Rover, Stockley, MkI
Manufacturer: Stockley Motors
Service Notes: Many thousands are active with the RWA and with SOW, operating as scout cars, aggressive patrol vehicles, command vehicles, light equipment and artillery tractors, ambulances, and in various other roles
Additional Information: Broadly smiliar to British vehicles, these are called land rover in a purely descriptive manner and not because they are actually Land Rover vehicles

Lorry, Motor, Light MkIII Christopher
Manufacturer: Wychwood Automation
Configuration: 4x4
Weight: 3tons
Engine: 75hp petrol
Range: 200miles
Service Notes: Standard light haulage of supplies, spares, equipment, and troops is usually undertaken by this model's thousands of chassis, which has also been converted for ambulance, light recovery, and several other roles. Many thousand serve across the Royal Walmingtonian Empire
Additional Information: Though prone to minor breakdowns and general falling-apart, these Wychwood trucks have a reputation for always managing to re-start and for sticking around for years of heavy use, even if the trimmings may fall away.

Lorry, Motor, Medium MkII Lion
Manufacturer: Stockley Motors
Configuration: 6x6
Weight: 5tons
Service Notes: Widely used by all major military branches and especially popular in the RWA. Tankers, tractors, recovery units, and other versions exist in large quantities.
Additional Information: Said to have unusually good off-road abilities. Rated as the best truck in Walmingtonian service thanks to compact power and generally robust nature

Lorry, Motor, Heavy MkI Gulf Stream
Manufacturer: Wychwood Automation
Configuration: 6x4
Weight: 10tons
Service Notes: Serves RWA, RWN, and RWAF in many version including tankers, medium/heavy recovery, field command, equipment transport, supplies transport, troop transport, artillery tractor, crane, and more
Additional Information: Proved itself in the Desert War and the following Operation Minos, and became known as the tea-trolley that fed the anti-fascist armies.

Lorry, Motor, Tank Transporter MkI
Manufacturer: Wychwood Automation
Configuration: 6x4
Weight: 53tons
Service Notes: The only specifically designed tank transporter in the RWA, responsible for new heavier tanks while modified medium and heavy trucks sometimes carry lighter armour

Special Tankettes “Baby Carriage”
Crew: 2 or 3 (plus 5 or 4)
Engine: 90hp petrol
Combat Weight: 4.5tons maximum
Maximum Speed: 32mph
Range: 92.17miles
Height: 1.64m
Width: 2.1m
Length: 3.72m
Armour: 6mm to 11mm steel
Armament: Variable- None; Combination of 1 to 3x.303 machine-gun/55” anti-tank rifle; 2" light mortar; Flame thrower; 2x1" cannon.
Service Notes: Hundreds serve in a range of duties, being adaptable with recovery equipment, bridge laying equipment, extending ladder, mineclearing gear et cetera, and also used as a field ambulance, command post, and so on.

Walmington Light Fighting Tank MkII Wychwood Gnome
Crew: 3
Engine: 145hp petrol
Combat Weight: 8.2tons
Maximum Speed: 32mph (road)
Range: 134 miles
Height: 2.1m
Width: 2.4m
Length: 4.35m
Armour: welded steel; 5mm to 36mm
Armament: 1x 6pdr (49mm) anti-tank gun, 1x.303” co-axial machine-gun
Service Notes: Follows a tradition that once imagined swarms of little tanks over-running enemy armies, the Gnome is often deployed with advance expeditionary forces and a couple of hundred are available to the RWA

CCMkII*AAS Sentinel
Armament: 2x1” automatic cannon
Service Notes: Increasingly widely integrated with tank and mechanised formations to disrupt and discourage enemy strafing runs and secondarily to provide close-in fire support against ground targets
Additional Information: Anti-aircraft configuration of the withdrawn Cavalry Cruiser MkII

CCMkIICSH Hardy
Armament: 1x3” medium howitzer, 1x.303 machine-gun
Service Notes: Around in moderate strength for some years and not likely to be fully withdrawn in the near future
Additional Information: Close-support version of the CCMkII

Cavalry Cruiser Mk III Lancer
Crew: 4
Engine: 345hp
Combat Weight: 19tons
Top Speed: 32mph
Range: 92miles
Height: 2.25m
Width: 2.7m
Length: 5.85m
Armour: 9-48mm steel
Armament: 1x6pdr (49mm) anti-tank gun, 1x.303 inch co-axial machine-gun, often 1x.303 inch AA machine-gun
Service Notes: The most common Walmingtonian tank
Additional Information: In the late stages of the Desert War, some crews removed regulator caps and pushed their Lancers well beyond the design speed (at the risk of breakdown) in order to run rings around lumbering fascist armour. A fairly elegant-looking war machine, the last of the cruisers is regarded as a greyhound next to the tank army's working-dog marching tanks. Popular with an army that was loath to give-up its cavalry and seen as a way to hang on to some of the associated traditions, Lancer tank-commanders being the RWA's new generation of dashing cavalry officers

Marching Tank Mk IIIB Stockley Motors Royal Tortoise
Crew: 5
Engine: 500hp Stockley diesel
Combat Weight: 47tons
Maximum Speed: 15.6mph
Range: 174.5 miles
Height: 3.3m
Width: 2.78m
Length: 7.29m
Armour: 28mm to 157mm steel
Armament: 18pdr anti-tank gun, 3x.303 machine-guns (1x co-axial, 1x bow mounted, 1x AA)
Service Notes: Fights in fairly large numbers for units closely associated with infanty formations
Additional Information: Used primarily to support infantry breakthroughs while Cavalry Cruisers have free reign to partake in anti-tank warfare. The Royal Tortoise is seen as a slightly awkward compromise after wartime experience created the requirement for a tank with a 3" anti-armour weapon and the then howitzer-armed MT-MkIII's was the only turret-ring able to accept it: the infantry-support tank's duty is now, some say, dangerously confused.

Field Supremacy Tank Mk IB Armadillo
Crew: 6
Engine: 650hp Tedley & Crooke diesel
Combat Weight: 79tons
Maximum Speed: 12mph
Range: 99.07 miles
Height: 3m (9’11”)
Width: 3.89m (12’11”)
Length: 10m (32’10”)
Armour: 41mm to 232mm steel
Armament: 1x28pdr anti-tank gun, 1x bow mounted .303 machine-gun, 1x.55” AA machinegun.
Service Notes: Very small numbers were finished before the end of the Anti-Fascist War halted production; serves mainly in Walmingtonian Mauritania and Western Saharaland where its powerful gun eats-up long engagement ranges
Additional Information: Mounts gun in a fixed, heavily armoured superstructure. Only six were delivered before the war's conclusion. Having been intended as an interim measure before development of a turreted tank (providing such innovations as the 4" gun itself, an unprecedented weight of armour, and an extremely powerful engine) able to carry such a large gun, the FST-MkIB is left as the only 4"-gun tank in the RWA with military budgets stripped.

Other Common Equipment

MkII Radio Transmit/Receive station
An unusual good piece of communications equipment born of a long Walmingtonian tradition of tinkering with radios at the expense of such frivolities as television

Webley Zinc Flare Pistol
Around 1" bore. One of few none-native items of Royal Walmingtonian Military Forces inventory

Norbray Pattern Combat Knife
Rarely used outside the Special Operations Wing this is said to owe something to blades native to Norbray County, where they were perportedly used to kill red bears and as well traditionally to settle the most grave -no pun intended- of personal conflicts.

14" Chassire Arms Bayonet
Fixable to all Walmingtonian long arms including the Catania Pattern Carbine and the MkII Machine-Gun. The Old Cold [Steel] is the traditional weapon of the Walmingtonian army in spite of the fact that almost every engagement ever joined by Walmingtonian forces has been fought against physically larger and stronger adversaries.

Note on the Walmingtonian Air Defence Grid

Above 28,000 feet, targets are engaged with the Gun, Anti-Aircraft, Four Inch alone. As the altitude of engagement decreases towards 18,000 feet, the Gun, Anti-Aircraft, Three Inch joins in to support the 4"er, and by 18,000 feet the roles are reversed, with the 4" gun now supporting. Descending further, the Gun, Anti-Aircraft, Two Inch begins to support the 3"er as the 4" gun becomes increasingly redundant. At 12,000 feet and falling, the 2"er is the primary weapon, with the slightly less nimble 3"er giving effective support. Following the same trend, the 3"er drops out as it becomes less effective and is replaced by the Cannon, Automatic, One Inch with the altitude approaching a minimum of 2,500 feet. Below this level, the agile and quick-firing 1"er is king, and the 2"er continues to support in this bracket's upper reaches, gradually being superseded by the .55"Machine-Gun, Heavy, MkI* with the altitude falling towards 1,000 feet. Under 1,000 feet, the 1" cannon continues to operate but begins to struggle with tracking fast-moving targets at low level when lacking a very good line of sight and its radar-guidance abilities become mute. With short-range optical guidance and manual-tracking the order of business, the .303" Machine-Gun, Land, MkI becomes the major support weapon backing the .55"er. Individual small arms may be applied to close air defence at this stage.

Official Defence Ministry Table Detailing A Nice Theory 23-R(7a version 4):

Altitude (feet): Above 28,000
Flak (primary): 4"
Flak (supporting): N/A

Altitude (feet): 28,000 to above 18,000
Flak (primary): 4"
Flak (supporting): 3"

Altitude (feet): 18,000 to above 12,000
Flak (primary): 3"
Flak (supporting): 4" and 2"

Altitude (feet): 12,000 to above 2,500
Flak (primary): 2"
Flak (supporting): 3" and 1"

Altitude (feet): 2,500 to above 1,000
Flak (primary): 1"
Flak (supporting): 2" and .55"

Altitude (feet): 1,000 and below
Flak (primary): .55"
Flak (supporting): 1" and .303"

Despite its British heritage, island domain, and intercontinental empire, Walmington has not always maintained a world-beating fleet of warships. Traditionally, the nation maintained small, fast, long-range transport ships in order to deploy small numbers of well trained soldiers far and wide, and has often gravitated towards potential allies that do maintain strong navies, notably the UK and Iansisle. The anti-Fascist war inspired a considerable improvement of the navy, although some argue that it still pales next to the big dogs of the high seas.
The war claimed several major assets including the archaic so-called light battleship Iansisle, sunk in heroic action against a German flotilla lead by the infamous Bismarck, and the heavy cruiser Hansen, victim of Walmingtonian dismissal of the U-boat as a serious weapon of war.
Today, His Walmingtonian Majesty’s Ships of the Royal Walmingtonian Navy are counted and specified as here follows.

Sparrow Class Escort Aero-Carriers
Dimensions-
Length (overall): 504'2"
Beam (overall): 79'1"
Draft: 19'7"
Displacement (full): 17,110 tons
Crew: 904 including flight crew
Power and Performance:
Engine: Wychwood oil fired.
Power: 15,000hp
Shafts: 1
Speed: 19kt
Range: 12,800nm at 12kt, 8,470nm at 18kt
Armour:
Deck: 6.5" wood
Armament:
Main: Two 4" guns, two 3" DP guns
AA: eight 2x1" machineguns, twelve 2" guns
Radar:
Air Search: Walmington Model A MkI
Surface Search:Walmington Model B MkI
Air Wing: One catapult. Up to 22 aircraft; 8xWasp II, 6xNexus ASW, 4xNexus AEW, 4xWren
Ships of Class: HWMS Sparrow, Newry, Stanley, Bishop, Swallow, Firmamental

Phoenician Class 1st Class Aero-Carriers
Dimensions-
Length (overall): 776'1"
Beam (overall): 98'2"
Draft: 24'8"
Displacement (full): 31,991 tons
Crew: 1,997 including flight crew
Power and Performance:
Engine: Wychwood oil-fired
Power: 112,000hp
Shafts: 4
Speed: 30 knots
Range: 9,100nm at 12 knots, 5,480nm at 22 knots.
Armour:
Deck: Up to 4" steel
Belt: 3.75"
Armament:
Main: Four 6" guns
AA: Six 3" guns, eight 6x2" turrets, eighteen 2x1” guns
Radar:
Air Search: Walmington Model A MkI
Surface Search:Walmington Model B MkI
Air Wing: Up to 58 aircraft; 14xWasp II, 6xNexus ASW, 6xNexus AEW, 32xfighter
Ships of Class: HWMS Phoenicia, Carthage, Minos, Europa, Typhon

Gull Class Corvettes
Dimensions:
Length (overall): 227’
Beam (overall): 35’5”
Displacement (full): 1,421 tons
Crew (wartime): 82 (76 enlisted, 6 officers)
Power and Performance:
Horsepower: 2,600
Shafts: 1
Top Speed: 17 knots
Range: 6,900nm at 10 knots, 4,100nm at 16 knots
Armament:
Main: 1x4” gun
Anti-Aircraft: Two 2x2" guns, three 2x1” guns
ASW: 285lb depth charges, one 58lb mortar.
Radar:
Air Search: Walmington Model A MkII
Surface Search: Walmington Model B MkII
Sonar: Walmington Model C(S) MkI
Ships of Class: HWMS C1-C16

Destroyers III Class/Falcon Class
Dimensions:
Length (overall): 347’4”
Beam (overall): 32’9”
Draft (mean): 11’10”
Displacement (full): 2,109 tons
Crew: 209
Power and Performance:
Engine: 2 Wychwood oil-fired boilers
Horsepower: 56,000
Shafts: 2
Top Speed: 37.5 knots
Range: 1,780nm at 32 knots, 3,450nm at 20 knots, 5,380nm at 12 knots
Armour:
Belt: 1.4” to 2.1” steel
Deck: 1” to 1.55” steel
(Primary) Turrets: 1.55” to 4.25” steel
Conning Tower: 1.25” to 3.2” steel
Armament:
Main: Four 4” guns (three turrets, two fore, one aft with Tuesday turret mounting dual guns)
Secondary: Six 21” TT above water, three each side. Two DT throwers plus rack
Anti Aircraft: Three 2x2" guns, five 2x1” gun mountings
Radar:
Air Search: Walmington Model A MkII
Surface Search: Walmington Model B MkII
Sonar: Walmington Model C(S) MkI
Ships of Class: HWMS Hare, Falcon, Mount Street, Fulgent, Slope Way, Park Street, Freebooter, Fortitude, Ajax (II), Frenzy, Longevity (II), Infamous (II), Constant (II), Magical (II), Quixotic (II), Famous, Furtive, Fustigation, Fatidical, Facetious, Fantastic, Forayer, Fairy, Fashionable, Fulmar, Fathomless, Fusilier, Favourite, Futurity, Furious, Frigate, Fox, Forfender, Foiler, Finch, Filibuster

Glamorgan Class Battleships
Dimensions:
Length (overall): 804’2”
Beam (overall): 110’5”
Draft: 30’6” mean
Displacement: 48,200 tons standard; 53,700+ tons full
Crew: 1,983
Power and Performance:
Engine: eight boilers (oil fired) Tedley & Crooke
Horsepower: 140,000
Shafts: 4
Max. Speed: 28.9 knots
Range: 8,550nm at 12 knots, 5,200nm at 22 knots
Armour:
Belt: 7.5”-16” steel
Deck: 6.5”-8.25” steel
Bulkheads: 5.25”-11.25” steel
Main Turrets: 7.25”-18.5” steel
Conning Tower: 6.75”-12.5” steel
Armament:
Main: Eight 15.5”/47 guns (four turrets, two fore, two aft) (two+ rounds per minute; 2,150lb AP shell; 40,500 yard range)
Secondary: Twelve 6” guns (6x2; eight to ten rounds per minute; 19,000-yard range)
Anti Aircraft: Eight 3” guns (4x2, potential DP); thirty-two 2" guns (16x2); forty-four 1” guns (22x2)
Aircraft: Three Wasp III, catapult launch
Radar:
Air Search: Walmington Model A MkI
Surface Search: Walmington Model B MkII
Fire Control: Walmington Model D MkII
Ships of Class: HWMS Indefatigable, Mainwaring, Churchill

King Godfrey I Class Battleships
Dimensions:
Length (overall): 748’2”
Beam (overall): 97’9”
Draft: 27’11” mean
Displacement (full): 43,400 tons
Crew: 1,744
Power and Performance:
Engine: eight boilers (oil fired)
Horsepower: 121,000
Shafts: 4
Max. Speed: 27.4 knots
Range: 7,900nm at 12 knots, 5,000nm at 22 knots
Armour:
Belt: 15” steel
Deck: 5.75”-7.2” steel
Bulkheads: 5.25”-11.25” steel
Main Turrets: 7.25”-16.5” steel
Conning Tower: 5.75”-10.5” steel
Armament:
Main: Eight 15” guns (four turrets, two fore, two aft) (two rounds per minute, 31,180yd/27,596.6m range at 30 deg. Elev.)
Secondary: Ten 6” guns (eight - ten rounds per minute, 19,000yd/17,000m range)
Anti Aircraft: Three 3” guns, eighteen 2" guns, thirty two 2x1” guns
Aircraft: Two Wasp III, catapult launch.
Ships of Class: HWMS King Godfrey I ( “Good Godfrey” ), Queen Mavis ( “Merry Mave” )

Iansisle Class Light Battleships
Dimensions:
Length (overall): 468'11"
Beam (overall): 78'9"
Draft (maximum): 23'3"
Displacement (full): 19,720 tons
Crew: 771
Power and Performance:
Plant: 12 Westerton Mk. X oil
Turbines: 4 Shell J47
Shafts: 4
Horsepower: 102,200
Max Speed: 24 knots
Range: 6,700nm at 14 knots; 4,000nm at 20 knots
Armour:
Belt: 9.25" steel
Deck: 2.5" to 3" steel
Forward Bulkhead: 9" steel
Broadside Bulkhead: 4" steel
Aft Bulkhead: 4.5" steel
Turrets: 12" face; 7.5" sides; 4.9" roof
Barbettes: 11" above belt; 4.75" below belt
Conning tower: 11" sides; 4.75" roof
Armament:
Main: Eight 12" guns (mounted in four turrets, two forward and two aft.)
Secondary: Six 6" guns (two turrets), six 21" torpedo launchers (below waterline; 3 port, 3 starboard)
Anti Aircraft: Five 2x2" guns, twelve 2x1” guns
Radar:
Air Search: RSUC model 174A
Surface Search: RSUC model 111S
Fire Control: RSUC model 211FC "Blindman's Bluff."
Ships of Class: HWMS Royal Oak

Eden Class Battle Cruisers
Dimensions:
Length (overall): 702’11”
Beam (overall): 91’8”
Draft: 25’6”
Displacement (full): 31,333 tons
Crew: 1,374
Power and Performance:
Engine: four Wychwood boilers (oil fired)
Horsepower: 112,000
Shafts: 4
Max. Speed: 30.2 knots
Range: 6,700nm at 12 knots, 4,550nm at 22knots
Armour:
Belt: 9” to 13”
Deck: 3.2” to 6.4” steel
Bulkheads: 4.75” to 11” steel
Main Turrets: 5.25” to 14” steel
Conning Tower: 4.85” to 10” steel
Armament:
Main: Nine 12” guns (three turrets, two fore, one aft)
Secondary: Twelve 6” guns (six turrets),
Anti Aircraft: Sixteen 2x2" guns, twenty-four 2x1” guns, six .55” machineguns
Aircraft: Two Wasp III, catapult launch
Ships of Class: HWMS Eastgate, Brixton, Alexandra, Eden

Chaspot Class Heavy Cruisers
Dimensions:
Length (overall): 667’5”
Beam (overall): 74’9”
Draft: 24’6” mean
Displacement (full): 18,804 tons
Crew: 1,109
Power and Performance:
Engine: four Wychwood boilers (oil fired)
Horsepower: 112,000
Shafts: 4
Max Speed: 32.4 knots
Range: 6,900nm at 12 knots, 4,700nm at 22 knots
Armour:
Belt: 7” steel
Deck: 2.5” –3.75” steel
Bulkheads: 4.25” –6.55” steel
Main Turrets: 2.5” –8.7” steel
Conning Tower: 4” –6.7” steel
Armament:
Main: Nine 8”/56 guns (three turrets, two fore, one aft)
Secondary: Six 4” DP guns (2x2, 2x1), four 21” torpedo,
Anti Aircraft: Six 2x2" guns, twenty 2x1” guns, six .55” machineguns
Aircraft: two Wasp III, catapult launch
Ships of Class: HWMS Triumphal, Marwood, Deepdale

Wayne Class Heavy Cruisers ( “Wayners” )
Dimensions:
Length (overall): 608’4”
Beam (overall): 64’9”
Draft: 21’2”
Displacement (full): 13,709 tons
Crew: 831
Power and Performance:
Engine: four Wychwood boilers, oil-fired
Horsepower: 112,000
Shafts: 4
Max Speed: 33.7 knots
Range: 8,200nm at 12 knots, 5,100nm at 22 knots
Armour:
Belt: 3.5” to 5.8”
Deck: 2.25” to 3.5”
Main Turrets: 2.5” roof, 2.75-4” sides, 6” face
Conning Tower: 2.5” to 4.25”
Armament:
Main: Eight 8”/56 guns (320lb shell to 32,680 yards at two rounds per minute) (4x2)
Secondary: Eight 4” DP guns (along broadsides; 2x2, 4x1)
Anti Aircraft: Twelve 2x2" guns, twelve 2x1”
Radar:
Air Search: Walmington Model A MkI
Surface Search: Walmington Model B MkII
Fire Control: Walmington Model D MkII
Aircraft: Two Wasp III, catapult launch
Ships of Class: HMWS Henry, Admiral Coney, Tarrif, Raven, Rock Dove, Kite, Wendsleybury, Alexander Vale, Baltic, Bear, Stockshire, Southshire

Kentonshire Class Light Cruisers
Dimensions:
Length (extreme): 571’11”
Beam (extreme): 59’8”
Draft (mean): 17’11”
Displacement (full): 11,172 tons
Crew (usual): 793
Power and Performance:
Engine: Four Wychwood oil fired boilers
Horsepower: 80,000
Shafts: 4
Max Speed: 33.2 knots
Range: 6,350nm at 12 knots, 4,500nm at 22 knots
Armour:
Belt: 1.7” to 3.75” steel
Deck: 2.1” steel
Bulkheads: 2.5” steel
Main Turrets: 1.9” roof, 2.5” sides, 3.55” face
Conning Tower: 2.2” roof, 3.5” sides
Armament:
Main: Nine 6” guns (three turrets; two fore, one aft)
Secondary: Six 4” DP gun (single mounts along broadsides), six 21” torpedo tubes (three each side, above water-line), four depth charge throwers.
Anti-Aircraft: Six 2x2" guns, twelve 2x1” guns, six .55” machineguns all mounted along broadsides and atop superstructure, one 6x2" turret mounted aft before Wednesday turret
Aircraft: Two Wasp III, catapult launch
Radar:
Air Search: Walmington Model A MkI and Walmington Model A MkIII
Surface Search: Walmington Model B MkI
Sonar: Walmington Model C(S) MkI
Ships of Class: HWMS Kentonshire, Kenilworth, Brighton, Pelagin, Hancock, Cymric, Lesotho, Togoland, Sao Tome, Kettle, Dolly, Thresher, Kingstowne, Kelpie, Knave, Knight

RWAF, RWN to take delivery of last piston-engine fighter?

Though it is true that Walmington's flirtation with the new form of aircraft propulsion has not been uniformly successful, there can be no denying that the age of the jet engine is upon the world's horizon at least. But Walmingtonian aviators see little romance in re-heating exhaust gases, and as the limited aircraft choice available to the Admiralty is combined with air force losses in the American conflict, a new piston-engine fighter has long been desired.
The MFMk IV Wychwood Siren was regarded as Spitfire's poor relation, an unoriginal creation that lost some of its British cousin's class by its immitation. MFMk III Nexus proven too big and clumsy to compete with even late wartime German fighters (and God only knows what Jerry has created since the peace) and now given-over to AEW and ASW duties. Salvaging either of these designs was considered probably inefficent, the sort of rushed stop-gap that created Walmington's current military aviation problems, and so Stockley Motors was recalled to the fore of aircraft building.
Their experienced engineers created a new aircraft, the pinacle of piston-engine potential, and it was ordered into full-scale production just days after being approved for service. Capable of world-beating speeds by piston-engine terms, the fighter is blessed with relatively long-range as required by Walmington's far-reaching American campaign and the concurrent threats posed hundreds of miles in the opposite direction. Agility is believed to be inferior at low altitude than is true of some otherwise less-able piston engine aircraft, but the Mk V's rate of climb and performance at altitude outstrip anything seen before in aircraft of the type.

Called Nimbus, the MFMkV is expected to enter Air Force and Navy service in coming months, and may be the last design of its kind to serve Walmington and her Empire.

Mono Fighter Mk V Stockley Nimbus
Maker: Stockley Motors with Wychwood Automation the primary sub-contractor
Crew: 1
Weight Empty: 7,901lbs
Weight Full: 12,285lb
Span: 35’
Length: 31’8”
Engine: Stockley White Raven 24 cylinder; 2,400hp
Propeller: Five-blade Wychwood Jenny Airscrew
Top Speed: 476mph
Cruising Speed: 254mph
Ceiling: 45,000ft
Range: 1,100miles
Guns: 2x1” aviation cannons and 4x.55” heavy machineguns
Other Armament: 1x500lb bomb on centreline, 2x250lb bombs; 8x54lb rockets; 12x2” Grapeshot rockets under wings


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(Just a bump for interest while I try to decide what on earth Walmington's going to do about the horrific state of its armoured vehicle force.)

(...the horrific state of its armoured vehicle force.)

((I, along with various Iansislean armored units, declare your new name to be "Mr Whiner-on-Sea-pants" :P))

(Hehe, nice to see that witty Iansislian satire... I can't even be bothered finishing that.)

((You know I can't let an ego bump pass without puerile comment. ;)))

(And there we have a gigantic list of reasons to fear the Walmingtonians. What do we think, so far? Does it, as they say, gel? Next up, I have a similar go at the air force, and have to decide whether or not to forget that we ever flirted with those awful jet thingimajigs.)

Quite informative, WoS. I wouldn't be complaining about your armored force, though. I mean, the best Robotstan's got at this stage is the Lion, essentially a Comet copy. And there are only a few of those.

I must say, your fleet is impressive...but hey, what do you think about that ASM of mine? Sort of the Robotic way of making up for having all of five capital ships.

Ha! We had a Comet-alike at the end of the Anti-Fascist War (essentially WWII: WoS, Iansisle, Calarca, UK, Canada vs. Der Kriegsmarine (Germany), Ercolana, Italy, Chiang Mai, ended when DK went off to play at real-war and Walmington's SOW assassinated Hitler), but scrapped it because of horrific cooling problems and a lack of sloped armour, officially (actually, it seemed too big a cliché and the next step was undeniably the Conqueror (totally un-Walmingtonian) or Centurion (ultimate cliché and too darn good!)). Now we have basically a Covenanter without the engine trouble (and a high-velocity gun and reduced shot-trap at the turret ring), which, obviously, is far inferior to the Comet.

I'm afraid I totally forgot about all that ASM business! Well, for what it matters, WoS still disapproves of that whizz-bang stuff. We've rather turned against jet engines, by and large, and have failed to replace our one and only class of submarines after withdrawing them, still refuse to deploy seamines except in clearly marked areas defending vital ports (never offensively), and likewise produce no landmines... yeah, WoS has got it into its collective head that ASMs are unsporting :)

The Robotic Navy is, believe it or not, more restrictive in its use of Sea Mines, so much so that they are only used to directly bomb enemy ships and are generally set with a relatively primitive (and therefore often ineffective) timer so they go off on their own accord after a few days. They are actually seldom-used at all, and landmines are right out.

Prop fighters are still in Robotic Air Force service (and will likely continue as front-line types until the 1960s, if things go to plan). The Spitfire is the most numerous type, the Mk. 24 variant being the most numerous variant, and there is also the TFR. 1, essentially a Wyvern. The Mosquito is still used, alongside the less-than-stellar Brigand and waning numbers of the Beaufighter. But as you have seen jets are on the up.

And hey, not every nation has the resources to build a gigantic seagoing fleet! The development of ASMs is more a statement of the RN's embarrassing weaknesses in the field of capital vessels (while a few good cruisers are in service, the only battleships, of which there are two, are Nelson-class).

On the subject of tanks, ah yes, the Centurion. The RA uses a handful off those, but the bottom line is that in a nation like LRR, tanks are more a hinderance than an asset. That's why most of them are DD-capable and very light.

But that's enough from me.