combine this with the lightning fast pace of technological innovation in the 1800s, like the adoption of paper cartridges, and later brass cartridges in all firearms allowing for the change from muzzleloading to the far faster breechloading for firearms of all sizes, and these issues were becoming more and more of an obstacle needing to be overcome, rather than a simple inconvenience of life. It did the job better than anything else, but the tendency to obscure entire battlefields on land or sea (with enough ships) and the ever present issue of black powder fouling in everything from the smallest parlor pistol to the largest black powder cannon ever, the 450mm 100-ton gun. The projectile propellant of choice for hundreds of years, and the Fire in "firearms". This was the culmination that many major nations had been independently seeking in recent years to an issue that had been present ever since the first firearms had been invented.
In the year 1884, there was a paradigm shifting invention in France. and what set in motion the events that would culminate in Dreadnought and really the penultimate evolution of the concept of the Ship of the Battle Line, until its being rendered obsolete by Aircraft Carriers in the aftermath of WWII. This is the 1906 Battleship whose revolutionary, yet entirely logical and iterative advancement of armament of uniform primary cannons rather than some primary + many heavy secondaries as well as use of steam turbine engines was such a massive change that it inspired all battleships of its era (1906-1921) to be called Dreadnoughts, and all previous now fundamentally obsolete battleship designs to be called Pre-Dreadnoughts.īefore going into the history of Dreadnought herself, its an important thing to note just WHY Dreadnought was what is was.
This is a suggestion for one of the most legendary ships in human history- the HMS Dreadnought.
Now that Battlecruisers and Battleship suggestions are open for business, we just have to have the original game changer in here.
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