Um, I don't know if now is the right time to mention this, but your armament is incorrect, or, rather, does not match the drawing.
For instance, the deviantart drawing carries 4 triple turrets that are not identified in the text you quote (but I'd guess they're 150mm triples?) - that's why the turret for those has such a pronounced 'step' at the front (all three barrels are side-by-side, yet have to fit inside the turret ring to point upwards - so all three have to move back). However, in your drawing, you have decided that these are 240mm weapons, although actual barrel size used would indicate a secondary armament of 550+mm calibre.
Your tertiary armament, quoted as 128 mm AA, does not match the drawing - it's in the position that the 240mm weapons should be. Again, barrel thickness would indicate tertiary armament calibre of 500mm+
You've used 150mm turrets from Bismarck's secondary armament where the drawing specified 128mm doubles, I think - it's difficult to tell because you have not followed the drawing when placing these. Because these are not AA guns and because you use weapons that are too large for this ship, they have poor arcs of fire - some of these seem to be blocked to some extent by your 240mm / 550 mm AA guns, and some appear to be both behind and in front of the same gun.
You've placed some 105mm, proper AA mounts, in places that have guns on the drawing, but I think that the places you have used were intended for the light mounts that you have mounted amidships. However, you have again not matched the drawing - which specified some AA cover fore-and-aft - and 105mm AA guns are in any event not mentioned in the descriptive text.
Your light AA placement does not match the source drawing. You've no light AA fore or aft, leaving the ship very vulnerable to a low-level attack, such as the skip bombing technique, for instance.
Given the substantial up-gunning you're drawn, I'm not sure the ship floats. If it does float, it will be catastrophically vulnerable to a low-level attack from ahead or astern because you have not followed the source material - any allied force using similar tactics to those employed in the battle of the bismarck sea would have great success against this ship, I think.
I know this looks like I'm trying to be mean, but I'm really, really not. You've said time and time again that you're not to going to take suggestion on how to improve this ship - not that it would ever become a practical ship, mind, but that's not something you've done wrong, it's just that this ship can't be practical - because you're following the deviantart drawing, however, a couple of minutes of examination shows that you are not following that drawing either, and further, the modifications you have made make this ship worse, not better - not intentionally, I think, but true nonetheless.
Help is available, if you want it, but at the moment, the impression I am getting - I can't speak for the others - is that the help is not wanted.
Regards,
Adam
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