Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "SMS Kaiser (1874) - Guide 401" video.

  1. For a battleship, is having a citadel too small to keep the ship afloat on its own really a disadvantage? Minimizing the size of the citadel does allow for the thickest-possible belt and deck armor (or, alternatively, for armor weight to be minimized while maintaining thickness, thus freeing up displacement for more machinery or more gun, as seen with the London-era designs for Kongō replacements); while a larger citadel might technically allow a ship to remain afloat even if its ends are riddled and flooded, this sort of damage'll still massively slow the ship and leave it a sitting duck to be coup-de-graced at leisure, and making the citadel larger requires either thinner armor (increasing the risk of critical hits to the citadel) or a sacrifice of machinery or armament (making the ship offensively weaker and giving its opponents more opportunity to pound it into submission). Does losing the (theoretical, as mentioned above) ability to survive with the rest of the ship completely riddled and flooded really outweigh the increase in your ability to take down your opponents while no-selling would-be critical hits?
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