Official evaluation

- First Impression (4/5):

On first look the ship has a very unique and atypical design. Things like the detailed lifeboats or the fact that the ship lands smoothly on the ocean mod were welcome surprises.
Despite including a controls section in the description it was lacking some information that I had to figure out on my own.

- Design/Accuracy (8/15):

The ship's design shows a small resemblance to the French battleship Masséna, mostly on the hull shape but other details showed some resemblance as well.
However, the bridge's design kind of stood out to me in a negative way, a big blocky bridge like this would hardly be found on warships of the era.
I also couldn't find any real life examples of 4 screw pre-dreadnoughts but I found some with 3 screws so I'm willing to accept this as reasonable.

- Details (7/15):

The build includes many neat small details like the oars in the lifeboats, ladders on the hull and superstrucure or pipes running up on the smokestacks. There is also some very minimal rigging added as well as a few doors and windows.
The wooden deck even has panel lines to spearate the indiviudal planks which was very nice too.
Unfortunatley, other than these, the ship lacks any other kind of details like anchors, bollards etc.

- Features (10/20):

The vessel features both the main and secondary cannons to be usable but has no other weaponry other than those (some tertiary cannons or torpedo tubes would have made it better)
Ther is also a barebones bridge interior with a helm and two EOTs but they dont have much detail on them.

- Build Quality (3/10):

I couldn't really find any clever part usage or part saving solutions, in fact in some places the builder is even a bit wasteful with parts. (there were only 1-2 cases where I found fuselage slicing used to save on parts)
The use of vertical fuselages for the hull shape was not bad, I liked it.
The forward turret can only be traversed by activating AG2 instead of AG1 (which is listed as the AG of it) which leads me to believe the builder did not properly check this before uploading.
I didn't really like the fact that the builder didnt bother to change the color of the cockpit and the pilot parts and just left them as pink.

- Performance (12/20):

The ship is easy to control and the weapons are easy to use. The turrets turn a tiny bit too slow for my taste but they are sort of realistic so it's fine. The ship's speed however is way too much, I couldn't find a single example of a pre-dreadnought battleship doing 26 knots (the use of a speed limiter however was very good)
The ship despite having custom built propellers, still seem to use jet engines for propulsion, while the steering is solved with gyroscopes only, there isn't even a decorative rudder.
I liked the fact how well the vessel lands on the ocean mod, close to no bouncing at all.

- Description and Information (4/15):

The description is rather barebones with only a controls section inlcuded (and even that is missing some key information such as the function of VTOL and Trim) as well as some small notes.
Adding more content like screenshots and a history section would have made it much better. It would have also been better if the post's title was the ship's name instead of the challenge's name.

Additional Points (-0, +2):

+2 for the funnel smoke

Total: 50