[@Deaddlife] Nope, it's a battleship.

Even though a massive submarine carrier would be awesome, i am going for the more sensible route.

http://3dhistory.de/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/Bis001/Bismarck_Walkaround01_040_000.jpg
Looks roughly like this.

The airplanes are launched with "catapults"
http://www.pacificaviationmuseum.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/floatplane-18.jpg
Then they winch them aboard with cranes after the flights.

And the torpedoes are probably on small turrets.
Just google "destroyer torpedo launcher" and you will get some idea how thy work.

I was actually surprised myself when i learned the Tirpitz historically had torpedoes.
And i will still start in quite a pinch.
The vessel is mostly working with most of its crew. But the navigation and communication is hampered. So it's passing notes and waving flags until i get hold of a radio :P
I could punish myself even more with having different signal language than the real world, but i'm gonna "powergame" that i have the same. ;)

I guess i should put up a pic with the description.



And Gm's.
Should i put my "character" in the characters tab myself or does someone else do this?