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I think that this will boil down to one question: can the Mogami close the distance and launch an effective strike of torpedoes and hit the Brooklyn. If so, than Mogami has an advantage. If not, it is anyone's guess

Make that 6 improved Panzerschiffs. Maybe the D or P class, but anything with at least the same firepower and range, but also higher speed: the one thing I critise about the Deustchs. Have that, and why build the Ad Hipps? The problem is that by WW2, commerce raiding had became much more difficult, ...

I've heard that the German cruisers couldn't exceed 6000 tonnes. And with just 8 inch guns, they could classify as cruisers. Though maybe they could try and cheat a little... :lol: But in all seriousness, I think politics also had influence on the ships. I mean, what better way to provoke fear into ...

Imagine if we replaced German, a force that didn't know much about modern naval warfare, with a navy that did know a lot about modern naval warfare, like oh I don't know Japan? Assuming for some reason no one gave two figs about land wars and this was totally naval orientated, would the war in the A...

If only Hitler was a compatent leader in Naval Warfare. The Batle of the Atlantic would've been different. But no, he didn't pay too much attention and his fleets gets mauled up by the end of the war.

Indeed, speed in the Deustchland class was lacking in modern terms (Applies to both classes when you think about it, but comparing pre dreads with dreadnoughts...unfair to say the least, for her type the Destch pre dread was okay). The proposed D class and P class were much faster versions, which co...

How good would you rate the Deustchland class among the worlds cruisers, consdering age, role, statistics ect. Would you rate them; good, average or down right Courageous class BC bad XD

Not so sure about the Atlanta and Didos not being cruisers (I would say they were specialised cruisers), since they were the roughly same size or bigger than the Japanese light cruisers (except for the Mogami class Lololol). Somehow I thought that the CLAAs were close in tonnage to a 3,200 ton Le F...

Not so sure about the Atlanta and Didos not being cruisers (I would say they were specialised cruisers), since they were the roughly same size or bigger than the Japanese light cruisers (except for the Mogami class Lololol). But I can see why you would classify the Tenryu, Kuma, Kuma-Kais (too lazy ...

Here is a little post on my views on this whole "Alaska class is BC" b#######. Too lazy to copy paste it all.

http://battleshipcraft-navies.wikia.com ... ssion_post

Agreed For the best design, I would say for the typical role of scouting and support, the German Blucher would be good. She was fast and had very good firepower. And like the Scharnhorst class, she took a lot of damage before sinking. For battleline duties (fighting along side BBs and BCs) the Russi...

I agree that the rebuilt QEs were quite successful. They were everywhere and did quite a lot for their navy. Got some good value for WW1 BBs But I'm surprised no one here has mentioned the Kongo class. Though they weren't the most succesful ships in WW2, you can't deny they did quite a bit for Japan...

Japanese ships. So poetic, yet so warlike to those willing to figure out what they mean.

Taiho, Hiryu, Furutaka and heaven forbid Yamato. Such beauty

Second place goes to the British. Such fearsome names: Invincible, Glourious, Indefatigable, Warrior..so long as they were not ironic.

CB = cruiser big AFAIK by size of the above ship Dunquerqe and Scharnhorst class were cruisers too ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ btw whats the armor weight of the "Baltimore class" Which is exacty why the Alaska is a battlecruis...

I always thought it meant Cruiser-Type A. Guess I learnt something. Anyways Lets just try and stick with typical armoured cruisers, eg Blucher, Scharnhorst (the one that was sunk at the Falklands, not the battleship/battlecruiser or ocean liner ones). Otherwise all the world's heavy cruisers: Mogami...