Pocket Battleships

Discussion in 'Ship Comparison' started by pew-pew-pew, Jun 19, 2007.

  1. TRich19

    TRich19 Member

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    they should make a secondary turret a .5 gun and i wathced the iowa vs the ship that starts with d and that smaller ship looked pretty big
     
  2. crzyhawk

    crzyhawk Well-Known Member

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    That was a big gun video. Big gun doesn't use "units" like fast gun does. In big gun, they are allowed to arm all those secondaries with BB (.177) cannons if they want to. The small ship is a Deutschland class panzerschiffe or "armored ship". Some people call them pocket battleships (this is the popular term coined by the media at the time) and were later reclassified as "heavy cruisers" by the Kriegsmarine. In fast gun, they are treated as "cruisers" and are allowed 3.5 units. Big gun makes no distinction between cruisers and capital ships like fast gun does, and just allows you to arm as many secondaries with BB guns as you can fit, and up to 6 guns of whatever caliber represents 11" (7/32 maybe?).

    Mike D
     
  3. djranier

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    In MWC, they have also gutted the Mogami class, by listing the tonnage wrong on the ship list.
     
  4. specialist

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    Mogami will get fixed eventualy.

    And maybe some of the other jap cruisers too.

    No one ever cared much about them before to do much research.
     
  5. djranier

    djranier Well-Known Member

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    We just tried to fix the Mogami, and it got voted down, more allieds at Nats than Axis. Was told no superships for the Axis.
     
  6. specialist

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    It will get fixed next year.