Re: [GZG] Battlecruisers

["John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/23/06, VinsFullThrust@xxxxxxx <VinsFullThrust@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In a message dated 12/23/2006 11:41:17 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> rlbell.nsuid@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> It got me thinking about how battlecruisers are handled in games.
> They are usually ships between a heavy cruiser and a battleship.  Only
> one navy (the USN) ever built ships like that, and they were called
> "Large Cruisers" (the Alaska class).  All ships that were actually
> called battlecruisers were as large as, if not larger, than
> battleships.  The HMS Hood, a battlecruiser, was the largest warship
> in the world, until the Bismark was completed.  Battlecruisers were
> basically dreadnoughts that exchanged weight of armor for weight of
> machinery to get an extra turn of speed.  The only game that ever got
> this right was Starfire, as a BC was faster than a BB and if it
> accepted less protection, it could mount the same armament.
>
> OK, maybe I am lost here.  Hood was smaller the bismark, yet Hood was a
> "cruiser" and Bismark was "battleship."  If this is accurate and Hood and

In the Real World, warship designations have historically indicated
role more than they have designated tonnage limits.

I bet you go into convulsions trying to figure out how the statement
that "In the Napoleonic era, most cruisers were frigates" makes any
sort of sense.

Try cracking a book that doesn't deal with spaceships before discussing history.

> Bismark were the worlds largest "warships" What exactly does that make
> Yamato and Musashi that were nearly 2 times larger then Bismark?

When the Hood and Bismark were launched, they were wet-dreams in the
fevered imagination of Japanese admirals.  Thanks for playing,
smart-ass.

If you're going to sharpshoot, please try to do so intelligently.

John
--
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani
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