Re: [GZG] Battlecruisers

[Ryan Gill <rmgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:13 PM +0100 12/29/06, <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Um... Ryan? You're looking at the wrong 
> Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. There were two 
> different sets of them - one in WW1 (sunk at the 
> Falklands), and one in WW2. The stats you 
> displayed are for the WW1 ones, but they were 
> never called "battlecruisers" or "pocket 
> battleships". Above I'm talking about the WW2 
> ones (it even says so explicitly in the section 
> you quoted).

Doh, I was looking at the HazeGray.org battleship 
list and managed to only scroll down to the first 
set. I knew there were two (lots of ship name 
duplicates out there) but it slipped my mind at 
the time.

> The *WW2* Scharnhorst and Gneisenau displaced 
> 31-38'000 tonnes (pre-war and mid-war loads 
> respectively), carried a main armament of 9x11" 
> guns and a maximum armour thickness of 320mm, 
> and had a top speed of 31.6 knots.
>
> That makes them slightly *larger*, *faster* and 
> *heavier armoured* than the Alaskas (at 34'000 
> tonnes, max armour 229mm and top speed 31.4 
> knots), though their main armament was somewhat 
> lighter (9x11" guns vs the Alaskas' 9x12" guns).

Still seems like the Alaska's would have given 
them a hard time though. Armored to resist the 
guns of the G and S (it would seem) and heavier 
guns to pummel them. Not as much of a foregone 
conclusion though as I'd have thought. ;-)
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