world of warships british cruisers guide

They didn't need or want a power-projection ship, they only needed an escort for their battleline.Īmerica didn't build the type at all (aside from the aborted Lexington-class). The Germans and Russians didn't have those kind of oversea commitments, didn't need the range, didn't require a north-atlantic-in-winter seakeeping, so they opted for designs that had armor and weapons packages nearly as good as their battleships, but gained the extra speed from a lower displacement.

These ships could be used to hunt down fast surface raiders, serve as power projection (essentially Hood's full-time mission from comissioning to late thirties), as well as back up the battleline. Jackie Fisher came up with the idea of a battleship-sized warship that traded some of the displacement that could have gone for weapons and armor for an additional 4-5 knots over same-generation battleships, but it's worth noting that the Royal Navy needed a ship that could handle the Atlantic, and had the range for world-wide cruises.

World of warships british cruisers guide