

Pocket Battleships, such as the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, are high speed commerce raiders. Always remember, you aren't not placing any armor at all, fast battleships are still a class of battleships, so armor is still essential. Aircraft are also a very real threat for battleships, so anti-air weaponry is also useful to prevent aerial defeat by bombs and torpedoes. Getting maximum firepower directed at your target can be more effective compared to other conventional tactics, as you have the armor and guns to make this strategy work.įast battleships have less armor than other ships, so you might want to consider weapons defending against torpedo boats, and submarines. Whether this happens in Warship Craft is up to your building skill.Ĭrossing the T is the strategy that should be used by this class of vessel when attacking. Battleships usually would do commerce raiding or strategic denial of territories, but in the end the aircraft carrier had eclipsed the battleship. They are usually more reliable than battlecruisers, because of their armor, but that may depend on how much the armor has been traded off.

Light guns, missiles, torpedoes, and other weapons work well with this ship type.įast battleships are faster than regular battleships, so they often will take missions involving faster speeds, such as escorts.Heavy guns, such as 30.5 Guns and larger.The faster version of the battlecruiser, it usually sacrifices some armor and weaponry to gain a speed advantage. The line between battlecruisers and fast battleships are very blurred, with similar specifications, but the difference in purpose is the differentiating point. This is called positive buoyancy.Fast battleships are a class of faster, lighter vessels with less armor compared to its fellow battleships, but the speed and agility gained by this trade-off is often the justification to build this class. When at the surface the ballast tanks are filled with air rather than water. In the real world, submarines work by fluctuating between positive and negative buoyancy. To get it to sink you need to add mass to the submarine to overcome the upward force of the water. How do you make a boat out of a 2 liter bottle?

The outer hull only extends as far as the bottom and sides of the inner hull, allowing the submarine to remain upright. The steel ribs separate the two hulls, allowing space for the ballast tanks that control the depth of the submarine. The inner hull is welded to steel ribs that are then welded to the outer hull.
