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Granted by Angus725 *dated March 24th, 2011*
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Trees (to large to post, copy paste into your browser) *ignore French and Italian DD lines, they are being changed France - http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/Rengokuy/FrenchTree.jpg Italy - http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/Rengokuy/ItalyTree.jpg Russia - http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/Rengokuy/RussiaTree.jpg
*Updating ships to match the trees Edit - Richelieu remodel to Jean Bart, not Gascagone Edit - Bearn remodel to Joffre (as they have same capacity, one just trades armor/armament for speed)
-for people who want to know the capabilities of the guns, nearly all are found on this website http://www.navweaps.com/
(boring intro section, scroll past to get to the ships and pretty pictures) Short and Sweet, the French and Italians had good strong navies during WWII. Both would be workable into the current game, ideally as their own nation, using their own crews.
The French Navy would be a speedy one at that. Range would be rather long, either equal to or a bit farther than most german guns at level. French DD's will be some of the best in game, each with high damaging, fast firing guns. CL's and CA's would be fast hard hitters that don't present much of a target, but they will be very vulnrable to shell fire as they didn't mount much armor, a problem remidied in the BB's. The French carriers would all be rather slow, their aircraft typical until higher levels. BB's would all be above average, with long firing guns. (don't let the PBB Dunkerque fool you, they had much better range than that) Richelieu's guns had a longer range than the Iowa's. All battleships would be capable of defending themselves from aircraft as well. As for the Italian Navy, it would be a nation of Cruisers and AA guns. Heavy and Light Cruisers would be the strongest of any nation in the game. DD's would be a trick to use. All would have few mounts (usually only 2 or 3) but remain the same size as other nations DD's. BB's would be typical until higher levels when they improve drastically. Italian Carriers would be tend to have a little less plane space than their counterparts, but be able to equip much heavier armament. Italian guns in general had very long ranges, even over german guns. This was achieved at the grave price of short barrel lives. The FCS system was very effective, tight salvos are to be expected. Armor would be rated in giving about 20% stronger than the USN armor.
The Russian navy. Well, they will be very interesting indeed. Right from the beginning they get very fast destroyers with considerably heavy armament. Russian cruisers will be a bit more difficult to use. Their armament usually lighter than ships of the same weight, their only advantages being tight salvos and small profiles. The Russian battleships will be, for lack of better words, terrors to fight. The early on ones based of the Gangut class, they are small targets with a lot of guns, the only disadvantage being lack of AA defense, a problem remedied at the BB4 and 5 level, the ships here built in practice with current US ones (iowa and montana). Even their aircraft carriers are well armed, each making good speed and decent capacity. As for their aircrafts, figters will be good, but bombs and torpedoes relativily weak.
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