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Lion Class Battleship

Lion Class Battleship

The Lion-class battleships were a class of six fast battleships designed for the Royal Navyin the late 1930s. They were a larger, improved version of the King George V class with 16-inch (406 mm) guns. Only two ships were laid down before World War II began in September 1939 and a third was ordered during the war, but their construction was suspended shortly afterwards. Their design changed several times in response to the removal of

Lion Class Battleship

Type

Battleship

Cost (Silver)

550.0000

Cost (Level)

60

Cost (REXP)

100000

Affiliation

Royal Navy/Britain

treaty restrictions on size and in light of war experience.This ship was planned with name Lion&Temeraire. None of the other ships planned were laid down, although there was a proposal to modify one of the suspended ships into a hybrid battleship/aircraft carrier with two 16-inch gun turrets and a flight deck. The two ships already begun were scrapped after the end of the war.

Pros:

  • Fast Battleship
  • Easy to dodge torpedoes sortie
  • Easy to hit&run with bl15" (vanguard gun/with range:350)
  • Turret rotation is fast
  • Fast acceleration,same with Iowa
  • Very good manuever,like controlling a cruiser
  • Very good armor protection,with rigth combination
  • Smallest size in this tier,make she hard to hit
  • Main gun is very good accuration with originally Bl16" with range 329-338

CONS:

  • Main gun maximum calibre just 16"
  • Short range for original main gun
  • No torpedoes
  • When use other Bl16" gun with longer range,rthis accuration very bad
  • Lower tier Bb&Bc can overange him
  • Main tower veri big&long make main deck easy to get hit
  • Long reload main gun(but faster than yamato&soyuz)
  • Heavy damage make lost lot of her speed
  • Smaller in this tier(smaller than Bismarck)
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