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 | |
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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)