actually sleek and beautiful for a post-dread battleship.

The result: the final iteration of North Carolina and by looking at her silhouette alone, she was. 'Yo dawg, I heard you wont limit your guns and retrofitting, especially on the Kongos, so we studied and combined a dreadnought and a battlecruiser so we can battleship while we battleship.' Building a dreadnought is a giant out as the WNT was to prevent making an arms race out of dread building so it was decided to go on a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' type of thought in order to keep in line: sacrifice armor for speed or sacrifice speed for armor. and all this while fitting the Panama Canal. The Lexington battlecruiser, which by the way had feasibility studies had she been built as-is instead of being converted to a flat top during reformatting and refitting, was already a carrier at that time and they wanted a new battleship that could still be in acceptable bounds at the same time overmatch their similar enemies. However, it was, by all means and crazies, the first iteration of a post-dreadnought ship that was fast and had good guns that were still good enough against other battleships or their colleagues. This also came into eyeballing the Kongos which were being retrofitted and reformatted into battleship tier so they decided to plan ahead. Now the battlecruiser wasn't really a full spec battleship if you go that far it hits like one but it cant take a beating like one because it is not Derfflinger which soaked 15 inch rounds during Jutland a battlecruiser's armor was meant to laugh at cruiser guns, not large caliber battleship guns. and it is glorious.Įver since the Washington Naval Treaty was in full effect, it was actually quite hard to battleship since there were restrictions made and surviving capital ships were simply refurbished.

The first design philosophy change on how the US Navy was to battleship. Gonna try reverting back on how to badpost just to get a feel.

Uss north carolina world of warships