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Historical background Chung King was initially called HMS Aurora, a light cruiser of the Arethusa-class. After the war, the Aurora...
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Historical background Novorossiysk was the name given to the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare when she was transferred to the USSR...
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The Historical background Just like Marco Polo, Giuseppe Verdo is inspired by the design UP.41. from Ansaldo. For the description...
Historical background None. Or well... Basically, Marlborough is a kitbash of a Vanguard on which Wargaming decided to slap quadruple...
Historical background In 1938, the Director of Naval Construction started working on a series of designs to counter the German...
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Historical background In May 1943, the U.S. Bureau of Ordnance proposed a new 203 mm rapid-firing gun. It was designed...
Historical Background So... we are getting Béarn... as a tier VI... and it's a premium. I have a rough idea...
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Historical background Sitting at the end of the new German battlecruiser line, the Schlieffen is based on the Schnelle Großekampfschiffe...
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Just as a side note before starting, on the last article about Zieten, I didn't include personal opinions on the...
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Historical background So... for the Zieten, things get a little bit confusing because we aren't exactly sure of what design...
Historical background Prinz Heinrich is based on the Ersatz Yorck-class of battlecruisers ordered by the German Kaiserliche Marine in 1916...
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Historical background The Mackensen-class was the last class of battlecruisers built by Germany in World War I. The class was...
Historical background The Derfflinger-class was a class of three battlecruisers (Derfflinger, Lützow and Hindenburg) of the Imperial German Navy. Compared...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, don't worry, I'm still alive. I'm currently on vacation... pretty much in the middle of nowhere with...
Historical background SMS Von Der Tann was the first battlecruiser built for the German Kaiserliche Marine. Laid down in March...
Historical background Welp. Looks like another one of these days where the brits felt the need to compensate for something....
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Historical background Karl von Schönberg is based on the AG Vulcan Stettin Type 1934 Destroyer design, just like Ernst Gaede....
Historical background The Chkalov is based on the Project 71B from 1937. The project 71B was a 22 000 tons...
Historical background The Admiral Nakhimov is a what-if conversion of a Sovestky Soyuz-class battleship conversion. Unlike the Manfred von Richtofen...
Historical background The Pobeda is based on a conversion of the Project 69 cruiser (Kronshtadt). At the end of World...
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Historical background The Serov is based on the Project 71 of light carrier for the Soviet Navy. This project from...
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Welp... here we go. Soviet carriers are here with 3 paper designs, the Komsomolets here which is widely different from...
We all knew that Ise and Tone were just the beginning but I don't think anyone thought that the next...
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Historical background USS Rochester was an Oregon City-class heavy cruiser from the U.S. Navy. The ship was laid down in...
