


However, with the limited speed that wouldn’t have allowed it to be used in a fleet as well as the small number of planes carried, the design was abandoned. Work on this design began a bit after the beginning of the construction of the Graf Zeppelin. When it comes to her background, so far, people aren’t 100% sure of it but she might be based on the “Kleiner Flugzeugträger” design. Starting this line, we have the Rhein at tier IV. The German Aircraft Carrier Line Tier IV German Aircraft Carrier Rhein The final shape of torpedobomber’s launching cone is similar to that of Japanese and American torpedo bombers. The torpedoes have a range of 6 km. These bombs will be most effective against slower opponents. Their drop zone is shaped like an elongated ellipse, and aiming it during an attack may be difficult. Unlike the Japanese bombers, German ones dive immediately, without the prior altitude gain. Therefore, a player’s reaction against such rockets should be similar to the actions one would take against armor-piercing shells.īombers use armor-piercing bombs. Armor-piercing rockets can also ricochet against destroyers’ end armor when the ship is bow-in to the planes. Rockets fired at broadsided destroyers –with their thin armor– will result in overpenetrations that deal 10% of the maximum damage. These rockets can deal high damage by hitting an enemy ship’s citadel, but they allow a familiar counterplay: when they hit at an acute angle, they can ricochet or simply not penetrate the armor. When it comes to their planned characteristics, they are the following:Īirplanes have comparatively high cruise speed, but their HP pool is below average Īttack aircraft use armor-piercing rockets. We are getting the first complete line without a single ship that was actually completed and with on top of that, out of 4 ships, one being made-up by Wargaming. German Aircraft Carriers… I wish I was actually writing an April fool article here but I’m not. The problem is that I really wasn’t expecting them that soon. The thing is that… with all the information that Wargaming already shared here and there, I knew they would be coming (Sub_Octavian saying that the next carrier line would be from and Axis nation and later on, the devblog on AP rockets). So… I was happily playing the April fool Clan Brawl with my clanmates, enjoying my Hakuryu and then at the end of a game one of them says “Oh! German CVs are coming!”.
