Tirpitz

**edyzmedieval** · 04-03-2006, 10:18

Tirpitz was one of my favourite war ships. It was extremely powerful.

Hitler had 3 big war ships, but they weren't properly used.

-Tirpitz
-Bismarck
-Gneisenau

**Kraxis** · 04-03-2006, 11:58

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Tirpitz was one of my favourite war ships. It was extremely powerful.

Hitler had 3 big war ships, but they weren't properly used.

-Tirpitz
-Bismarck
-Gneisenau

Then you must add Scharnhorst as well since it was the same ship as Gneisenau.

Those two ships were even more raiders than Bismarck and Tirpitz, and actually they worked pretty well until the British sent old battleships as part of the convoys.
They had comparable armour to the Bismarcks, superior speed but lesser main guns. Obviously they were meant to avoid deadly combat and be secure from lesser combat. The smaller guns would be just as good against escorts and merchants. Only they were not so great against battleships.

So if you want a good raider design then the Scharnhorst class would be a good candidate for the top spot.

**edyzmedieval** · 04-03-2006, 13:01

Oh yeah, Scharnhorst also.

What other huge war ships did they have?

**Kraxis** · 04-03-2006, 13:30

No more...

Graf Zeppelin could be counted among them but it never got off to a start.

**edyzmedieval** · 04-03-2006, 14:50

What about the USSR?
Apart from stealing from us a submarine(they stole 1 of our 2 submarines we had)!!!

**Kraxis** · 04-03-2006, 15:09

You mean Soviet battleships?

**AggonyDuck** · 04-03-2006, 15:15

Well the USSR had mostly some WW1-era battleships left from the old russians during WW2. From what I gather they had three or four of them left during WW2.