![]() That said though, the overall damage is lower compared to other carriers of the same tier. The alpha damage is spectacular, and the impression on the victim that did not manage to dodge the drop can be a bit overwhelming. In this case the damage dealt gets around +50k. Unfortunately, most players are not aware of the danger that the dive bomber has, and keep sailing in straight lines. When the BB is reacting to the dive bombers with the same trepidation it does to torpedo bombers, (by turning hard to one side), the maximum damage output I managed with all the alpha strike is 25k. We have to remember that there is around four seconds of delay on the bomb drop. Its wreck sat at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, forgotten and un-remembered until a Polish research vessel stumped upon it in 2006.From my experience with the GZ Test 1, I have seen that the damage can depend quite a bit on the awareness of the target. Graf Zeppelin B's partially completed hull had long been scrapped by that point.īy war's end, Graf Zeppelin A was raised and captured by Soviet forces and lined up for target practice in 1947. At the same time, construction costs were starting to overshoot initial estimates.Īs a result, the Graf Zeppelin A languished in ports around the Baltic states for most of the war, apart from a single test voyage in the Spring of 1942. One that saw its role in the war greatly diminished, especially compared to the Luftwaffe. Combine this with a novel aircraft catapult powered by compressed air, hydraulically operated metal windbreakers that stowed away flush with the deck, and accommodations for over 1,700 crewmembers, and you have what you should have been a prized flagship of the German fleet.īut almost at the exact same time Graf Zeppelin A was ready to sail, Hitler and the Kriegsmarine began a years-long rift. That's without mentioning the litany of nearly 80 defensive guns ranging in size from 28 × 2 cm (0.79 in) to 16 × 15 cm (5.9 in). With a full complement of Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers, Bf-109 T fighters modified for Kriegsmarine service, and Fieseler Fi 167 biplane torpedo bombers, the ship had an offensive force that couldn't be taken lightly. Making for a ship with a theoretical top speed of 35 knots (65 kph/40 mph). ![]() With a top-of-the-line triple-boiler steam turbine engine cranking out 200,000 horsepower, the Germans even managed to beat the Americans in the power department. The nearest equivalent would have likely been the Yorktown class carrier consisting of the USS Enterprise, Yorktown, and Hornet, under construction at around the same time. At that size, the Graf Zeppelin was similar in proportion to contemporary American aircraft carriers. The first Graf Zepplin class carrier sported dimensions of 262.5 meters (861 ft 3 in) in length with a 31.5-meter (103 ft 4 in) beam. With four planned for production and work beginning in December 1936, the first ship, Flugzeugträger A, was ready almost 24 months to the day after it was laid down. While throwing a big middle finger at the Versailles Treaty and all its sanctions, work began on a new breed of German warship, the Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carrier. With one of these countries, Japan, being a top German Ally, there was certainly a sense that the Kreigsmarine needed to build something to match. But another priority, at least before the start of the war for Admiral of the Kriegsmarine Erich Raider, was to finally catch up to Great Britain, Japan, and the United States in the department of aircraft carriers.īeing more or less a complete product of post-WWI warfare, the Germans were all but barred from building carriers while these nations mentioned above built vast fleets of them. The first order on the agenda was to begin manufacturing U-boats secretly once again. The last item of business left was the Kreigsmarine. By the mid-30s, the Luftwaffe (airforce) and the Heer (Army) had already begun to expand clandestinely beyond the reigns imposed by the French, British, Americans, and other member states of the League of Nations. Of course, by the mid-1930s, the newly arisen Nazy party was already finding ways to subvert international law to get around First World War sanctions. Oh, and no submarines or aircraft carriers of any kind, no exceptions. By which the German naval forces were limited to no more than six capital ships at a time with strict limits on personal, armament, and ship tonnage. In regards to the Kreigsmarine, i.e., the German Navy, the most significant aftershock of the Versailles Treaty took place 17 or so years after the fact in the form of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935.
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