![]() The US is pretty hostile to weapons sales in the 1930s, so they seem a lot less likely. If you wanted to stick with 14-inch weapons anyways, the German-focused nature of the decision seems to suggest that it should be a new German 35cm, while the more realistic option would probably be British 14" Mk VIIs. British or American guns arming the ships would be a bit silly for an Axis or Central Powers-allied Greece. The 28cm is technically more realistic, but its a bad fit for a tier-2 heavy gun (and I can't see Greece putting this much work into fixing a dreadnought but killing the firepower in the process).ģ.) While the historic ship used British guns (and 14-inch ones), the prerequisites to acquire the Salamis require relations with Germany, not Britain. the French Richelieu or Italian Dunkerque) or older 1920s 16-inch weapons (Colorado, Nagato, Nelson).Ĭonsidering that the hull was partially-scrapped and thus the barbette limitations seem a bit less strict, I'd actually lean in favor of the 38cm C/34 used on the Bismarck, for a few reasons:ġ.) 15-inch guns match a tier-2 weapon better than smaller ones.Ģ.) Germany doesn't have the 35cm guns anymore, and none are ready to be built the 38cm guns were being built for the Bismarck-class, O-class, and the Soviet Kronshtadt-class, making them significantly simpler to acquire. Tier-2 weapons, with the exception of a few really strange ones (Germany has no sane reason to have tier-2 weapons for the least-powerful capital ship guns of any battleships in the world for the Scharnhorst and Deutschland panzerschiffe), fit on either newish 15-inch weapons (i.e. 14-inch weapons on the American standard battleships, the Japanese Kongo and Ise-classes, and the Bretagne-class (13.4-inch). Salamis was designed with the same exact guns that arm the Chilean Almirante Latorre-class. That said, no other ship with 14-inch guns has tier-2 weapons, except the relatively-modern King George V-class (which had quadruple-turrets as well). nearly every heavy cruiser in the game is too slow, Panzerschiffe have a crippling lack of HP despite historically being oversized and well-armored, etc). Scharnhorst's guns are a whole different mess of the base-game's content that really deserves some attention, but that's a total overhaul of several entire nation's shiplists (i.e. the French Richelieu or Italian Dunkerque) or older 1920s 16-inch weapons (Colorado, Nagato, Nelson). 14-inch weapons on the American standard battleships, the Japanese Kongo and Ise-classes, and the Bretagne-class (13.4-inch) are all tier-1. ![]() Thus, having upgraded stats is technically fine since the ship wouldn't be built necessarily with the same configuration or tech. Technically I didn't bring up the Salamis-class since, having been partially-scrapped, putting it together is akin to building a new ship. The only other note is that both the Mississippi-class and the Salamis-class are queued without names matching the Greek battleship namelist, resulting in the battleships having name duplicates if rebuilt (and being the only ships lacking the RHS prefix). It doesn't make sense for their pre-dreadnoughts to build as regular battleships, particularly since as intact hulls these two ships would probably be pretty fast to rebuild.Ģ.) The guns don't exactly match four 12-inch guns on the pre-dreadnought hull are now represented as being better-armed than almost every dreadnought in the game, only excluding the Colorado and Nagato-class battleships with eight 16-inch guns.ģ.) Tech-2 armor is particularly strange for a ship with a 9-inch armor belt that's battlecruiser levels of armor protection (the only dreadnought in-game with less armor is the Spanish España class, at 8-inches). Yet rather than getting relatively-accurate hulls, they end up launching as this (visual mods only):ġ.) As mentioned originally, the Greeks start with pre-dreadnought hulls. The decision to rebuild the decommissioned Mississippi-class pre-dreadnoughts is a very strange one, since the Greeks are one of the only nations that start with pre-dreadnought hulls unlocked.
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