Story :

Work on the G5 program began to eventually replace the Hantonn class light cruisers, which were due to begin retiring in 1944. With the typically required year of design work and two to five years of build, preliminary design work began in the Spring of 1939 by the TSC (Technical Service of Construction). Z Navy officials in the late 1930s, in addition to their concern over the growth of dangerous threats coming from other navies, the admiralty was also influenced by the numerous debates on the fiability of the Z Navy, concerning their limited amount of heavy cruisers in the fleet.

As such, it was decided to build a powerful and massive ship class, created to counter any threat and deal with situations larger ships couldn't take part in due to their great size : The Prince Archibald Class was thus created. Counting 4 Ships in it's ranks, the Archibalds were large and powerful, aswell as being the very first Z Navy ships to include the quadruple turrets design.
Made to lead medium sized fleets, these ships served on every front and are the pinnacle of Z Navy Engineering.

Specifications :

Displacement: 17400 long tons
Length: 188 m
Beam: 21.64 m (72 ft)
draft : 5.55 m (18.2 ft)
Speed : 32.5 knots (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h)
Complement: 42 officers 1,340 enlisted
Armement : 3 x 4 235mm Canons ; 8 x 2 100mm Secondary Guns ; 12 x 2 45mm Auto-Canons ; 14 x 2 25mm AA machine guns ; 5 × 2 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes

Sister-Ships of Prince Archibald Class

ZNS Prince Archibald
ZNS Duke Valdemar
ZNS Commodore Magus
ZNS Princess Josephine