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Battlecruiser Eugen

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Based off the Prinz Eugen class cruises with some changes.

The Battlecruiser Eugen are a class of heavy Cruisers built to combat larger capital ships such as battleships and carriers when the smaller Zestorer destroyers are unable too. As a state of the art battlecruiser built in the 1940s, she employ many innovative techs such as Radar and an advanced fire control on her anti aircraft batteries to automatically target aircrafts. Often seen moving as a fleet with other destroyers and cruisers, She is able to hold her own just fine against multiple smaller targets. On top of naval action, She serves as an excellent platform for naval shore bombardment as well

The Eugen class are very heavily armed with a wide mix of weaponry. her main armaments are 8x9 inch cannons housed in 4 twin mounts, 2 in the front and 2 aft, Heavy anti aircraft batteries are in the form of 8x100mm flak cannons mounted on 4 turrets, 2 on her port and starboard sides and light anti air batteries comes in 12x20mm rapid fire guns mounted on 6 dual mounts, 3 on each side, this can me automatically locked onto enemy aircrafts with its fire control system. She also carries 6 medium torpedoes in triple mounts on each side incase of a close in attack. Eugen is also well armored , mainly by the beltline, being able to take a lot of fire before going down, As a heavy battlecruiser, her top speed isn't the greatest at 50km/h( 27kts)
A total of 20 cruisers have been planned

Controls-----------------------------------------------------
AG1: Arm forward main cannons
AG2: Arm Aft main cannons
AG3: Arm Starboard anti air
AG4: Arm Port anti air
AG5: Arm starboard Torpedoes
AG6: Arm port torpedoes

General Characteristics

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.042
  • Wing Loading 12,101.2lbs/ft2 (59,083.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 20.2ft2 (1.9m2)
  • Drag Points 69025

Parts

  • Number of Parts 405
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 1,788