Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-25730832-20151013050733/@comment-131.107.147.61-20151118015258

Vcharng wrote: 131.107.174.208 wrote: Archer88 wrote: Vcharng wrote: Woah, woah, woah woah....

Who the bloody hell is this?

Flat-top, but not carrier... another auxiliary ship? It might be a carrier, Graf Zeppelin. Those are 10.5cm HA guns. Look: http://imgur.com/R2QWlNM

http://imgur.com/M5OHo0b

Yes, plus she has the 15cm main armament in casemates on the side of that hull piece as well. Don't think any other Kriegsmarine capital ship had guns in casemates like that. Seems definitive. Oh, so GZ's deck turrets are 10.5 cm SK/C 33? Not her 15 cms...

Alright, this is one very persuasive guess then.

Yes, rather than having dual-purpose guns they used two different single-purpose batteries. They mounted AA guns on her deck around the island (the 10.5cm SK C/33 which is a naval version of the classic FlaK 38) and 15cm guns in casemates on the sides of her hull in the corners of her flight deck. Original design had single 15cm guns per casemate, but they ended up mounting dual guns in there instead which is what the image here looks like to me. And then they pulled them out and used them for coastal defense guns since the ship was never going to be completed.