Talk:General Discussion/@comment-5046483-20141104221921/@comment-23.28.25.108-20141105200457

Battlecruisers as a class made sense in a WWI context, but technological advances by WWII made the whole concept really fuzzy compared to fast battleships, especially the second line ones like Dunkerque and the Twins. The Brits tended to call them battlecruisers, both the French and Germans considered their ships to be fast battleships that just happened to be not as big/armored/armed as the Treaty limits. "What is a battlecruiser" is almost a troll thread on some warship forums that I've browsed over the years.

Also note that the "classic" battlecruiser, like Renown, was actually bigger than an equivalent battleship, as a longer ship moves through the water easier, and is thus faster.

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