Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170920014601/@comment-26410405-20170925125647

Royal Sovereign (05) wrote: Archer88 wrote: Royal Sovereign (05) wrote: "I ain't really good at that"

Wikipedia can be edited by anyone else so it's not 100% accurate. Guess I have to more research before I jump to conclusions. xP

You could also switch on your logical thinking. A heavy cruiser can't possibly be converted into a battleship, especially one built much earlier than that cruiser. It can, however, be converted into an aircraft carrier. -_-

Hmm.....I researched about Lutzow and she was renamed from Deutschland to Lutzow as Hitler feared losing a ship with a grand name would have negative impact on the morale. Though I wondered why the Gangut class was built smaller than Heavy cruisers. No no no, you're thinking of a different ship again. This was the ship that was renamed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cruiser_Deutschland

"In 1940, she was renamed Lützow, after the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Lützow was handed over to the Soviet Union."

So there were two ships named Lutzow, just like there were two ships named or renamed Petropavlovsk.

Also what do you mean, Gangut was smaller than heavy cruisers? By displacement it was heavier. If you mean beam length, then yes, it was a bit shorter than Hipper class, but Gangut was built before WWI when heavy cruisers weren't even a thing (there were armored cruisers instead). And ship designs got more advanced since then. Hipper class were built in 1930s, so they were relatively modern in WW2.