Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-25730832-20151013050733/@comment-26574811-20151023155622

Ar-cen-ciel wrote:

Also, for those who are interested in the cursed German battleship Scharnhorst, here's why she's so dreaded by the German sailors. Self-launching in the middle of the night (right before her launching day no less!) like a genuine ghost ship are just the mildest symptoms of her curse. The story looks very weird:

1. Scharnhorst was 38,700 metric tons full load, not 40,000

2. The only liner named Bremen that served during WWII was not sunk by a collision, but by arson and later scuttled by explosives.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Bremen_(1928))

3. Scharnhorst was not sunk by a cruiser's salvo, but instead mostly by a battleship: HMS Duke of York, scoring at least 13 direct hits.

4. The story said that because both Bismarck and Tirpitz was sunk, so Hitler had to send Scharnhorst, but Tirpitz was sunk in November 1944, while Scharnhorst was sunk in December 1943.

(as in "The British had sunk the mighty Bismarck, and the gigantic Tirpitz lay riddled with torpedoes on the bottom of a Norwegian fjord. Hitler had no choice but to send out the Scharnhorst, curse and all.")