There's 3 general classifications of gunnery capital ships

Pre-dreads, which were... honestly terrible. Dreadnoughts, which introduced superfiring turrets while maintaining the immense secondary battery of the pre-dread era. And finally Battleships, which were designed to forgo secondary battery firepower in exchange for larger main battery guns and high speeds.

@RoflTank who is arguing with me?

I dunno

Pretty sure you’re just trying to stir shit

I don't have a spoon buddy

Also German battleships reject your ideas

Or the nips with their weird fixed gun secondaires

Well the IJN was using up gunned battlecruisers]

And they still held on to the ideals of WWI

Whereas literally none of the German capitals fit in to a standard definition

Like, none of them

Germany stronk

Scharnhorst was more battlecruiser than battleship

Tfw I'll never get to have a sharnhorst battle cruiser

But it wasn't a battlecruiser because it had too much armor

Or a grosserkurfurst

But the guns weren't big enough to be a BB

And then it had enough secondary guns to level a small fleet

but it was battlecruiser fast

Yeah but so were the Bismarcks

Can we just appreciate how mental the German engineers were who developed these

Which is why they defied classification, hilariously enough.

lol

Like turtle back armor is a pretty fucking lit concept

Turtleback is half the reason the Germans could continue using traditional armor layouts

Then you throw on enough armor and guns to level fleets

Oh and let's just fucking make it fast too

Whereas everybody else was like "nah fam all or nothing"

Germany be like "hold my beer I'm going to do German things"

Pretty much

I mean look at the Panzerschiff

What even is that

Is it a BB? Guns are there, armor's not. Is it a BC? Not enough displacement. It's too well armed to be a CA, but it can move like a CL.

This is why germans are banned from ship building

They just make things naturally OP

Well... not always.

Looking at you THREE SHAFT PROPULSION

Shhhh

WHO PUTS THREE SHAFTS ON A SHIP AND WONDERS WHY IT CAN'T MANUEVER WITH RUDDER DAMAGE

COME ON GERMANY