The development of military shipbuilding in the countries participating in the First and Second World Wars co-occurred. Still, the achieved results differed significantly based on each nation’s technical progress level.
As a result, cruisers with the same levels but produced in different countries differ in their characteristics, equipment, and armament.
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Japanese Cruisers
A distinctive feature of Japanese cruisers is the presence of torpedo apparatuses, which complement not the most potent main caliber and allow to inflict crushing damage that can put to the bottom even line ships.
The most vulnerable to enemy shots are the gun turrets of Japanese cruisers, which are penetrated even by ships with average firepower.
Another disadvantage of Japanese cruisers is frankly weak air defense, because of which one of the main missions to protect battleships from air raids becomes difficult to accomplish.
American Cruisers
American Navy cruisers are characterized by their versatility, which allows them to:
- fight in tight formation, protecting allies from enemy air attacks;
- operate behind enemy lines;
- to raid the enemy’s flanks.
The use of torpedo tubes on American cruisers is rare, but an excellent system of air defense is present on every ship and is a kind of calling card.
British Cruisers
The main advantage of British cruisers is their high speed and controllability, thanks to which it is possible to successfully maneuver on the battlefield and dodge enemy attacks and direct collisions.
Such mobility of the British was due to the need to compensate for the low reserve of strength and thin armor, which could make any massive shelling fatal for the ship.
An excellent addition to speed and maneuverability is the presence of torpedo tubes capable of inflicting enormous damage.
All British cruisers have a main caliber 152-mm gun, which can only fire armor-piercing shells with a low delay fuse.
The air defense system on British Navy cruisers leaves much to be desired, so you have to escape from air raids in smoke, which becomes available from level V.
German Cruisers
The specific features of the cruisers of the German Navy are:
- Lightweight ammunition for the main caliber guns causes them to have an increased rate of fire, and the ammunition reaches the target faster.
- Good armor, allowing it to withstand hits of armor-piercing shells and maintain a high margin of survivability.
- High maneuverability allows you to evade enemy attacks and move around the battlefield successfully.
- The low visibility allows you to hide your presence from enemies for a long and make unexpected attacks.
- It’s not a flawed air defense system.
The disadvantages of German cruisers include:
- low armor penetration due to the lighter mass of shells;
- small for cruisers firing distance from the main caliber.
Soviet Cruisers
Cruisers from the Soviet branch of the development tree are characterized by the following:
- Armor-piercing shells have high armor penetration and reduced firing pause, so the number of penetrations is significantly reduced.
- As range increases, scatter increases, and Sigma decreases.
- It has good armor for a cruiser, and the citadel is inside the hull, protected by an armored casemate belt.
- Not wrong camouflage, allowing for successful mid-range combat and winning the stronghold battle.
- A very decent air defense system that allows you to successfully repel air raids in combination with the Air Defense Barrage equipment.
