world of warships where to aim to hit citadel

One thing for sure, except for the armament, she remains very different from what the most commonly known characteristics of the Design 1047. When it comes to Gouden Leeuw… it isn’t sure if she is just WG’s own take on Design 1047 or if it’s really was one of the earlier forms of the project. The plans for Design 1047 were never completed so the final form of the project remains unknown.

Works on the design continued throughout early-1940 until the Germans decided to have their little road trip through Europe and invaded the Netherlands in May 1940. In 1939, while the Germans refused to provide detailed plans of the Scharnhorst-class to make it easier for the Naval engineers, they gave the Dutch plans of their own ideas of battlecruisers. While initially, the German refused, they later agreed to provide plans and drawings to help the Dutch but in exchange, all the equipment needed to build the three ships would come from Germany.

As such, they decided that a group of three battlecruisers would be the most suited to deal with such an opponent.Īs the Dutch Royal Navy had no real experience with building modern capital ships, they decided to ask their German neighbors for assistance. The Dutch intelligence believed that their navy would most likely have to deal with Japanese cruisers and destroyers as the capital ships would be used to deal with American and British battleships. These battlecruisers were intended to counter the potential threat that the Japanese Navy represented over the Dutch colonies in the West Indies. The Gouden Leeuw is… let’s say inspired by the Design 1047 of Dutch battlecruisers.

This is the part where the Dutch naval history fanboys lose their marbles.

World of warships where to aim to hit citadel