"Ships of the Line: Medium and Light Cruisers " Topic
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Tango01 | 30 Jan 2015 10:46 p.m. PST |
"Much like some classifications of cars, some types of naval warships often get ranked by popularity. Battleships, battlecruisers, aircraft carriers, attack subs, and the kick-ass dreadnoughts are normally the most popular in media and some of the most revered naval vessels. Making these popular naval warships similar to Lamborghini, Ferrari, or Bugatti. This creates a difference between those red-blooded exotics and the normal cars of us normal people, like the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, and the Mazda 6. This also creates a difference between the very popular types of naval warships and the vessels were are talking about today: the light and medium cruisers. These type of cruisers are more common than the battleship or carrier, but are often overlooked, and are outranked in popularity by their own bigger brother: the heavy cruiser. In this blogpost in the continuing Ships of the Line serial, we shall be looking at light and medium cruisers…"
Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
freecloud | 01 Feb 2015 1:49 p.m. PST |
Good article – I guess that a lot of space opera wargaming is of the clashes between major battlefleets full of the heavies rather than the small actions and commerce raiding of the cruisers. I always think of Star Trek Starships more in terms of the ideae of the pre-dreadnought 1st class cruisers – not quite "battlecruisers" but big ships with provision for very long range voyaging, and enough armour, weapons etc to deal with most circumstances they encounter (and fast enough to run from the main battlefleets). Another point I think needs making in the article is that the original "cruiser" was a ship built to cruise long distances in a standalone way, no matter what weight it was. Some of the modern big destroyers are really light or even medium cruisers (for eg USS Bainbridge) The other thing we seem to miss is the scout cruiser – small cruisers that are very fast, long ranged, and still powerful enough to sort out non "blue water" craft. |
Tango01 | 01 Feb 2015 3:32 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
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