![]() The Navy would likely have selected two other ships (for convenience sake Constellation and Constitution) for refit into aircraft carriers, so it’s unlikely that this would have changed the composition of the carrier fleet. Nevertheless, it’s easy to imagine a world in which the USN would have entered the Treaty system with two fewer battleships and two more battlecruisers. ![]() Both ships served with distinction in the war Lexington was sunk at the Battle of Coral Sea, and Saratoga in the post-war atomic bomb tests. That story is well-known the United States was granted the right to convert two capital ships into aircraft carriers, and it chose Lexington and Saratoga. But by that time the strategic landscape had changed once again, as the United States entered the Washington Naval Treaty with Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. The USN finally began construction of the Lexingtons in the early 1920s. One of the Big Five was laid down in 1916, two in 1917, and two in 1919. Navy decided to commit to construction of the Big Five, advanced Standard Type battleships that included two ships of the Tennessee class and three ships of the Colorado class. When wartime demand for escort craft receded, the United States Navy resumed construction of its battlefleet. ![]() The USN also opted to shift to sixteen-inch guns, which alleviated some design problems. British intervention resulted in significant design changes that increased the size of the ships but left them more well-balanced. Fortunately, the Royal Navy offered its assistance, having won hard experience with battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland. Of course, reality intervened and the Lexingtons were delayed by war requirements. The 1916 design specified a displacement of thirty-five thousand tons, a speed of thirty-five knots, and main armament of ten fourteen-inch guns in four turrets. sketchy, resulting in huge, fast, poorly protected ships with bizarre configurations (one design had seven funnels). The USN discarded the idea of simply modifying an existing battleship design (these designs were in flux, anyway) and started from scratch. The Lexingtons were to be a class of six battlecruisers that would close the gap with the British, Germans, and especially the Japanese. This superficially resembled British practice of the day, in which battleships and battlecruisers shared core design elements in order to save time and expense. The first designs resembled modified Wyomings, dropping a turret or two and using the saved weight to increase speed. Not until the 1910s, when it became apparent that Japan was about to acquire four large, fast battlecruisers, did the USN begin to take the battlecruiser seriously. Battle Fleet: Ground Assault features full 3D models of WW2 era tanks.The United States, on the other hand, focused entirely on battleships. Deploy Strategic Command Cards to surprise your enemies with special actions like deploying mines, sabotage, enhanced aiming, airstrikes and more! Use artillery to protect your lines in campaign battles. Play the strategic single player campaigns, random skirmish mode, full cross-platform multiplayer, or even hotseat multiplayer. Tank commanders gain experience with each Campaign battle. Utilize recon planes to reveal enemy locations or airstrikes to target dangerous tanks. Aim for different sides of a tank to maximize your chance of penetrating their armor. Choose between High Explosive or Armor Piercing shells to do the maximum damage to your enemy. No grids! You can move anywhere unlike most turn-based strategy games. Build your army from 20 different tanks, each one unique to each faction, with different armor, guns, mobility, and hit locations. Battle across the Western Europe campaign With a full featured campaign and a variety of single play scenarios, Battle Fleet: Ground Assault will make you feel like Patton charging through the German lines. Hit their engines and cripple the enemy's maneuverability, or aim for the crew compartment and disable their tank for an entire turn. Continuing the strategy and unique “Worms” / “Scorched Earth” style angle+distance mechanic of Battle Fleet 2, Battle Fleet: Ground Assault adds destructible environments, armor, shell types and all new tactics. Choose your shell type, aim by skill (not random values), move anywhere (no grids) and take on the armored machines of the Axis powers, or switch sides and defend fortress Europe from the Allied invasion.īattle Fleet: Ground Assault lands the Battle Fleet series onto the tank battlefields of World War 2. You are in command of each tank, all the way down to the angle and power of each shot. The Normandy invasion has started and it's time to move your battalions of tanks off the beaches and into the battlefields of Europe.
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