Is Panzerschiff, Battleship? Battlecruiser? Heavy Cruiser?

[goodcigar]

I play as Turkey and license Panzerschiff from Germany. I make 2 Panzerschiff surface raiders. I am confuse about naval technology call Fire Control Methods. It makes attack better for big ship. But it doesn't say anything about Panzerschiff class ship. What Class is Panzerschiff considered?

There are three Fire Control Methods technologies.

 

[Paul.Ketcham]

Two answers to that question.

1.) Ammunition upgrades improve specific gun types. The last one upgrading heavy gun attack improves the "heavy gun", which is used on panzerschiffe (as well as BBs, BCs, and sometimes coastal defense ships).

2.) Panzerschiffe are considered heavy cruisers. They use a heavy gun (battleship/battlecruiser gun), while other heavy cruisers are restricted to medium guns. The coastal defense ship can also use these, although heavy guns don't provide the bonus to HP that medium guns do.

 

[Pzt_Kami]

@Paul.Ketcham
so the ability to have Big guns of BBs/BCs are what make Coastal Defense (also Panzershiff) difference with regular CA ! thanks for the info ,I didn't know that

 

[Casko]

so the ability to have Big guns of BBs/BCs are what make Coastal Defense (also Panzershiff) difference with regular CA ! thanks for the info ,I didn't know that

Yes. However Coastal Defense Ships are useless, atleast last time I checked, so its better to just build regular CAs' instead.

 

[Mr.Bajskorv]

They need to clarify the naval aspect of the game. The game itself is very bad att guiding a player in what is useful and what is not in the naval warfare. What is a decent fleet composition?

• There should be a button in the ship designer, that just updates to the lastest tech you have, in all the slots you already have assigned.
• The ship classes symbols is way to similar, that's just bad UI design.
• The starting fleets should come this already fleet templates.
• A fleet template should also come with the fleet symbol.
• There should be preset fleet compositions when you start the game to choose from, acting as a examples of decent fleet compositions.

 

[Yanotoshi]

If the game preset fleet setups
, which should be fine, on most cases they become ahistorical. Same for air wings, the preset historical size is in most cases not meta.
Same for line infantry divisions, which nation start with 20 width?

I agree, a tutorial would be nice, but there are forums, YouTube and curiosity which helps a lot to solve problems.

 

[Caeric]

They're still a bit too slow compared to the real deal and have pretty poor scalability with late game tech which I'd hoped they'd fix at some point.

Beyond having a huge range compared to a conventional cruiser they're not much better at their role since heavy attack is bad at killing non-capital ships.