Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "1047 Battlecruisers - Guide 185 (NB)" video.

@bkjeong4302 And no carrier aircraft could operate at night or bad weather until well into WW2.
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@bkjeong4302 Sorry, but what happens if they come after you instead of running away? Scharnhorst and Gneisnau didn't fun from Glorious.
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In my version of Furushita's Fleet, the Derfflinger and Lutzow mutinied while enroute to Scapa Flow., made a dash for Dutch waters and were interned. The crews were repatriated to Germany and the RN, not wanting to start another war, left it at that. The Dutch then paid the cash strapped Weimar Republic a modest mount and got two capital ships on the cheap, the Zeven Provincien and Prins van Oranje. In the mid-Thirties they were modernized ala HMS Renown and emerged with 4X2 11 inch, 6X2 4.7 inch and 8X2 40mm. At the same time, the Dutch ordered the 1047's, so the IJN faced two battlecruisers and three armored cruisers in the Dutch East Indies in 1942. Your roll, honorable Japanese player.
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@WayneBorean Fisher - "Speed! SPEED I TELL YOU!! SPEEEEEEED!" Churchill - "Has anyone seen the Admiral's little pills?"
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OK, I know this will be controversial. They were not battlecruisers. Now what is the definition of a battlecruiser? A vessel armed with capital ship weapons, but sacrificing armor (not being able to resist the guns it carried) for speed. Eleven/Twelve inch guns had been obsolete for capital ship armament since the British introduced the 15 inch and everyone else tagged along with 15 or 16 inch guns. A lot of the dreadnoughts scrapped under the Treaties would have been scrapped anyway as their 12 inch batteries were obsolete. The only reason USS Arkansas was still around was to give the US its full number of ships allowed under the Treaties. So what were the Alaska, Dunkerque, Deutschland and 1047 classes? Dreadnought armored cruisers or as the US Navy called them, Large Cruisers (CB). An armored cruiser had mounted weapons of a lesser caliber than battleship guns (9.2 inch in the RN. 8/10 inch in the USN versus 12 inch in their pre-dreadnoughts) and did not sacrifice armor for speed, being armored to resist guns of the size they mounted. And that is exactly the characteristics of these ships. What about the Scharnhorsts? They are difficult to classify. They did not carry capital ship weapons, but were armored against them - sort of "anti-battlecruisers" - because it was always planned to replace their triple 11 gun turrets with dual 15 inch to make them fast battleships. I guess, I'd throw them into the Large Cruiser category. The reason they were called "battlecruisers" is because the RN couldn't figure out how to rate them. Thus endeth the lesson.
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