Damage to the German battleship Grosser Kurfürst

The elements are of the same type as the battleship "König".

"Grosser Kurfürst" (" Grosser kurfurst") Went in the column of the third squadron of German ships of the line second.

He was under fire from the heavy 381-mm artillery of the 5th squadron of British battleships (8-381-mm guns each), receiving hits from varying distances from 102 to 42 cab. at a speed of 22 knots.

For the entire period of the battle (2 hours) "Grosser Kurfürst" received 8 hits by British semi-armor-piercing shells, and there was a case when four 381-.MM shells hit the battleship within 2 minutes (Fig. 64).

Two heavy shells hit the port side; one of them pressed two 355-mm plates of the main armor belt at the very waterline. From the damage received in the ship's hull, its entire bow was gradually flooded with water, with the exception of the torpedo tubes and the trim tank. The water level rose to the middle residential deck.

Another projectile passed through the 280-mm armor casemate mine artillery and a piece of armor pierced the transverse bulkhead on the left side.

The next 381-mm projectile, which crashed on the barbette of the bow of the ship, damaged the upper deck of the forecastle. A shell that exploded, probably at the junction of 355 and 280-mm armor plates, destroyed the ventilation shaft of the first stoker.

Two subsequent shells hit the main armor belt (355 mm) and weakened it so that the rear side corridors and coal pits on the left side were filled with water.

As a result of damage to the underwater part in the bow and stern, the ship received a roll of up to 4 ° to the port side.

With great difficulty, the hole was repaired, almost all the water was pumped out, and then the ship's heel decreased to 1 °, since 800 tons of water remained in the ship. The last two hits were in the main armor belt, which remained intact. Of the crew, 25 people were injured. The ship returned to base without assistance, where it was undergoing factory repairs, which lasted until July 21, 1916.

And so and. For 2 hours of battle with the British battleships "Grosser Kurfürst" received 8-381-mm hits from semi-armor-piercing shells, which inflicted significant damage on it. 5 heavy shells hit the main 355-mm armor belt; in three cases, the armor was damaged, and as a result of the impaired watertightness of the side, in the presence of underwater holes in some places, a strong leak appeared on the port side. From the water taken in the bow and stern, the ship received 4 ° roll.

However, two hits by 381-mm shells did not bring damage to the main armor belt. In two cases, the 280-mm casemate armor was pierced by heavy shells, with a piece of armor piercing its transverse bulkhead. The barbet and the upper deck were destroyed by a heavy shell.

The mechanical part of the shell destroyed the ventilation shaft of the first stoker.

The fight for the survivability of the ship was expressed in sealing an underwater hole and pumping out water with ship drainage means. Still, 800 tons of water remained inside the ship. The roll was reduced from 4 ° to 1 °. 2% of the crew were injured. The ship was under factory repair for 50 days.

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German battleship, one of the huge herd of battleships of the First World War. Concise and compact.

Battleship Grosser Kurfürst

Scale 1: 350
Plastic - ICM,
FTD - WEM

Prototype

The König-class battleships, to which the Grosser Kurfürst belonged, were the result of improvements to the Kaiser-class battleships. All five towers moved to the center plane, a powerful medium-caliber battery was preserved. The ship's armor corresponded to the German principle of "absolute" protection - 350mm side armor plus bevels of the armored deck.
As with all PMV ships, horizontal booking was weak - but in the absence of combat-ready aircraft and short combat distances, this did not play a special role.

By the end of the war, the appearance of the ship changed somewhat. The anti-torpedo nets were dismantled, the foremast became more massive
and a rangefinder post appeared on it, the 88mm battery in the bow superstructure was dismantled, and the number of anti-aircraft guns doubled (from two to four)
The battleship Grosser Kurfürst entered service already during the First World War. Participated in the Battle of Jutland, in the battles in the Baltic in 1917.
In 1919 he was sunk in Scapa Flow by his crew.

Model

Plastic

The battleships Koenig, Margrave, Grosser Elector have been produced by our Ukrainian friends for a long time, so the details have somewhat lost their original elegance. The hull bath has noticeable sinks at the stem, the barrels are cast with an offset - aesthetes will have to change to modelpoint metal. Plastic is very flexible and inelastic. Decals are thin and fragile. And they don't stick very well. I could not glue the ring on the nasal elevated tower. but otherwise everything is good. An interesting point - the number of parts 507. For comparison, in the Richelieu sets from Trumpeter and Bismarck from Tamia - 308 pieces.

FTD

Apparently, at the time of the release of the kit for König, WEM positioned itself as a manufacturer of an aftermarket "for experienced modelers". Simply put, from what is in the set, I only liked the ladders. Anything else requires meditation and carnage-cutting. For those who will assemble a model with Vem iron, a few comments:

1. With handrails, you need to carefully understand. Inscription English letters, replacing the guide rail mounting scheme in the instructions is rather vague.
With such an arrangement of rails, like mine, two-lane roof rails are consumed end-to-end without sagging, i.e. if you make the wings of the bridges, then two-lane handrails are not enough for them. Three-lane handrails remain after assembly almost one and a half lanes. What to do with them - I don't know. There are not enough two-lane ones with sag.
2. FTD on hatch covers under the deck - there are about two times less of them than necessary.
3. Covers for portholes in light boxes - just enough for the lower deck. In the instructions, nothing is drawn about them - there is only a name in the list of parts.
4. Ladders on superstructures. The geometry of the ladder is such that if they are bent and glued "as is", then they do not reach the bottom to the level of the deck by about 3mm. I had to bend and twist.
5. Plugs for 88mm battery ports are unnecessary and harmful. We need to cover these ports with putty. If you glue metal plugs, then at the junction of metal and plastic
cracks are constantly forming.
6. It is unrealistic to assemble this post from the parts for assembling the observation post on the foremast. Those. you can collect something, but it will look disgusting.
7. Ropes for cranes. look thick. It may be better to leave the plastic parts and pull the thread from the bow.
9. Hand-drawn instruction for very smart Englishmen. Eduard's instruction to Tirpitz versus leaflets from WEM like Mona Lisa daVinci next to a child's handwriting.
8. The photo-etched leaf is thin, as a result all the details are VERY flimsy and easily wrinkled.
In general, I got much more pleasure from working with plastic than from working with iron.

Assembly

Before starting the assembly of the ship, I filled the entire FTD sheet with white primer Tamiya from a balloon.
I did the same with large plastic parts.

Frame

The body part is cast entirely. In general, it is very good, but there is a groove at the level of the upper edge of the main armor belt, which must be carefully putty. There are also some "snot" in the area of ​​the zygomatic keels - they are easily removed with a sandpaper. Significant bumps in the nose, which I have already mentioned. It is worth squandering the haws from the inside, because otherwise the anchors are reluctant to fall through them into the holes on the deck.

After that I assembled decks with a casemate. First, I glued the walls of the casemate with the upper deck and the aft raised barbet, and the walls of the casemate dock with the upper deck in a very strange way - I had to putty and sand a lot, and I didn't really like the result. However, perhaps my hands are crooked.

After that I painted the "rough" walls of the casemate and the upper deck, having previously glued hatches on the deck here and there and everywhere on the sides of the porthole covers. I painted the lower deck separately, and glued the painted one to the casemates, the barbette and the upper deck. On the walls of the casemate, he replaced the boat shot with a needle from a syringe - the native was cast at the same time with the wall and was ugly.
After that, I sawed off the block of decks, casemate and barbet for a long time so that it would fit into the hull. I decided to make the 15cm guns non-rotating, so I painted them separately and pasted them in place already at final assembly ship.

After that I painted the bottom, disguised it with Tamiya tape with a garbage bag, painted the deck little things. The necks of the coal pits were painted with dark gray acrylic from Zvezdin. Large bollards on the bow and stern were painted black, all other protruding parts were painted in the color of the side. I painted the rails of the boats with a pencil, the windows in the light boxes - with gunmetal. The covers of boxes, davits and flagpoles were glued painted after the final assembly-painting of the hull. After all the deck hatches were painted, I masked the deck around the side edge again with Tamiya tape and glued the rope. After that I painted the rails and freeboard gray.

After that I painted a black line of variable waterlines. Here an ambush awaited me. When tearing off the scotch tape, quite a few rags of the gray paint of the bead came off with it. And that was just the beginning. If I restored one side the first time, then with the other I suffered for about a month - I painted it, it climbed in a week, and so it did about five times.

I learned a few lessons from this nuisance:
1. Everything must be degreased very well, it would be nice to work with gloves.

2. The paint must be thinned with a solvent. Undiluted air is also good, but the layer turns out to be very thick, and then if peeling of the paint happens, then the hole is difficult to close up so that it would be even.

3. If the paint has peeled off, and the border of this trouble is noticeable, then the treatment should be carried out as follows:
- with a swab with a solvent (a bottle with a blue lid) I wipe the peeling, smoothing the step at the border of the paint break.
- 2000 with a sandpaper I wipe the dry place after the previous procedure.
- I collect dust with a swab slightly moistened in a solvent, and level out the remaining irregularities.
- I paint over the damaged fragment anew.
- after that, if necessary, a little more skin 2000 and painting again.

As a result, the side was not as flat as desired. In general, because of this, I decided to try aging with a Tamiya powder box.
After the side was defeated, he sprayed the hull with glossy varnish twice. I tried to wash the bead with the same Zvezdin acrylic on detergent and water. It turned out not very noticeable. Then he rubbed the sideboard with Tamiyev powder and dripped the portholes with a toothpick, then covered everything with matte varnish.

Bow superstructure

I assembled it together with the bow barbet, but the deck, on which the conning tower is located, and the superstructures with the mast mounted on it, were glued only during the final assembly.

since the ship was made at the end of the war, then I drowned out the battery of 88 guns with the FTD from the set. And I suffered with them for a long time, until they became at one with the walls of the superstructure. I did not make the wings of the bridges on the superstructure. I cut off most of the fence and replaced it with two-lane handrails. I put up the ladders, glued the porthole covers and doors. I painted the wooden deck, masked it with duct tape, and painted the walls of the superstructure and railings gray.

After that, he took up the fact that above the deck with the conning tower. I assembled all the superstructures, but have not glued them to the deck yet. Then he painted the decks in the color of linoleum, the horizontal surfaces of the conning tower - in dark gray. After that he glued the rails to the decks and floodlight areas, camouflaged the decks and painted everything unmasked, as well as the superstructures and the chimney gray.
I assembled the superstructure and the pipe to the level of the top of the wheelhouse.
After that he took up the mast.

The configuration of the superstructures of this ship is very convenient for rigging - all the stays and flag-halyards come in the superstructures. Those. I can assemble the superstructure with all the rigging separately from the hull.
Back to the mast. With a thin drill, I drilled holes in the lower knee for stays and holes for attaching some other guy wires. after that, I inserted the stays, and glued the plastic part of the floor of the upper observation platform.

The topmills and yards from the set are very thin and flexible, so I replaced them with tubes of the appropriate diameter from "Model Point"
The upper observation deck was made almost according to the instructions, only the supports for the roof were made from a fragment of the stairs. After that I put a rangefinder post on top of the mast. After that, I glued the topmast from the tube, and left the upper small ray and the flagpole plastic. After the mast was assembled, I painted it gray down to the observation deck and glued it to the uppermost deck of the bow superstructure. You must be very careful when performing this assembly, because slightly lower, slightly higher on the mast - and you will have to break off. At the site, I pre-drilled holes for the flag halyards. When the platform was securely glued, I pulled on the flag-halyards, painted the top of the mast black and put the mast and deck in place.

Glued the stays of the mast into the deck with the conning tower.


After that, the lower and upper parts of the superstructure were covered with glossy varnish twice. After drying with a wash, he emphasized the porthole covers and doors, and dripped the portholes with acrylic with a toothpick. The top of the pipe was rubbed with graphite, simulating smokiness.
Then I covered everything with matte varnish.

Stern superstructure

I assembled the box of the superstructure base, painted the deck in linoleum, glued the rails, camouflaged the deck, painted the walls gray. I assembled a pipe with an "accordion" at the bottom. painted the top in gameal, the rest in gray. Glued in place. I painted the decks of floodlights and other platforms in the color of linoleum, disguised them, painted everything uncovered in gray. I glued all the platforms in place. I glued the masts and booms of the cranes, glued the photo-etched cables, dropped the superstructure and straightened the cables for a long time so that they would at least sag down. It would be nice to drill holes in the far ends of the arrows with a 0.3mm drill, so that later the boom mounting stays would pass through them. I did not drill them, which I later regretted.
The mast was assembled as on the bow superstructure - the lower knee was native, the topmills and yards were modelpoint tubes. The top of the topmast is a piece of plastic. The rigging was attached to the plastic part in the drilled holes, to the metal parts - he wrapped the thread around, a drop of cyacrine, I cut off the tip, the threads that fall on the tip of the ray were glued to the end with superglue as well.
I glued the mast into the building deck, then pulled on the stays and flag-halyards.

The flag was made from a standard decal glued to foil on both sides. The part is very fragile, so when I bent the flag, the decal was cracked here and there. Therefore, for a long time I could not decide whether to make a flag, or leave an empty flagphal.
The anti-aircraft guns located on the aft superstructure have undergone minor improvements - the visible edges of the shields have been worn off. After that, the anti-aircraft guns are painted gray, covered with varnish twice, and washed off with dark gray acrylic. The superstructure is also varnished twice, also washed off (with no visible effect), lightly rubbed with Tamiya powder compact. The top of the pipe is rubbed with graphite. After that, everything is covered with matte varnish.

Towers and casemates

The towers and casemates were assembled almost without modifications (the trunks were drilled and the ladders from the FTD were glued). The vertical surfaces of the towers and casemates and the trunks are painted gray. The horizontal surfaces are painted dark gray. The towers are covered with glossy varnish twice, washed off to emphasize the holes for guidance and observation devices. I liked the result. After that, the trunks were rubbed with Tamiya powder - a type of soot. After that, everything is covered with matte varnish.

Boats and speedboats

Boats before assembly are painted from the inside in the color of the deck. The tops of the boats are painted dark brown. After that, two photo-etched oars were placed inside the boats. Then the upper and lower parts were glued together, the seam was putty and cleaned. After that, the tops of the boats are covered with Tamiya tape, and the sides and bottom are painted over in gray in the color of the superstructures and sides. After that they are varnished.
I first painted the rafts in the color of the deck. Then he covered it with glossy varnish twice. Then he washed off the grating with dark gray. After that, I closed the grate with duct tape, and painted the rest gray. Then he glued the oars on the sides, and covered everything with matte varnish.
Boats.
I fiddled with them for a long time and tediously. It was necessary to immediately cut off pieces of keelblocks from the bottom of the boats and glue them to the carts - this would greatly facilitate the work. Cut out side walls cabins at the stern, and sealed the holes with photo-etched parts.
I photographed the process of painting the boats well, so I insert photos - they will take up less space than the description. Finished boats were coated with a glossy varnish, and then matte.

The model of the battleship presented for review and trial is named after the founder of the Brandenburg-Prussian state, Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg (1640-1688). The ship was at one time nicknamed the Great Elector, or, in German translation, Großer Kurfürst.
The fate and history of this ship of the line is no less significant than the history of the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm.
The ship was launched in May 1913. Its full displacement is 29,200 tons, dimensions - 175.4 mx 29.5 m, power point- three-shaft ,. Maximum speed- 21 knots.
The Grosser Kurfürst and its three sisterships, König, Margrave, and Kronprinz Wilhelm were improved versions of the Helgoland-class battleships. The ship was equipped with turbines (15 boilers, 3 turbines) installed for the first time in the German fleet. The main caliber towers were located in the center plane, which enhanced its side salvo. The armor belt "Grosser Kurfurst" was 350 mm, the armor of the turret and the forward conning tower was up to 300 mm, the armor of the weapon casemates was 170 mm. The battleship's crew, according to various sources, was about 1136 people. Armament: 10 - 305 mm / 50, 14 - 150 mm / 45, 4 - 88 mm / 45 anti-aircraft guns, 5 torpedo tubes 500 mm.
"Grosser Kurfurst" during the First World War was part of the 3rd Line Squadron of the Fleet Of the open sea, took part in reconnaissance operations off the coast of England.
In May 1916 "Grosser Kurfurst" as part of a 3-line squadron, including the battleships "Koenig" (as a flagship), the battleship "Markgraf", "Kronprinz", as well as "Kaiser", "Prince Regent Luitpold "and" Kaiserin "took part in the Battle of Jutland or, in the German interpretation, the Battle of Skagerrak, with the superior forces of the English fleet.
It is worth noting interesting fact that during the Battle of Jutland, the British fired 4598 shells large calibers(of which 1239 caliber 381 mm) and achieved 100 hits, which is 2.2%, as well as 74 torpedoes from 12 battleships, 10 cruisers, and 52 destroyers, having achieved five hits, sinking the outdated battleship and destroyer of the Germans. The Germans, in turn, fired 3597 shells and achieved 120 hits, which is 3.3%, and 109 torpedoes from 8 ships of the line, 4 cruisers - four, and 67 destroyers and, having achieved three hits, sunk three British destroyers.
Despite the fact that most of the British shells were too tough for the "Kruppovskaya Steel", the lead ships "König", "Grosser Kurfürst" "Margrave", and "Kronprinz Wilhelm" were seriously damaged.
In total, during the Battle of Jutland, the Grosser Kurfürst was hit by five 381-mm shells and three 343-mm shells. Crew losses were two officers and 13 sailors killed and 10 wounded.
On the Grosser Kurfürst, a 381-mm shell hit the 170-mm battery armor, causing great damage to the adjacent parts of the decks, transverse and anti-fragmentation bulkheads. At a distance of 12,000 m (65 kbt.), The 350-mm armor of the main armor belt withstood the impact of another 381-mm projectile, the armor plate was slightly depressed, and when the shell burst, the hull skin under the plate was damaged. Another 381-mm shell exploded near the 300-mm wall of the barbette of the bow tower installation, splitting off part of it. The 200-mm upper armor belt was pierced by two 381-mm shells from a distance of 12,000 m. In both cases, the shells exploded on the outer part of the armor and the main effect of the explosion force went outside, but the fragments flying off the inner part of the armor plate caused damage.
The Grosser Kurfürst was handed over to the enemy at the end of the First World War and was sunk in Scapa Flow along with other ships of the German Navy in 1919. Raised and scrapped in 1936.

A plastic set from ICM and a wooden deck from Artwoxmodel were used in the creation of the model. Photo-etched kit from WEM. Turned barrels from an unknown manufacturer. All acrylic paints "AKAN". Primer Tamiev.
Working with plastic did not cause big problems. The plastic is soft, sawn well. A black organza was used to imitate the rigging.
A more or less detailed construction process is described in the building tales "Großer Kurfürst Again".
Considering that this is my second model in the 350th scale, not everything turned out as we would like. But it's up to you to judge.
Special thanks for helping build battleship deLoro, Danile and many others from the shipbuilding community.

So it's the turn of the second part of our article. If in the first part of the article I focused on only one Bismarck, then in the second part it will be about two ships at once - Friedrich der Große and Großer Kurfürst.

Friedrich der Große - Old Fritz

Frederick the Great. The King of Prussia, in his political, military and cultural genius, is unmatched in the history of Germany. A really big name, but does the ship named after him match it? Probably not. The German Nine is an interesting, balanced, vigorous ship with its own specialty, but still there are no significant differences from Bismarck in the quality of gameplay, and in terms of fun it is significantly inferior to it.

Although the ship turned out to be a checkpoint, it is still not so bad (in the top, of course). In addition, it can be used to test the innovations of German engineers - 406 and 420 mm guns. These weapons, which will move along with you to the top ten, are in fact the only innovation in comparison with the 8th level. Otherwise, we have the same: about the same maneuverability, the same armor ... But since there are no changes, why then does it not bend so powerfully? Bismarck with the same set at its imba level, and this one has a larger caliber and better AA defenses, you rightly argue. But here the notorious number of trunks comes into play. If at 8 level 8 trunks is still normal, then at 9 it is clearly not enough. Damage, of course, you will apply, but the level has increased, by the 10th it throws more and more often, I want something more serious, and only the caliber has become more serious.




If on Bismarck such fights are in the order of things, then on Friedrich they happen much less often. This is a really good fight for the German nine.

As for the perks and upgrades, here we choose the same as on Bismarck, but we have one more upgrade slot - the 3rd (well, or the 6th, whatever you like). And in this slot, the choice we have is simply huge - all the upgrades can be useful to us: if you want the maximum acceleration of secondary battery - use secondary battery 3, if you want even higher rate of fire with some loss of traverse speed - these are guns of main battery 3, but if you are a representative of the target audience and the main thing for you is the range (although with such a spread it is a complete perversion), then here you have an MSA 2. Well, my choice is air defense 3. This will increase protection from air attacks, while you will not lose anything else.

If we compare the ship with classmates of the same level, then I would put it in second place after Iow's. Izumo, of course, surpasses it at times: although there are fans for this ship, but among the 9-ok it does not stand out in anything, and the specific arrangement of the towers makes this ship suitable only for a narrow range of tasks. However, in truth, all LC 9s do not seem to me to be the most outstanding machines, which are just a springboard for the final jump. Unless Iowa gives an idea of ​​Montan and is a slightly worse version of it. The 9th German and Japanese differ much more strongly from their older brothers.

Großer Kurfürst - Graceful giant


This is how he is, this Great Elector. Here, by the way, you can see all the perks and upgrades.

Great Elector. By the way, this is not so much a title as a common noun - in German historiography, this is the name given to Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg, the man who founded the unified Brandenburg-Prussian state. The ship itself turned out to be very, very remarkable. This is a real mastodon of the WoWS fleet, a record holder in many respects: big sizes in the game and the least concealment among all battleships of the 10th level, the largest number HP among all ships in the game, the most powerful booking in comparison with other LC 10 (here there is a good scheme and rather low, in comparison with the same Yamato, board). Is that in caliber and air defense, it is inferior to Yamato and Montana, respectively. In terms of accuracy, it is in the middle between them. However, this is offset by the fact that we have 420 millimeter cannons, of which there are as many as 12 (!) Pieces (for the Germans, this is a record), which means that we are simply out of competition in terms of salvo weight. Indeed, for the sake of this it is worth enduring crookedness German cannons and their small number are all 9 levels.

As for everything else, then the ship quite keeps its mark. It, of course, has a number of significant disadvantages: large size, weak PTZ and a huge circulation radius. Nevertheless, for such a colossus, it is quite maneuverable, and the presence of hydroacoustics allows you to know in advance about the approach of torpedoes and get away from them. Thanks to our armor, we also hold the blow from the shells of other LCs very well, and it is truly difficult to penetrate our citadel. However, this is not a ranged ship. Frequent ricochets and short range of fire force us to go forward, and at close distances even our armor already starts to let through damage. Nevertheless, this damage is not critical. That is, we can quite successfully citadel our Japanese and American counterparts, without receiving a citadel in return and surviving in fierce clinches.

However, there is one healthy fly in this Teutonic ointment. And its name is aircraft carriers. The elector's air defense is good and is slightly inferior to the American one, but if 6 (or more) squadrons fly at you at once, and even from all sides, it will be very difficult. In such a situation, there is only one way of action: to shout loudly Gott mit Uns, quickly uncover your guns, make a farewell volley and wait for your fate. If you are lucky, then you will be removed half of your HP, you thin out the ranks of enemy squadrons, move away, heal and start the cycle again. If you are very lucky, then several of your cruisers will be nearby and they will help you fight off without significant consequences. But if you are unlucky, then with the flag raised high you will go to the bottom, and after the battle you will miss about 100-200k of silver. Here is such an entertaining economy. In short, at high level LC it is better to play in a squad.

As for the general comparison with other LC 10, it is rather difficult to make it. And not at all because Kurfürst is much better or worse than others: in some ways it is bad (circulation radius, camouflage), in some ways it is about equal with others (dispersion, air defense), and in other parameters (armor, weight salvo, shifting, acoustics, survivability) even surpasses the rest. However, the problems for all high-level LOCs are identical - high-explosive autism and aircraft carriers. You can also name torpedoes, but it’s just a German who can counter them and copes with it quite successfully. Nevertheless, even if we exclude the destroyers, he has enough problems without that. And, unfortunately, not only with him.

Conclusion

In general, the myth that German LCs are scary cacti (and generally I will go and take yamata) does not correspond to reality. They, unlike their counterparts of other nations, are very tenacious, they have their own feature, their own way of playing, and the German 10 turned out to be very worthy, unusual and interesting. It is high time for Yamato to get off his pedestal and Kurfürst is quite capable of pushing him out. Have the Germans and weaknesses- scatter, poor horizontal booking, large size, large circulation radius. But all the same, these are battleships and the like is forgivable to them. In general, the branch is really worth downloading (it's worth at least a try), since these ships literally force you to play the LC gameplay, which, contrary to popular belief, is not at all about standing at the edge of the map and shooting into the distance, but leading the team, taking damage and giving very painful slaps in the face to all members of the red team.