As with the other German Tier VIII battleships she sports 50mm of deck armor aside from her bow and stern which are both only 32mm thick.
Her casemate armor runs from her belt to her deck and is only 170mm thick. Her armor belt starts just at the water line and extends upwards to the casemate measuring in at 250mm in thickness. The majority of her bow will allow her to tank shells from 380mm guns and lower while in theory the icebreaker is capable of bouncing even shells from Yamato though not something that should be counted on in.
Zieten, like her battlecruiser sisters, sports a 60mm ice breaker on her bow with the rest of her bow consisting of 27mm. Traditionally having such a high speed would translate into a large turning radius as well but with her this is not the case at 820 meters Zeiten is among the best of all battleships in this regard. When stock she is among the worst in tier for rudder shift time at 21.4 seconds but when upgraded this decreases to 15.3 seconds which is respectable. This top speed will allow her to react quickly to the changing flow of battle and get into positions in which she can best harass her foes. Furthermore she continues to play somewhere between a cruiser and a battleship in terms of protection allowing for some mistakes to be forgiven and others heavily punished.Ĭlocking in at a solid 31 knots, Zieten is among the fastest battleships of her tier. She also features improved horizontal dispersion on her secondaries. Tier VIII Zieten continues many of the distinctive traits of the preceding battlecruisers - high speed for her tier, good concealment for a battleship, and better main battery accuracy, but lower survivability. However, the designs showed the sacrifices in armor required to achieve a minimum top speed of 30 knots. The designs were meant to take priority over future large cruiser and battleship programs. GK 4531 was designed with three (3) twin 420mm turrets, in game however the gun size is slightly smaller at 406mm. Zieten represents a modernized variation of the GK 4531 large combat ship design study. The data presented in the AA Defense sidebar section may be incorrect.įor a graphic summary of ships Tiers VIII thru XI see LittleWhiteMouse's "Actual AA DPS".
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