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Supertest: European Tier X Cruiser Vanadis

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Update 15.8 will bring a new line of cruisers to the game. These will be the European cruisers with ships from nations such as Sweden, Poland, Greece, Sweden and, you guessed it, Sweden. There is only one ship that was actually built, being the tier VI, and for the rest, it's a lot of what-if or straight-up Wargaming creations. These cruisers will work as torpedo-focused ships with high speed and low detection range, and the same torpedoes as the European destroyers with high speed but low damage. At the top of the European cruisers line, here is the tier X, Vanadis. Historical background In the same vein as Tirfing, there is no real historical background to speak of for Vanadis. It is, again, a hypothetical development of the Tre Kronor-class with increased firepower, torpedo armament, and anti-air to be a match against Soviet cruisers. We got Tre Kronor, Tirfing was Tre Kronorer, and Vanadis is Tre Kronorest. This class could have been built to replace the obsolete coastal defen...