Yuzo's Yapping

Since I am back to writing articles and the public test isn't up yet, I thought I might as well go with one of the ships in testing on the live server and... you guessed it, I picked the French one. It's also an opportunity for me to look at how the stuff I used to do on WordPress translates on Blogger. I will have to see if I stick with these HTML tables or find another presentation style. Historical background Just like her predecessor Carnot, at tier IX, Latouch-Tréville is based on a fusion of two French designs of large cruisers from the 1920s. These designs would eventually lead to the Dunkerque-class battleships. In 1926, in an effort to counter the Italian Trento-class heavy cruisers, the Chief of the Naval General Staff, Admiral Henri Salaun, requested a new series of capital ships. The initial design called for a 17 500 tons battlecruiser armed with a main battery consisting of two quadruple turrets with 305 mm guns and with both turrets at the front (in game, Toulon...