Supertest: European Tier VI Cruiser Tre Kronor
Update 15.8 will bring to the game a new line of cruisers. 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. Let's now have a look at Tier VI, Tre Kronor. Historical background HSwMS Tre Kronor was the lead ship of the eponymous class of cruisers from the Royal Swedish Navy. The class consisted of two ships: Tre Kronor and Göta Lejon. These cruisers were designed to replace the aging coastal defence battleships. By the end of the 1930s, these battleships were deemed too slow and too vulnerable to aerial attacks. As such, Sweden decided to change their naval strategy. The idea was to have th...