König-Class
Final German Dreadnoughts - Peak 12-inch gun design. First German battleships with oil capability (mixed coal/oil). 120mm deck armor (best German horizontal protection). Improved guns (+16° elevation, 3 rounds/min). SMS Großer Kurfürst most damaged German battleship to survive Jutland (8 hits, 1,400 tons flooding). Fired 621× shells at Jutland (56% of German 30.5cm total).
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 25796 t
- Displacement (full)
- 28600 t
- Length
- 575.5 ft
- Beam
- 96.8 ft
- Crew
- 1136
- Ships built
- 4
- Commissioned
- 1914
- Decommissioned
- 1919 (scuttled Scapa Flow)
Performance
- Top speed
- 21 kn
- Range
- 8000 nm at 12 knots
Armament
- Main guns
- 10× 30.5cm (12-inch) SK L/50
- Secondary guns
- 14× 15cm (5.9-inch) SK L/45
- Torpedoes
- 5× 50cm submerged
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- 350mm Krupp cemented
- Deck
- 60-120mm
- Fire control
- Centralized fire control
In-Game
- Tier
- T3
- Game power
- 51.45
- Research cost
- 10,187
- Credit cost
- 36,015
Notable
- First German battleships with oil capability (mixed coal/oil)
- Best German deck armor (120mm over vitals)
- Improved gun elevation (+16°)