Mackensen-Class
Germany's Unbuilt Super-Battlecruisers - Most powerful German WWI battlecruiser design. 4 ships laid down (1915-1917), 3 launched, NONE COMPLETED. 35cm guns (unique caliber never used elsewhere), 300mm armor, 92% double bottom, bulbous bow. Construction halted 1917-1918 for U-boat priority. SMS Graf Spee 90% complete when scrapped. Strategic waste: 150-200 million Marks spent, zero operational value. Scrapped under Versailles Treaty 1920-1922.
Specifications
- Displacement (std)
- 31000 t
- Displacement (full)
- 35300 t
- Length
- 731.6 ft
- Beam
- 99.7 ft
- Crew
- 1186 (designed)
- Ships built
- 4 laid down, 3 launched, 0 completed
- Commissioned
- None (never completed)
- Decommissioned
- 1920-1922 (scrapped under Versailles Treaty)
Performance
- Top speed
- 28 kn
- Range
- 8000 nm at 14 knots (estimated)
Armament
- Main guns
- 8× 35cm (13.8-inch) SK L/45
- Secondary guns
- 14× 15cm (5.9-inch) SK L/45
- Torpedoes
- 5× 60cm submerged
Armor & Systems
- Belt
- 300mm Krupp cemented
- Deck
- 80-100mm
- Fire control
- Manual optical rangefinders (designed)
In-Game
- Tier
- T5
- Game power
- 129.6
- Research cost
- 71,280
- Credit cost
- 90,720
Notable
- First German capital ships with bulbous bow
- 92% double bottom coverage (best underwater protection)
- 35cm guns (unique caliber, never used on other ships)
- Most powerful WWI German machinery (90,000 SHP)
- None completed—strategic waste