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Why the Ludendorff super-battleship design fails scrutiny

A visual design review separates the faint historical project lineage from implausible armament and layout choices.

Question

How realistic is the German super-battleship Ludendorff presented in World of Warships?

Short answer

Dragon strongly criticises the secondary arrangements and their claimed historical basis; Teemu points to the creative licence involved in a game design.

Notes

Dragon examines a game depiction said to extend the German GK5041 concept, described here as a roughly 50,000-ton project with four main turrets. The displayed version receives 450 mm main guns and large single 150 mm secondary turrets. The panel objects to the scale of those turrets and the spacing of twin casemates compared with the claimed historical starting point. Teemu responds that game designs use creative license and may differ from what the original designers intended. Dragon accepts that distinction but still questions whether the result resembles the project used to identify it. These are observations made while viewing an image; the captions alone cannot independently verify the layout.