IGN Sachsen

## Description

A L20e battleship design, the next planned by the Imperial German Navy. She was significantly larger than the preceeding German dreadnoughts and mounted new heavier 420mm guns. To reduce construction time during World War I, it was decided to remove the underwater armor belt, the attachment of which was a long and complicated process. Due to an increasing shortage of labor, she was never built.

IGN Sachsen is a high-tier battleship in naval 1918.

## History

During the construction of the Bayern class battleships, the natural question of the next successors was brought up. Having had some wartime experience, the Imperial German Navy drew up several designs, some more or less copying the Bayern class with an increase in speed, and some mounting additional 15 inch guns. Ultimately, it was decided that a vessel with larger guns would be necessary. The L20e design was an attempt to create such a vessel, with a larger length to beam ratio and a more powerful powerplant providing the necessary speed increase, and a significant upgrade of the main battery to 420mm weapons. Ultimately, as the war put pressure on the German economy, these vessels were never built, even as various small changes were made in an attempt to simplify construction. However, various elements of their design would eventually be incorporated into the famous Bismarck-class battleships of World War II.

Aparrently, in-game, the ship uses the name of an incomplete Bayern-class battleship and the lead ship of a small subclass, represented by Wurttemberg instead.

## Strategy

**PROTIP:** This ship speciallizes at pushing the frontline for your allies and could be used to strike fear to the enemy team, especially Grand Admirals or below. However, i recommend users buying IGN Ulrich Von Hutten as it has the same role, albeit with better turret survivalbility and slightly better full broadside capability and armor.

This ship is probably the very pinnacle of what German dreadnoughts and dreadnoughts in general in Naval 1918 are about - specializing in moving the frontline forward. She is one of the most durable ships in-game, with effective damage control, a massive health pool, and one of the strongest armor belts in the game. Her secondaries are still fairly dangerous, despite the fact that most other battleships at this point have solid secondary batteries of their own and German battleships no longer have the clear edge in secondary gun size and strength. Her main gun shells are large, although her raw damage is still smaller than her peers, as other ships either have larger guns or much more of them (sometimes both!); this is compensated by a fast reload of 25 seconds, which is extremely fast compared to her peers.

However, this ship is extremely vulnerable to torpedoes and turret snipers. Her hull is quite long, and with a fairly mediocre speed and a not-so horrible, she is quite an easy target for a well placed torpedo attack - not helped by the fact that her torpedo belt is quite weak. While her large health pool will absorb one or two hits, any more than this will likely cripple the ship and make her an easy target. And her turret has barely any turret armor, a defect shared with RIM Maria Sofia, RN Agincourt, and USN South Dakota. Making her turrets extremely vunerable to well-aimed salvos that specifically targgets the turrets.

Overall, this is a ship that relies on durability, rather than raw damage, to stay in the game. Her broadside raw damage is much weaker than her peers, but her ability to pump out shells much faster and take more damage allows her to win prolonged fights, and allow her guns to react quickly to approaching threats. This is a vessel that belongs right at the frontline, leading the charge.