CN Type 100

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The CN Type 100 is a submarine in the game.

"Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head."

-Herman Meville

## History:

The ship first made its debut into the public from an April Fools post by a site called Naval News. The ship found itself to the game and had been tested by alpha testers prior to its full release on update 0.45.1 during June 27, 2021.

## Overview

In many aspects, the ship operates like an oversized Dmitriy Donskoi/Ohio, but trades significant oxygen capacity for more durablity and firepower.

The ship also comes with DF-17 missiles. The ship, however, can launch several of these missiles even though they are limited to single slots, with one of said missiles being a special "cluster" version limited to this ship, but more on that later.

## Tactics

### Playing as a Type 100

Unlike the typical submarine, the ship can only remain underwater for just over 100 seconds when fully upgraded, but its high durablity allows it to remain surfaced and take damage for a longer period of time. This allows a fairly unique and odd experience for a submarine.

The prime tactic for this ship is by spamming missiles towards an unsuspecting target. If missiles are heading towards your ship, immediately dive down or deploy missile deterrents. If you are forced into a duel into an enemy ship, do not try to run or dive so quickly. The ship can put up a tough fight for any captain foolish enough to underestimate its firepower, so use that to your advantage. Your best bet in this ship is to stay undetected, which entails immediately submerging and reversing at the start of the game, which is why you should equip missiles designed for long range combat.

If there are enemy planes about, seek the anti air coverage of allies. Never try venturing all alone if there are enemy aircraft carriers present.

### Playing alongside a Type 100

The ship's lack of anti air defenses makes it vulnerable to enemy planes, especially considering it's low oxygen capacity which means it's vulnerable to aircraft most of the time. If an allied Type 100 submarine has found itself in a bit of a pickle, then consider helping it in dealing with the planes.

Allied aircraft carriers and destroyers can help the ship in dealing with other enemy submarines.

### Playing against a Type100

Aircraft carriers are in the best position in dealing with this ship, the lack of anti air defenses make it a fair game for carriers, and its low oxygen capacity only allows it a very short period of time to repair from any damages.

Torpedo bearing warships can also sink the ship with some degree of success, but be aware of its missiles.

Submarines will find destroying this thing easy, especially for the CN Type 096 and the 2 French subs (SMX-25 and SMX-31), mainly because the primary weapon of these submarines are torpedoes, giving it a tremendous ASW capability, especially when you consider that only 2 ships in the game have 3 torpedo slots - Type 096 and SMX-31, with SMX-25 having 2 torpedo slots and 3 missiles, whilst relying mostly on it's speed and maneuverability to score kills. Either way this submarine is target practice for pretty much any other submarine, and will require allied assistance in order to prevent it being taken down (hard to do since stopping torpedoes is quite hard).

## Advantages and disadvantages

### Advantages

* Significantly high durability, comparable to other cruisers and even assault carriers, of the same tier.
* Large missile armament.

### Disadvantages

* Low oxygen capacity.
* Slowest tier 3 submarine.
* Helpless against aircraft.
* Has only 1 torpedo
* Incredibly bad maneuverability

## Trivia

* The ship is often negatively criticized and parodied by the community due to its fictitious, but overpowered, nature.
* The ship's durability was increased; from 264,000 to 322,000 on February 28, 2022.
* The Type 100 is probably so-called because of its overpowered nature. It is also rather wide, probably meant to depict the ship carrying lots of missiles.
	+ Sometimes derogatorily referred to as the "Sperm Whale" or "Moby Dick" dirty jokes aside due to its ridiculous sperm whale like appearance and the almost universal dislike by those who have to deal with it due to how dangerous of an opponent it is.
* The ship is known for carrying lots of missiles.
* On update 0.45.8 (released globally during September 21, 2020), the submarine's replaceable missile slots were given the DF-17 missiles as a replacement of the YJ-18 missiles.
* This ship has an unique version of DF-17 in the first missile slot. Instead of one missile, this version on DF-17 shoots 9 missiles in a quick succession. However, these missiles do less damage and fly slower than a normal DF-17, but when each missile reaches a certain distance from the target it splits into several projectiles, and if enough hit, can cause significant damage to any ship. The first slot is locked and therefore the weapon is unique to this ship.
* The ship often been called as a "Hot Dog" among players due to its shape.