Ultimate Admiral Dreadnaughts has just got out of early access and is now fully released. The game lets you design your own ships as you control your country’s navy from as early as the Dreadnaught Era to World War 2. The game has a lot of intricacies and design choices you can make, and you can choose all of them from the type of fuel your ship uses to how thick the armor on your ship is. In this guide we’ll show you how to design a Light Cruiser in the game, a step up from the smaller Destroyers and a great addition to your fleet!
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts: How To Build Light Cruisers
There are two types of Cruisers, the heavy Cruiser and the Light Cruiser, the light cruiser is a step up from the destroyer. It usually has more firepower, more suvivability and has the capabilities of a destroyer like mine-laying/sweeping and hunting submarines. So why go for a destroyer if a light cruiser is just a beefed up version of it? Well it’s also pricier, but it’s worth making them for your fleet.
Designing a Light Cruiser
To start designing a light cruiser, be sure to pick a light cruiser hull. You can either look for a hull that has “Light Cruiser” on the name or a “CL” on the upper right denoting light cruiser. Then you’ll need to put the main and secondary towers along with funnels, don’t forget to make sure you have enough funnels to get good engine efficiency.
Now for the weapons. The Light cruiser benefits from having a choice with higher caliber weapons than destroyers, and if you set it up right you can even penetrate heavy cruisers with the guns. They can also have both main guns and secondary guns which adds to their firepower, not to mention they can have torpedoes as well as an added bonus.
Tips in Design
The Light Cruiser at first glance looks like a waste of a ship, since to make it actually effective costs just as much as a heavy cruiser. The main reason why you want to make a Light Cruiser though is that it has the highest reconnaissance of all the ships, making it a must have in any task force.
Don’t go overboard with the armor for the light cruiser, it’s a light one, not a heavy one. Make it just enough to protect from weapons fire from a destroyer.
Like Destroyers, Light Cruisers can lay and sweep mines as well as hunt submarines making them great destroyer leaders. In fact they’ve been usually used as Destroyer Leaders in many task forces in World War 2.
If you don’t have any space for torpedo tubes at the side of your ship remember that you can increase the Beam of the ship.
If you want to have some fun, try making a light cruiser akin to the Imperial Japanese Kuma-class Light Cruiser Kitakami, a Japanese design that had around 40 Torpedo Tubes!
Congratulations you now know how to design Light Cruisers in Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts. Not a lot of people use Light Cruisers in the game because of how costly they are compared to just building a heavy cruiser, but they sure do have their use!
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