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Turenne is not a Dreadnought type Battleship

Not for breaking the "enthusiasm" of those that will play Turenne for the first time (actually the ship is a slug, although it's faster than South Carolina, you'll be throwing curses for most of the game) but Turenne is not a standard Battleship, and surely not a Dreadnought Battleship; the ship here called Turenne is an invention of Wargaming, the ship represented here is the Pre Dreadnought Danton, this means that not only a rather ancient Battleship (all of the six ship of this class were completed in 1911) is beign categorized wrongly, but also has been enormosly powered up and modernized, compared to the ship when built; 1st the ship never reached 20.5 Knots, not even close, she was barely capable of reachig 19.4 Knots; 2nd the ship had only 4 305mm guns in two twin turrets, one on the bow and the other on the stern; the other batteries where 6 twin 240mm batteries dislocated around the ship; 3rd there where plans to modernize the ship but never passed paper stage because the costs to do so, were deemed too high compared to the cost of constructing a new Battleship class of Dreadnought type. Source: The Illustrated Directory of Warships from 1860 to the Present Day.