Its a battleship.
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Scharnhorst IRL was a battleship tho
Historical documents clearly state it to be a battleship. Its just Gajin getting it wrong. Scharnhorst is too protected for a BC. Battlecruisers are these ships who usually light up after few hits, even one hit.
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I believe they’ve classified it this way according to the British naming convention which Gaijin tends to (inconsistently) favour. Scharnhorst fits the original definition by the UK (who also invented the battlecruiser so I guess the true original definition) perfectly as a surface raider type concept fitted to resist cruiser (minimum I guess) calibre guns.
German convention being a bit different and essentially what we would now call a fast battleship. Hence Schlachtschiff.
Ironically they haven’t classified Vanguard this way as her RN title would be a “fully armoured battlecruiser”. Kongou much the same.
I imagine Gneisenaus refit and Vanguard were the reason they reclassified Scharnhorst and Gneisenau as BB’s. As well they were both armoured and armed to fight battleships not cruisers.
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In case anyone says that before I noticed the autocorrect, that was meant to read original not official, I am not nationalistic enough to start a debate over who correctly coined the term battlecruiser
Brits can classify their stuff as they want. But this was a German ship. Btw. as far as I know, British were the only ones who classfied it that way.
Yes but when different countries are using different designations and requirements to name things which directly translate, it makes sense to use one uniform scheme no?
As for the British being the only ones to designate it that way, I don’t know for sure but it wouldn’t surprise me if you were right. That said the UK was still the biggest naval power at this point and as I mentioned invented the terms for both.
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