She is less armored and on top of that, due to her smaller displacement sits higher on the water. You would expect the Mainz to have an armor similar to the Admiral Hipper or Prinz Eugen. When it comes to Mainz, the ship will represent what the initially designed Seydlitz and Lützow would have looked like. After the war, the ship used as a floating barrack was scrapped between 19. After repairs, she was renamed (again) Tallinn and was used for the counter-offensive that relieved Leningrad in 1944. In September of the same year, the ship was raised. She provided artillery support during the defense of Leningrad before being heavily damaged in September 1941 and then sunk in April 1942. By the time Operation Barbarossa started, the ship was still far from complete. Lützow was sold to the Soviet Union and renamed Petropavlovsk in 1940 uncompleted with only 2 turrets installed and a major part of the superstructure missing. The newly named Weser was never completed due to a lack of resources and was towed to Königsberg where she was later scuttled in 1945. Seydlitz and Lützow were then planned to be completed the same way as the other ships but as war broke out, priorities shifted and in 1942 the 95% completed Seydlitz was then chosen to be completed as an auxiliary aircraft carrier. However, in the end, the idea was abandoned. The ships were supposed to be armed with 4 triple turrets with 150 mm guns which would have designated them as light cruisers.

These 2 ships were meant to present a different main armament from the 3 first ships of the class. The Mainz is based on the initial design planned for the Admiral Hipper-class cruisers Seydlitz and Lützow. The first of the 2 is the Tier VIII German cruiser Mainz. For the upcoming 0.8.9., only 2 ships are joining the supertest.

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