List of Battlecruisers of the Burgundian Royal Navy (Principia Moderni IV Map Game)

The battlecruiser was the brainchild of Grand Admiral Jan Fëscher, the man who had pushed for the construction of SMS Dreadnought. The first three battlecruisers built, the Südleche Bucht-class, were laid down during the construction of Dreadnought.

Fëscher had initially envisioned an enlarged version of the armored cruiser as the basis, where speed would be gained at the cost of armor. This however was rejected by the Navy’s civilian head, First Minister of the Navy Graf Theodoor van Roosevelt, who recognized the arms race Dreadnoughts launch had sparked, ordered their redesign, demanding that the ships have enough armor to stand in the battle line and augment the battleships.