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A complete rebuild of an earlier class of battlecruisers, which can be found here. A major redesign results in the ships becoming fast battleships rather than battlecruisers, with more realistic anti-aircraft batteries and a far more historical superstructure.

AU Profile - The Siegfried-class consists of four battleships named after the operas of Wagner's Ring cycle: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung. Named after eponymous and fearless hero, the ships were stately battleships that would fly the standard of the Imperial German Navy to all four corners of the earth.

With an overall length of 262 metres, the Siegfried-class were longer even than the mighty Bismarck, but their significantly reduced beam of 31 metres meant that their underwater defences were rather lacking for German capital ships. Nonetheless, their 43.18cm or 17-inch main guns made gave them incredible offensive capabilities.