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The German Sturmpanzerwagen A7V Heavy Tank was Germany’s response to the first British tanks in WW1. Designing started in 1916 with the founding of the Allgemeines Kriegsdepartement Sektion 7 Verkehrswesen, which was made to start research on tanks, with the first prototype completed in late April of 1917. Shortly after, in May, the first wooden mockup was built with a rear facing cannon, which was later removed and replaced by machine guns.

HMS Hood is one of the most powerful buttlecruisers ever built. Originally designed as fast battleship it was reclassified by order of the First Sea Lord, Admiral John Jellicoe. The design was repeatedly modified based on combat experience, making the Hood the most powerful capital ship at the time she was comissioned in 1920. Being the top battlecruiser of the Royal Navy tech tree, HMS Hood, is characterized by a very powerful primary armament and a fairly numerous, though not particularly strong, secondary armament. It boasts good mobility but suffers from rather average armor by battleship standards, as well as a weak air defense battery. More details below.