Reinforcements for the Royal Navy part 2
Following on from my last post I am happy to post on the two ships I have been waiting the most for Warlord Games to bring out. They are two of the most heavily armed battleships of the Washington Naval Treaty era HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney HMS Nelson HMS Rodney The Nelson Class was a slightly modified version of the G3 battlecruiser design which had to be scrapped due to it exceeding the limitations imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty and though much slower than other battleships its heavy armour and powerful 16in guns more than made up for it HMS Nelson HMS Nelson was built at Armstrong-whitworth on South Tyneside, launched 3 September 1925 and comissioned into the Royal Navy 15th August 1927 as the most powerfull warship in the world at the time. Between the years of 1927 1939 served as the fleet flagship of the Atlantic and Home Fleets. In 1939 she struck a mine while escorting an Atlantic convoy which caused her to miss the Norwegian Campaign, after repairs was assigned to
