Seydlitz Summary

This is the HBG Seydlitz game piece.

Seydlitz, the fourth Admiral Hipper-class cruiser, was about 95 percent complete when she was cancelled after the outbreak of World War II. She was among the vessels selected for conversion into auxiliary aircraft carriers in early 1942, and was to be renamed Weser. Her complement was to have been ten fighters and ten bombers. Seydlitz was assumed to fulfill a commerce raider role supporting other surface ships and submarine. Ideal deployments were off the Atlantic coast of France or Norway. 

Work ceased in June 1943, by then most of her superstructure was removed, though the flight deck was never installed. She was towed to Königsberg and was scuttled before the Red Army captured the city in 1945. The Soviets considered raising and cannibalizing her to complete her sister ship Lützow, which the Soviets had purchased incomplete from Germany in 1940, but the plan was discarded and she was instead broken up for scrap.

The Seydlitz is a light carrier size and comes with one magnet to hold one magentized aircraft.

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