I’ve seen a prior version of the Chinese naval line but unfortunately it was published six years ago and thus, outdated. As I haven’t seen any other people do a Chinese naval line since then, I figured that I might just as well create my own spin on it. What resulted is, in essence, a sort of necked down version of the original.
But why must China have a naval tree? I believe that other than the major nations that already have a naval tree in-game, China should have at least a working coastal tree. Like the Israeli and Swedish coastal lines, they have some very unique ships I hope will be added at some point.
It was originally meant to be majority-PLAN but then I decided to put a fair amount of ROCN ships into the mix (despite half of their ships being essentially copypaste U.S. ships).
Many thanks to R_nminbiY_n for posting the suggestions for many of these boats in the old forum and posting the original tree proposal, and hypilot for his suggestions for some of the boats as well and assistance with researching a few of the more obscure boats in this list! Without their posts the tree would be significantly more barebones than it is now. Two prior drafts to this were made beforehand but those barely had anything in them compared to this final result.
Oh, and also a minor reminder that this tree WILL have anti-ship missiles, and may be the first dedicated AShM boat tree. For reference, compared to the Saetta’s measly 25 kg of explosive filler (only enough to ammorack unsuspecting targets), the YJ-83’s explosive filler may be ~60-90 kg (considering warhead weight =/= explosive filler). Thus, it means they would at least have an actually reliable second line of defense against those pesky Frank Knoxes common at toptier coastal matches.
Anyway let’s get right into it!
- Sources will be listed individually per boat.
