leipzig (azur lane)
Azur Lane's personification of the German light cruiser Leipzig, the name ship of her class of two light cruisers.
In-game, she can be unlocked by the player for normal build by limit-breaking the light cruisers Karlsruhe, Koeln, and Koenigsberg.
For her retrofit form, see her corresponding page.
History
In real life, Leipzig was the fourth light cruiser built by Germany after World War I as an improvement over the preceding Koenigsberg-class trio with better main gun arrangement and armor.
She served the pre-war years in goodwill cruises, training cruises, and neutrality patrols in the Spanish Civil War. When World War II began, she ran escort duties until she was torpedoed by a British submarine. Once repairs were finished, she was sent to provide fire support in the German invasion of the Soviet Union but otherwise spent most of her time as a training ship. In 1944, she was accidentally rammed (and nearly sliced in half) by Prinz Eugen in foggy conditions and the damage was judged too severe for her to be fully repaired. Thus, she was only patched up sufficiently for one last mission: gunfire support and the seaborne evacuation of troops and civilians from East Prussia.
Reaching Denmark a few days before V-E Day, she was retained by Germany as a barracks ship and scuttled in 1946.
Skins
Leipzig-class light cruisers
- Leipzig
- Nuernberg (Azur Lane)
External links
The following tags implicate this tag: leipzig_(retrofit)_(azur_lane) and leipzig_(storefront_training)_(azur_lane) (learn more).