"... she was a big warship, with two armour-plated decks and a ram. Dense smoke was billowing from her funnels. Her sails were so closely furled that they merged with the outline of her yards."
—Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (pt 2 cap XXI)
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Heavily armoured ship meant for amassing surface supremacy and offshore bombardment.
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| Prereq: | Build time | HP | LOS | Attack | Attack speed | Movement speed | ||
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24.7s (371t) |
450 | 19 | 40 | 1.63s (25t) |
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| Cost | Created from | Armour | Weapon range | Specialty | ||||
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 : 250; : 160
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: 6;: 3
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4 | 
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20 | 1-17 |
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Overall strategy[]
The Ironclad is one of the first "modern" warships which utilises metal as a form of armour cladding, making her extremely resistant to the round shot of past eras, and giving it some added protection from the explosive shells being introduced into warfare, and also carries a newer genus of naval gunnery, thus guaranteeing better range and killing power for her weapons. Use the Ironclad to wipe out enemy Steam Corvettes, Steam Frigates and Cruisers, but watch out for Submarines or Torpedo Boats, especially if you are playing against Peru, since Peru can get out the Toro-class submarine fairly quickly.
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History[]
With the onset of the Industrial Age, Western civilisation began to experience a degree of technological and economic mastery hitherto unknown for centuries. One of the areas impacted by this was the production of iron, which made it cheaper and easier to work with. The more reliable and more economical supply of iron thus meant that a new chapter in naval history was about to be written: the age of metal warships.
The mastery of steam power and the new navies of 19th century Europe (as well as many conflicts throughout the period) soon meant that ironclads would progress from being ad hoc improvised vessels (such as the Japanese atakebune, or the conversion of ships of the line reclad in iron and refitted with steam propulsion) but were purposefully built vessels meant to be constructed en masse on an industrial scale.