User blog comment:FlammeumDraco333/Tales From the Not so Blocky Seas/@comment-26482266-20160217050255/@comment-24882568-20160219131048

Honestly, The emden is a good ship. Sure, it may not be able to equip much armor, but even it's poor armor can surpise, with it's decent health if memory serves me well. And either way, it's a beast in the missions. Fast firing guns, decent accuracy, high damage output in a short period of time, and enough armor and health to take a stray hit from the enemy AI. And also decently fast. Many of those properties, the Liepzig DOESN'T have. Ackward layout, slow if it has decent armor, still slow if it has NO ARMOR, though not as slowly, slower than other cruisers of the same level for the same level of armor, including the emden,(<actually can't confirm that. Been a while.) which itself is slow if you have too much armor, though, the Liepzig about as slow as... russian cruisers. Which at least have a ton of health. The liepzig doesn't. In fact, it doesn't even have the armor to take hits from DESTROYERS in a best case sinario. And it scarifices... Odles of speed for that armor. Seriously, the speed you lose from adding even an inch of armor adds tonnage at an astronomical rate, faster than most other cruisers except for one russian ship I can't remember the name to. The only saving grace it has are it's 6" guns... Which, at the end of the day, are still 6" guns. And if firing forward, you can only fire one turret. Which is why it's layout is ackward.