Talk:Fire Nation cruiser/@comment-11908010-20130710194335

I have compared the standard fire nation cruisers to many actual military screw-style steamships. I think the closest match would be the Ottoman ironclad "Mesudiye"  The Mesudiye is one of the very few twin stacked ironclads I could find. The fire cruisers are made entirely from iron instead of wood which would slow them down but their fire bending steam technology would be better to compensate. The Cruisers are armed with Trebuchets instead of Gun batteries but the deck space could be accounted for easily enough to keep the weapon counts similar. My guess is that would give the Fire Nation Cruisers similar stats of:

Propulsion=2 Shafts  Speed=16 knots(max speed) 9 knots(cruise speed) Range=2200 Kilometers at 9knots Crew Complement=673 Tenders=3 Cargo/Troop capacity=? Armament=?

These are all best guesses. If anyone has any more accurate numbers or specifics on Cargo, troop capacity, or exact armarment, I would love to see them and the sources.