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Old 05-13-08, 02:49 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Raptor1
I heard somewhere that Dreadnoughts were considered so important in WWI that they were kept close to home, so they barely saw any fighting, which was what they were designed to do

BTW The Huascar thing was in 1879
They were important for the threat, if security was better we could have built them out of waterproof card and they'd have done the same job.
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