GUARD SHIP: This unit may deploy in any sector adjacent to a coast or island on your side of the map. If deployed this way, this unit can't move until it has been attacked.
INACTIVITY: This unit gets -1 on each attack die when making its first Main Gunnery attack of the game.
Ning Hai-class cruiser Displacement 2,448 t (2,409 long tons) Length 360 ft (110 m) Beam 39 ft (12 m) Draught 13 ft (4.0 m) Propulsion Two-shaft Reciprocating Engines; 1 oil-fired and 4 coal-fired boilers; 7,488 hp (5,584 kW) Speed 21 knots (24 mph; 39 km/h) Range 5,000 nmi (9,300 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) Complement 361 Armament 6 × 140 mm (5.5 in)/50 guns 3 × 76 mm (3 in) AA guns 4 × 57 mm (2 in) AA guns 4 × machine guns 4 × 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes 9 × depth charges Armour Belt: 25 to 76 mm (0.98 to 2.99 in) Armour deck: 19 to 25 mm (0.75 to 0.98 in) Turrets: 25 mm (0.98 in) Conning tower: 25 mm (0.98 in)
GUARD SHIP: This unit may deploy in any sector adjacent to a coast or island on your side of the map. If deployed this way, this unit can't move until it has been attacked.
INACTIVITY: This unit gets -1 on each attack die when making its first Main Gunnery attack of the game.
Formerly the Ning-Hai of the chinese navy. Yasoshima was sunk in the Yangteze river in 1937 by japanese aircraft. Raised and used as a depot ship. Desperate for escort ships as the Allied submarine offensive became a greater threat. She was refitted as a escort. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She and the two transports she escorted were sunk by US Navy aircraft. [RoC Roundel]