
Though obviously never seeing action in reality, Kriegsmarine players are afforded new tactical options in Victory at Sea with the opportunity to include this carrier in their fleet. The Carrier was captured by the Soviet Union at the end of the war, and was sunk as a target ship in 1947. The Graf Zeppelin was almost completed in 1943 but Hitler, disappointed with the Kriegsmarine, halted all surface fleet construction. However, with the role of the carrier proving itself in the Battle of Taranto, in the sinking of the Bismarck and at Pearl Harbour and Midway prompted construction to briefly continue. The ships are being removed from the game due to a combination of their popularity and combat efficiency. Construction on the ship that would eventually be christened Graf Zeppelin was eventually halted in 1940. Near the end of the patch notes they mentioned this: When Update 0.10.5 goes live, VI Erich Loewenhardt, VII Nelson, VI T-61, VII Haida, VII Z-39, VIII Asashio, VIII Lenin, and VI Admiral Graf Spee will also cease to be available. Whilst four aircraft carriers of the class had originally been planned, constant in-fighting between the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe, as well as a priority on the building of U-Boats hampered their construction, with the planned four carriers quickly reduced to two. Everything else was nerfed into oblivion. Now its almost entirely meme-ing with her secondaries. Poor Graf went all the way from being one of the most OP Carriers to the absolute rock bottom joke of a carrier. Though laid down and launched before the start of the war, the Graf Zeppelin was never completed or commissioned, and it never saw action. As a Graf Zeppelin driver with over 1.2 million exp on the ship, it is my duty to warn others to not buy this beauty.
