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a floating fortress so over-engineered it outlived the era it was built to dominate.
means A large, heavily armored warship bristling with the biggest guns afloat, built to slug it out against other capital ships in fleet battles.
from A straightforward English compound of "battle" and "ship," short for the earlier "line-of-battle ship" — a vessel powerful enough to stand in the line of battle, the formation where warships traded broadsides in a row. "Battle" itself traces back through Old French "bataille" to Late Latin "battualia," from "battuere," to beat or strike — a cousin of words like "batter" and "combat."
- main guns
- fired shells weighing as much as a car
- obsolete fast
- aircraft carriers made them dinosaurs by 1945
- USS Iowa
- last fired guns in 1991, Gulf War
- armor belt
- steel plating over a foot thick
- the game
- pencil-and-paper version predates the board edition
uss iowa — u.s. navy battleship commissioned 1942, served through wwii and korean war
yamato — japanese battleship launched 1940, largest battleship ever built at 72,800 tons
hms dreadnought — british battleship launched 1906, revolutionized naval warfare with all-big-gun design