Creating your armored cruisers, German Naval Ministry, headed by Admiral Tirpicz was faced with the problem, at first glance seeming ridiculous: what to do with them? In common thinking, expensive and big but not enough fast ships really were little demand. For reconnaissance and raiding actions in the oceans of their force seemed excessive, but the speed they are clearly not enough. Armored “knights” it would be reasonable to support “light infantry”: small, cheap and numerous enough ships with decent speed and range.