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Post by sabratha on Sept 29, 2015 5:43:13 GMT -6
I think the cutoff of 11 inch guns for the BC class is a tad too restricting. After all you can build 9 inch gun predreadnoughts without a problem and those will count as capital ships. I don't see why a ship fast enough with 9 inch weaponry can't be called a battlecruiser. Would probably be a major case of playing the "denominations game", but if the japanese could call an 8 inch belt battlecruiser a "fast battleship" during WWII I don't see why we can't call a 9 inch 30 knot ship "battlecruiser" on our own Problem here would be that if we can do it, AI can do it too, so we'll got tons of tiny BC even in early game, and battles will turn to firework, when "true" BC sink them one after another. Now B can be with 9 in to simulate early coastal defence battleships, and there were no real "coastal defence BB/BC". (BTW, do B count as "battleships" in late game? If yes, you may build tons of CD monitors to satisfy press and politicians, though their real value would be below zero ) Exactly. Only way to do it would be to have a new Pocket Battleship/Panzershiffe class that owulnd't count as a capital ship, but as a crusier for scenario generation purposes.
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