0.37 has broken early game CLs?

[stevethecat]

Currently playing the UK from a 1900 start, the bulk of my fleet is made up from CL's with protected cruiser armour layout, these are now due a rebuild, OK, slap on new fire control and upgraded guns, and the game throws an error saying that these ships are identified as CA's... odd.

Select change type and the game now throws an error of 'Error: Armoured cruisers cannot have protected cruiser armour configuration!'.

So there's nothing I can do with these ships, no rebuild is possible.

Thanks?

[williammiller]

Looking into this, thanks.

[TheOtherPoster]

Playing 1890 start. Opposite situation, same problem: my CAs have protected armour scheme. I cannot update them because I cannot change armour scheme or re-classify them as CLs

[brygun]

A few threads about this and its affect on CAs.

William heard me asked this before: What was this supposed to fix?

The real world had mixes of protected and armored cruisers.

I think the problems added are far more troublesome than whatever the original issue was.

Please consider a roll back on this "fix".

[williammiller]

We are working on fixing this issue for the next release, thanks.

[wlbjork]

Just an update that Beta 1.00.39 is live that fixes this issue - but may cause other issues, so check the readme

[brygun]

from discord announcements:

• Reversed the "CA cannot have protected cruiser armour configuration" change. Important Note: The earlier change to early CA in 1.00.37 proved to be ill considered. As some players have correctly pointed out, the main difference between pre-1900 in game CA and CL should be size, not armor configuration. Early cruisers have now been refurbished in the game and CA are now cruisers that have an armored belt or have a size over 8000 tons, others are CL. Templates and design logic have been updated accordingly. France and Russia have been given belt and sloping armor deck as bonus techs to reflect their early adoption of armored cruisers. This might cause transient issues in already started games with 1.00.37, in which case we advise continuing to play until this resolves itself or starting new game. The end result is that the treatment of pre-1900 cruisers is now much more historical and consistent.

[brygun]

Thanks, will look in next time I start a game.