The 10-inch Dreadnought conundrum

[tendravina]

The first time I was showed this phenomenon, I did not think much about it, as it was just a one-off case. However, when I tried replicating or even straight up copying these designs, I failed entirely, with the game preferring to label them as CAs. I at first explained it as being a treaty, but I am also told that treaties should not affect designations.


Is there a reason for this that can be replicated, or is this simply a misdesignation?

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[kriegsmeister]

Pretty sure it's the Belt Armor/Speed combination. The game wants to classify it as a CA since (iirc) in 1915 ships greater than 25kts and less than 12in of armor would be a BC if it had 11in guns, 10inchers drop it to CA. If you up the belt armor or decrease the speed the game should recognize it as a BB.

And don't worry too to much on if what the AI builds is legal or not. The very regularly break the rules in a variety of ways.

[brygun]

AFAIK up to and including 10in guns is going to be routed to CA thus BC takes 11 in guns

[tendravina]

Mar 19, 2024 6:54:48 GMT -6 brygun said:

AFAIK up to and including 10in guns is going to be routed to CA thus BC takes 11 in guns

There is an exception, and that is if your 10-inch CA is above 20000 tons and has more than 8 inches of belt armor. Of course, none of these AI BC examples fall into that exception, and get reclassed to CA as a result

[brygun]

Guess the AI designer is trying to do this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w4UZaaUSU0&ab_channel=superkeegan9100