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Then as I say - if the ships were to have been built in the Cleito period, they should conform to Cleito requirements.
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Then as I say - if the ships were to have been built in the Cleito period, they should conform to Cleito requirements.
... but they weren't build to Cleito requirements by RA. IIRC he built them and then still tried to get them to fall into the Heavy Cruiser category and even tried to correct them post construction for free by removing a turret (which would not have helped much anyway as I indicated back then) . To me this class is one of a number of reasons the CT collapsed... although I do not really have too much of a problem with rewriting that mess slightly so it is the fact that those two fake signatures on the CT in a sense made the CT invalid and worth less than the paper it was written on.
I know that snip is trying to do his best as well as trying to do the right thing. The problem is that RA did NOT do the right thing when he built those ships (and with a sneaky and questionable way tried to correct it) and that is part of the history of Wesworld. Changing those ships so they conform to Cleito requirements means changing part of the history. That to me is where the real problem lies with the Saints.
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IF Saint class is more to blame then Ceaser THEN Saint class stays as is (three with refit), Ceaser's become repeat Saints (savings of ~12,000t overall) [This is my preferred solution, the Ceaser's size means that with the refits locked in many ships in the 1932-1934 range will need to be cut due to lack of funds. The tonnage difference per quarter (~100 per hull at fastest build speed) and the one less quarter of build time is more beneficial then the overall savings from what I have laid out so far.]
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IF Ceaser class is more to blame then Saint THEN Ceaser stays as is (three), Saints become class of two (savings of ~16250t overall)
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