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Bruce - so you're thinking light or heavy cruisers? Or more that the capital ships and destroyers can take of themselves without too many cruisers?
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Walter - I wasn't considering scrap value anywhere in that. If so, there's also four dreadnoughts and two armored cruisers that would contribute to funding. Iberia will have no shortage of stuff to junk over the next while.
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For a CLAA I'd go for something around 6 KT, like an Atlanta. The KM is kicking around such a design for the future to complement the projected large Air Defence Destroyers.
Your mileage may vary of course, as your needs might. I mean, there are all those Mexican tin cans that need recycling.
Bruce - so you're thinking light or heavy cruisers? Or more that the capital ships and destroyers can take of themselves without too many cruisers?
Some might accuse me of being too "air minded" but I see battleships as large floating flak batteries to protect the aircraft carriers that are the core of the fleet. So, I my mind, they don't need to be screened, they screen. Yes, I've built large light cruisers, but I've stayed away from heavy cruisers as nothing shy of 15,000 tons could stand up to an opponent. So, I prefer to keep my gun cruisers at around 10KT but not build so many; I now regret having had Germany build two small light cruisers but that's life.
The current run of CLAA (eight laid down) are essentially Atlanta-clones, except with 130mm and 57mm rather than 5" and 40mm. It's a size I think is a reasonable compromise in firepower versus affordability.
I suppose you caught me in a goof, Walter - there will be nine modern battleships when Jupiter and Saturn replace the four old ships. Not eleven. How long the three La Luna type stay in service is a question to resolve - they're smallish.
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