Alsace verses Colonna: questions

okay ... let me take a whack at it.

1. Make sure you are reading the correct tonnages, as ships are rated by 3 different tonnages and if we compare the wrong ones, we get bad info. The "standard" displacement for Alsace is 45,500 while Colonna comes in at 42,000. Easy error to make. These are borderline numbers, to be sure. (Europa @ 44,000; Hood @ 42,670; Impero @ 41,337; Tosa @ 45,000: they all get hull 5, in accordance with the guidelines, found at: forumini.boards.net/thread/15/guidelines-stats)

2. Tertiary guns? I am the self-proclaimed master of them, and noticed that RB was inconsistent in awarding them, and the teams have stayed within his guidelines. I came up with a consistent set of rules, and have added either 2nd's or 3rd's to over 40 units. Colonna is one of them. (See thread at: forumini.boards.net/thread/69/missing-gun-lines-88-125mms )

MC got short-changed NOT because she's Italian, but because 3.5" (88mm) is ignored on some ships, and counted on others. (It's a pet-peave of mine.)

To elaborate, it would have been Hull 5. It is costed correctly for a 6 so the card in itself is fine; it just doesn’t reflect the design.