Updated Class Limits through Deck E - please review

The Minas case is an interesting one. Not only was the sister ship in bad disrepair, but Minas Geraes herself was barely serviceable too. The ship wasn’t approved for sea duty and instead was relegated to harbor defense the same way her even more dilapidated sister was. It really says something about a navy when its flagship can’t leave port.

Yup.

I was under the impression that both sisters were to be up-gunned to 15" guns.

I really don't want to go there. Let those "outliers" just be a little crazy. It will just get convoluted, and frankly, make no sense if we try to write it all out. People can house rule as they please if they don't like it.

I don't see the issue with Constellation. That was a different hull from Lexington and Saratoga. If we had done Lex or Sara as a battlecruiser then there we would have had the same issue.


There is no perfect way to do it. KISS is the most important to me.  I have based a lot of these on RBs decision with HMS Hawkins in particular. When I did the class limits for Set VI I sent him a list of the five ships in the class that were built and their fates so he could make the call on class limits. Hawkins had the least changes and only had her TT removed. One ran aground and foundered (Raleigh) in 1922. One (Cavendish) was converted to an aircraft carrier (Vindictive) then back to training cruiser and then to a repair ship with the name Cavendish again. One was disarmed and rearmed with two fewer main guns (Frobisher.) And Effingham was rearmed with three x triple 6 in turrets and 8 x 4 in DP guns into a much more modernized "light" cruiser. RB decided the class limit should be two for Hawkins and Frobisher. By the start of the war one had sunk, one was a repair ship, and one was substantially rebuilt into a light cruiser. Let left two that were more or less "originals."

So if we ever do Effingham (we should) I can honestly say RB already made the call on that one being a class limit of one.

As for the ships rebuilt during the war and getting two different cards all I can say is the year limit helps some. Overall, these are ships I would rather not have seen put in the game. It is too much detail IMO. But we have what we have. 

Page 1 missing a return to line between Ise class and I-201
Hyuga, Ise(2)I-201 (3)