18" er5 i no small thing. Musashi is an outlier, soyuz is inferior. Id accept 69 verses 70 on FdG with speed and aa advantages. And wash on guns v armour
Just comparing it to Grosse, Soyuz & Montana, I see this at least 70. I've just looked again at brig's version(65 points) as well and this is stronger in most aspects, more than I thought it was. I would even suggest 72 when comparing everything with these other cards. In the sixties would be out of balance with the others and even 70 would seem a low compromise from what I'm looking at.
+ column, year, Flag 2, big gunnery lines - MG, 2G, 3G, Token torp, ER5
Neutral/average ball park - AA, defense line - just A 9 is marginally under really.
If your someone who alters costs for own preference then it's obviously less of a biggie than those who use as printed, in terms of getting it bang on first time round. I will try to get to my own cards again soon but I know I have some of these super BBs at slightly different costs from originally printed. Which would help clarify where St. George would be in my own line up.
Compare this to the Iowa (68pts) Iowa has better Mains, worse secondaries, no tertiaries, no torps, no Slow, an AA of 9, 9/15/6 hull and Bristling. Both are Flag 2, ER5, and have TD.
No other battleship has a A/V/H of 9/16/6
I think it's maybe 1 point better putting it at 69pts.
Depends what you compare it to. Just looked at Iowa and Missouri and heavy AA is not worth five points difference. Iowa should be 69-70 really.
I think St. George should be compared with the other 'unbuilt' BBs more than anything.
Still don't see it starting without a 7 in that context. I will probably have mine at touching 72 regardless, going off the first cross comparison I've done.
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I would also say go middle of the 69-71 we are mentioning and compromise either way on 70. Something is always going to look 'out' comparison wise, when looking at all units across sets, with cost variations. The only way to ever get round this is to have your own costings.
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"We went out, got our arses kicked, then came back again"