Deck H "Heck or High Water"

Your last post summing up, makes things a bit clearer.

Replying in order of that post.

In theory the UK probably has solid capital ship picks for another two decks-ish. I would imagine either of Malaya (this seems to be getting more mention ATM) or Howe for the last couple to do in their classes would be preferred to a BB with barges which is quite niche (I think the Hornet last deck showed reverting to tried and trusted type is safer ground than trying to do something too left field). That would leave one of either Malaya/Howe to do going forward with some R class and also Courageous for a big carrier. I think it would be right though to concentrate on an escort carrier this deck (a Fencer reprint, HMS Vindex etc. for new type or Audacity for historical significance), as the RN don't have a lot of these and the larger carriers have been heavily included. Thought I'd missed an AUX type with depot ship but its obviously Adventure. Might actually be room for once though, for one of the varied aux types in the UK fleet. This area is underrepresented with their aux types in the main being general merchant types. Thinking sub tender, CAM ship or a Palomares type which were in effect floating AA escort platforms.

The V&W type seems to be getting some backing, that would then come down to variant of it, AA, Long range escort etc. I put Vanoc forward previously for the fact it would have ram on it and to me this has always been a fun ability (wasn't just DDs that did it, one of the Didos rammed an Italian sub and if Valiant had made contact with the German sub that sank Barham, a BB theoretically could have had it!). We had the discussion about putting it on the flower type last deck but this ram would obviously be on a speed two ship. Vanoc's was certainly one of the most famous Rams of the war for sinking U 100 and actually pinning the ace commander Schepke to the inside of his conning tower. The Black Swan Starling is going to be well loaded out as a u boat killer and leader but wouldn't have to be similar from an anti u boat perspective (Starling actually also rammed a u boat but with all the potential SAs, this doesn't have to be on that).

Scylla could have a flag for arctic convoys leader (heavily in action with Wainwright etc.), some sort of general command/headquarter SA and it was also used to co-ordinate MTBs and repel E boats (wiki) both these latter (D Day), in addition to its general AA abilities.

For the U.S., not going to run short of BBs, Essex types etc. to fill big slots. Would not go against an escort carrier but would happily see three DD/escort types, even two subs etc. The Jamestown would seem decent and fun with PT boats.

Yeah, the Seehund doesn't excite me too much either. I looked at u boats we haven't done and U 124 has an unbelievable tonnage sunk record. I wish that had been spotted last deck as U 180 had a very average history (not 100% sure why that was put forward) but the former is a strong option still. Two or three of the early Z types still don't have cards anywhere I believe and Reidel was the most active of these.

Crispi (no info on wiki really) could be interesting with its links to the MAS boats. I was looking at their smaller corvette types again from an anti submarine POV (Cigno just done is surface ability orientated). Some of these operated in sub killer teams with successes (Gabbiano, Euterpe (both Antilope types) and Circe actually sank four subs - high success for the Italians. These latter are prob the best examples the Italians have to the allied sub killer teams. Olterra is historically significant and don't see why it couldn't be attempted. Would have to see what the currently stated sub class would be, any standout boat etc.? The only really good history boat overall I could see was E Tazzoli for tonnage sunk in Atlantic etc.

Amagi would have seen war service and the availability of the Akagi mini helps. Otherwise yeah, smaller stuff and/or re jigging some of the axis slots around.