Secondaries on the Gascoigne, proposed French Battleship

I've had a request for the never built French Battleship Gascoigne, a semi sister to the Richelieu, Jean Bart, and started Clemenceau.  These ships had 9 six-inch guns which on the Richelieu card (no Clemenceau card yet and the Jean Bart card reflects the ship being incomplete). Designer gave the card a 6/6/5/5 as compared to 8/7/6/6 on the Gloire, which also has 9 six-inch guns. Presumably this is because the Richelieu has its secondaries on either side of the ship, not inline and capable of firing both port and starboard.  Enter the Gascoigne.  Unlike the Richelieu, Jean Bart or Clemenceau, the main guns were to be arranged one turret fore and one turret aft.  The six-inch guns would be inline so like a cruiser, it would be able to fire all of them port or starboard.  The person suggesting the stats for the cards thinks this should be reflected in the stats and was proposing a 7/7/6/5 secondary arrangement.  Does that sound reasonable?  Or should it even be 8/7/6/6 as in the Gloire?  It does seem that placement of the guns are being considered in the stats on the cards but if not, then like the Richelieu, the stats would be 6/6/5/5.  Comments? Suggestions?

Also, does anyone have any thoughts on the year the Gascoigne should be available.   The designer suggested 1943 but I wonder if it should be at least a year later since it hadn't even started in 1940 when France surrendered where at least the Clemenceau had been launched in 1943 (the ship was only about 10% complete in 1940 but you could speculate that it would have been completed in 1942/1943).