Talk:AFOH/@comment-27822411-20140815081209/@comment-14850713-20140816100259

(Posted this in my message wall)

Khoi, like what TB said, the classification is relative. My battleships range in toughness from 6500 (Indomptable) down to 4000+ (De Grasse), so anything less than the latter down to 3500 is a battlecruiser. Of course there are exceptions. Foch is classified as a battlecruiser but is at 4000+ as she has parts of the bottom hull made of unarmored blocks to enable acceleration to 194.4 knots at 1:30 in-game minutes at Lvl 1. Alsace is at 3800 but is listed as a battleship as she is based on a historical battleship even if her 1:18 acceleration to 194.5 makes her faster than all my battlecruisers. All my battleships/battlecruisers are longer than 400m.

In my opinion, it's always better to field ships on the higher end of a certain type. Thus, Kageryu, with her armament, is formidable as a heavy cruiser. As a battlecruiser, she is heavily outmatched by full-sized versions of the type.