User blog comment:Void Samukai/Best WW1 and Best WW2 Battlecruiser/@comment-13740085-20160212151832/@comment-13740085-20160213001507

I respect your opinions, though the Navy still designed them as non-capital ships, hence their decision to go with the "CB" designation instead of the "CC" they'd chosen for the Lexingtons and were to be for the Alaskas originally.

My argument boils down to this: Battlecruisers are capital ships, the Navy didn't design the Alaskas to be capital ships. If the Navy had labled them battlecruisers, as they had originally intended, and not officially discouraged the use of the term, then there'd be no discussion. They may be hybrids between cruisers and battlecruisers, but to me they lean more to the former that the latter.

But I don't think we're going to convince each other of our opinion.