User blog comment:Void Samukai/Best WW1 and Best WW2 Battlecruiser/@comment-13740085-20160212151832/@comment-27822411-20160212195006

I would rate Deuscthland class as heavy cruisers, but they could be considered light BCs by some. Whatever you call them, you can't deny that they did a hell lot more then the Hood ever did.

The Alaska class is consdered by pretty much everyone here as a battlecruiser. I even made a blog about the matter. As they say "if it looks like a duck, if it swims like a duck, if it eats like a duck, then I dont care whether you want to call it a fish but it's a duck".

Maybe people consider service more important then the stats of a warship, hence why many thing QE is best WW2 ship, despite ships like Iowa and Yamato. I do take that in consderation when choosing my ships, but stats are important too. And WW2 BCs show that: the most powerful and the most modern of them all end up doing almost nothing useful, and the weakest and the oldest of the them ended up doing a hell lot. Kinda makes "Best" threads a little tricky