User blog comment:Void Samukai/BSC Kancolle/@comment-25373667-20150501012528

Well, I have thought about this, and I would be a Scharnhorst-class German battlecruiser from WWII, renamed the Northern Ireland-class.

The reason for her name change is for her epic rearmament and story.

Now she's equipped with Japanese "Long Lance" torps and an American style AA suite, with twelve, four single and four double, 5"/38 cal DP guns making up her secondary, and a bunch of 40mm Bofors for AA armament. Also, don't forget the boss allied radar suite.

I thought it would be cool to say that a Scharnhorst survived WWII and was captured by the Brits, who thought it was cool, so they upgraded her AA and replaced her torps with newly captured Japanese "Long Lances."

So, her final armament is:

9 (3x3) 11in.

12 (4x2, 4x1) 5in. DP

28 (7x4) 40mm AA

10 (5x2) 20mm AA

6 torpedoes

And in the end, you have a very nice light battleship with great AA, good armor and anti-ship firepower, and a good number of torpedoes. A jack-of-all-trades ship, which the Brits could find use for.

Then, I decided to go even farther, and say the ship survived until the Vietnam War. Here is her 'Nam armament:

6 (3x2) 11in.

8 (4x2) 5in. DP

25 (25x1) VLS missiles

16 (4x4) Anti-ship missiles

4 (4x1) CIWS

16 (4x4) .50 machine guns

6 ASW torpedoes

As you can tell, one of her main turrets was swapped out for a VLS battery, and her single DP's were switched for quad anti-ship missiles. Furthermore, all of her WWII AA guns were removed, and replaced with CIWS and some .50 MG's for AA and anti-piracy. Her torps were also replaced with ASW torpedoes.

Now, all this may seemed far fetched (it probably is), but honestly, this would be a feasible design the RN could have undertook, and their job is much easier since the ship is built off of a captured German hull.

So, I am gonna be a Northern Ireland, a jack-of-all-trades warship, with a mean bite.

Now that I think about it, I may just build this ship in game...