Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170514083426/@comment-26574811-20170514120244

Hyper Shinchan wrote: Strictly speaking by London Treaty definition Zara would become a capital ship and the same applies to any cruiser that was deliberately designed with a design standard displacement above 10,000 long tons, including for instance the wartime Baltimore class. That's the problem of navies bullshitting about their ships' tonnages, this happened on Mogami (11200->8500), on Deutchland (10800-> less than 10000), and, just like you mentioned, on Zara (11300~11700->less than 10000).

Baltimore and other post-treaty cruisers are...well, post-treaty. So they will only fit the definition partly. Evarts, on the other hand, was laid down in mid-1942, half year before the treaty expired.

Is it possible to bullshit about speed? Yes, Nagato did that before 1922 as well (for military secrecy, as there was no treaty then). But the Amercians never bothered to do that to Evarts-class, mostly because they don't need to at all:

1. Just put the ships under RN's name, even if they are subject to the treaty, it is still fine, because RN lost too many ships already.

2. Who's gonna punish USN for violation anyway? The biggest "enemy" in terms of the treaty was RN, at the time of Evarts they are already allies!

However, whatever happens here does not change the fact that the treaty will treat DE and KB differently. Considering the fact that the treaty actually created some ship category by itself (like CA, as well as American CB and German Panzerschiffe, to some extent), it's not a bad place to look for differences between a DE and a KB.