Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170514083426/@comment-1637496-20170514115827

Vcharng wrote: No, CL came from PROTECTED cruisers, BC came from ARMORED cruisers. By the magic of translation these are easily confused, but they are very different.

The "tech tree" looks like this:

Protected C. -> CL -> CA (CA was derived from CL, only after Washington Treaty that CA was defined into a different category)

Armored C. - > BC(CC) -> some very unique ship classes like Alaska and Deutchland. Ahem light cruisers were described as "light armoured cruisers" initially, protected cruisers didn't carry a waterline belt, only a protective deck, in design terms they're related to both.