Talk:Ship/@comment-135.23.225.8-20150316012752/@comment-4125495-20150317075157

The distinction between Fast Battleships and Battlecruisers has always been fuzzy. There's ships like Hood which are right on the edge of both categories. Hood was always referred to as a Battlecruiser, but on paper she was an improvement over the Queen Elizabeth II-class of Fast Battleships (faster, better armored). And technically, if Hood isn't a Battleship, neither are the Kongo-class, which even post-reconstruction had smaller guns and in a lot of areas less armor.

Either way, if they started adding ships that are on the fuzzly line between Battleship and Battlecruiser, I suspect they'd just throw them in as Fast Battleships since they use the same guns and serve largely the same purpose. Besides, by WW2 there weren't really very many Battlecruisers left of much great note, as most were holdovers from WW1 or the inter-war period and had been scrapped or converted to aircraft carriers. No point creating a whole new ship class just for the one or two that might eventually be added to the game.