The Vorlon

There examples of this lack of design / build across the entire spectrum when talking about the pre-dreadnaught era and the years before World War One. I recently looked at building SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and recreating the Battle of Cornel. It is impossible to create the Scharnhorst class, and forget about the HMS Good Hope or Monmouth.

On another related note there are some notable inconsistencies with regards to ship designs. It appears impossible, when creating a US heavy or light cruiser in the 1940+ era to equip them with 5" secondaries. The design tool limits you to 4" secondaries. Further there significant differences between the various types of 5" guns - the 5/25 and 5/38 have different ballistics, range and armor penetration. Similar differences apply to the various marks and calibers of 4" guns in different nations. The German and several other countries didn't use 'inches' to describe guns - it was expressed in millimeters. For example the German 6" gun was actually 15cm (5.9 inch) - it may seem trivial but there are real world (or game world) implications in terms of performance, range, etc..

Concur with this - the Olympia would be a nice model to work with, along with the Kearsarge class pre-dreadnought with the two story turrets