Also something worth remembering, Britain doesnt have a Premium Heavy Cruiser yet either. So that might factor into getting a slightly higher BR Premium BB instead and/or a Premium Heavy Cruiser.
But yeah, Britain has a few options left that would probably comfortably take it to 7.7 BBs. But after that, definetly going to be interesting. No idea how they’ll seperate Gun based Naval from Missile based Naval. Different tree?
If Bravy and Douglas are any indication, they won’t. W/o missions that allow ships w/ these armaments to use their advantage of accuracy at significant range, missile-armed ships decades newer than battlecruisers will still comfortably die to them, as similarily-sized ships already present do.
But retaining their advantage of accuracy, and ability to deliver significant HE filler( in some cases, anyway - sorry SeaCat ) they’re usually better than those similarily-sized ships.
The most likely course seems to be missile-armed ships being placed above their weight class, but not at the top - atleast as they’re introduced.
The GB tt might be the one to give us a clearer view of how ARH AShM -armaments will affect the placement of the ships equipped w/ them, if it 's some different effect to the " SACLOS " types we have now. Daring-classe BAP Ferre leaked, and all that.
Yeah, though defending against ASMs with CIWS I think is going to be quite fun, though I do fear the server stability. It already cant handle the AA we’ve got :D
I think its unlikely it’ll be Yamashiro, none of the other premium battleships so far have 14-inch guns. They’ll probably just copy-paste Settsu as Kawachi. There is also two Kongo class ships still unaccounted for, however.
Rafale; Variant and Standard depending on how capable you want it.
Considering Eurofighters and Gripen C with AMRAAM and range of A2G armament, Rafale C F.2.2 or F.3.2 is your best bet.