As usual, Brockpaine has put it most eloquently and matter-of-factly. I really have nothing to add to his insightful and expert opinion. I had hoped you (Ashley) might have taken notice of the absurd imbalance of your design, but you evidently didn't. Now, not all is lost. It can be reworked and made into a balanced design, but, like Brock made it clear: what's the point of it, when the Germans already had a working, albeit fundamentally obsolescent design?
As for your statement "-my AU, my kindergartenisch names, your oppinion" (sic!) - you're right, it is so, and I respect that. But, would you not agree, that, when you've made such an effort attempting to build up a credible, albeit from a political point of view reprehensible AU, you go ahead risking it all, by just inventing names of ships that, as Brockpaine correctly put it, sounds like something picked from an episode of "Hogan's Heroes" Now, if you'd like my meagre five cents on this issue (which I'm not convinced you do) I could provide you with alternate - real, and for the NSDAP acceptable names, such as Moritz von Egidy or Hans Zenker or Magnus von Levetzow, just to pick a few. von Egidy, who was a really accomplished and talented seaman and a most courageous officer, and who was married to a woman of equal nautical talent, and was the Captain of the most famous of German battle-cruisers, the SMS Seydlitz from 1913-17, was so shaken and disgusted by the results of the end WW1, that he entered politics as a "Jungdeutscher". Later he was registered as a member of the NSDAP and entered into the rolls of the SS. He died in 1937, thus escaping a humiliating fate as a potential war criminal. He certainly was politically extremely naive. Hans Zenker the redoubtable skipper of the first German BC, SMS von der Tann, too, dabbled as C-in-C of the Reichsmarine in right-wing politics, but never was a Nazi, but rather would've termed himself a National Conservative and Monarchist. von Levetzow, SMS Moltke's legendary and daring commandant, however, and who died in 1939, was a "Mitglied der Deutsches Reichstag from 1932 to -35, when he had differences with Hitler. From 1933 to -35 he also was chief of Berlin's police. As would be noticed from the naming of the cruisers Admirals Scheer and Hipper, it really didn't matter to Hitler if the persons honoring the ships with their names had a history of differences or even opposition with the Nazis as long as they were of the "right stock" and were considered national heroes, which undoubtedly these three people were! As I said, only a token few that could honor a Nazi-German warship...
_________________ My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen
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