Even the naval treaties of the day considered them to be a single navy. It may hurt the pride of some proud Canuck's here, while the RN, RCN & RAN etc were 'officially' separate they were in real terms a single entity with a shared doctrine. The fact you can't swap commanders with RN ships is highly annoying, despite there are plenty of examples of ships, crews and captains being frequently swapped around. Personally before WG add any more Commonwealth ships I want them to think long and hard about what they plan to do with this 'nation'. If they do end up having to reinstate the X turret implementing Haida may become more difficult to balance properly. I've long suspected that Cossack has been a test bed for Haida, to see if they can get her 3x2 turret set up to work with just one torpedo launcher. Especially since we heard today of the Argentine representative vessel on the horizon. We already have 2 RN premium DDs in game, and from a historical aspect almost everypone wants a Canadian representative in the fleet. Truly WG should forgo the Cossack in the new layout, balance it in the initial layout and rename it the Haida. Generally speaking, follow on classes tended to have a similar tonnage, endurance, superstructure layout, higher quality of build, an improved sensor fit (radar for example), similar/identical guns/, central fire control, AA. Likewise, weight distribution is not modelled in WOWS, neither are other elements of sea worthiness, such as welding vs rivet construction. Many of these features will not be visible/felt in game, for example, whether 2 or 3 boilers makes no difference to WOWS, but a huge difference in RL. They began a trend that favoured moderate gun armament, fire control and sensor fit over torpedos, follow on classes were of a similar tonnage, with lessons learned, and fresh compromises. Though subsequent classes did indeed incorporate features first seen on the Tribals, which is why JKN and other following classes look so similar, but that is only natural. They were very much larger than any RN destroyer before them, and classes that succeeded them were smaller. From a British doctrinal point of view they were very much unique, they focused guns over torpedos.
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