Re: [GZG] Battlecruisers

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In a message dated 12/23/2006 11:41:17 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
rlbell.nsuid@gmail.com writes:

It got	me thinking about how battlecruisers are handled in games.
They are usually  ships between a heavy cruiser and a battleship.  Only
one navy (the  USN) ever built ships like that, and they were called
"Large Cruisers" (the  Alaska class).  All ships that were actually
called battlecruisers  were as large as, if not larger, than
battleships.  The HMS Hood, a  battlecruiser, was the largest warship
in the world, until the Bismark was  completed.  Battlecruisers were
basically dreadnoughts that exchanged  weight of armor for weight of
machinery to get an extra turn of  speed.  The only game that ever got
this right was Starfire, as a BC  was faster than a BB and if it
accepted less protection, it could mount the  same armament.

OK, maybe I am lost here.  Hood was smaller the bismark, yet Hood was  a

"cruiser" and Bismark was "battleship."  If this is accurate and Hood
and  Bismark 
were the worlds largest "warships" What exactly does that make	Yamato
and 
Musashi that were nearly 2 times larger then Bismark?
 
Vince