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Basicly the question is the title, are there any ships which you feel should not be added to WoWS because they would be too hard to balence. For instance I do not want the Courageous class Cruiser (2 ships, HMS courageous and HMS Glorious, both commisioned in 1916) to be added becasue I think that they would be too hard to balence due to having 15 inch guns, 6 aimable torpedoes per side and being able to do 31/32 knots while being the size of a battleship and having spotter aircraft. Due to the fact that they were so hard to define to a role within or without a fleet they were sometimes known as the Outrageous Class Please include something shouldn't be included in game.

So The Imperial Russian Navy pre-dreadnought Peresviet was mined near Port Said on 4 Jan 1917 The Italian pre-dreanought Regina Margherita was mined off Valona 11 Dec 1916 The British pre-dreadnought King Edward VII was mined off the north scottish coast 6 Jan 1916 The British pre-dreadnought Russel was mined off Malta 27 Apr 1916

Surface mines would be a possibility but remember that a single mine could and did sink battleships by themselves and if one teamember just blundered onto one for whatever reason you woul have a massive amount of team damage on you're hands. Also DD's and CA's were converted for use as mine layers but normally it was at the expense of all their torpedo tubes and some of their main armament. I will try to find examples. As for manned torpedoes if they were implemented like you suggested I don't think that WG's PR department for them possibly advocating suicide and as they would be guided... well imagine the complaints that we would get from BB drivers. The main way to nerf them is that they were very slow compared to some torpedoes, slow enough so that a fast CA or DD may outrun them, remeber that there would be some poor chap who would have to hold on all the way through. For the mines I will try to post evidence.

I am reading Jane's Fighting Ships of WW1 and Prince Eugen and Tegetthof were armed with :1919 12x12 inch guns(30.48 cm) , 12x5.9 guns(15cm), 4 11pdr guns( cannot find their caliber but they are given as being manufactured by Skoda, QF 12 pdr guns in british service were 7.62cm/ 3 inch). 12 3pdr((about 4.7cm)not AA they were anti torpedo boat) and 4 machine guns but again these were torpedo boats not aircraft. In the general notes section it says that they were "well designed ships, all details being carefully planned, but they are said to unstable. Arcs of fire for all guns are large. Reports of triple turrets are very contradictory, but they do not seem to have come up to expectation". The class was called the Viribius Unitis Class. Tegetoff was rumored to have been in refit for Italian service but was scrapped in 1924. Prinz Eugen was surrenderd to the French and interned at Cattoro before being sunk as a target ship. Szentistvan was torpedoed by Italian MTBs off Premuda 10 june 1918 Viribius Unitis was sunk by torpedo from an Italian CMB 1 Nov 1918

If it was a premium I suppose that Courageous could work. The reason personally for not having Furious ingame was that in an 'as built configuration' the big 18 inch gun at the rear would destract players who were new to carriers from playing it as a carrier and insted playing as a battlecruiser, also at the end of WW2 Seafires and had carried Grumman Hellcats but stock it would begin with Short type 184 seaplanes and Sopwith Pups.

The Courageous class Cruisers were also rebuilt as aircraft carriers in 1920 and as well as Furious served through atleast some of WW2 although both were sunk unlike Furious.