Battlecruisers

I'd like to reopen the debate on Battle-cruisers.

Following our new Carriers, i'd like to refresh everyone on how we are still missing vital weapons for our naval forces (Corvettes, mine-layers- early missile-cruisers)

History:

Now, Battle-cruisers are very similar to BB, but they are much quicker- thus allowing them to be put into action faster, and had been used for heavy-recon. The most famous ship of this type was HMS Hood, the largest of it type put to see and was destroyed by my favourite warship, the Bismarck.

Game Role:

A BC is very similar to a heavy-cruiser, and was developed as an off-shoot to this design after the Dreadnought concept. In the game it would fill the role between light cruisers and BB

As i've grown to understand that using Light cruisers as 'pocket battleships' doesn't work, I believe we need a ship which is able to act a 'raider' during open war.

The Introduction of carriers mean that Light cruisers are returning to their AA role, opening a space for fast ships, and as carriers have switched up the World map (allowing power-protection) battle-cruisers will always players a cheaper version to the BB

Game Specs:

The Battle-cruiser would have four tech levels, as this type of his is normally confused with heavy-cruisers, it would have hard to find six levels of pure BC. They would become able to research at BB level 2.

They would have the following cost:

3000 General goods

3000 Metal

500 Men

1000 oil

6000 $

The Damage out put would always put it below BB by three points, but would be five KM/H faster.

So, thoughts? Are we force this? Any changes? I'll try and hunt down the original post on these weapons.