[GreenLanternCorps]

While the Alaska's are nice ships, they took almost as much resources to build as an Iowa, and had almost as large a crew.

I would trade Alaska and Guam for Kentucky and Illinois and get all six of the Iowas in the war.

As far as the Montana's, while my inner Battleship geek always will love them. They just were not practical compared to getting more Essex class carriers in the war.

[Captain Rhino]

Here is a link to a Wikipedia article on “Maximum Battleship” studies done during the WWI period by the Navy at Congressional request:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_battleship

More detail on the design effort is provided here:

http://myplace.frontier.com/~wellsbrothers/Battleships/TillmanBB.html#Max

All the designs had their sizes and displacements constrained by the requirement to pass through the Panama Canal. Here is a page with a model of the Tillman IV-2 with 15 18” guns disposed in 5 turrets (2 forward, 3 aft). Model is done in the style of the Iowas but very brutal looking. Definitely a slugger.

http://general-quarters.blogspot.com/2013/07/flashback-friday-tillman-battleships.html

[GreyFriar]

Thank you for posting the model of the Montana. Did you build it?