While I'd prefer to have a cruiser soon, I doubt that we can do it, it's size should be more than 10
Look, Wasp with 2TP-1s and 4 torpedo mounts is size 1+ 1 armor
40mm guns are 0.25 size per piece, LUPs should be something like that, too
120mm guns are 0.5 per one... 280mm should be at least 1 each, most likely more
Add any reasonable armor and we can't fit into 10 size
I think designing twin turret first is a better idea, because turret is much more than guns grouped together (and we may use other similar sized gun if our current 280mm will not pass the tests)
I'd not design any new ships before getting GM's reaction on that:
AA ship is useful, but I really dislike the whole size system in the game.... Ship with 12 40mm guns is an escort destroyer at best. As well as ship armed with 4 120mm guns...
Another Problem here that real word size difference is quite severe.... Fast attack ships could be as small as 50 tons, destroyers had something like 2000-3000 tons, Cruisers with 10 000 tons, Battleships with 40 000 tons and so on
1-2 Corvettes
2-4 Frigates\Torpedo boats
4-8 Destroyers
8-16 Light cruisers
16-32 cruisers
32-64 Heavy cruisers
64+ Battleships
I'd like something like that with one point of size representing 500 tons of displacement, then it will look normal and logical
But ships like Wasps should be out of the system, I estimate Wasp to be less than 100 tons and should have fractions of the size, like 0.1-0.2
Also, it's logical that our small young nation can't build anything larger than light cruisers, yet
PS: I am not the one who called Toady, not my style