20? Damn.... So you want to take our experienced aviation engineer from the fighter project? To design something of a very niche use?
Well, yes, I would let them finish the project that they started.
Vote18.3: Designate the new destroyer a cruiser
Vote18.4 Keep Destroyer design theoretical (or in the fridge)
Veto veto veto20.1 It will just lead to and endless series of identical proposals countering each other, and at the end of the day, if enough people want it, then the vote to ignore the other votes will be nullified and the thing will pass anyway. Just assume that I made a 20.11: continue the project regardless of 20.1, and that everyone who voted for 20 also voted for 20.11... Now if you just wanted to retask the aviation engineer, then I wouldn't have supported it, taking the project lead off of a project reeks of desperation, but it would have been somewhat legitimate.
Well destroyer escorts were famous for being subhunting ships, so there's that as well....
Destroyer is an abbreviation of Torpedo-boat Destroyer or Submarine Destroyer. They exist to protect large anti-ship capital ships from small fast ships with torpedos that will, by tonnage ratio, massacre anything that is relying upon heavy anti-capital ship guns for their main armament. As submarines entered that role, destroyed adapted to fight submarines. Something that is designed to fight large ship is not a Destroyer.
Missed the chance for proposals, but I would like to suggest that next turn we advocate sending our capital ships and many righteous ships to blockade the enemy ports.
I also suggest a formant change for our posts to make things easier for the G.M.
Maintaining a master-list of proposals and votes is good, but can exacerbate mistakes.
Maximum of two proposal per player per update, there are plenty of players here and we can't do everything. If you have a dozen good ideas then you just have to hope someone else does something similar or that you can get it in next turn.
Maximum of 6 subproposals per player per update. Subproposals let us make something that everyone wants, so there should be some freedom there.
Spoiler our debates, just making the game-commands bold works, but spoilering stuff should reduce page size...