Cruisers turn up everywhere from the North American coast to Pacific islands, prompting a joke that the campaign commander has become the Royal Navy because an entire class's stations are impossible to remember. The worldwide distribution is operationally useful because local ships can join invasion or reinforcement plans without first making a fresh ocean crossing. It also creates an administrative problem: numbers and reach mean little unless a staff can track hulls, locations, refits, and availability. Calling for an admiral with a full staff simply to count the Town-class cruisers turns the campaign map into a compact lesson in fleet administration.
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Managing a cruiser fleet dispersed around the world
Forgetting where an entire cruiser class is stationed becomes a lesson in the staff work required to turn global numbers into usable naval presence.