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Replacing cruisers with the game's Minotaur in 1935

The alternate substitution introduces autoloaders, radar and three-inch anti-aircraft guns, with a training burden before war.

Question

What if the British cruisers became World of Warships Minotaurs instead?

Short answer

The imagined radar and automatic guns increase their anti-aircraft power, but crews would first need to learn unfamiliar equipment.

Notes

A follow-up substitutes the World of Warships Minotaur for the cruiser fleet. Training sailors to operate its autoloaders is an immediate difficulty, though the scenario starts in 1935 and therefore allows some preparation time. Radar and automatic three-inch anti-aircraft guns are singled out as advantages. The Norway example imagines dive bombers meeting that much later equipment, rather than describing the capabilities of the historical fleet.