Rebuilding the interwar Dutch Navy around cruisers

How should Dutch naval procurement change from 1920 to build a much stronger fleet?

Build a sustainable cruiser force and improve its bases, with disagreement over whether an 11-inch battlecruiser would justify its extra demands.

The scenario gives a naval planner the Dutch queen's confidence from 1920 and asks for a fleet approaching half the strength of Italy's. One proposal favours two or three heavy cruisers with high-velocity 8-inch or 9.2-inch guns. An alternative suggests an 11-inch battlecruiser because the Netherlands would be outside the relevant treaty restrictions. The cruiser proposal keeps crewing demands relatively low and avoids maintaining a separate capital-ship training and manning system. It also questions whether a limited battlecruiser design could stand up to Scharnhorst, while a well-built heavy cruiser should be sufficient against a ship such as Prinz Eugen. Obsolescent port and naval facilities in Java would need attention, since inadequate bases had complicated ABDA operations. The use of hindsight is explicitly allowed in choosing the fleet and assessing its likely opponents. The plan assumes the Royal Navy would bear much of the burden of confronting the largest German surface ships.