Testing the World of Warships Fort Worth design

How practical would World of Warships' Fort Worth large cruiser be if built?

It offers little advantage over an Alaska: the 10-inch guns lose penetration without a meaningful firing-rate gain, and its secondary and torpedo arrangements add needless compromises.

Fort Worth is introduced as a hypothetical World of Warships design combining features of Alaska and American cruiser studies. The panel first disputes the gun count, then settles on nine 10-inch guns in three triple turrets. In its assessment, those guns lose penetration compared with Alaska's 12-inch battery without delivering the claimed firing-rate advantage. Triple 5-inch secondary mounts add another development task, while extra twin mounts would spread the battery across more positions. Two quintuple deck torpedo launchers are also questioned on a cruiser whose heavy guns should already address larger opponents. The design is not expected to arrive sooner than Alaska, and its cost is judged difficult to justify. The discussion does not establish that this exact configuration was a genuine US Navy proposal.