Blueprint cruisers the panel would like to see built

Which World of Warships design does the panel wish had become a real ship?

Design Z or Minotaur is the leading blueprint choice, while the game's heavily armed HMS Defence is another intriguing cruiser counterfactual.

The panel first distinguishes ships grounded in historical blueprints from designs created more freely for World of Warships. One choice is Design Z, represented as Minotaur, whose ten 6-inch guns promise immense rapid-fire power and substantial postwar modernization potential. Another is the game's HMS Defence, described as a fast cruiser-scale ship with six 14-inch guns, 5.25-inch secondary weapons, and about 33 knots of speed. That combination would be excessive against most cruisers and dangerous to older reconstructed battleships, although the panel treats the game's stated design history cautiously. The discussion is useful as a design exercise, not evidence that either game implementation entered service.