After the outbreak of the great war, the Imperial Navy overhauled its Battleship construction work, and the first to be abandoned was the Large Cruiser.
It wasn't that the Large Cruiser couldn't meet the Navy's tactical requirements, but rather that the performance of the Fast Battleship was simply too eye-catching.
The naval battle at Watch Strait alone was enough to solidify the Imperial Navy's stance on Fast Battleships.
In certain special circumstances, the 400mm Naval guns on a Battleship still had a place, capable of playing a decisive role and impossible to replace for the time being.
The main guns of the Large Cruiser?
If on the west side of the Watcher Strait there had been 2 Large Cruisers equipped with 300mm main guns, instead of two fierce "Xu Sea" class Fast Battleships, not to mention sinking two "Damen" class, they probably would have been flattened by the Permanent Fleet's Main Force Squad.
