A different route to the same result. Fair enough.
I've done some more thinking about this and come to the conclusion that the if there's a total breakdown of the Treaty System or at least a less restrictive 2nd LNT, i.e. one that allows Capital Ships to displace 45,000 tons and be armed with 16in guns from 1st January 1937 instead of 35,000 tons and 14in guns the North Carolina & South Dakota classes of the "Real World" will be additional units of the Iowa class in this "Version of History". Wishful thinking makes me want 3 additional Iowas to be laid down instead of the Alaska class so that a grand total of 15 Iowas would be laid down and 12 would be completed. However, that's probably a wish too far.
Meanwhile, with the British I think the ALT-King George V class would be armed with sixteen 14in guns in four quadruple turrets or twelve 15in guns in four triple turrets rather than being built as Real-Lion class with nine 16in guns in three triple turrets. That's because as I understand it the "Top Brass" of the Royal Navy at that time thought the maximum possible number of hits was better than a smaller number of heavier hits.
Wishful thinking also wants the ALT-King George V class (and all subsequent capital ship designs) to be armed with twenty 4.5in in ten twin turrets in place of sixteen 5.25in in eight twin turrets. That's not a reflection on the quality of the gun and its mounting, it's because I want fewer gun calibres & gun mountings to ease the production & logistical burdens.
On Alternatehistory.com when British Capital Ship construction in the 1930s is discussed a "Treaty Vanguard" is suggested, i.e. a reduced version of the Real-Vanguard that fits the 35,000 ton displacement limit. It's not something that I would do, but in this "Version of History" it would be possible to build Real-Vanguards in the second half of the 1930s. Yes it would avoid having to build new main gun turrets, but the existing turrets would have to be refurbished (as Vanguard's turrets were) plus it would still be necessary to manufacture the machinery, fire control equipment, secondary & tertiary armaments, armour & structural steel, plus the labour to put them together and a slipways to build them on.
