As war rages on in Europe, conflict in the east escalates. Helicopters buzz over the jungles of Vietnam, while men and machine cross the 38th Parallel to reunify their homeland. A currently being developed C&C3; total conversion mod set during Red Alert 1. Follows the events of the Asian Theatre.
Cruiser #1
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Awesome dude!
So are vessels going to be produceable?
For the second release, yes; naval yards and navy capable skirmish maps will feature in that version.
For the first release, vessels will only appear during some GDI campaign missions.
I'm eager, when it will be released?
looks more like a battleship
In cutscenes of RA1, the Iowas in their current configuration portrayed the Allied Cruiser, though the Des Moines would've been better as they have the same caliber guns as the cruiser and they themselves are cruisers.
The only way that would be better is if the mod moved away from RA1's alternate history and towards one that was more closer to our world. At which point, it would no longer be an RA1 mod; either a generic Cold War story or a Cold War story with teleporters (no more realistic than vanilla RA1).
Cruiser classifications wouldn't necessarily be identical in that alternate timeline. The London Naval Treaty might have been different if history went down a different path after 1924. There might not even be a London, Washington, or any such treaty depending on how much earlier that timeline branched from our own; there could very well have been a naval arms race in RA1's history which resulted in something like an Iowa being classed as a cruiser. The Iowa isn't the be all and end all of battleship designs; think of the Yamato or the cancelled Montana-class in comparison. Also consider the range of cruiser types, which include classes like the Alaska - sized between a heavy cruiser and a battlecruiser, and armed with 12 inchers.
In a world where the UN has 288 members compared to the 193 in our world (that's the current number; the 50s had only 80+ members in our timeline) and where the Abrams is a medium tank, you can interpret the Iowa look-a-like cruiser (Churchill-class, according to its blueprint) as either smaller with 8 inch guns or the same size as our Iowa, but with alt-history classification. I interpret it as the former; 8 inch guns originally, then upgraded to 12 inch later. Displacement and dimensions closer to an Alaska-class.