There was also a plan to upgrade the Scharnhorsts from 9x11" to 6x15" guns.
Gneisenau was actually taken in hand to that rearming, but it was never finished. But weren't these ships intended to have their guns replaced from the start? Same as with Japanese cruisers Môgami, though in Môgami's case the rearming was actually done. Both were given the smaller guns for political reasons, AFAIK. Ie. to not piss of the future "Allies".
Bit further on this subject, I don't think it's *really* neccesary in vanilla game to make rearming possible. The best approxamation would be;
Old Italian dreadnoughts: modernization well under way by '36, treat them as what they appeared post modernization in game.
Scharnhorst (and the other one): Rearming never done, treat as 11" gunned.
Môgami: Rearming done ASAP, treat as 8" gunned (unlike in HoI2). Japanese never had slightest interest in 6" gunned big cruisers anyway.
Furutaka/Kako: Work did not start until, mid '36 and early '37 respectively. However, I'd group them with Aoba class in the start anyways. As this is only a case of 6x7,9" becoming 3x2x8".
Hmm, those are about the only uparming cases that come to mind.
Someone mentioned rebarreling, but considering that some of the higer velocity guns were in need of that after couple of hours of constant fireing, that relatively standard refit job.
(Edit) Just out of interest, if we mod the rearming possibility in, will it be a significant and time consuming upgrade to make (and a one that puts the ship out of action)?
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