WNT allows cruiser weapons to go up to 12’

[USS_Ward]

Lookout on the Graph Spee somewhere near the River Plate December 1939.

"Mien Gott, it's a British Pocket Battleship".

"Hehehe, Two can play this game Jerry."

 

[CaptainCalvert]

Would there be a driver for some to be made with three x twin turrets while the triples were worked out?
Essentially this would result in an earlier town class equivalent 6 gun version and a later county class equivalent with 9 guns.