Don't skip Cleve if you are planning on using AA on your CA/BB. Cleve has excellent T- slot layout for AA guns.
If you use 8" duals, you get nice range and get used to longer reload, and if you use 5"/38 A's, you have a nasty surprise for DD's that get too close.
In short, the Cleve is a nice primer for the Baltimore, kind of a "pocket CA". Don't discount it automatically.
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