Every older in-game nation including France has PCL/gunboats...
I'd like to include a Russian one that's not the Ryurik, Bogatyr, or Pallada (those have T slots so they can't be PCLs)
When the USSR gets a PCL, I'm buying it.
Who's with me?
I think that the closest Russian Ship I could find to a PCL is this one; The Admiral Ushakov Class Monitor Gunboat.
General characteristics
Type: coastal defense ship
Displacement: 4,971 long tons (5,051 t)
Length: 87.3 m (286 ft 5 in)
Beam: 15.85 m (52 ft 0 in)
Draught: 5.9 m (19 ft 4 in)
Propulsion: 2 shaft vertical triple expansion steam engines 4-8 cylindrical coal-fired boilers 5,750 ihp (4,290 kW) 450 tons coal
Real Life Speed: 16 knots (18 mph; 30 km/h)
Complement: 404
Real Life Armament: 3 or 4 - 10 in (254 mm) guns 4 × 1 - 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 6 × 1 - 47 mm (2 in) 3-pounder guns 10 × 1 - 37 mm (1.5 in) 1-pounder guns 4 × 15 in (381 mm) above water torpedo tubes
Suggested Armament: 2 double 8" guns, to balance it with the other PCLs
Suggested Speed: Comparable to other PCLs, compensating for Russian ships' high speed in NF