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Perhaps I'm having issues with buying a starter force without knowing the strengths/weaknesses/roles of each ship type? I know the exchange rate isn't helping me either!
As for the ships, that seems still in the offing for the new system; you'll probably be able to argue how they should stack up. Most folk would take a particular nation no matter how 'capable', though.
For Aeronef, even without the rules, you can download, for free, the individual displays from Brigade Models and make informed guesses. As I said above, I'll be glad to have ships for which I can chose rules, and probably 'switch' at various times depending on which rules match fleet size.
And most cogent, of course, even with dozens of models to peruse, *I* want more!

Doug