I've been advocating all that from Day One, shipmate. :) A large part of the problem is the early USN's tiny numbers and absurd amount of one-offs from "buy anything that can float and carry guns," and Ares doesn't think the rules can be stripped down to fit in a booklet the size of a WGF Duel Pack's.

War of 1812 and "More USN" is very much on the To-Dos, which is part of how I strongarmed Bonhomme Richard through--just that the going is very slow, and both of us on the historical team have opposing biases on sculpts as proxies. (As a scale modeler first, my bias is Accurate Model First, answer is no without compelling reason to greenlight, while DM as a more traditional wargamer seems to bias at "a ship of similar size, armament and role is generally OK unless there's compelling reason to red-light." Not a knock, just different worldviews from different communities.)