Spanish AC's and miss columns

Now that the campaign is over I am recalculating ship data based on various new sources I have found. As I mentioned some monitors are going to lose out a little on armor and guns. Sadly the Spanish will have their 6 guns reduced to 5's, really hurting the Spanish ACs. :cry:

I am still thinking about miss columns. There are two possiblities:

1. I could add a miss column onto the Spanish ACs, their size puts them right on the edge of where I allow for a single miss column.

2. Unless there is enthusiasm out there for option 1 above I am inclined to say too bad for the Spanish and modify my formula for creating miss columns downward. The new formula I am considering would eliminate the miss on the Texas, reduce the M Puritan from 2 to 1 miss columns, and the other monitors from 3 to 2 miss columns.

3. I am still interested in discussing the possibility of eliminating miss columns entirely, but I am not convinced. There needs to be some mechanism to make smaller ships harder to hit and the miss columns are the simplest fastest method.