The UAD design tests what a British 18-inch-gun capital ship might have looked like if the Royal Navy had pursued the idea. It uses a modified Queen Elizabeth concept with three twin 18-inch turrets and machinery sufficient for 28 knots. The game unlocks British 18-inch guns much later, so the displayed ship is a modernised approximation rather than a literal 1913 reconstruction. Its duel with a Bismarck-like opponent brings the heavy main battery into a wider design problem involving displacement, speed, and secondary armament.
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An 18-inch Queen Elizabeth alternative
An imagined modernised Queen Elizabeth-type battleship carries six 18-inch guns into a simulated duel with a Bismarck analogue.