The 1920-1925 game challenge requires at least two wing turrets with the same gun caliber as the centerline battery. A 35,000-ton limit is adopted after the initial brief leaves displacement unrestricted. Drachinifel chooses twin 14-inch mounts instead of offset triples, with no cross-deck firing capability. Clarke uses 15-inch guns and a heavy 8-inch secondary battery, including a triple mount superfiring over an after twin 15-inch turret. The secondary battery has a specific purpose in his scenario: an Austro-Hungarian battleship would need to fight past Italian cruisers near the Strait of Otranto. That explanation assumes Austria-Hungary survives into the 1920s because the First World War has not occurred.
Chapter · 2:01:20-2:16:46
An Austro-Hungarian wing-turret challenge
A 1920s design challenge forces same-caliber wing and centerline turrets into an Austro-Hungarian capital ship.