An Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts design provides a game-based thought experiment. In confined Baltic waters, it carries 15-inch guns for heavy cruisers and battlecruisers, six-inch guns for cruisers, and rapid-firing four-inch guns for light forces. Limited manoeuvring room makes an all-forward main battery less practical. Together, the battery and layout reflect the targets and operating environment a designer expects to meet.
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A Baltic battlecruiser as a gun-calibre testbed
A mixed 15-inch, 6-inch, and triple 4-inch battery illustrates how intended opponents shape a battlecruiser's armament.