More successful battlecruiser operations overseas could strengthen the case for an earlier Admiral class. In this alternative, the ships begin as successors to Tiger with 15-inch guns, instead of developing from the Renown approach into an eight-gun ship with improved protection. That starting point could ease their development into fast battleships. The design argument treats movement between battlecruiser, fast battleship, and battleship as a sequence of adjacent steps. A hull and its framing might support one such change during development, while a jump across two categories would ask too much of the structure.
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A Tiger-derived Admiral class and the limits of redesign
An Admiral class conceived as a larger 15-inch-gun Tiger could reach fast-battleship characteristics more readily because the starting hull constrains later changes.