The design follows the British practice of minimizing or deleting the heavily armoured conning tower. The game requires some structure to remain, so its armour falls to six inches. At that thickness it offers little of the traditional armoured citadel's protection and may simply consume displacement. The example shows how national command practices shape which protected spaces a battleship designer considers worth their weight.
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The British preference for a minimal conning tower
Reducing the conning tower to six inches of protection illustrates a British willingness to save weight on a heavily armoured command position.