The counterfactual changes ammunition performance, but not necessarily which shell type British ships choose first. British fire plans favoured high-explosive or common-pointed-capped shells at long range to batter upperworks, start fires, and interfere with an opponent's ability to fight. Armour-piercing rounds were to be conserved until closing range, when they could be used to finish the target. Better armour-piercing ammunition would therefore not make every British hit at Jutland an armour-piercing hit.
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The Royal Navy planned different shells for different ranges
Learn why British doctrine expected high-explosive or CPC shells to blind and burn an enemy at long range before armour-piercing rounds were used at closer range.