Four triple turrets beat a mixed German battery

If Mackensen used a triple-quadruple-triple layout, would Britain answer with all-quadruple turrets?

Probably not; four triple turrets still provide twelve guns and preserve more firepower after a turret casualty than three concentrated mountings.

The German arrangement adds only one gun over a ten-gun pattern, while a British four-triple design retains a numerical advantage. More importantly, losing one of four turrets costs 25 percent of the battery rather than roughly a third, matching British survivability preferences.