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A preference for completing the Lions rests on their expected space for future upgrades compared with Vanguard.
From Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4 ·
A magnetic-fuze hypothetical leads to the Royal Navy's rapid diagnosis and fleet-wide correction of an over-safe torpedo firing mechanism.
From Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4 ·
An uncertain recollection of a small Portuguese patrol presence leads to a suggestion of deliberate noninterference, without establishing collusion.
From Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4 ·
A favored alternate timeline begins with Vickers triple turrets and Elswick 14-inch guns reaching the Royal Navy before Dreadnought.
From Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4 ·
A favorite scenario in which William fails in England leads to mercenary finance, the order of the invasions, and limits on distant consequences.
From Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4 ·
The Vienna counterfactual weighs Ottoman expansion against a coalition response, the expense of campaigning, and a challenged trade-route consequence.
From Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4 ·
In-character sailors aboard HMS Warrior use distinct crew viewpoints to turn the preserved ship into a social as well as technological history.
From Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4 ·
Competing interpretations of an unresolved British capital-ship design weigh triple-turret studies against an 18-inch gun programme that produced hardware.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
The Queen Elizabeth class supplied a benchmark for later super-dreadnought design, including Nagato.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
The carrier duel contrasts Béarn's battleship armour and casemate guns with Independence's cruiser origins and weak secondary armament.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
A 30-knot D-class cruiser has to slow down to remain with Graf Spee in the game.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
HMS Afridi's first captain helped establish the Tribal class's motto and esprit de corps after being selected by Henderson.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Queen Mary has one torpedo tube per side, compared with Tiger's two in the game discussion.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
An uneven destroyer screen lets torpedo attacks decide a game framed around Jutland's capital ships.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Beatty's command problem is attributed to poor signalling.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
The VIP escort's heavy ships leave it without the smoke cover that smaller escorts could provide.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Once the game's protected ship is lost, Scharnhorst's speed offers a better option than continuing against Rodney and Queen Elizabeth.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
A discrepancy in Oklahoma's game speed leads to a discussion of bulges, engine power, and the ship's represented fit.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Long-range surface-to-surface missiles let carrier escorts add another offensive layer to the surface fight.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Operation Hermes raises questions about German fuel supply, absent opposing fleets, and the stronger escort that advance intelligence should bring.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
A one-percent hit chance illustrates the tension between historical gunnery probabilities and the pace of an arcade naval battle.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
A comparison with Willis Lee considers Cunningham, Vian, Jellicoe, and the earlier gunnery example of Broke.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Guided battleship ammunition and the equipment to use it receive an enthusiastic response on behalf of the gunnery-minded admirals.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
An uncertain question about 406 mm experiments leads to a qualified recollection of an 8-inch Paveway shell.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Michelangelo's paper provenance does not resolve disagreement over whether its short citadel leaves enough machinery space for 33 knots.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
The proposed Italian civil war keeps Italy out of the North African campaign that historically brought German intervention.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
American merchant-ship models in a German harbour prompt a distinction between game assets and captured shipping.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
The expected 32-knot Brooklyn-class rating differs from the player's sub-30-knot game speed.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Axis submarine cooperation in the Indian Ocean complicated Allied convoys, while the variety of friendly boats also made Japanese identification and ASW more difficult.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
A brief follow-up gives a tentative answer about which navy handled Indian Ocean submarine operations.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
A fleet of four Admiral-derived carriers and four twelve-gun battleships supplies the premise for an early-1920s 18-inch successor.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Royal Navy warships entered the Second World War with unusually heavy anti-aircraft batteries, before combat experience pushed other navies toward similar additions.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Spare deck space for AA runs into the blast-clearance demands of the hypothetical battleship's main guns.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Magazine separation and substitute insulation provide a proposed explanation for one part of the Littorio class's dispersion problems.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
A question about the series leads to comments on Lost Cause claims and disputes among Confederate commanders.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
The first answer treats Incomparable as a battlecruiser and asks what happened to the other Japanese carrier divisions.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
A permanently fitted heavy machine gun is proposed as a practical minimum for an Archer-class successor.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Even a German fleet officially sized against France and Russia would resemble the historical High Seas Fleet closely enough to provoke a British building response.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
The A-12's wedge shape divides opinion, while its chances of reaching service are judged poor after the Cold War.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Remote direction of naval AA was technically conceivable by the end of the Second World War, but centralized blind-fire automation matured later.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
A future Type 83 is suggested for the name Prince Philip, while its description as a cruiser prompts disagreement about modern classifications.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
The useful mix of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers depends on strategic geography, overseas commitments, allies, and the peer adversary.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Boiler crews could make smoke by changing combustion or adding material to the uptakes, and Iowa-class sight glasses let them inspect the result.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Smoke, chaff, and flares address different sensors, while improved visual recognition could increase the need to disable a seeker.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Gustav-sized naval guns drive the hypothetical ship toward immense displacement, slow firing, and inadequate protection against weapons of its own size.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
The comparison uses USS Roanoke to show how multiple heavy revolving turrets would transform the Hampton Roads matchup.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
River-class camouflage trials and high-contrast facial makeup prompt a tentative argument that disruptive patterns could confuse image-recognition weapons.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·
Recognizable national colours would work against camouflage intended to confuse image recognition.
From World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4 ·