Complete directory
Explore every watch point in reverse video-date order, then in timestamp order within each video.
Fisher's expected demand for at least ten guns prompts a revised 1908 game design, while the exact turret arrangement remains open.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
The game design distinguishes static weight balance from roll and pitch: correcting the weight offset leaves persistent pitching to solve.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Orion's protection figures expose excessive game armour defaults, while secondary guns and barrel lengths consume the weight saved.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A speculative French counterpart illustrates how construction timing could turn one navy's design breakthrough into a wider lead.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A 10-inch cruiser ceiling would push capital-ship calibres upward to preserve a four-inch gap.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
The American counterfactual balances a 15,000-ton limit, high speed, shallow draft, and deliberate departures from historical US cruiser practice.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A Japanese counter-design shows how speed, range, aircraft facilities, torpedoes, and thin protection could compete for treaty-cruiser tonnage.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
The simulated duel tests whether the Japanese cruiser's extra guns can offset glass-cannon protection against the American design.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
The completed American counterfactual combines Panama compatibility with high speed and a battleship-like appearance.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A broadside-heavy game destroyer tests the difference between fitting more guns and bringing them to bear effectively.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Dividing a flotilla into two approaching groups can trap an opponent between gunfire and torpedo threats from different bearings.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A sacrificial rear-guard action explains how one destroyer could inflict disproportionate losses without proving that Japan could sustain the exchange.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Halsey's command raises a question about replacements: tactical talent must be considered alongside seniority and experience.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Forward deployment can signal resolve, but positioning a fleet without adequate support may expose it instead of strengthening diplomacy.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A simulated destroyer action becomes a guide to division tactics and the World War II value of Tribal-class gun power.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A counterfactual tonnage allowance could combine Ark Royal's hangar capacity with Illustrious-style protection.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Survival and forward repair mattered to carriers expected to fight Japan far from British shipyards and supply infrastructure.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Illustrious-class patrol work and Ark Royal's concentrated striking role support a plan to find the enemy by day and attack at night.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Correct enemy-location information is the condition behind the proposed British night-strike opportunity during Operation C.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
The Swordfish's torpedo-entry arrangement helps the weapon run shallow, giving the reliable biplane a delivery advantage.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
British carrier operating capacity depends on night training, landing aids and the weather conditions in which aircraft can remain on deck.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
An immense British counterfactual balances twelve 18-inch guns, a heavy secondary battery, 28-knot speed, and long-range protection.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A brief recollection distinguishes planned shore bombardment from uncertainty about whether Yamato carried it out.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Displayed main- and secondary-gun ranges create successive danger zones around the game-built British battleship.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Experience with triple mountings and details such as a set-back centre gun help explain their effectiveness by the Second World War.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Short firing delays have a limited accuracy effect, while room around turret machinery improves inspection and maintenance.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A simulated range mismatch shows how staying at maximum distance can preserve neither safety nor combat power when only one side can reply.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
The counterfactual screen combines modified Tribal-style destroyers with a battleship secondary battery that can reach about 30.8 kilometres in the game.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Equal game budgets obscure differences in British and Japanese construction costs, resources and available fleets.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A no-air-power fleet scenario shows destroyers scouting and screening while torpedoes and heavy secondary guns create sharply different danger zones.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A game's frequent ramming leads to the real loss of HMS Punjabi after a collision with the battleship King George V.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
British night-fighting practice sought decisive close range before opening fire, while Japanese torpedo tactics relied on the enemy holding course.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
British zig-zag doctrine addressed the submarine threat and also complicated long-range torpedo attacks.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
An 18-inch shell can pass through a destroyer and still cause severe damage, including the loss of propulsion and steering in the simulated action.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
A roughly 110,000-ton design suggests that removing treaties could leave only the largest industrial powers able to continue a battleship competition.
From HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns... ·
Calling them pre-dreadnoughts makes 1870s and 1880s battleships sound like failed versions of a design their builders could not have known.
The transition is marked by steam-first designs that had not yet combined the armour, gun layout, and engines of Royal Sovereign-era battleships.
Comparing single ironclads misses the larger formation, sea-room, and manoeuvre advantages that would shape a real encounter.
Tiny, mechanically diverse classes made spares and reserve ships central to keeping a late-Victorian fleet available.
Royal Navy, German, French, Italian, and American examples show that the steam-battleship transition was international rather than a single British class sequence.
HMS Inflexible fused ironclad and monitor ideas into an armoured fortress whose gun layout exposed the era’s tactical compromises.
Although designed as an economical sortie corvette, SMS Oldenburg became a core ship in Germany’s deterrent fleet.
The Admiral class shows how a class name can conceal major differences in engines and guns, and why the 13.5-inch ships influenced Royal Sovereign.
Large guns advertised battleship status, but close-range secondary fire could disable mounts and crews, driving renewed protection for heavy weapons.
The French Amiral Baudin class paired enormous older-pattern main guns with newer secondary weapons, revealing which parts of the battery designers expected to matter most.
The Victoria class combined enormous forward guns, ram-oriented thinking, and very heavy armour in response to Italian naval competition.
A Second World War comparison explains why Italian strength kept modernized Queen Elizabeth-class battleships away from the Bismarck chase.
The fast Re Umbertos show how close Italian designers came to the later battleship formula, while machinery and armour kept them outside it.