The new battleship begins thousands of tons overweight, so gun mounts, speed, and armour are trimmed while pitch, roll, efficiency, and protection remain under review. Six-inch secondaries, three-inch destroyer defense, and ten 23-inch torpedoes per side are then restored. The game requires changes to armour merely to correct weight distribution. A requested ballast option would separate stability management from protection decisions.
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Capital-ship weight, armor, and ballast tradeoffs
The 18-inch design sheds thousands of tons while preserving armor, secondaries, torpedoes, speed, and stability, exposing the value of a dedicated ballast control.