The next engagement strongly favours the British cruisers after the German model is revised. Rapid-firing 4.7-inch guns on steady cruiser hulls now produce the expected advantage. The earlier German model had inadvertently acquired the stability its historical design lacked. This suggests a separate counterfactual in which Germany prioritizes a steady platform for its 5.9-inch guns instead of a fast, slender hull. More simulations are explicitly needed before treating that suggestion as established. The exercise also demonstrates how a preference for making a model well designed can remove the historical weaknesses that the comparison was supposed to retain.
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Changed assumptions reverse the game result
The altered simulation favours the British cruisers, while the earlier result raises a separate German design counterfactual that still requires more testing.