The closing prompt asks whether Royal Sovereign and about a dozen extra light cruisers and destroyers would have materially changed Jutland, while noting that those smaller ships had not trained with the Grand Fleet. A second counterfactual asks whether Germany might have produced battleships faster by retaining triple-expansion engines and avoiding battlecruiser construction while continuing to improve its guns. The questions expose two different constraints: assembling available British hulls into a trained force and balancing German technical ambition against production rate. No answer is supplied. The passage leaves both alternatives as tests of the preceding argument rather than evidence that either would have worked.
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Closing counterfactuals test unused fleet options
Two open questions ask whether Britain should have assembled more ships and whether Germany could have traded turbine battlecruisers for faster battleship output.