Most of the best battleships remain unavailable during their refit, so the ready ships gather toward Scapa Flow while cruisers, submarines, and later battleships approach commissioning. China is chosen after a comparison of potential opponents shows that it has the weaker active fleet. The decision belongs to the scenario rather than an actual historical campaign. It still demonstrates a durable operational principle: concentrate what is ready, account for maintenance and commissioning delays, and match objectives to the force that can deploy.
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Concentrating a refit-limited fleet against the weaker opponent
With the best battleships still refitting, the campaign concentrates available forces and chooses the opponent with the smaller active fleet.