The battlecruisers win decisively, although the starting forces already favour them: 57,000 tons of British capital ships face 42,000 tons of German cruisers. Within the game's economy, one battlecruiser costs about as much as three heavy cruisers. The build-time gap is much smaller than the combat-power gap, making six heavy cruisers against two battlecruisers a more revealing comparison of numbers, concentration, and affordability. Crew quality also affects the result because the German ships receive cadet crews while the British ships have veterans. These figures turn the outcome into a force-structure problem involving ship quality, fleet numbers, and crew readiness.
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Cost and numbers complicate battlecruiser superiority
The game's cost and build-time figures ask whether two expensive battlecruisers offer more useful force structure than a larger group of heavy cruisers.