The German force envisaged here would change British construction priorities. Churchill would face much stronger objections to applying a First World War precedent for pausing major warships. The first three King George V-class battleships and the Illustrious-class carriers are treated as programmes that would have to continue. Some later ships might still be delayed. The argument therefore requires a British response to the new threat instead of carrying the historical construction sequence unchanged into the scenario.
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British construction priorities under a stronger German threat
Seven German fast capital ships and three carriers would make pauses in British battleship and carrier construction harder to justify.