The counterfactual moves Italy's order for Dante Alighieri to 1902-03 and completes her on the timetable that historically produced HMS Dreadnought. That reversal matters because a fast battleship with triple turrets would establish the design standard before Britain could define it. The Royal Navy would then be responding to an Italian pattern instead of presenting its own ship as the starting point of the dreadnought era. The rest of the video tests what kind of British ship could decisively overmatch that benchmark.
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An early Dante Alighieri changes the dreadnought race
The scenario moves Dante Alighieri forward to a 1906 completion and asks how the Royal Navy would preserve its lead.