Ersatz Monarch design trade-offs

The design exercise shows how a nominal displacement can collide with stability and armament-layout demands. The lighter game hull could not carry the triple turrets without unacceptable stability problems, so the reconstruction uses a larger hull than the published design displacement suggests. It retains the class's ten 14-inch guns, numerous six-inch weapons, and an eight-tube torpedo requirement represented by deck mounts. The discussion also connects machinery, range, crew accommodation, build cost, and installed power to the practical design instead of treating gun calibre alone as decisive.