The exercise builds a British response to the hypothetical German battleship discussed earlier. It selects fifteen 15-inch guns and aims for about 28 knots. Building the opponent exposes engine-efficiency and firing-arc problems, while armor and weight distribution are adjusted to improve the game's pitch and stability values. Range figures also change with gun-length and equipment choices. These are properties of the game configuration, so they cannot establish the performance of an unbuilt historical ship. The useful comparison is how changes to one part of a heavily armed design require adjustments elsewhere.
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Building and testing a fifteen-gun fast battleship
The game-built British response combines fifteen 15-inch guns and about 28 knots while successive adjustments expose weight and stability problems.