Firepower, numbers, and effective range

The British side fields sixty 14-inch guns against a smaller Spanish force with twenty 15-inch weapons, making the exercise a comparison of salvo weight, numbers, and engagement distance. The four British ships remain together while the Spanish pair appears to operate less coherently, so concentration compounds the raw gun-count advantage. The Spanish pair's 60,000-ton design also raises a procurement question: Spain fielding such a vessel in 1920 would itself have been an extraordinary industrial achievement. That force-structure limitation is separate from personnel quality. The comparison treats Spanish sailors as capable and their ships as generally sound even when the fleet cannot match Royal Navy scale. The three-inch battery is anti-destroyer protection, although the game lets it join the close-range fight against capital ships. USS Texas (BB-35) appears as the exceptional comparison for a badly heeled ship that could keep firing, while the simulation seems to let guns fire directly into the water. The tactical conclusion depends on fleet concentration and weapon range, since the game's firing arcs and hit behaviour cannot serve as a literal historical test.