If Britain retained four G3s and four N3s, the Royal Navy would be reluctant to discard such new capital ships in a subsequent agreement. Older ships such as Renown, Repulse, Hood, and Tiger would become more likely treaty sacrifices, leaving the G3s as Britain's battlecruiser core. An 18-inch limit would also change the meaning of Yamato's armament and force Japan and the United States to reconsider both designs and building programmes. The counterfactual links individual ship classes to treaty ceilings, national finances, numerical competition, and the fleet balance entering the Second World War.
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How completed G3 and N3 ships could reshape treaty limits
An alternate-history discussion traces how completed G3 battlecruisers and N3 battleships could alter treaty limits, rival building programmes, and later fleets.