The fleet comparison depends on keeping the agreed construction totals. An audience list containing six Indefatigables exceeds this scenario, which retains three alongside three Invincibles and three Lions. Germany's battlecruiser program supplied the scouting group required by its fleet. It did not aim to match every ship in an expanded British battlecruiser list.
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German battlecruisers as a scouting force
German battlecruiser requirements centered on a fleet scouting group, while the expanded British program also served global trade protection.