The German design depends on purchasing triple-turret expertise from Skoda. German observers examined Austro-Hungarian mountings but reportedly discounted them because they assumed an Austrian product could not be as good as claimed. The Tegetthoff-class arrangement offered a practical path to a heavier broadside. This counterfactual depends on engineering availability and on whether a naval institution is willing to trust and procure a foreign ally's design.
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Why Skoda triple turrets strain the German counterfactual
A twelve-gun German ship requires access to Skoda triple turrets that institutional pride made unlikely to be adopted historically.