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Hood-type battlecruisers at Jutland

Replacing Britain's Jutland battlecruisers with 1920-form Hoods would overwhelm the German First Scouting Group with 80 British 15-inch guns and far better survivability.

Question

What happens if Britain's battlecruisers at Jutland are replaced by copies of Hood in her 1920 form?

Short answer

The German First Scouting Group is likely destroyed by a much more powerful and survivable British force carrying about 80 15-inch guns with the Fifth Battle Squadron included.

Notes

Six Hood-type battlecruisers and the four Queen Elizabeths of the Fifth Battle Squadron would concentrate eighty 15-inch guns. The German battlecruisers were capable ships, but they were not designed to absorb that combination of shell weight, speed, and protection. The British ships would also be much harder to sink than the historical battlecruisers. The likely result is a separate and heavily one-sided battlecruiser action rather than the historical sequence at Jutland.