Fisher and Tirpitz face choices about what their navies should build. Asquith and Bethmann Hollweg also have to consider what their governments can gain politically from those programmes. A battlecruiser quickly acquired the public and parliamentary standing of a battleship. The alternative cruisers would give Asquith fewer hulls to count as capital ships, but they could win support from Dominions and others who had a direct use for them.
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What Asquith could count as a capital ship
A cruiser programme could attract more imperial participation while giving the British government fewer ships it could present as capital units.